Tile fragment from Roman Cirencester with graffiti depicting a house. The fragment is part of the collections at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #RomanBritain #CoriniumMuseum #Cirecenster

Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

A centuries-old grid of holes in the Andes may have been a ‘spreadsheet’ for accounting and exchange. theconversation.com/a-centuries-...

Testing clay from the Roman pottery production site at Highgate Wood, North London and using Munsell colour charts to record the results. Same clay, different temperatures and kiln atmosphere. 🏺#Archaeology #AncientBluesky

Following last week's monochrome elephant, this is another common type of depiction in Roman mosaics. From the Great Pavement at Woodchester, moving around Orpheus. 1/2 #MosaicMonday @classicalalan.bsky.social

Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS? Of course you bloody do. Come with me. Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake. Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday

I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

This bronze head of a goddess with her spooky, hypnotic inlaid silver eyes, will be roaming the shadows tonight on All Hallows Eve! Still looking for her body, 2,000 years later … 😱 🏺 1/ Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum 📸 me

Cruck frame barn, dated c 1550, from Llanerch Banna (Flint) and now at St Fagans National Museum of History. Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings. Booking is now open. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...

This is a big deal. Kudos to @mfaboston.bsky.social for its actions. The institution is proving an important precedent for the restitution of objects that others should follow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...

Mên-an-Tol is probably from the Bronze Age, making it around 3,500 years old (little evidence has been found). It consists of four stones, the most unusual being the circular and pierced upright stone. The other three stones are more regular granite pillars. #StandingStoneSunday

Children loved to play 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 wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology

Radiolarians are still largely unknown, but it is believed that they hold information about the evolution of life on Earth and how climatic conditions have changed over time. lithub.com/how-the-disc...

"To be human is to be emotional. And if we strip that when we tell our story, we’re doing ourselves a disservice." Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, who hosts the BBC and NOVA PBS docuseries “Human,” leans into the complex and dramatic sides of early humans' history: buff.ly/9nWuXng

I particular like the colours of Vesuvius looking as though someone has fashioned it out of a lump of smooshed-together-different-coloured Play-Doh.

It's time for a timeline cleanse! A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container. On display at Antikensammlung München A lovely Sunday to all of you 🌞 📷 me

It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer

That magical moment when the pumice is gently cleared away revealing, for the first time in nearly 2000 years, a white mosaic. #MosaicMonday #Pompeii

#TerracottaTuesday Two little baby feeders c. 320 BC, both made in Sicily, then Magna Graecia. One Gnathian (style from Apulia) w ivy chain decoration; one w hippocamp figures. And who wouldn't want to feed their baby through a mouse's tail?? #Ancient #Greek #Pottery 🏺 BM

Un paysage sur Mars, capturé par le rover Perseverance ! ©NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU/NeV-T

Here are three wonderfully preserved Roman shoes that were discovered at Bar Hill Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland in the early 1900s. Shoes made for men, women and children have been found there, reminding us that frontier zones were not an exclusively military environment. #FindsFriday

The engraved entrance stone to the famous Neolithic passage tomb of Newgrange at County Meath in Ireland. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Newgrange #Prehistory #Ireland

For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.

Broch-tastic news. Taking experimental #archaeology to the extreme! Such a fantastic project, great news for #Caithness and Scottish archaeology. #IronAge #Broch #Scotland www.northern-times.co.uk/news/scotlan...

Helen Levitt adopted children's play as her leitmotif, the imaginative play of children taking over city spaces. N.Y.C. Masked Children 1942 Gelatin silver print 6 1/2 × 8 7/8" Holden Luntz Gallery #helenlevitt #streetphotography #nmbetancur #halloween www.holdenluntz.com/artists/hele...

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

"The dog understands: 'Take it!' It does not understand: 'Put it down!'" True 3,900 years ago when a young Mesopotamian scribe copied the proverb onto a round school tablet; still true today! #cuneiform #Mesopotamia #dogs Tablet: BM U.17207.77, CDLI P346305; sculpture: Louvre AO 4349, CDLI P386356

The FBI has returned a priceless manuscript page signed by Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes to Mexico.

Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th

2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this record-keeping was practiced by commoners as well as elites.

#RomanFortThursday: The only surviving draco, a standard of the #Roman cavalry. The dragon's head was mounted on a post with a long and colourful fabric tail. It probably had a device in the opening of the mouth for making a (hissing?) noise. Found in the fort of Niederbieber...🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

Jeff Wall, Insomnia, 1994, transparency in lightbox, 172.2 x 213.5 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, © Jeff Wall. Source #JeffWall #Photoconceptualism #Art #ArtHistory #Insomnia #Photography #ConceptualArt #ModernArt #ContemporaryArt #CanadianArt #KunsthaleHamburg

Apparently, it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay! Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC. 📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

Anna Atkins, Alaria esculenta (1849) and Ulva latissima (1853), from Photographs of British Algae, 1843–53. Cyanotypes. Spencer Collection, New York Public Library. #AnnaAtkins #Cyanotype #BotanicalSpecimen #PioneeringPhotographer #PhotoglyphicEngraving

50 Jobs in the Middle Ages, illustrated in a rare 15th-century manuscript from Nuremberg, showing medieval workers at their trades. www.medievalists.net/2025/08/50-j...

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online

Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86. Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...

#FindsFriday! Pottery vessel with five handles and remnants of a string, found in a Neolithic well in Altscherbitz, Saxony, dating 5100-5000 BC. Multiple intact vessels have been discovered within the well. They may have been intentionally placed there ...🧵 1/2 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

#TombTuesday Inside Quoyness Chambered Cairn on the island of Sanday in #Orkney Built around 3000BC in the Maeshowe style, excavations in 1867 found the skeletal remains of at least 14 people buried in these side-chambers! 📸 Mine #archaeology #scotland #ancientbritain #photooftheday

Helen Levitt American, 1913–2009 Woman and dog in window, 1972 Manhattan, New York #HelenLevitt #StreetPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography

"In total, 190 manuscripts have been conserved, catalogued and digitised. More than 7,000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely displayed on the Cambridge Digital Library." www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

Wawiriya Burton, Ngayuku ngura - My Country, 2012 Indigenous Australian, Pitjantjatjara (1928-2021) Acrylic on linen 1525 x 1980mm

A lovely little bronze #Roman mouse figurine, shown holding a morsel of food in his little front paws (a nut or seed maybe?), perhaps about to take a little nibble from it. It is about 1900-2000 years old 🐭 (📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

#RomanSiteSaturday: The Piazza Navona in #Rome was built on the remains of the Stadium of Domitian, therefore it has its unique shape. 📷 Valentino Ligori via IG #archaeology 🏺

New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.  news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2... 🏺