Alberto B. Foglia

You go to one wild crazy party and do a few silly things, wake up relieved that photo cameras and social media don't exist yet and that soon everyone will have forgotten... but someone made a drawing...

Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands

Il ritorno della credenza di Ercolano: un viaggio nel tempo tra legno e memoria

The idea of the closet as a dedicated space for clothes etc is relatively modern architecture. Most in antiquity had cupboards & what we would call an armoire. At Herculaneum, the have now fully restored wooden cabinet carbonized in the eruption 🌋 of 79 CE. ercolano.cultura.gov.it/il-ritorno-d...

The opening text of Master and Commander, but its the style of a Zohran for Mayor poster. "April, 1805. Napoleon is master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him. Oceans are now battlefields."

Yeah :D

A 1,700-Year-Old Roman Merchant Ship Lies Just Two Meters Below the Surface off Mallorca’s Playa de Palma - Arkeonews Conservation team examining amphorae recovered from the Ses Fontanelles Roman shipwreck near Playa de Palma, Mallorca

Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman merchant vessel shipwreck from around ca. 320 CE near Mallorca. It was carrying olive oil, wine, and garum, “two leather shoes, a carpenter’s drill likely used for onboard repairs, and an oil lamp … Some amphorae, however, bear early Christian monograms.”

Interior view of the building showing massive stone columns with detailed carvings and colorful hieroglyphs as well as the ceiling. The columns are shaped like lotus or papyrus plants and are closely spaced, supporting a decorated ceiling. 📷 Daniel von Recklinghausen

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3

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i think in a free society people are not afraid to answer their phone

Giving Beherit vibes

for the record this is not what a mid 19-century American bathroom would look like. At all

Happy Halloween! Our son is really in to sharks so the Jack-o-lantern has a sharky flair this year 🎃

Damn this sucks, I used to recommend Affinity to people as it was a one time payment. Literally who asked for this change? Didn’t realize Canva bought them either

Based Trad guys don’t know history obviously but even the idea of national languages is relatively recent - in France at the revolution only half the population spoke French. The HRE had many languages. In Ancient Rome at the bare minimum an aristocrat had to be bilingual

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.

I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does

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A book cover design with the title “The Desire to Be an Archaeologist (and Other Diseases of the Brain)” by Antique Christie. The cover has a vintage style with a red and beige color scheme, the publisher name “Great Auk Books” at the top, and a small illustration of an auk bird near the bottom.

Happy International Archaeology Day!

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And the scan itself!
It's huge. This male aurochs had over 80cm horn span!

Nobody can know everything, let alone everything by their own research. We always rely on experts to navigate our complex world. The question is whether we pick credentialed and experienced people or internet demagogues and grifters.

“Bread loaves found in the tomb of architect Kha (TT8). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1386-1349 BC. Deir el-Medina, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. #Egypt From Cara’s”

On this World Bread 🍞 Day, some bread loaves from the tomb of the architect, Kha, from the Egyptian artisan village at Deir el-Medina (image via CARAA). www.jstor.org/stable/10.75...

I was asked recently what the “big debates” are in ancient naval studies, the maritime equivalent of the hoplite debate. Three stand out clearly. Here is a short summary of some!

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

Israeli ceasefire means it will massacre the emaciated maimed shell of a body they left you in for entering your own home, then claim Israeli terrorists were feeling unsafe near your house while they were destroying what was left of your life and family.

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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Please friends, sign the petition "Palestinians are not spam" and share it widely.

Per gli amici di Roma (e non solo) ecco il sito di un progetto davvero interessante (e molto utile!) ➡️ cantierinarranti.it
Qui potrete scoprire i cantieri in fase di attivazione, in corso o conclusi riguardanti il patrimonio culturale della città di Roma e del territorio ->

Clear view of lightning withing a thunderstorm cell that was building over Clark Dry Lake and Rabbit Peak on 9-18-25. As seen that evening from Coyote Canyon where the coyotes joined in for a howl fest for a while.

Nobody cares about that. You just make us tired. Go away.

Second the Golden Idol games! My wife is a non-enthusiast and she’s been enjoying them! Curse of the Obra Dinn is a good one too imo!

Reading through this book now, very interesting history of labor and labor action in the Roman Empire! Go buy it!

Title: Illegal excavations in East Jerusalem—archaeological malpractice in service of Zionism and Israel’s ‘holy war’ in the region Image: Silwan village, occupied East Jerusalem, with the Haram al-Shareef complex and al-Aqsa mosque above. www.alt-arch.org

The Palestinian village of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem lies right below the southern corner of Haram al-Shareef, the complex upon which the al-Aqsa mosque rises. On Monday the 15th of September 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio walked below the roads of this village, all the way to the Western Wall plaza inside the Walls of the Old City. This was the grand opening ceremony of a tourist attraction that was not only built in contravention of International Law, and the principles of archaeological methodology, but is also foreboding of grave danger to the status quo that protects the sovereignty of the compound.

The area of Silwan has been inhabited con-tinuously since the Bronze Age, and has been the object of archaeological attention from as early as 1838, when British biblical scholar Edward Robinson, in his travels through Ottoman Palestine, iden-tified the pool of water located at the bottom of the hill as the Siloam pool, mentioned in the christian Gospels.

A long series of excavation campaigns followed Robinson’s early exploration. During the following century, the area witnessed large scale campaigns led by the German, French and British Schools of Archaeology. The most recent of them, conducted by Dame Kathleen Kenyon, and dubbed by her biographer “the last great imperial excavation”, was interrupted only by the 1967 Six Day War.

On Israeli archaeological malpractice, heritage crimes, and US complicity #archaeology #🏺

The frantic race to save historic treasures from Israeli bombs - BBC News Palestinian archaeologists remain dedicated to saving what remains of Gaza's remarkable past as Israel widens its military offensive

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