“Faces in the Crowds: The So-Called Fayyum Portraits and the Aftereffects of Photography” From @emuehlbe.bsky.social’s new book, Things Unseen, on UC Press’ website for free! www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1... A few of my own pics of Fayyum portraits below from Yale University Art Gallery.

Vénus et Amour sur un monstre marin (provenance italienne ?, vers 200-300 ap. J.-C). La sculpture a été exposée dans la galerie du temps du Louvre-Lens.

The sound of digging. #ASMR, #archaeology edition. 🙌

16 November 1940 | The Germans closed and isolated the Warsaw Ghetto from the rest of the city. It became the largest ghetto in occupied Europe. Over 450,000 Jews were crowded in the area of 307 hectares. More: https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/w/18-warsaw/116-sites-of-martyrdom/52389-warsaw-ghetto

On the anniversary of his birth, I repost my blog written for @penandswordbooks.bsky.social to dispel many myths that have tarnished Tiberius Caesar's historical reputation. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/blog/10-hist...

#OTD 16 November 42 BC, Ti. Claudius Nero (the future emperor Tiberius) was born. #TIBERIUSbio #AncientBluesky upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Lea Castle, Worcestershire: the Picture Room. Lea Castle was built in the 1760s and demolished in 1945. It was a potty work of architecture and I'm sorry not to have seen it.

We all know how much nurses provide to society and what little thanks they get. Wendy can take us through a small chapel and its associated museum. #museums #museumfromhome #nurses #newzealand mainlymuseums.com/post/1191/nu...

Longstone of Minchinhampton #StandingStoneSunday

Menhir dit la Chaise-à-Margot: Margot's Chair - referring to fairies in Breton folklore. A smallish menhir #StandingStoneSunday which does indeed look like a seat. Part of the megalithic complex "La Lande du Gras" with 2 menhirs and 3 long barrows - see the nearby sites list on our page for more. 1/

The Ring of Brodgar on Orkney, this afternoon #StandingStoneSunday

Duddo Five Stones in beautiful north #Northumberland - marked on some maps as Duddo Four Stones. The 5th stone being placed upright again in the early 20th century. #StandingStoneSunday @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social

An #Egyptian glass inlay of a jackal. Jackals were linked with the dead, because they were present in the desert regions near to the cemeteries. The most popular jackal-shaped god was Anubis, the god of embalming. Dating 5th -1st c. BC. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

We know all you can think about today is that it's #WorldPeacockDay. So here's our "Shell Mosaic", which some people claim actually shows a peacock's fan tail. Those people are clearly insane, but it's not World Shell Day, and this is the best we can do. 🐚🤔🦚

We're really looking forward to welcoming @rakshadigs.bsky.social to Sussex to deliver the 2026 Long Man Lecture. We don't have enough opportunities to meet together to listen to, and celebrate, a single voice from the heritage world, but this is one. Pls share and join us this March! 🏺

Autumnal calm after the storm on the west coast of Wales this morning, looking towards Bae Ceredigion/Cardigan Bay 🌞🌊 #Ceredigion

From Bronze Age Wales, the spectacular Mold Cape! 🤩 An incredible ancient feat of sheet-goldworking, beaten from a single gold ingot some 3,600 years ago! The extraordinary embossed decoration is said to mimic strings of beads. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall

If you like your Christmas tree Angels to look like the "Aunties" of your childhood- the ones your Mam used to gossip and laugh with- look no further! I've found a few of these quirky little beauties made by @potsofhistory.bsky.social several years ago. From Crown Studio Gallery Rothbury only.

...associated with wisdom, writing, and the moon. Mosaic glass inlays were used to decorate caskets and furniture. 1st century BC / 1st century AD On display at Rheinische Landesmuseum Trier. 🧵2/2

Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany. The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

For #Caturday Behold the mouse! 🐭🐈 So says the inscription on this #medieval badge of a cat with mouse in mouth! Lead alloy, circa 1300-1500. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

#SteepleSaturday From Papal Palace of Avignon, the steeple of Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d'Avignon. Built 12th C, tower collapsed and reconstructed in 15th. Gilded Virgin Mary added on top in 19th. @drrjwarren.bsky.social posted her lovely painting on other side, but I can't find it! Pls repost.

Sicher ein Extremfall, aber um sicher zu gehen, dass eine Anzeige per Mail auch einging und bearbeitet wird, ist in jedem Fall zu empfehlen, sich den Eingang mit Aktenzeichen bestätigen zu lassen. www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se...

Gute Aufarbeitung sieht anders aus. #Chatgruppe #Polizei taz.de/Er-war-Mitgl...

15 November 1904 | A Polish Jew, Fiszel Goldrajch, was born in Łódź. A weaver. In #Auschwitz from 1 October 1941. No. 21256 He perished in the camp on 21 October 1941. --- Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U

What you doing on 26 Mar 2026? Celebrating exactly 21 years since the return of Dr Who to TV? Or seeing the actual @rakshadigs.bsky.social talk at the annual Long Man Lecture in Brighton??! 🤩😍 Dr Who can wait. He's a Timelord after all. Details and tickets here: sussexpast.co.uk/event/long-m...

👇👇👇 Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree. www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

It came out last year, but circled back to BICS to read “Domestic violence & vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene*” by Eleanor Cowan and @senex64.bsky.social. Definitely wanted to engage after reading about Augustine’s mother Monnica’s abusive marriage academic.oup.com/bics/article...

It's very cool to see Barnes and Noble listing my upcoming book, Treasures of the Vikings, on the US book market! 🇺🇲 📚

Just about to give a talk to @surreyarch.bsky.social 's AGM on London's Ice Age Archaeology. I love giving this lecture, as it develops every time I give it and as I understand the subject more.🦣🏺

The CFP for the Association of Ancient Historians meeting is up and abstracts are due on December 1. Please look at all the panel themes and apply! aah.conference.uiowa.edu

A Socratas. A 'tas' is Dutch for a mug, but a Socramug sounds more like a philosophical mosquito. (Mug is Dutch for mosquito.)

Facebook recently brought to my attention my 2018 visit to Japan, and although I cannot definitively identify the spider's species, I find it to be quite beautiful. #spider #japan

It's how archaeologists know exactly what shade of brown the soil is 🤓: colorconfidence.com/products/mun...

Show us your mugs, people! Yours won't be as cool as this one, but don't let that stop you.

I just leave this for #PhallusThursday: A Roman oil lamp featuring an inscription and a phallus. The inscription reads "ne atigas non sum tua marci sum" (don't touch me! I'm not yours; I belong to Marcus'). From the Esquiline necropolis in Rome, 2nd century BC 📷 me (Musei Capitolini) 🏺

It's #RomanFortThursday! Here's the east gate to the late 3rd century Roman shore fort of Reculver (REGVLBIVM) #Kent With stonework largely removed and reused elsewhere, it no longer keeps anyone out 📷 Oct 2016 with the dramatic medieval twin towers of St Mary’s church behind

Nothing has changed - #Egyptian flip flops 😃: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1000 BC. It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate. On display at National Museum Copenhagen. 📷 me 🏺 me

Lead ingot stamped with the name and titles of #Roman emperor Domitian, found in 1735 on Heyshaw Moor #NorthYorkshire and now in the excellent Craven Museum #Skipton Made in AD 81, *BRIG* on the side records it was mined and taken from the land of the #Brigantes 📷 Aug 2022 #FindsFriday

Quick, @romanpalace.bsky.social are asleep, post hypocausts

..... Eigentlich nennt man das "Aussetzen" ..... www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...

Ah hah. Prittlewell Prince Saxon burial (early med c.580) had these whalebone gaming pieces, found in close group so believed to have been hanging in a cloth bag. Also near a wooden gaming board, but 9 rather than your 10. Antler dice thought to indicate a game of chance. Southend Museum. 🏺

The world’s biggest, and almost inaudibly high pitched, bravo to Trimontium Museum in Melrose for their dedication to the #PlaymobilInfestation both in the displays AND in the shop. Bravo! Bravo!!👏 1 of 2

Clock statue damaged by town centre metal thieves stealing bronze plaques A statue celebrating Staveley's industrial heritage was damaged when thieves broke into a town centre construction site. #HeritageCrime #OpCrucible www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aus der Wüstung Niederwedderstedt stammt diese aus Buntmetall gefertigte Münze, sie wurde später zur Gewandspange umgearbeitet. Der Einzelfund stammt aus der zweiten Hälfte des 9. Jahrhunderts und zeigt Kaiserin Theodora II zusammen mit der Heiligen Maria. © LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták

Die neuen #DAIBlogs sind online! Zum Start zeigt DAI-Präsidentin Friederike Fless, wie historische Tagebücher, Fotos & Fundinventare erschlossen werden. Digitale Methoden eröffnen neue Perspektiven auf die mehr als 1.500jährige Geschichte dieser @unesco.org-Welterbestätte: www.dainst.org/blogs

Wie funktionierte das NS-Rechtssystem? Welche Rolle spielten Sondergerichte? Und was können uns die Hinrichtungsakten heute noch über die Verurteilten sagen? Diese Fragen beantwortet Dr. Alexander Korb im Interview zu #lostwords: arolsen-archives.org/mitmachen/lo...

Wanted to visit here for a long time! A Journey in Search of Cartimandua??😅 And a couple of nice ramparty shots saved for #HillfortsWednesday