Sad door in Portaferry, Co. Down 📸 Google Maps

A Gandharan Buddha head from Afghanistan presented to JFK in 1963 jfk.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/5114...

The newly opened Colosseo-Fori Inperiali subway station houses a full museum's worth of finds discovered while digging under the city. Including this 4th c. CE gold glass fragment depicting the goddess Roma, which had been affixed to a wall in the ruins of an ancient military barracks. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

💯 'Time is well overdue for international policy bodies to acknowledge the totality of evidence on the science of masks and masking and to show leadership in providing such messaging to policymakers, clinicians, and the public.' @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social et al journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981

Cataloguing the Hampi Vijayanagara archive @britishlibrary.bsky.social - this would be an interesting part-time job for the right person www.linkedin.com/posts/malini...

Training Officer Rubicon Archaeology Salary: £39,000/ €45,000 Closing Date: January 9, 2026 Location: United Kingdom / Ireland www.bajr.org/job-ad/train...

This late Roman silk fragment from Egypt, in @ (L), makes me think that the contemporary woollen tunic of Yingpan Man in the Tarim Basin is really of Roman origin (which I had rather doubted) - some remarkable similarities. collections.mfa.org/objects/6855...

Late Roman box inlaid with ivory, from Egypt. @britishmuseum.bsky.social www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

I am reposting this without the 'adult content' 🙄

Satyr and maenad on a c. 4th century AD Roman textile, tapestry weave wool on linen, presumably from Egypt. Cleveland Museum www.clevelandart.org/art/1975.6?u...

This stone head with coronet was found on the site of Merton Priory, Surrey, in 1797. The diplomat and collector Sir William Hamilton FSA presented the head on behalf of the Priory’s landowner to the Society in 1802.

It's a Flavian villa with mosaics, isn't it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"We can’s air-condition our way out the extreme heat crisis." #OxfordSmithSchool Radhika Khosla The Global Cooling Watch 2025 report was launched during #COP30. It addresses the dual challenges of escalating extreme heat and the resultant rising global demand for cooling.

1884-1897 focus for this opportunity to edit and publish archival material re Working Ladies’ Guild

Sounds rather like Spittlefield Lady in London, including the gold-threaded textile.

The Noheda mosaics give a realistically eerie impression of what performers in masks looked like. [Photos here from historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/maravilla-... ]

The truly remarkable 4th-century Roman mosaic at Noheda, Spain. [Photos from: visitacuenca.es/en/content/a...

Tickets are now out for this exciting event! Free and open to all. Book your free tickets on Eventbrite. Akram Khan, MBE in conversation with Marcus Bell (UCL), co-organized with Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) Friday, Dec 5, 2025, 14:30 Jaqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College Oxford.

Extraordinary (from BBC). Can any journalist really think this is what's going on?!

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

This is very much my approach to diy repairs. Late antique mosaic in Madaba Museum, photo from Helen Miles helenmilesmosaics.org/blog/mosaics...

Help us save the last Curlews of the Upper Thames www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-us-sa...

Akanthus face mosaic detail, from the Bear Hunt mosaic in @gettymuseum.bsky.social, found near Baiae (www.getty.edu/publications...)

This is quite amazing actually.

2023 bot die Entdeckung eines durch Dacheinsturz versiegelten Raums in #Selinunt die einmalige Möglichkeit, das Alltagsleben in der griechischen Stadt zu rekonstruieren. In Zusammenarbeit mit #3DStoa entstand eine virtuelle Rekonstruktion des Befundes: publications.dainst.org/journals/FdAI

👋 Here at @thebrooking.bsky.social, our collection casts a new light on British #architecture, revealing the stories behind #doors, #windows, and other details we often overlook. We breathe life into the familiar and invite you to see the remarkable in the everyday. thebrooking.org.uk

Fish (ish) - late Roman tapestry work fragment, ca. 3rd-4th century AD. Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University. emuseum.colgate.edu/objects/2770...

If you like slow TV, the live view of the construction of @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social's wonderful new Garden Building is compelling 👷‍♀️🏗️ www.youtube.com/live/6Ofx0Mi...

An extraordinary 7th-9th century AD Wari tunic fragment from Peru in @metmuseum.org www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Roman Egyptian tapestry fragment with pomegranate tree, c 5th century AD at @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social www.doaks.org/resources/te...

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!

Lucky to catch the last weekend of the stunning San Casciano bronzes' visit to Berlin - these sculptures were ritually buried at a Tuscan healing sanctuary in the 1st century CE after a lightning strike, & were excavated in the last few years. So revelatory about ancient religious practice

The Aurel Stein papers in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk....

An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable. The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2 🏺

This is superb - thank you @sjblakemore.bsky.social @roryoc.bsky.social @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social -- The Teenage Brain Explained with Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore youtu.be/xy7jkcSl8to?... via @YouTube

And yet I have never had an inkjet printer that worked www.facebook.com/share/v/1CRc...

Opportunity for early career postdoctoral researchers to conduct research in Japan for 12-24 months. You'll receive a monthly maintenence stipend, a settling in allowance, a research grant and round trip air fare. Apply by 10 Dec www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

My old job as Director of Oxford's largest portfolio of online courses with @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social is being advertised. If you enjoy academic management and digital education as well as teaching and research, this could be the job for you! F/t and permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE029/d...

Woven woollen shoes with rainbow colours, from tomb no. 5, Niya, Xinjiang, ca. 2-3rd century AD. [Photo via Museum of Kyoto twitter]

"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr

This month, we had the pleasure of welcoming Giles Quarme Architects to our collection to explore sash windows, staircases, and more, guided by Charles Brooking. Such visits are currently by appointment only as we organize and inventory the collection, but more online access is coming soon!

Exciting things are starting to happen @thebrooking.bsky.social (where I am a trustee). If you’re interested in buildings and their history you should be following! @constructionhist.bsky.social one for your followers maybe?

The Chinese identity of St Mark’s bronze ‘Lion’ and its place in the history of medieval Venice | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3JYSxkm

Jacqui Hames, featured in #TheHack, is calling on the Prime Minister to put the public ahead of Murdoch, and act now to end corruption and abuse in the press. Back her petition now: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

This welcome comment (by @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social on their redevelopment project) isn't a phrase one has heard much in recent years in the museum world - redevelopment has often focused on putting LESS on display!