It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
I'm giving a talk on December 5 via Zoom!
Inscribing Sacred Matter: Reading and Writing Inscriptions on Byzantine Relics
maryjahariscenter.org/events/inscr...
This paper was a long time in the making - we'd wondered about #viking nicking on the #Newark torc for a very long time...
... and then the #Knaresborough ring turned up! 😊
Had a lot of fun writing this with @trixranderson.bsky.social
#Archaeology