José de Kruif

Fish-shaped glass vessel with translucent yellow body, wide open mouth, round eyes, and blue accents on fins, crest, and tail

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This magnificent #Roman #fish-shaped flask was found during the excavation of a storeroom in Begram/Afghanistan. It was probably made in a workshop at Alexandria/Egypt, dating 1st/2nd century AD. Begram was a....🧵1/2

🏺 #archaeology

.... major trading city at the Silk Road, the flask was found in one of two storerooms of a merchant, filled with luxury good.
National Museum of Afghanistan

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Gemeente Houten, trek een Rode Lijn voor Gaza Miljoenen Palestijnen zitten gevangen onder een door Israël opgelegde blokkade die leidt tot acute hongersnood en een schrijnend tekort aan voedsel, schoon drinkwater en medische hulp. Elke dag worden...

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ge...

Quaker statement on asylum seeker harassment One year on from the riots in the summer of 2024, we are filled with anguish to see human beings seeking refuge in our nation facing the threat of further violence and intimidation. As our book of tea...

We are filled with anguish to see human beings seeking refuge facing the threat of further violence and intimidation.

Too many politicians are fanning the flames of division when they should be voices for peace.

www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Goed zo! Timmermans spreekt Bosma aan op zijn ongelijkwaardige behandeling van Wilders en Van Baarle. #debat #tweedekamer #thuisfluiter

A close-up photo of a a bronze fibula ( brooch/pin), featuring a stylized bird figure sitting on top of a coiled, spiraling wire form. The fibula has a greenish patina typical of aged bronze, the bird's body features engraved lines. The object is photographed against a black background.

A fibula (decorative pin for fastening garments) decorated with a water bird, dating 5th century BC. Found at the Heidentor near Egesheim.
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RIP Tom Lehrer - the day he announced his items were public domain on a website, we mirrored it. Thank you for your service

archive.org/details/toml...

How great was Tom Lehrer? In 2020, he moved his entire catalog into the public domain because he felt he'd made more than enough money off of it.

Enjoy every Tom Lehrer album:

tomlehrersongs.com

Photograph of Tom Lehrer

Oh no. Tom Lehrer gone. At his great age, it’s not a tragedy, I know, but it just does feel bad not having his genius in the world.

An estimated 150.000 people are drawing a red line in The Hague, demanding that our government takes a stance against g3n0cide and cuts the ties with Israel

Op weg naar Den Haag met @vincentvanpp.bsky.social voor de #rodelijn

Wat een mooie tentamenvraag!

A replica of an ancient finger bone found in Denisova Cave. DNA extracted from this bone was used to first identify the Denisovan lineage.Credit: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

It was the finger seen around the world.

Who were the ancient Denisovans? 🏺🧪
Fossils reveal secrets about the mysterious humans

Clues are emerging about the ghostly clan that settled eastern Asia and left a genetic legacy in people today.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

De Rode Lijn was gigantisch!!💪

Onderdeel van een menselijke rode lijn... @Den Haag

Help. Spreek je uit. Sanctioneer.
Beter laat dan nooit.

#rodelijn #wewetenhet #nietwegkijken

A charred skein of linen thread displayed upright in a museum case. The blackened, twisted fibers are tightly coiled and partially fused from burning, mounted between two smooth, pale stone supports. The exhibit is lit to highlight the texture and preservation of the ancient textile remains.

#Neolithic textile production: a charred skein of linen thread, dating around 3200 BC, from the pile dwelling settlement of Nußdorf-Maurach, Überlingen, Lake Constance. The damp environment has preserved it in good condition

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

Please read my essay in TIME, which @science.org
did not do carefully before publishing this assertion. time.com/7285045/resi...

Pile of silver coins.

NEW Coins from the Nietulisko Małe Hoard, one of the largest hoards of Roman coins found in Poland. Digitisation of almost 3000 denarii from the hoard helped document them and the database will hopefully be publicly available soon.

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#Archaeology 🏺 #NumismaticsBluesky

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago - Nature Human Behaviour The Middle Palaeolithic of southwest Asia witnessed interactions and knowledge sharing between archaic and modern humans ~130,000–80,000 years ago. These interactions led to increased behavioural comp...

"Findings indicate a uniform behavioural set: similar lithic technology, increased reliance on large-game hunting & socially elaborated behaviours (intentional burial, ochre use in burial contexts). We suggest this is due to intensified interpopulation interactions between Homo groups 130–80 ka."🧪

Part of a page of a medieval manuscript that had a hole cut into it. Underneath it is a restoration of a large decorated B, which would have been in this place, and which was restored by Eliza. The letter emulates the medieval style of script, but the image inside it is in a late 18th century style, showing a verdant tree standing against a green bucolic landscape.

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire joins the Linked Open Data cloud In a significant enhancement to the study of Roman imperial coinage, nearly 5,000 coin hoards from the Oxford Coin Hoards of the Roman Empir...

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

Banksy did it again.

Hurrah! The digital images of this amazing manuscript at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social are now available www.uu.nl/nieuws/ridde...

Het is knap hier nog humor uit te kunnen persen.

#Flowerreport #Gardens Hamamelis “Gimborns Perfume” in full bloom today (temperature outside: 3 degr. C)

Ik duim met je mee. Overigens vinden wij ook kleine zwarte slakjes opgerold in bladeren van planten die in de winter nog wel overeind staan. 😠

Laten we het hopen….Bij graafwerkzaamheden in onze volkstuin vond ik overwinterende huisjesslakken in de grond. Prima. Maar leggen die vervelende naaktslakken hun eitjes ook niet beschut ergens?

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Allemaal naar Bluesky 💙

A fragment of a marble relief showing a woman in a long robe pouring liquid from a barrel supported by a wooden frame. An inscription below, in Latin, mentions the deceased: Sentia Amarantis.

Working #women are frequently attested in the #Roman empire: the funerary stele of Sentia Amarantis depicts the deceased tapping wine from a barrel. She was an inn-keeper and died at the age of 45. The stele was set up by her husband.

From Augusta Emerita/Mérida, 3rd c. AD.

#ReliefWednesday 🏺