Porphyry sarcophagus of Constantina, daughter of Constantine the Great While now at the Vatican Museums, it originally located at Santa Costanza, believed to be the mausoleum (tomb) of Constantina located outside the walls of Rome.

Nothing says C18 restoration quite like digging up an exquisite C2 Roman mosaic from Hadrian's Villa and adding a highly speculative, under-inflated elephant to the composition. Meet one of the Vatican's most enthusiastically improved hybrids. #MosaicMonday #AncientRome #AncientBluesky 🏺

Built in the 1300s, this historic mosque in Türkiye was constructed without using a single nail! A true masterpiece of medieval Anatolian wooden architecture. Engineering and artistry at its finest. #Anatolia #Architecture #History #TravelTürkiye #HistoricPlaces

#MosaicMonday 🏺 Almost like a #Roman menu from the Med in superfine detail: 11 types of edible fish/sea creatures eg moray eel, red mullet, octopus, scorpion fish, lobster. Now in BM, previously at the V&A. Provenance??? Likely from triclinium floor in Populonia, on S Tuscany coast, C1 AD.

Detail from one of Ostia Antica’s many nautically themed mosaics depicting Neptune. Dating to the early 2nd century AD, the mosaic is part of a bath complex located in the city’s warehouse district. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #Ostia

I love Russians laying out these floor plans!😍😍😍😍😍😍

Turkish fans watching their World Cup match against Australia from the Antiphellos Ancient Theatre in Kas, Antalya.

10 years now.

The time has come🥳

What a shame, this very rich and vivid depiction of a rural fair by Brueghel the Younger which is in Hermitage Inventory is not on display 😢 hermitagemuseum.org/digital-coll...

>Sound on< Black redstart, chukar partridge, magpie.

Fascinating

Ancient Greek fish plates were very popular tableware 2,300 years ago! They wouldn’t look too out of place on a modern dining table today! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Here’s my 3rd #WorldCup ancient/historic site or relic from each country playing in the World Cup. It’s AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺. At low tide at Gantheaume Point in Western Australia, you can walk out on the rocks and see these dinosaur footprints preserved perfectly. Remarkable. 🕰️130 million years

The Republic of Turkey was founded in Çankaya. Holding the Presidential Residence, Çankaya has been identified with the state and Atatürk for decades, but of course the "You-Know-Who" who calls the founders as "two drunkards" had to change this also, while changing everything else.

You know what a genius bastard Frank Snyders was, right?🥹 pano.hermitagemuseum.org/newpano/en/m...

What is this supposed to be? An elephant? An aardvark? A tapir? 🙃🙃🙃

Five new letters have been identified in the ancient Sidetic alphabet, bringing the total to 31. ​The alphabet belongs to a lost language once spoken in the ancient port of Side in Anatolia (modern-day Türkiye), and is related to Lycian and Carian.

Noone should be bullied for criticizing the confiscation of chickens.

Oh, I shouldn't forget not interacting with Turkish accounts over here. Ever.😨 Dude thinks I am a "foreign agent provacateur". (Shit there should be a" wetting pants while laughing" emoji🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣)

✨A bird’s paradise✨ This fresco detail includes a swallow (happy to stand corrected by folk with more bird knowledge!) and comes from the garden painting from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii.

Meet the recent enemy to our Mighty State and Handsome President: Chickens.🐔❌🐔❌🐔❌🐔❌🐔 Today administrative trustees were appointed to the leading 13 poultry companies in Turkey, and their CEOs were arrested. Why? Don't ask me why. Anyone and anything can get arrested in Turkey.

In 1902 a farmer ploughed up this bronze horse at Trundholm, Denmark. Thinking it was an old toy he took it home for his children! 😱 On closer inspection he contacted the National Museum. Now the ‘Sun Chariot’ is an iconic symbol of Denmark’s Bronze Age 3,400 years ago! #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Sigh, people started getting their accounts hacked here too😖

Soo in Hermitage an Aztec warrior pendant of gold is on display across some Ottoman daggers 🙃

It is crazy that today this mad cactus blossomed this but I'll never see it as I am on duty at work.🙃🙃🙃 Photo captured by my daughter.

[King of the Chalcolithic Varna Culture c.6,000 years ago]: I fear the end is near. Make sure to bury me with all my gold regalia. Underling: My lord, even your... King: ESPECIALLY that.

Saklarım gözümde güzelliğini Her neye bakarsam sen varsın orda Kalbimde gizlerim muhabbetini Koymam yabancıyı, sen varsın orda.❤️

In which an IDF freak poetically tells how sad it feels to kill Palestinian kids. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

The lace-like marble of #Domitian’s #Alban theatre projected absolute majesty for a court of absolute terror. A late #ReliefWednesday look at the hyper-detailed "#Flavian #Baroque" gives us the architectural framework for the waking nightmare of proximity to the emperor. #AncientBluesky 🏺

After years of seperation and longing Leyla finally finds Mecnun in the desert, living with beasts. She asks him to look at her face, which he refuses. "Who are you?" He replies. "Leyla is nowhere but in my heart. Who are you?" Of course he did...

What do you talk at dinner in your household? We talk about Prime factors Triangles Buoyancy pH Hormones Turkish War of Independence Turkish word art examples in literature Daughter will take high school entrance exams 3 days later, son will take college entrance exams next year.🥵🥶😨😵‍💫🥵🥶😨😵‍💫

Wooden remains of a later prehistoric trackway at Lisheen, Ireland, damaged during industrial peat extraction. Peatlands preserve organic archaeological remains but face many threats. We need to act now to save this fragile heritage. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

So a colleague's wife whose mother I followed for a while painted me this🥳 she knows that I photograph birds🥳

✨Watch out, there’s a cat about!✨ You can never be too careful around the bird bath! These birds may be in for an unpleasant shock this #MosaicMonday

The mesmerizing call of the toads, the endless rhythm of the bugs. One of the good sides of living in "periphery". I am melting in pleasure.🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

The CAF referee of the year, who officiated the African Champions League final and is one of the 52 designated referees for the World Cup, has been denied entry to the US at Miami International Airport www.france24.com/en/live-news...

But love should have had a scent...

Mosaic of an elephant and lion fighting From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum

Is it normal at where you live to be prone to construction noise (excavators trucks and everything) from 8:00 till 21:00 and on on a Sunday? Or am I too much crabby? And why isn't this disturbing anyone but me in this neighborhood?

Paging Mr. Tiffany! This spectacularly iridescent ‘melon-shaped’ glass juglet type was only produced in the eastern portion of the Roman empire and is relatively rare. Tiffany Studios started producing iridescent Favrile Glass in 1896, based on ancient Roman glass. 🏺 1/ #MetMuseum 📸 me

Still life with clouds, plants and feet.

One thing that is never mentioned about those "cabinets of curiosities": they accumulate dust.🥵

There are about 100 documented T shaped pillars in Göbekli Tepe but the world is always like 43 43 43. This is not archaeology, this is reading Rorschach charts.

I am pushing myself to watch a 45 minute video of Fahri Işık. Wish me luck.🫩

"If the evidence does not fit the theory, it must be disposed of." For #SarcophagusSaturday in the #VaticanMuseums, this #Roman chest from 160-170 CE was radically recut with a curved front to fit a #neoclassical scheme, but retaining its original design of racing #Erotes. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Few things are better than a "forgotten" city park🥲

I really really should take notes not to miss stuff like this there🙃 Btw the official web site of Hermitage has the best museum visual tour gallery I have ever seen. You can click on each of the 300 something rooms on a chart and find yourself inside that room.😍

Thousands of Nettle Tree butterflies (Libythea celtis) are being enjoyed by our group in northern Greece right now. An amazing sight! Video clip shot there a few years ago by Matt D.