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Aren’t these fabulous.

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Ancient Egyptian gold finger-ring set with a mouse amulet inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. Gold and glazed steatite. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, 1479-1425 BC Squeak squeak Thutmouse! 🐭 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

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For #RomanSiteSaturday an aerial view of the amphitheatre in Itálica, #Spain. ‘Game of Thrones’ fans may recognize the #Dragonpit! The amphitheatre was built in the 2nd century AD and held up to 25,000 spectators. Photo: Amazing Aerial Agency 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall #Northumberland

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Having posted St Lawrence Warkworth for #SteepleSaturday thought it only fair to have a look up the hill at Warkworth #CastleSaturday. Started c. 1200, and mega-powerful Percy family held sway here as Earls/Dukes of Northumberland 14-17th C. The 1400 keep is fantastically ingenious: see /2

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Hello, BlueSky! 🦋 Excited to reconnect, exchange ideas, and build a collaborative space driven by curiosity and innovation. We’re launching the Dept. of Biodiversity Monitoring at SMNS!🚀 Using museum & monitoring collections, we study genomic diversity 🧬 and species persistence in a changing world.

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For #RomanSiteSaturday an aerial view of the amphitheatre in Itálica, #Spain. ‘Game of Thrones’ fans may recognize the #Dragonpit! The amphitheatre was built in the 2nd century AD and held up to 25,000 spectators. Photo: Amazing Aerial Agency 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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« S’évader - L’art en détention du XIXe siècle à la fin du bagne », une #exposition proposée par Criminocorpus Lab. www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

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London's First Roman Basilica Unearthed. archaeology.org/news/2025/02...

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A tiny #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of carnelian (height 0.9 cm). Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility. Dating c. 1540-1296 BC, New Kingdom. Photo: Cleveland Museum of Art 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

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Beim Professorinnenprogramm 2030 ist #BW erneut das erfolgreichste Land! 12 weitere Hochschulen dürfen Anschubfinanzierungen für mit Frauen besetzte Professuren beantragen.💪 #Gleichstellung #Chancengleichheit

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Der neuste CO2-#Kulturrechner ist ab sofort nutzbar! #kultur #klimaschutz mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/service/p...

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🎉 200 Jahre KIT! Die Exzellenzuni hat ihr Jubiläum u.a. mit Bundesforschungsminister @oezdemir.de und Ministerpräsident Kretschmann gefeiert. Wissenschaftsministerin Petra Olschowski: „200 Jahre @kit.edu sind ein Grund zu feiern und stolz zu sein!“ 👉 t1p.de/e2cev

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Below is one of the best extant examples of painted Roman sculpture. Unexpectedly, this cornucopia fragment was apparently found in Corbridge and somehow survived in a wet environment (I’d expect maybe in Egypt, but …). Look at these colors. 🏺 #polychromy 📸 Corbridge Roman Town Museum

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond: Body, Affect, Concepts ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/horr...

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The late Anglo-Saxon ‘Abingdon Sword’ which was found near Abingdon in 1874. The sword dates to the late 9th or early 10th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #AngloSaxon #Archaeology

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A #Roman horse - 4th Century A #Bronze decorative element of the suspension of a wagon. Now in #Zamora Museum #Spain #FindsFriday #AncientBluesky #Archaeology 🧵 1/2

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Gorgeous #Roman glass cups decorated with colourful enamel-painted animals from the Roman arena, AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark, where they are known as ‘circus beakers’. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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#news in #numismatics 🏺 The book: "Counterfeits, Imitations, and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii: Making and Faking Coins on Both Sides of the Limes" available open access via @brepols.bsky.social www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...

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✨ Bundesverdienstkreuz für Ingrid Noll für ihr gesellschaftliches Engagement in Weinheim - wie etwa die Förderung der Lesefreude bei Kindern. #EhreWemEhreGebührt #Leseförderung #KinderFürBücherBegeistern #Weinheim #KrimiLegende #Leseförderung #Bücherliebe #Bundesverdienstkreuz #IngridNoll

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A tiny #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of carnelian (height 0.9 cm). Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility. Dating c. 1540-1296 BC, New Kingdom. Photo: Cleveland Museum of Art 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

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A gorgeous Romano-British copper alloy horse-and-rider brooch with red, blue and white enamel inlay Found by Henry Durden (1807-1892) at Woodyates #Dorset and later given to the BM © The Trustees of the British Museum 1892,0901.1600 An Iron Age deity for #FindsFriday

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A very sobering artefact for today’s #FindsFriday. This double ringed iron slave shackle was excavated from House of the Ephebe, #Pompeii and has been dated to C1st CE. #RomanArchaeology #AncientBluesky 📷 my own

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A stunnning miniature portrait of the #Roman empress Agrippina Minor (15-59 AD), made from chalcedony. Agrippina was the mother of Nero, and married to her uncle, emperor Claudius. It was rumoured that she poisoned her husband with a dish of mushrooms. On display at British Museum 📷me 🏺

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Well this is going to upset a few people. "Ancient DNA Reveals Most Europeans Had Dark Skin Until Just 3,000 Years Ago": www.zmescience.com/science/news... Read the research, link at the bottom of the article.

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Large clump of mail from the civilian settlement (vicus) near the legionary fortress of Bonn 🇩🇪 #RomanFortThursday Its discovery outside the fortress indicates there was a close relationship between Roman military installations and nearby settlements. 🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.178

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I’ll be here talking about Peggy Piggott, of Sutton Hoo fame, and the importance of writing women back in to history. 🏺| ‘Female Foundations: The Lives and Legacies of Women in the Earth Sciences’ | Dorchester, 8th March 2025 #IWD2025 | Tickets available here: www.reachequality.org/events?fbcli...

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Today is International Lego Classicism Day! 🎉 #ILCD25 #ILCD2025 And I was thinking... Wouldn't it be amazing if there was a bookshop where you could buy all the books that have been lost? So I built one.😂 Check out the website for all my Lego lost books... classicalstudies.support/classics-and...

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Viking sock lost in the wash for more than a thousand years? 🧦 😂 The only Viking-age sock found in England, it was recovered from the back yard of a 10th-century building during the 1976-81 excavations at Coppergate, York. On display at Jorvik Viking Centre. 📷 by me #Archaeology

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To remind you that there is something good left in the world, here is the first Quokka I ever met in person. 🥰

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Somebody mention Roman floor heating.....? [checks travel time from Bournemouth to Carlisle] #HypocaustGate

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New post this week on ancient Juliobriga, a city founded by Augustus in present-day Northern Spain toward the end, or following the conclusion, of the Cantabrian War. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky

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The remains of one of the towers at Hardknott Roman Fort in Cumbria. Located on the western side of the Hardknott Pass at 800 feet, the fort was built between AD120 and AD138. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology

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Medieval Church Excavation in Germany Uncovers Mysterious Monkey Figurine. www.medievalists.net/2025/02/medi...

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A stunnning miniature portrait of the #Roman empress Agrippina Minor (15-59 AD), made from chalcedony. Agrippina was the mother of Nero, and married to her uncle, emperor Claudius. It was rumoured that she poisoned her husband with a dish of mushrooms. On display at British Museum 📷me 🏺

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Hey. America. Remember what you lads did in 1776? It inspired so many revolutions. You can do it again you know...no kings

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Im Star Trek-Universum bricht der Dritte Weltkrieg im Jahr 2026 aus und dauert bis 2053. Ursachen des Krieges Der Dritte Weltkrieg entsteht durch eine Mischung aus geopolitischen Spannungen, dem Zusammenbruch von Nationalstaaten und extremistischen Ideologien.

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Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This #Roman flask in the form of a fish was found in Cologne, 3rd c. AD. We don't know what is was used for, maybe the shape relates to the content (fish sauce), maybe it was used to hold oil. 📷 me 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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Thanks to an export from @gordien3a.bsky.social, almost 5000 coin hoards of the Roman Empire have been linked to about 14000 coin types in OCRE, greatly expanding geographic visualization, from Hadrian's Wall to India. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/02/coin... #lawdi #LODLAM #classicsbluesky

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Never underestimate Ukraine. Many did, especially Putin. Trump is making the same mistake - again.

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Wir suchen Verstärkung: www.alm-konstanz.de/stellenangeb...

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New discovery: First discovery of a royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's was found over a century ago. A joint Egyptian-British archaeological team has uncovered the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last missing royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty. english.ahram.org.eg/News/540638.... 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

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Lovely naturalistic scene of birds and a butterfly in a papyrus thicket, carved by an ancient Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago! Faint traces of paint survive on this limestone wall relief from the funerary temple of king Userkaf. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

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