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