This is stunning - an Ancient Egyptian glass bottle in the shape of a bunch of grapes! New Dynasty of Egypt, c.1200 BC It was made by dipping a mud core in molten glass, before attaching extra lumps of glass to represent grapes 📍 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 📸 Me #FindsFriday #archaeology 🏺

🎆 Happy New Year Everyone! 🎆 2026 is the Year of the Horse 🐴, so here are some of my favourite archaeological horses for #RockArtThursday! This is the stunning 'Panel of the Horses' in Chauvet Cave, France, painted ~30,000 years ago! 🐎 I hope everyone has a great year! #archaeology 🏺

Happy New Year from all of us at Humanists UK. As we step into 2026, we know challenges lie ahead – but with your support, we know we can overcome them. So, wherever the year takes you, thank you for standing with us and helping to build a fairer, kinder world. 🎉✨

Corfe Castle, the model of Corfe Castle in Corfe Castle Model Village, and the model of Corfe Castle in the model of Corfe Castle Model Village in Corfe Castle Model Village.

Here are the New Year's resolutions we plan to break in the next week or so: Be nicer to #CuratorRob 🙄 Post about Fishbourne Roman Palace from time to time 🫡 Fewer typos 😳 Get over the whole "Villa" thing 🧐 Get engaged (we're looking at you, Merchy) 😍

To end the year, here's some fabulous #ArchaeologyNews for #HillfortsWednesday - Ireland's largest hillfort! Occupied from 1200-400 BC, with over 600 houses found so far, it's even larger than Maiden Castle! 🎆 See you all in 2026! 🎆 #archaeology #news 🏺 phys.org/news/2025-12...

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

Maiden Castle in Dorset is one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Europe. It dates back over 2,000 years and occupies a prominent position atop a natural chalk hill. Here in snow. Happy new year all 🥳 #HillfortsWednesday

Toooomb art! For the last #TombTuesday of the year, here's one my favourites - 5000 year old carvings in a Neolithic tomb! 📍Holm of Papay South tomb, Orkney, Scotland #archaeology #photooftheday

It may be our #LastChance to save peatland #archaeology #TickTockDay 🏺 Despite peatlands' incredible preservation of organic remains, climate change, agriculture, peat extraction and more is destroying them and their fragile heritage at an alarming rate. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Always a treat to discover surviving Medieval frescos! This one in Norwich cathedral depicts the scandalous life of Herbert de Losinga on his path to becoming first Norman abbot of Norwich in 1096 #MedievalMonday 📸 Me #history #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

The high quality of Hellenistic metalwork was applied to many everyday objects, including box mirrors, an example of which is below. This beautiful repoussé relief of a woman with a silver earring and necklace once covered a polished, reflective bronze surface within. 🏺 1/ #ancientbluesky 📸 me

#StandingStoneSunday Mitchell's Fold (sometimes called Medgel's Fold or Madges Pinfold) is a Bronze Age stone circle in southwest Shropshire, located near the small village of White Grit at the southwest end of Stapeley Hill in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton, at a height of 330m

The most adorable chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷 me #archaeology

It's the last #StandingStoneSunday of the year! I've been lucky enough to visit several megalithic sites this year, but this was perhaps my favourite (which is why I keep posting about it!) 📍Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland 📸 Me #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

#RomanSiteSaturday Caerwent - Venta Silurum to see the Romano-Celtic temple. #Archaeology #History

A large standing stone making up part of the Merrivale complex on western Dartmoor in Devon. The menhir is 42 metres south of the centre of the stone circle, and is 3.1 metres high. Here in snow. #StandingStoneSunday

One of the standing stones that surround the central ring cairn at the Clava Cairns - a spectacular Bronze Age cemetery, near Culloden in the Scottish Highlands. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Highlands

This place never fails to amaze - The Temple of Jupiter in Dougga, Tunisia, built ~166 AD! How is this still standing, after so many years!? 🙋‍♂️ Me for scale! #RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

‪For Friday's #Scape - Derreenataggart West Stone Circle on the Beara peninsula, Cork, Ireland - Another view Image: 2016 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Black&White #Landscape #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Cork

For Friday's #Scape - Derreenataggart West Stone Circle on the Beara peninsula, Cork, Ireland - Final colour view for 2025... infrared monochrome image will follow Image: 2016 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Black&White #Landscape #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Cork

Final post for this Friday's #Scape - Derreenataggart West Stone Circle on the Beara peninsula, Cork, Ireland Image: 2016 Infrared #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Black&White #Landscape #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Cork

An almost 6,000 years old wooden cup, found in the Late #Neolithic pile dwelling settlement of Hornstaad-Hörnle at the Lake Constance. The waterlogged, anaerobic environment provided ideal conditions for the preservation of organic materials. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social

One of the best preserved sections of the Antonine Wall, just west of Rough Castle Roman Fort, near Falkirk. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #AntonineWall

Fabulous fossils ! @robertosaezm.bsky.social ‘s top 10 #FossilFriday posts of 2025, includes KNM-ER 23000 🤩✨😁

Tis the season of giving, and I'm sure Ripa, Royal sandal maker to Ramesses XI, would have agreed! Here he's offering one of his sandals on a small table to the gods Osiris and Anubis, ~1080BC #FindsFriday 📍In the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge 📸 Mine #archaeology #ancientegypt #photooftheday 🏺

A Bronze Age horned helmet from Brøns Mose at Viksø, decorated with bosses and adorned with eyes and a beak. The helmet was found with an identical one in a bog. They were probably used at religious ceremonies. Later on, they were deposited in the bog as offerings. 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🌟 We all love a good reindeer at Christmas! These ones were painted in Font-de-Gaume cave in France 18,000 years ago! Rudolph the Red-backed Cave deer? 🎶🦌 #RockArtThursday #archaeology 🏺

Our Vice President Jim Al-Khalili on what Christmas means to him as a humanist.

Some lovely festive #archaeologynews for you! 😅 At least 73 skeletons have been found in this 13th century cemetery, mostly adult males Evidence of tied hands strongly suggests this was a Medieval execution site! 🏺 #archaeology #news #medievalmonday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've been reading The Dig this Christmas (at last) and can't help getting all wobbly at the thought of discovering something like the Sutton Hoo boat burial We can all dream eh! #TombTuesday 📸By local schoolteachers/photographers Mercie Lack & Barbara Wagstaff, 1939 #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

The Mausoleum of the Emperor Augustus. The Mausoleum is a large #tomb built by the #Roman Emperor Augustus in 28 BC on the Campus Martius in #Rome. It later housed the remains of other members of the Julio-Claudian family. 📸My own 2006 #History #Archaeology #TombTuesday

#TombTuesday... Ballinphunta Wedge Tomb The tomb is located in Craughaun cemetery, Clare, Ireland Image: 2019 - Infrared #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Neolithic #Megalithic #Photography #Infrared #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Clare #RockinTuesday

New print drop: prehistoric symbols & figures 🛍️ tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4429... #prehistory #archaeology #archeology #rockart #caveart

For #TombTuesday Wayland's Smithy Long Barrow courtesy of Andrew Bowden. #Archaeology

Bee-autifully crafted gold ornament in the form of a little bee 🐝 ❤️ Length 1.90 cm. From Minoan Crete, circa 1700-1600 BC. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

The magnificent interior of King's College Chapel in #Cambridge Begun in the 15th century, the chapel took 85 years to build and was finally completed by Henry VIII #MedievalMonday 📸 Mine #history #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

Merry Winter Solstice! This is the solstice that many megalithic monuments seem aligned to - famously Stonehenge, but also many Scottish monuments like these stunning Callanish stones! At last we look forward to lighter days ahead ☀️🙌 #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology #photooftheday

#StandingStoneSunday The Bone Stone at Drizzlecombe, #Dartmoor. A mere human for scale

The Mare and Foal Standing Stones - the only visible remains of a Bronze Age stone circle which is located close to Hadrians Wall, just off the B6318 in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Northumberland

Happy Winter Solstice! On midwinter’s day, the sun sets between the pair of stones that form the largest trilithon at #Stonehenge Farewell to the shortest day of the year, as we look forward to lighter days ahead! ☀️ #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology

Here's to longer days ..🌞🍻🥳 #StandingStoneSunday A crowded Winter #Solstice at Stonehenge in 1990, giving some rare human scale to the enormous sarsen stones & lesser - but still massive - bluestone monoliths 📷 My own

Solstice Blessings to you all! Let us know where you’re going to be spending it…

Happy #WinterSolstice ❄️ In Chaco Canyon in the US Southwest, ancient monumental roads align with the winter solstice sunrise over Mount Taylor. Features of both land and sky were (and still are) ritually important to the region's Indigenous people. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Astronomical #winter starts today. It's the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight with the sun starting to set later each day until Summer Solstice. The mosaic depicts the dancing Genii (protective spirits) of the four seasons. The Genius of winter is wrapped in a heavy cloak.🧵1/2 #Solstice

Happy solstice! #NewgrangeSolstice

Glad that you enjoyed the talk - Amanda is the 'go to' person on such things. To find out a bit more about Maud - see this 2-part blog by Maddie Watson + references. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/history/2024...