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Sarah E. Bond

Sarah E. Bond is associate professor of history at the University of Iowa. She blogs on antiquity and digital humanities, and is the author of Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean.

Posted inOpinion

Why Archaeologists Are Fuming Over Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse Series

by Sarah E. Bond January 4, 2023February 7, 2023

In an open letter, the Society for American Archaeology accused journalist Graham Hancock’s docuseries of disparaging experts while promoting “racist, white supremacist ideologies.”

Posted inArt

Why Did Roman Baths Disappear?   

by Sarah E. Bond December 5, 2022February 7, 2023

New research contests the myth that it was Christianity’s opposition to public nudity that led to the decline in large-scale bathing in the late Roman Empire.

Posted inArt

An Iowa Museum Renowned for Its Pollock Emerges From a Flood With a More Inclusive Mission 

by Sarah E. Bond September 5, 2022September 8, 2022

At the newly opened Stanley Museum, formerly the University of Iowa Museum of Art, White artists like Jackson Pollock and Grant Wood are no longer the focus of its collection.

Posted inNews

Archaeologists Say They Discovered Ancient Gladiator Tombs in Southern Turkey

by Sarah E. Bond August 15, 2022August 19, 2022

The Roman-era burial ground is located in Anazarbus (modern Anavarza) in the country’s southern Adana province.

Posted inNews

Holy Sepulchre Church Excavation Unearths Constantine-Era Rock Layers

by Sarah E. Bond July 15, 2022July 15, 2022

The findings constitute pivotal evidence for reconstructing the building methods and mosaic decorations in churches in the late Roman Empire.

Posted inNews

Massive Head of Hercules Pulled From Historic Shipwreck

by Sarah E. Bond June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

Marine archeologists made the findings while working on the Roman-era Antikythera shipwreck.

Posted inArt

Intermingling Ancient Greek and West African Mythologies to Tell New Stories

by Sarah E. Bond February 27, 2022February 25, 2022

Harmonia Rosales: Entwined brought together multiple departments and resources to accentuate the global power of mythology and center Black women.

Posted inArt

The Top Archaeological Discoveries of 2021

by Sarah E. Bond January 4, 2022January 4, 2022

During 2021, thousands of archaeologists worked tirelessly to continue to excavate, explore, publish, and keep the field alive across the globe.

Posted inHistory

Ancient Rome and the Myth of the Black Avenger

by Sarah E. Bond December 12, 2021January 12, 2022

Long before Black Panther, early modern Europeans embraced a different kind of Black avenger, one largely constructed by White abolitionists.

Posted inBooks

What Does God Even Look Like?

by Sarah E. Bond November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

The author, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, pushes back against a later theological worldview that the southern Levantine deity was always a singular, unchanging entity.

Posted inBooks

Why the Hell We Are Obsessed with Hell

by Sarah E. Bond October 6, 2021October 6, 2021

Hell Hath No Fury provides fundamental clues as to why it seems that we cannot escape reincarnations of hell in either Dante or on Netflix.

Posted inArt

Can Mummified Cats Help Unravel the Mysteries of Ancient Dyes?

by Sarah E. Bond September 21, 2021September 22, 2021

The intricate patterns and strategic colors of the linens used on mummified remains have only begun to be understood by humanists, museum specialists, and chemists working together.

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