Andrew J. Koh 🏺🧪⛵

archaeologist/scientist/historian, ancient organics/pharmacology/ecology, @Yale, BS Biophysics/Classics @Illinois_Alma, PhD Archaeology (ANCH/CHEM) @Penn

[Yale University @Yale]

Caligula’s reputation is infamous — but history is rarely that simple.

In a new study, Yale scholars combine analysis of archaeological evidence with close reading of ancient texts to describe medical tourism in the Roman world — and the surprising pharmacological know-how of the tyrannical Emperor Caligula. #Yale https://t.co/It5byAha3I

[Yale Peabody Museum @yalepeabody]

Museum scientist Andrew Koh took @yalealumnimag inside this Egyptian stone vessel from the Yale Babylonian Collection.

It contains organic residues from the 5th century BCE that give us a glimpse of ancient people and their world:

https://t.co/DjvNeQSTva
@KappaHydroxide @Yale

[Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids]

I lack EVERY skill needed for this new dept. but it sounds like THE COOLEST: Yale Ancient Pharmacology Program.
Currently it's studying an Egyptian stone jar filled w/ an opiate concoction--about 500 BC.
#AndrewKoh heads this dept.
LUCKY GUY!!!
H/T @yalealumnimag @Yalepeabody

[Southern Phokis Regional Project @SouthernPhokis]

The last photo taken during the 2023 SPRP season

[Southern Phokis Regional Project @SouthernPhokis]

Field portion of 2023 SPRP season in the books. Now on to data processing and reports. Thanks to all the team members, colleagues, and friends who have made this dream season possible!

[Andrew J. Koh 🏺🧪⛵ @KappaHydroxide]

Delving into ancient mysteries at @Yale with @elleryfrahm and @agnetelassen and the support of @yalepeabody!

#YPM #YAPP #YBC #YPYRO

[Yale Peabody Museum @yalepeabody]

A small @Yale research team is using x-ray fluorescence to analyze two similar jars from different Mesopotamian sites.

Why does one contain opiates and the other does not? And were they produced at the same Egyptian quarry?

https://t.co/cJ9jfcnYlb @KappaHydroxide @elleryfrahm

[Eric H. Cline @digkabri]

Lovely to be back at Yale to give a lecture in the NELC department where I got my MA so long ago and try out some of the material from the forthcoming sequel. So much has changed, but so much is still the same; deja vu being back in the Yale Babylonian Collection again.

[Andrew J. Koh 🏺🧪⛵ @KappaHydroxide]

@DrKillgrove Could it be the Capitol Archaeological Institute? https://t.co/gpsSSnKHVZ

[Yale University Library @yalelibrary]

How Yale's ancient pharmacology program draws on a range of museum and #YaleLibrary collections

[Yale Peabody Museum @yalepeabody]

Archaeochemist Andrew Koh @KappaHydroxide was recently appointed Museum Scientist at the Peabody, and his Ancient Pharmacology Program has already yielded an exciting discovery within the museum's Babylonian Collection:

https://t.co/XoOv8o4GqN @Yale

[Yale Classics Lib @YaleClassicsLib]

By studying ancient residues, archaeochemist @yalepeabody,
Andrew Koh finds clues of humanity’s past https://t.co/bmhtoyci4O @KappaHydroxide

[Andrew J. Koh 🏺🧪⛵ @KappaHydroxide]

Not all who wander are lost...

[Andrew J. Koh 🏺🧪⛵ @KappaHydroxide]

@YoungRichardKim Oh, ideally the waiting room in Zoom should be off by default so requests don't pop up as you're presenting.

[Andrew J. Koh 🏺🧪⛵ @KappaHydroxide]

@YoungRichardKim Syncing Zoom with PowerPoint seems to be the biggest problem. There is also the hurdle of internet access, making sure personal computers are online through wifi in an age when few have ethernet ports. Perhaps a good argument to host at a uni with IT infrastructure?

[Andrew J. Koh 🏺🧪⛵ @KappaHydroxide]

@zuz_chovanec AIA booktable

[Ellery Frahm @elleryfrahm]

Here's the front page of my hot-off-the-press PNAS article with @CM_Carolus and a link directly to it: https://t.co/WWXugVLK5u – we explore how sourcing obsidian artifacts can highlight settlement pattern changes during the Neolithic period.

[Andrew J. Koh 🏺🧪⛵ @KappaHydroxide]

Thankful to be immersed today in interdisciplinarity with @elleryfrahm and @yalepeabody

#yalebabyloniancollection

[Andrew J. Koh 🏺🧪⛵ @KappaHydroxide]

GC-MS tweaks exactly one month before ASOR posters are due means Sunday labs.

#BeingAsian

[Andrew J. Koh 🏺🧪⛵ @KappaHydroxide]

Ancient hemorrhoids treatment, savory recipes, and opiate jars? Another day in the extraordinary #YaleBabylonianCollection with @AgneteLassen, Klaus Wagensonner, and @BrianMuraresku