Hi, I’m Josho Brouwers.

I’m an archaeologist writing about the ancient world in a way that aims to be accessible to all. This website also features articles written by fellow archaeologists and ancient historians.

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An ancient stigma

Greek tattoo culture, part 2

Owen Rees

7 min read

An ancient stigma

Greek tattoo culture, part 1

Owen Rees

8 min read

I know a guy who knows a guy…

The closeness centrality and its meaning

Arianna Sacco

8 min read

Tattooed Thracians killing Orpheus

A red-figure krater from the Allard Pierson

Owen Rees

4 min read

Alexander’s underwater adventure

A medieval story about Alexander the Great

Josho Brouwers

4 min read

In it for the booty?

A Geometric battle scene from Athens

Matthew Lloyd

9 min read

A survey of Mycenaean warfare

Evidence from the Late Bronze Age Aegean

Josho Brouwers

27 min read

Soldiers and Silver

A review of a book by Michael J. Taylor

Aaron L. Beek

12 min read

Flattening the palaestra ground

A red-figure cup from Rhodes

Josho Brouwers

4 min read

Did Odin come from Troy?

The Anatolian origins of the Norse pantheon

Josho Brouwers

10 min read

From Solon to Socrates

Aristotle’s model of correct and deviant government

Eugenia Russell

11 min read

The Odyssey

A peacetime epic, or a critique of the values of the Heroic Age?

Rosie Roberts

25 min read