This one never gets old. We all need a good laugh these days.

Shakespearean put-downs: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 114). Roughly translated as “Endless Word Salad”…

Ilkley Moor today, a haunting moment when I surprised a roe deer whilst looking for rock art.

This beautiful beautiful scene is just a ten minute walk from the rented cottage we are staying in. A lovely walk to start your day! #TorrentWalk #Dolgellau #Wales #VisitWales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

142 years ago, on the 1st of February 1884, the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published. The work spanned from 'A' to 'Ant'. It took until 1928 for the final volume, up to and including words starting with 'Z' to be published. #otd #history 🗃️

The Castel Statue Menhir, Guernsey. An Early Bronze Age female figure of power: spiritual, temporal or both. Raised on the highest point of the island (I think), slighted and buried at some point in the past. #StandingStoneSunday 🏺🦣

🏛️ The beautiful mosaic floor of the Roman baths at the sanctuary of Poseidon, Isthmia, Greece. The baths were built in 150 CE on the site of pre-existing ancient Greek baths. 📹 My own.

Currently enjoying a cottage break in Wales. It’s lovely to wake up to sheep outside! 🐑🐑🥰😊 The real fire is a bonus too! My dog Teddy is also enjoying some relaxation time (no change there!) 😊

Archaeologists have discovered 3,400-year-old tombs in Cyprus yielding extraordinary riches: imported pottery—including this octopus krater—along with lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, Baltic amber, and more! archaeology.org/news/2026/01/29/bronze-age-tombs-containing-luxury-goods-unearthed-in-cyprus/

A child’s footprint frozen in time - pressed into a #Roman tile as it dried before firing nearly 1,800 years ago. A tiny, timeless reminder of everyday life in the ancient world. 📷 online.landessammlungen-noe.at/objects/1306... 🏺

Last chance to access our collection of #ClassicalArchaeology completely free! To be honest, most of the articles are #OpenAccess anyway, but you should definitely still take the opportunity to learn about the latest Classical research 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lorenzo de' Medici, possibly 1513/1520 Florentine terracotta, probably after a model by Andrea del Verrocchio and Orsino Benintendi (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

#Caturday #ClassicalCats

Why hello there. 😙

We've spent the last month asking when you last visited the Mary Rose, and a lot of you are long overdue a return visit! maryrose.org/Visit

I really like this painting and the symbolism behind it, is sublime. Thread of Life aka. Der Lebensfaden aka. Der Faden des Lebens (Roman Courtshi) Sir William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens British, 1862-1943 Oil on canvas; c. 1900 ringlingdocents.org/fate.htm

🏛 The face of the beautiful ancient Greek bronze Delphi Charioteer, 5th century BCE. Archaeological Museum of Delphi, Greece. Check out those eyelashes! Photo source: autochthonesellhnes.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog... #AncientBluesky

The Gatehouse of Stokesay Castle, Shropshire. The castle was built in the 13th century by Laurence of Ludlow (a wealthy wool merchant and banker) and the gatehouse was added in 1640/41 by William Craven (later the first Earl of Craven). Photo taken by me from the 13th century Great Hall entrance .

🏺A reconstructed Ancient Greek terracotta vessel probably dating from 6th century BCE. Museum of Nisyros, Mandraki, Nisyros, Greece. Photo credit: Athenologio.

About 2,600 years ago, fishermen dedicated these fishhooks to the sea god Poseidon in his sanctuary at Isthmia, Greece. They would have been dedicated to the god with a request, or in gratitude, for a good catch. 🐟Isthmia Archaeological Museum, Greece. 📷 My own.

#FrescoFriday The painted #garden scenes from the Villa of Livia gives insight into the #flora and #fauna of ancient #Rome umbrella pine, oak, red fir, quince, pomegranate, myrtle. As well as the #bird species for the keen #Roman #birdwatcher. 😉

Hello, international fans of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME! You can now listen to ep1 of our latest series. It’s about Rome’s infamous Emperor Nero, and my guests are the amazing comedian & actor @pattonoswalt.bsky.social and brilliant Professor @wmarybeard.bsky.social

🏛️ The beautiful mosaic floor of the Roman baths at the sanctuary of Poseidon, Isthmia, Greece. The baths were built in 150 CE on the site of pre-existing ancient Greek baths. 📹 My own.

Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...

🏺Ancient Greek Attic red-figure terracotta kantharos (drinking vessel) dated 470 BCE. The kantharos is in the shape of satyr’s head on one side and the other side is in the shape of a woman’s head (not visible in the photo). The British Museum. 📷 My own.

The ancient odeon at Arykanda, Antalya Province, Türkiye. Built around the mid 2nd century CE. 📷 My own.

⚡ A detail of the Artemesium bronze believed to represent Zeus (or Poseidon), 460 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens).  📷 Photo ©️ by Robert H.Consoli.  #Zeus #Poseidon #Mythology #GreekMythology #Sculpture #ArtemesiumBronze #History #AncientHistory

About 2,600 years ago, fishermen dedicated these fishhooks to the sea god Poseidon in his sanctuary at Isthmia, Greece. They would have been dedicated to the god with a request, or in gratitude, for a good catch. 🐟Isthmia Archaeological Museum, Greece. 📷 My own.

The Gatehouse of Stokesay Castle, Shropshire. The castle was built in the 13th century by Laurence of Ludlow (a wealthy wool merchant and banker) and the gatehouse was added in 1640/41 by William Craven (later the first Earl of Craven). Photo taken by me from the 13th century Great Hall entrance .

#ReliefWednesday showing Helios, Sun God. From the North-West pediment of the temple of Athena in Ilion (Troy). Between the first quarter of the 3rd century BC and 390 BC. Found during the excavations lead by Heinrich Schliemann in 1872, now in the Pergamon-Museum in Berlin

#AncientBlueSky A gold wreath and gold ring from the burial of an Odrysian aristocrat, the central figure of the wreath is Nike wearing a peplos on top of a chiton and the ring features a woman accompanied by a horse and rider - National Museum of History, Sofia #art #history

Naturally. Eating a walnut.

🏺Ancient Greek Attic red-figure terracotta kantharos (drinking vessel) dated 470 BCE. The kantharos is in the shape of satyr’s head on one side and the other side is in the shape of a woman’s head (not visible in the photo). The British Museum. 📷 My own.

Malvasia Cafe, Monemvasia, Peloponnese, Greece. 🇬🇷 📷 My own.

🏺A reconstructed Ancient Greek terracotta vessel probably dating from 6th century BCE. Museum of Nisyros, Mandraki, Nisyros, Greece. Photo credit: Athenologio.

For #ReliefWednesday, among the splendours of the #BritishMuseum we find this quite large #sardonyx #cameo showing a goddess in a chariot pulled by two restless bulls. The size suggests an imperial commission of the #Severan period. Maybe Julia #Domna as #Selene or the Dea Syria. #AncientBluesky 🏺

We want to see your mice! Mouse impression on a Roman roof tile 👇

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: One of my favourite #Roman objects made of glass is this little basket (height 6.5cm). It is not clear what it was used for, possibly to hold cosmetics. From Syria, dating 3rd century AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me 🏺#archaeology

A humpback calf in the clear blue of Silver Bank.

#TombTuesday 12 seconds of bright winter sun & a cold east wind across the ancient burial mound of Bryn Cader Faner in the Eryri/Snowdonia uplands Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮 🎥 My own, Sunday

#TombTuesday the Weiden Roman #tomb is today one of the best-preserved and most impressive burial sites from #Roman times north of the Alps. It shows a large part of its original furnishings - pure antiquity. 🧵 (1/2) 📸 A Thünker #Archaeology #History #RomanArchaeology

Malvasia Cafe, Monemvasia, Peloponnese, Greece. 🇬🇷 📷 me.

📕 A Byzantine book cover with an ivory icon of the crucifixion. Gilded silver with crystal, glass and sapphire cabochons. Constantinople, 11th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 📷 Photo ©️ by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  #Byzantine #Book #Byzantium #History #Art

🔮 The Pyramid of the Magician, Uxmal, Mexico. The Maya temple was first built in the 6th century CE, with additions made up to the 10th century CE. 📷 Photo by G Concha C. #Uxmal #TempleOfTheMagician #Mexico #Maya #Mayans #Architecture #Temple #History

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

👑 Bronze head from an over-life-sized statue of Augustus, found in the ancient Nubian site of Meroë in Sudan, 27 - 25 BCE. On display in the British Museum, London. 📷 Photo by Carole Raddato.  #Augustus #Statue #History #Rome #AncientHistory #Sudan

Ottawa, the Applied Museum Studies program at Algonquin is "the program itself is one of the only programs dedicated to museum studies in the country, and the only one people can go straight into from high school." Please sign this student's petition secure.avaaz.org/community_pe...

🏛 The face of the beautiful ancient Greek bronze Delphi Charioteer, 5th century BCE. Archaeological Museum of Delphi, Greece. Check out those eyelashes! Photo source: autochthonesellhnes.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog... #AncientBluesky

Kids loved playing with toys in #Roman times too! Some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on for wheels. It was definitely a beloved toy that the kid was also meant to play with in the afterlife. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology