This is a well preserved combat helmet for a Roman cavalryman of the C1st AD. Iron inners for the crown of the helmet and the neck guard (now missing) would have provided additional protection to the wearer. It was found in a gravel pit in Cambridgeshire. 🏛️📷 BM #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology

Roman cavalry parade helmet Found River Wensum, Worthing, Norfolk. Early 3rd Century CE Ceremonial helmet, which would have been too flimsy for use in battle It was made, possibly in the Danube valley, from a single thin gilt bronze sheet. Now Castle Museum, Norwich, Norfolk #Archaeology #Roman

Another fascinating find from Viking age Norfolk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After a hard day delivering chocolate eggs, this Romano-Easter bunny smashes some fat grapes. 🕰️C2nd AD

This beautiful Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet pendent was found in the delightfully-named Trumpington Meadows, just outside Cambridge by a metal dectorist a few years ago. It’s now in the collection of the University. 🕰️C7th AD 📷 Cambridge University #AncientBlueSky #Art #Archaeology #Medieval

This clay pithos (storage jar) may be a little primitive, but it presents a powerful scene. Perseus, in a broad-brimmed hat & winged boots, kills Medusa. He looks away so he won’t be turned to stone under Medusa’s glare. Medusa is - strangely - shown as a centaur. 🕰️c660BC 🏛️Louvre 📷Marie-Lan Nguyen

Memorial to a Roman Standard Bearer of the 1st Century. Found in the foundations of Hexham Cathedral in 1881. It is thought to have come from the Roman fort of Coria at Corbridge. The scene represents a mounted soldier riding over the enemy. #RomanSiteSaturday

Easter bunny using unorthodox transport to deliver eggs.

Wassily Kandinsky : Exotic Birds, 1915 Watercolor on paper 13.6 × 10 in | 34.5 × 25.5 cm The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

If you celebrate, happy Easter. If you don’t, these Easter Bunnies WILL TUNE YOU UP.

This mammoth ivory statue is 40,000-years-old!📷 This is the Lion Man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel, considered to be the oldest-known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world. The Lion Man has the head of a cave lion with a partly human body.

This clay pithos (storage jar) may be a little primitive, but it presents a powerful scene. Perseus, in a broad-brimmed hat & winged boots, kills Medusa. He looks away so he won’t be turned to stone under Medusa’s glare. Medusa is - strangely - shown as a centaur. 🕰️c660BC 🏛️Louvre 📷Marie-Lan Nguyen

This fantastic gold plate is decorated with a winged Gorgon. It was found at Delphi and is thought to have adorned the garments of a statue of Artemis. 🕰️Mid-C6th BC 🏛️Hellenic Museum, Melbourne (on loan from Delphi) 📷 my own #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Easter bunny using unorthodox transport to deliver eggs.

This ancient Egyptian bronze ship once sat on top of a staff carried in temple processions. It’s a model of a divine sailing vessel, with a shrine standing in the middle. On one side, an inscription mentions the name of its donor: Aamonthu, the son of Padihor. 🏛️National Museum 🇦🇺 🕰️c722-332BC 📷mine

Saxon copper disc brooch intricately decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670. This must have been a treasured possession! From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London. Museum of London 📷 by me #Archaeology

After a HECTIC day at work, my message to you is this: find someone or something in life that makes you feel like this.

St Thomas’s Church featuring its famous 15th- century ‘Doom’ painting of the Last Judgement above the chancel arch. The mural is the largest surviving example of its kind in the UK. Surviving the Reformation (it was whitewashed over). Rediscovered in the 19th century. Salisbury,Wiltshire

Some things never change. This cuneiform clay tablet documents a transaction in Ur in which Ea-nāsir, a trader, allegedly sold sub-standard copper to a customer, Nanni. Nanni, dissatisfied with the quality, wrote a complaint addressing the poor service & mistreatment of his servant. 🕰️c1750BC 🏛️📷BM

End of the day in #Pompeii

This fantastic gold plate is decorated with a winged Gorgon. It was found at Delphi and is thought to have adorned the garments of a statue of Artemis. 🕰️Mid-C6th BC 🏛️Hellenic Museum, Melbourne (on loan from Delphi) 📷 my own #AncientBlueSky 🏺

FANTASTIC NEWS! The 2,500 year-old gold Coțofenești Helmet from Romania has been recovered! 🤩 Also recovered are two of three ancient gold bracelets, all were stolen in a raid on a Dutch museum more than a year ago. 📷 by me 2021 #Archaeology

The Rhos-Rydd shield is a large bronze shield found in Wales. It is completely flat, 667 mm across, and 0.7 mm thick, weighing nearly 2kg. It was beaten out of a single piece of bronze and decorated with 3,700 individually punched bosses. 🕰️C12-10th BC 🏛️BM 📷mine #AncientBlueSky 🏺

This extraordinary, striking Roman glass bowl is made with the millefiori (or thousand flowers) method. Its decoration looks to me like hundreds of little sea anemones or coral. It dates to the 1st century AD. 🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum #FindsFriday

I cannot, I simply cannot emphasise how amazing this photograph is. It’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand posing as a mummy on a trip to Cairo in 1896. Yes, that Archduke, whose murder led to the First World War. Pretending to be a mummy.

This lovely fresco is from Herculaneum. Like our pet rabbits, he loves his fruit and we see him here investigating plump, succulent figs. 🕰️C1st AD 🏛️📷 National Archaeological Museum, Naples #FrescoFriday

These extraordinary gilded glass medallions come from Roman Egypt. They contain lifelike portraits of real individuals. We’re looking into the eyes of people separated from us by centuries, by language, culture, religion etc but you can’t help but feel some kind of connection. 🕰️C3rd-5th AD

This lovely fresco is from Herculaneum. Like our pet rabbits, he loves his fruit and we see him here investigating plump, succulent figs. 🕰️C1st AD 🏛️📷 National Archaeological Museum, Naples #FrescoFriday

The Viking Age 'Christ from Aunslev' filigree gold cross. Dating to the first half of the 10th century, this is the earliest known depiction of Christ from Denmark. It is paralleled closely - down to the rope ligatures - by the silver Birka Crucifix from grave Bj 660. My 📷 @nationalmuseet.dk

#findsfriday - the extraordinary gold tubular torc from Snettisham now on display in Norwich. You could spend hours here just in the Boudicca gallery with all of its incredible Iron Age material see @tessmachling.bsky.social bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/02/04/a... #torc #ironage #celts #boudicca

This extraordinary, striking Roman glass bowl is made with the millefiori (or thousand flowers) method. Its decoration looks to me like hundreds of little sea anemones or coral. It dates to the 1st century AD. 🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum #FindsFriday

It’s Easter so here’s the cutest little proto-Easter bunny from an Ancient Greek craftsman in Sicily. 🏛️Syracuse 📷mine

These extraordinary gilded glass medallions come from Roman Egypt. They contain lifelike portraits of real individuals. We’re looking into the eyes of people separated from us by centuries, by language, culture, religion etc but you can’t help but feel some kind of connection. 🕰️C3rd-5th AD

Michael Sowa (German Artist, born 1945) "Easter Bunny on the Train", 1996. Oil on Canvas. Apropos for Easter :-)

With humans now pushing beyond earth orbit in #ArtemisII it's worth looking back 5000 years to another extraordinary celestial endeavour The megalithic builders of Bryn Celli Ddu passage grave on Ynys Môn/Anglesey carefully aligned the entrance with the rising summer solstice sun ☀️ 📷 My own, 2024

The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein the Younger, dated to Good Friday 1533 (annus horribilis). Painted in London, it portrays French envoys Jean de Dinteville & Georges Selve. Known for vanitas anamorphic skull, rich array of celestial & terrestrial objects - & lute with broken string. National Gallery

For an early #FindsFriday, the staggeringly beautiful Lycurgus Cup. Roman, c300s AD. It is the only known complete example made from a type of glass known as dichroic, which changes colour when held up to the light.

It’s Easter so here’s the cutest little proto-Easter bunny from an Ancient Greek craftsman in Sicily. 🏛️Syracuse 📷mine

This incredible, almost Mannerist bust portrays Eutropius, the first eunuch to be consul. During his rise to power, he was notorious for his greed & cruelty which I think the sculptor knew and shows in this portrait. He eventually fell from power & was executed. 🕰️c400AD 🏛️📷 Kunsthistoriches Museum

Ancient Greek coin from around 500 - 480 BCE

This angry fellow is Charon, ferryman of the dead, shown here driving a chariot accompanied by a sinister, shadowy demonic figure which is the stuff of nightmares. It’s from the Etruscan Tomb of the Infernal Chariot near Siena. 🕰️C4th BC 🏛️📷 Museo Civico Archeologico di Sarteano 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

This is the Coppergate Helmet, named after its find location in York. It’s Anglo-Saxon & one of only 6 helmets surviving from the period. If you look at the nose guard, it has fantastical animals weaving through the decoration. It’s wonderful. 🏛️Yorkshire Museum 📷Museum Trust #AncientBlueSky

A bronze wine jug from the Mediterranean which was found at Trimontium Roman Fort at Newsteads in the Scottish Borders. Now part of the collections of the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own. #RomanScotland #Trimontium #NMS

#ReliefWednesday Sarmatian cataphracts depicted on Trajan's column, 2nd century CE 📸 Conrad Cichorius (1863-1932) CC BY-SA 4.0 #AncientBlueSky

These woollen chitons (or long tunics) have - incredibly - survived from Roman Egypt due to the dry climate. Amazing finds showing a wonderful insight into past fashions. 🕰️5th-7th century AD 🏛️📷Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki

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Let me introduce you to Hagar, an elite woman from C2nd AD Palmyra. She is shown in this funerary monument in wonderfully-executed high relief. I also like the way that the set up of the lights and the glass cabinet threw rainbows across her face! 🏛️Australian War Memorial 📷me #ReliefWednesday