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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.

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The Lasting Influence of the Waxen Venus on Studies of Anatomy

by Sarah E. Bond March 29, 2019August 4, 2021

Modern constructions of beauty and biological race were heavily influenced by the study, replication, and measurement of classical sculpture in eighteenth century Europe.

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What Can Fingerprints Tell Us About Ancient Artisans?

by Sarah E. Bond March 27, 2019August 4, 2021

Thousands of fingerprints and footprints survive from the ancient world, while the modern science of fingerprints to identify criminals has relatively recent and racist origins.

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A Virtual Reality App that Reconstructs Ancient Rome May Have Exploited Its Developers

by Sarah E. Bond February 19, 2019August 4, 2021

The virtual reality tour of Rome at the heart of Rome Reborn started as a digital humanities project collaboratively developed by dozens of artists, classicists, archaeologists, and 3D modelers.

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Stories of an Assyrian King and What Became of His Empire

by Sarah E. Bond December 5, 2018August 4, 2021

A new exhibition at the British Museum underscores the material remains associated with the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, and their display alludes to Britain’s long and fraught history with Iraq.

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Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens

by Sarah E. Bond November 13, 2018July 13, 2022

Where, exactly, the idea of ancient aliens building the pyramids began — and why some academics think racism lies at the heart of many extraterrestrial theories.

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You Gotta Fight for Your Rhyta to Party

by Sarah E. Bond October 15, 2018August 4, 2021

A newly opened exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums features animal-shaped drinking vessels from across the ancient Mediterranean called Rhyta.

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Seeing Ourselves in Animals Throughout Art History

by Sarah E. Bond October 2, 2018August 4, 2021

The exhibition Stampede prods the viewer to consider how artists use animals to represent human traits and critique the world we humans live within.

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Fasces, Fascism, and How the Alt-Right Continues to Appropriate Ancient Roman Symbols

by Sarah E. Bond September 13, 2018August 4, 2021

The use of fasces by alt-right groups is another attempt to commandeer the insignia of ancient Rome to connect their movements to the bygone power and legitimacy of the Roman empire.

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The Misuse of an Ancient Roman Acronym by White Nationalist Groups

by Sarah E. Bond August 30, 2018August 4, 2021

SPQR initially stood for Senatus Populusque Romanus (the Senate and Roman people), but a growing number of white supremacists have adopted the acronym to symbolize their movement.

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Archaeologists May Have Discovered a Church Built on the Site of Constantine the Great’s Conversion to Christianity

by Sarah E. Bond July 30, 2018August 4, 2021

During work along the right bank of the Tiber this summer, the archaeological group Cooperativa Archeologia uncovered what was first thought to be a villa, but later considered to be a church.

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Discovery of Jewish Mosaics in Israel Bring Color to Biblical Accounts

by Sarah E. Bond July 20, 2018August 4, 2021

A site in Israel continues to turn up stunning polychromatic mosaics from the late Roman empire that challenge current notions of ancient Jewish aesthetics and the art of depicting scripture.

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AP World History Makes a Turn Toward Eurocentrism

by Sarah E. Bond July 10, 2018August 4, 2021

The College Board’s recent decision to begin their curriculum for Advanced Placement (AP) World History at the year 1450 CE will omit millennia of global human history and may further support a Eurocentric view of the world within US high schools.

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