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Ramadan mubarak, brothers and sisters. 🌙

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Our day off work at #Nippur was a trip to another important Mesopotamian city, Uruk. One of the world’s earliest cities, with a fascinating biography from at least 5000 BCE through the Parthians. 🏺

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This uniquely preserved Late Neolithic flint dagger (2900 BCE) was found in Allensbach at the Lake Constance, southwest #Germany. The blade was made of flint from Monte Baldo, northern #Italy. It was fastened with birch tar in a handle made of elderwood. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology

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8th century CE mosaic decorating the octagonal Qubbat al-Khazna (Dome of the Treasury) located in the courtyard of the magnificent Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, Syria. The structure stands on eight original Roman columns and capitals. #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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The Camel Site in northern Saudi Arabia is such a gem. About 7,000 years ago, people used stone tools, raised platforms, ladders, and incredible skill to carve life-sized camels into the rock faces. Fascinating article by @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and colleagues anetoday.org/guagnin-came...

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For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps. This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]

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🏛 The Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece. 📷 by me.

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Statue of Abu Bint Deimon, wife of Sanatruq I, king of Hatra (r. 140 - 180 CE). She wears an elaborate headgear, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. On display at the Hatra Gallery in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad. #AncientSiteSunday #AncientBlueSky

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The figurines from Early Neolithic Catalhöyük often show women. One famous example is seated on a throne-like stool and accompanied by leopards. The mother goddess? Most Catalhöyük figurines come from domestic contexts. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations Ankara.

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AncientBlueSky🏺 Queen Ada as portrayed in a statue from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, 350 BC, 📸 British Museum #Ancient #Art #History

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The late Roman 'Lycurgus Cup' (dated 4th-century CE). Made of dichroic glass. The glass appears green when lit from the front and red when lit from the back. The glass depicts scenes from the death of Lycurgus (as described in Book VI of Homer's Iliad). British Museum (1958,1202.1) 📷 by me

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Meanwhile in Ephesus Museum, İzmir🏺

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Built in the 2nd century AD, the Northern Tetrapylon of Jerash, Jordan, is a four sided archway that stood at a crossroads of the cardo maximus ( north-south street) and the decumanus maximus (east-west street) #RomanSiteSaturday #AncientBlueSky

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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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Anyone who has an obsession with Mesopotamia should be all over this. I can't wait to get my hands on it. #BookSky #AncientBlueSky

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‘Fragment of a Queen’s Face’ Timeless beauty from Ancient Egypt, c. 1390–1336 BC. Yellow jasper exquisitely sculpted and polished to achieve a mirror-like surface. The identity of this royal woman is uncertain. The Met, photo by me. #Archaeology

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For #ToxologyTuesday an archer from Tell Halaf, Syria, dating to the Iron Age c. 1200-900 BC. My photos of 2014 at the British Museum. I don't know if they are shooting the lion or riding it! @british-museum.bsky.social 🏺

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“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

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7th century BCE Phoenician wine press at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon. It was built into the slope of a hill to allow the flow of the grape juice and made watertight using a plaster made of lime and crushed ceramics. #AncientSiteSunday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Waterwheels 🎡 were a part of everyday life in the Roman Mediterranean, but extant art didn't provide many glimpses at them. 2 mosaics from Syria, 1 from 469 CE and a more recent 1, likely from the 2nd-3rdC CE, are our earliest depictions. See Ra'anan Boustan & Karen Britt muse.jhu.edu/article/820349

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In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour. “we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

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This closeup of a Greek gold diadem reveals its richly worked repoussé decoration. In the center are the figures of Ariadne and Dionysos seated on a blooming and scrolling acanthus, each holding a thyrsus. Said to have come from a tomb at Madytos, in Thrace. #MetMuseum 🏺 ca. 330-300 BCE. 📸 me

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Facade and interior of a Hellenistic era Macedonian tomb known as the Tomb of the Palmettes (Lefkadia, Greece. 3rd c. BCE) Facade features four Ionic columns supporting a painted pediment that presumably depicts the tombs' occupants. Tomb named for its painted ceiling. #TombTuesday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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A ca. 4,500-year-old seed bag from #Egypt, made from reed-grass. It's still in fantastic condition due to the arid desert climate. On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 📷 taken by me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

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Mosaic floor of Qusayr Amra, Jordan CE 723-43. An Umayyad 'desert palace.' Like others set up along trading routes the complex may have offered travellers hospitality. Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, now in British Museum 'Silk Roads' exhibition. #MosaicMonday 🏺

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6th century CE floor mosaic from the Great Palace of Constantinople. Depicted are grazing horses and goats being milked by shepherds. Mosaic displayed at the Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul. #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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A tiny hedgehog from Vogelherd Cave, Germany, carved in mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago (Aurignacian)

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“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

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Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone rather than paper sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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A 5,000-year-old Neolithic #knife, the blade was made of flint and fastened with birch tar in a handle made of poplar wood. The handle has a hole for attaching a cord. From the pile dwelling settlement at Unteruhldingen, dating back to 3,000 BC. 📷 by me #archaeology 🏺

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We all need a timeline cleanse right now, so let's start the day with this lovely jug with an octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC. On display at National Museum Copenhagen. 📷 by me 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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We exposed the E face of the late 3rd mill BCE city wall and noticed a hitch in alignment. My story is this is where one work gang stopped and the next one started (with extended arguing abt which is correct in Sumerian 😂). #Nippur 🏺

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Details from the Temple of Apollo at the sanctuary of Didyma, close to the famous Greek city of Miletus, on the coast of Western Anatolia. Didyma and Miletus were connected by the Sacred Way, a paved processional road. #AncientBlueSky #AncientSiteSunday

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I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany. 📷 by me #archaeology 🏺

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Remains of the Roman hippodrome of Tyre, Lebanon. The seating section, starting blocks, turning posts, and median strip with an obelisk are all still visible. Built in the second century CE, it measured 480m×160m and had a capacity of around 30000 spectators. #RomanSiteSaturday #AncientBlueSky

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Something lovely for the weekend! A stunning 2,000 year-old Roman emerald green glass bowl 💚 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

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When is a simple, gorgeously iridescent glass perfume bottle not so simple? This depicts a statue famous in antiquity, the Tyche of Antioch. Sculpted by Eutychides of Sikyon in about 296 BCE, this bottle may have been a souvenir of a visit to that city. 🏺 1/ 2nd-3rd c. CE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

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#FrescoFriday - Fresco from the Mycenaean citadel of Gla in Boeotia depicting five dolphins diving into the sea. Dated to the second half of the 13th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Thebes, Greece.

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This marvellous life-sized #horse head made of gilded bronze belonged to a figural group of a #Roman emperor in a quadriga or a biga (a chariot drawn by four or two horses). Found in Augsburg, dating 1st/2nd century AD Photo: Römisches Museum/Andreas Brücklmair 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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No biggie, just an ancient equivalent of a clay photograph that shows a man walking his dog 3,800 years ago in the city of Borsippa 🥹

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