Something lovely for the weekend! Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Arrested under terrorist charges, for trying to assert his freedom of speech. The final act of a colonial country is to bring legal lawlessness home. Quite astonishing disregard for justice or human rights. In the old days this is what was done in the colonies.

Dear Lord, it’s actually worse than the extract @stephenkb.bsky.social shared. Quite a lot worse.

She called for innocent people to be burned alive. Reform welcomed her with a rapturous ovation. Revolting.

Emerald Fennell choosing the Flowers in the Attic font for Wuthering Heights tells me everything I need to know about this cursed nightmare of an adaptation

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Spotted on the Strand this afternoon:

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I live two miles away and I can hear the sea roaring #stormerin

TV tonight: intriguing new Welsh crime drama Mudtown

A good article on illegal detecting in Wales to start the day... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's a hot 🔥one for #HillfortsWednesday Ongoing excavations of conjoined roundhouses within Buckspool coastal promontory fort (📷 Monday) continue to produce a wide range of Roman finds 😮🤔 Dig by @henebtwa.bsky.social for @richardosgood.bsky.social & #OpNightingale 📷 (C) @rcahmwales.bsky.social

There are so many amazing finds from prehistoric pile dwellings settlements: 3,500-year-old wooden whisks found in settlements at the Lake Carera/Italy. By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2 #archaeology 🏺

Lioness rhyton from Knossos Palace, Crete. Fabulous example of Minoan stone carving skills during the Bronze Age 3,500 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Motherfucking wind farms…

We have a Labour government refusing doctors’ pay rise, causing strikes in the NHS. A Labour govt that cut aid to starving Palestinians who it is selling weaponry to Israel to kill. A Labour govt that week-in, week-out, accuses foreigners of destroying our country, to justify it all. #r4today

People are dying of starvation in Gaza, aid agencies are pleading to be allowed to take food in, Israel is blocking it, & meanwhile the UK cabinet is having a fussy little conversation about whether this is an opportune time to recognise Palestinian statehood www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

'The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails...' 🌨️ Sending love to The Winter's Tale team for Press Night ❤️

Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why. This week's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Cunliffe report won’t make one atom of the UK’s water any cleaner” Feargal Sharkey www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that Brexit has been slammed as a 'complete disaster' that 'ruined most of the country' in a poll marking nine years since the UK voted to leave the EU www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The rest of UK moaning about the heatwave. True to form it’s chucking it down here #relyonWales

Two birds flew into my windows this morning. The female blackbird I rescued from the cat, wrapped in towel, let it sit quietly for an hour on my balcony before it flew off. The other, a jackdaw, died instantly. Life, death, hope, despair… all before 8am on a Sunday

Absolutely unsurprising. Virtually all exported too – and I'm guessing most of it ends up in compost bags in garden centres. Whether you're in Ireland, the UK or elsewhere – always, always buy peat free compost. Kill this destructive market. www.rte.ie/news/environ...

Fashionable some 6,000 years ago: a stunning Neolithic three-row necklace from Sachsenheim, dating to around 4,000 BC. This remarkable piece, which comprises more than 500 limestone and jet beads, is a witness to both craftsmanship and style. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg #Archaeology 🏺

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl, made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in mold. Timeless beauty! Dating late 1st BC–early 1st AD, found in Cuora, Cavarzere, Italy Photo: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria 🏺

Angela Rayner is backing plans put forward by Sir Sadiq Khan to pedestrianise Oxford Street "as quickly as possible" news.sky.com/story/angela...

Is there anything more simple and satisfyingly beautiful than ancient Roman glass? I think not. Below are two examples - an amber-colored amphoriskos (with cobalt blue handles), and a purple janiform (double-faced) flask. #MetMuseum 🏺 #ancientbluesky See ALT for more info. 📸 me

The Bronze Age ‘Corrard Torc’ which was found in a bog in County Fermanagh by a metal detectorist in 2009. Now part of the collections at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #BronzeAge

The exquisite Hindsgavl Dagger. A masterpiece of flint knapping from Late Neolithic Denmark, c. 1900-1700 BC. Found in 1876 by a young boy out walking with his mother on the Danish island of Fænø. 📷 National Museum of Denmark. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

A charming Egyptian figurine of a hippopotamus carved from calcite some 5,000 years ago! 🦛❤️ Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 📷 by me #Archaeology

The V&A East Storehouse opens to the public on Saturday for free! #Stratford www.vam.ac.uk/east/storeho...

To all those celebrities finally calling for a ceasefire one might ask ‘where the hell have you been?!’

Do you get it now?

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

Simply this.

The Gleninsheen Gorget • Clare • c.800–700 BC Look carefully at this stunning gold gorget the next time you're in the National Museum of Ireland. You can see an array of goldworking techniques that form a dazzling testament to the skill of the goldsmiths of Late Bronze Age Ireland.

Happy birthday to David Attenborough. 99 today!

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

Please take a moment for my glorious peonies

£4.8 billion - how much UK will gain annually with new trade deal with India £140 billion - how much UK loses out annually by being outside the EU Single Market

‘The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.’ www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

🐬 'Pwllheli ‘Dolphin’ ! Captured by Dr Toby Driver & first noticed by Rhys Jones, this stunning natural illusion is formed by breakwaters, sandbanks & shrubland near Afon Erch. #WalesFromAbove #PwllheliDolphin #RCAHMW @drtobydriver.bsky.social @visitwales.bsky.social @pwllheli.bsky.social

Our booklet on Gender stereotypes in archaeology has been downloaded or read online 13079 times! You can check out for free @sidestone.bsky.social and also look up for some other great books! #gender #archaeology www.sidestone.com/books/gender...

I walked along the length of the National Covid Memorial wall for the first time today and my goodness it was powerful. Really brought home, so simply and powerfully, the scale of loss and what millions went through.

'The Flower Walk, Kensington Gardens,' (1897) is such a beautiful vignette of late Victorian England; painting the London parks preoccupied Paul Maitland for the last decade and half of his career.

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Red poppy, 1730s, by #ElizabethBlackwell (British, 1699-1758), who was born #otd, Apr 23. Plate 2 from “A Curious Herbal”; source, www.themarginalian.org/2020/01/29/e... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory