It has been quite a week! We all need a timeline cleanse. Have a great weekend, everyone! An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉. The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC. 📷 Metropolitan Museum

Tynesiders, 1950, photo by Bert Hardy (1913-95).

Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday

Villa Farnesina Cubiculum B fresco depicting the Nymphs of Mount Nysa caring for the infant Dionysus. The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery. #FrescoFriday

Morning all. Photographer Martin Parr ‘Spending Time.’ Salford, Greater Manchester 1986.

Archaeologists have uncovered one of the first instances of interaction between #Neolithic farmers and #Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer not observed before. 🏺A communicative #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵

This special roof tile, also on display at the Grosvenor museum in Chester, bears the marks of the 20th Legion and their symbol, a wild boar.

Jadeitite Axehead • Donegal This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland. Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal. On display in @nmireland.bsky.social #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

🌳The Crowhurst Yew, thought to be 4,000 years old, predates Christianity itself. A living portal through time. 🕰️It’s one of the locations in my Ultimate Guide to Time Travel: 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

The heavily ploughed interior of Hod Hill #Roman fort, early September 1949 Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks © Historic England see: britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW... #RomanFortThursday

A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday

A beautiful early medieval cobalt blue glass beaker. dating late 7th century AD. Found in a burial in Lauchheim. This type of vessel has no foot and will not stand upright, it had to be emptied before it could be put down. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social

#FindsFriday 🏺 #Roman dogs along Hadrian's wall: copper alloy figure of pup lifting a friendly paw, + 2 enamelled copper alloy brooches of hunting dogs. In galleries @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social considering life along farthest frontier of empire. British dogs were highly rated, and very good boys.

Walking into a field with erected stones – whether menhir, circle or portal tomb – is to cross into a territory of wonder. Archaeologist, ley-hunter, stone botherer or pagan pilgrim, we all feel a sense of marvel rippling across our psychic skin. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Painted tile - 1564-8 Made by Jasper Andries & Jacob Jansen, in #Antwerp or #Norwich The wild boar with a crescent was used by Sir Francis Bacon to show he was his father’s second son. Made for Old Gorhambury House, near St Albans, #Hertfordshire Now V & A Museum #London #TilesOnTuesday

Jean-Étienne Liotard, Girl Singing into a Mirror, oil on canvas (Springfield Museum of Fine Arts). The Swiss pastellist and painter, especially famed for his portraits, also did a number of charming pictures of his family members such as this of his daughter

Wayland’s Smithy looking particularly moody in the cold today. There’s a specific kind of magic in these stones when the colors are muted.

Looking out from within the Cairn de Gavrinis last July on the last #TombTuesday of 2025. Time to start planning where 2026 will take me.

Volunteers created blankets for elephants during a cold spell in Myanmar, Winga Baw Elephant camp #WomensArt

Gunta Stölzl (1897-983) German textile artist fundamental to development of the Bauhaus weaving workshop #WomensArt

Ice age architecture: How mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity. phys.org/news/2025-11...

A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined. 📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social

A relief sculpture of a blacksmith at work in his workshop. He’s surrounded by the tools of his trade. It was found in Tomb 29 at the Necropolis of Portus on the Isola Sacra. AD 160-180. ‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊 📸 my own, #OstiaAntica. #ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology

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

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...

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