Dr Ruth Allen

Curator of Greek and Roman art @carlosmuseum. Researcher/curator of @ModClassicisms. Did a PhD @CamClassics on #RomanGems. Views occasional and my own.

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

@laurenlaverne @BBC6Music It's got to be I'm Afraid of Americans, right?

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

@BBC6Music Hey @BBC6Music: I moved to Atlanta from Brighton a year ago but still listen to @laurenlaverne every morning on BBC Sounds. It's my birthday on Tuesday & I'm feeling far from UK friends & family in this crazy year. Could you play Martha & the Vandellas Dancing in the Streets?

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

@FrontierCare I sent you a DM at the weekend about rebooking a cancelled flight with an ecredit but haven't had a reply yet..!

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

@cerysmatthews @BBC6Music ... you played a track a few weeks back from a new release of Macedonian music from the '70s (I think!!!). What was the album called? I want to buy it for my mum's birthday and it's been driving me mad trying to remember!!

[Following Hadrian @carolemadge]

Istanbul museum offers archaeology collection online https://t.co/3fu0nqIIfZ

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

And could you play Bowie+Jagger Dancing in the Street for the #PeoplesPlaylist?

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

@laurenlaverne @BBC6Music I moved from Brighton to Atlanta, GA 6 months ago & I listen every morning on @BBCSounds. In these weird unsettling times when I feel very far from home, you make me feel that much closer. THANK YOU <3 #6musicfamily

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

Archaeologists uncover evidence that legendary Amazons were based on real women warriors: https://t.co/G3mp9KVTHT #amazons #scythians #myth #archaeology

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

How to Eat Dinner Like the Last Citizens of Pompeii https://t.co/duwTfnYAxw

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was forced into an Austrian asylum during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity #womensart

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

Should the Parthenon Marbles Be Returned to Greece? https://t.co/ap2DZmer9e

[Dr Joanne Dyer @JoanneDyer_BM]

#Museum30 Day 9: Conveying ancient #polychromy research to audiences can be challenging. Fortunately there are great people, like @RoyRodenhaeuser 😃 who use #AR to aid #interpretation. Here’s a fab video he made of @britishmuseum’s “Queen of the Night”!

[Gareth Blayney @GBlayney]

The Roman Amphitheatre at Caerleon in Newport, Wales courtesy of my drone.

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

@PeterCNStewart He didn't take the Odyssean approach?

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

I am in love with the in-storage photos: A Storied Collection of Ancient Sculpture Will Finally See the Light https://t.co/1qbV7T6j1F #classical #sculpture #torlonia #rome #romanart #greekart via @nytimes

[@edithmayhall @edithmayhall]

One of the most beautiful illustrators of classical mythology, Edmund Dulac, was born 22 Oct. 1882. These pictures in my battered childhood copy of Tanglewood Tales contributed to my later career choice. Circe with Ulysses (he unnecessarily spent a whole year with her) & Cheiron.

[Historic England @HistoricEngland]

The largest ever Bronze Age hoard to be discovered in London, the third largest of its kind in the UK, has been unearthed in Havering

It will go on display at @MuseumofLondon Docklands next year

https://t.co/zqemh77204

#HaveringHoard

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

Fiona Benson wins Forward prize with Greek myth poems for #MeToo age https://t.co/NyfWRqaZn2 #greek #myth #poetry

[AAIA Sydney @AAIASydney]

"The Greek Culture Ministry is putting together an interdisciplinary committee of experts who will be responsible for drawing up a national action plan to tackle the impact of climate change on the country’s archaeological sites and historic monuments."
https://t.co/507Ff1MBzC

[Dr Ruth Allen @RuthMAllen]

DeepMind AI beats humans at deciphering damaged ancient Greek tablets https://t.co/ggvrtgpoXg #greek #ancient #epigraphy #inscription #ai