We're used to seeing ancient Greek funerary stelae with gorgeous carved reliefs. However, during the Hellenistic era - particularly in Cyprus - steles were painted with the images of the deceased instead of carved. This pedimented stele shows a painted image of a youth holding a bird. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...

one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.

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

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...

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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.”

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 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

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 🎃

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.

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 www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

Happy International Archaeology Day! #InternationalArchaeologyDay 🏺 #Archaeology

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.

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!

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. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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.

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

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

I think a very large proportion of english-language legacy media and elite journalism generally does not exist to report on reality so much as to promote a priori narratives.

my predictions (most to least likely): 1) inter-maga groyper (or Epstein truther) 2) terrorgram/O9A 3) rando with incoherent politics 4) rationalist cult of some variety 5) ai psychosis 6) inside job 7) an actual liberal / leftist

US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right - the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it

JUST IN: A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the government.

The doorway to the passage from Shambles to the market at 37 Shambles, York for #ADoorableThursday. Drawn on site & then coloured in and taken apart with a pencil later. #ArchitecturalIllustration #drawing #sketchbook #ArtYear

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

#Woodensday! Wooden votive offerings in the shape of parts of the human body, from the spring sanctuary near the #Roman settlement at Dambach, Bavaria. Objects like this were given to healing deities. They were intended either to indicate the part of the body that...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]

The archaeological museum of Taranto was universally recommended by colleagues, and I can only agree. One of Italy's very finest. Among the many treasures it hosts, this silver and gilded box depicting a Nereid riding a sea monster (local, c. 300 BCE) is probably my favourite.

Art review! This time we''ll be looking at 'De boerendans' (the farmer's or peasant's dance) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from c. 1567. I love Pieter's art & of course I love art that depicts an era generally still considered to be bland, dark & horrid, as also being a bit fun.

The sun setting on a thunderstorm above the Kofa Mountains just south of Quartzsite, Arizona. As seen this evening from Borrego Springs, approximately 135 miles away (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A roadrunner was sunbathing this afternoon. A rare summer day where it barely got over 90 F due to the thunderstorms earlier today (Photo: Sicco Rood).

I can’t believe I somehow missed this back in 2021! A bronze naval ram was recovered from the Bay of Naples. It’s noticeably smaller than the Egadi examples, likely from a trireme, or perhaps even smaller. Too early to say for certain. Word is that a full publication on the ram is coming soon!

#FrescoFriday - Leicester. Wall-painting from a 2nd century house close to the basilica, depicting fantasy architecture with decorative motifs. Finds like this are exceptional in #Britain but were probably typical of well-to-do town houses in major towns by this date #romanbritain #Archaeology

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

Morire sul lavoro in epoca romana: il mosaicista Hermas. Oggi vi parlo del giovane Hermas, un mosaicista (musivarius o musearius) ricordato dal padre Carpus, servo pubblico della colonia, in un monumento funerario attestato in reimpiego a Benevento ma andato disperso.

People walking and biking get shamed for wearing headphones. Meanwhile, drivers sit inside sealed metal cabins with 12-speaker sound systems, fully isolated from the world and no one questions it, even as they operate 2-ton machines through crowded cities.