It has been quite a week! We all need a timeline cleanse.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉.
The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m.
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC.
📷 Metropolitan Museum
Tynesiders, 1950, photo by Bert Hardy (1913-95).
Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday
Villa Farnesina Cubiculum B fresco depicting the Nymphs of Mount Nysa caring for the infant Dionysus.
The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery.
#FrescoFriday
Morning all.
Photographer Martin Parr ‘Spending Time.’
Salford, Greater Manchester 1986.
Archaeologists have uncovered one of the first instances of interaction between #Neolithic farmers and #Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer not observed before.
🏺A communicative #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
This special roof tile, also on display at the Grosvenor museum in Chester, bears the marks of the 20th Legion and their symbol, a wild boar.
Jadeitite Axehead • Donegal
This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland.
Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
🌳The Crowhurst Yew, thought to be 4,000 years old, predates Christianity itself. A living portal through time. 🕰️It’s one of the locations in my Ultimate Guide to Time Travel: 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
The heavily ploughed interior of Hod Hill #Roman fort, early September 1949
Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset
Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks
© Historic England see:
britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW...
#RomanFortThursday
A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday
A beautiful early medieval cobalt blue glass beaker. dating late 7th century AD. Found in a burial in Lauchheim.
This type of vessel has no foot and will not stand upright, it had to be emptied before it could be put down.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
#FindsFriday 🏺
#Roman dogs along Hadrian's wall: copper alloy figure of pup lifting a friendly paw, + 2 enamelled copper alloy brooches of hunting dogs.
In galleries @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social considering life along farthest frontier of empire.
British dogs were highly rated, and very good boys.
Walking into a field with erected stones – whether menhir, circle or portal tomb – is to cross into a territory of wonder. Archaeologist, ley-hunter, stone botherer or pagan pilgrim, we all feel a sense of marvel rippling across our psychic skin. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
Painted tile - 1564-8
Made by Jasper Andries & Jacob Jansen, in #Antwerp or #Norwich
The wild boar with a crescent was used by Sir Francis Bacon to show he was his father’s second son.
Made for Old Gorhambury House, near St Albans, #Hertfordshire
Now V & A Museum #London
#TilesOnTuesday
Jean-Étienne Liotard, Girl Singing into a Mirror, oil on canvas (Springfield Museum of Fine Arts). The Swiss pastellist and painter, especially famed for his portraits, also did a number of charming pictures of his family members such as this of his daughter
Wayland’s Smithy looking particularly moody in the cold today. There’s a specific kind of magic in these stones when the colors are muted.
Looking out from within the Cairn de Gavrinis last July on the last #TombTuesday of 2025. Time to start planning where 2026 will take me.
Volunteers created blankets for elephants during a cold spell in Myanmar, Winga Baw Elephant camp #WomensArt
Gunta Stölzl (1897-983) German textile artist fundamental to development of the Bauhaus weaving workshop #WomensArt
Ice age architecture: How mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
A relief sculpture of a blacksmith at work in his workshop. He’s surrounded by the tools of his trade. It was found in Tomb 29 at the Necropolis of Portus on the Isola Sacra. AD 160-180.
‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
Tile fragment from Roman Cirencester with graffiti depicting a house. The fragment is part of the collections at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #RomanBritain #CoriniumMuseum #Cirecenster
Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Testing clay from the Roman pottery production site at Highgate Wood, North London and using Munsell colour charts to record the results. Same clay, different temperatures and kiln atmosphere. 🏺#Archaeology #AncientBluesky
Following last week's monochrome elephant, this is another common type of depiction in Roman mosaics. From the Great Pavement at Woodchester, moving around Orpheus. 1/2
#MosaicMonday
@classicalalan.bsky.social
Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
