I have to go to Roma again🥹

Artefacts in Turkish museums keep travelling the world while it is impossible to expect something the other way round. Shame.😖

Followed🥳

For the next two nights I'm staying in the Phrygian Valley & it's just the perfect picture postcard of how gobsmackingly beautiful Turkey can be.

Roadside wild flora. Once this sopace becomes "pedestrian walk" the poppies will vanish.😖

Spring is the light coming from the heaven's slightly opened door.🥳 Workplace, now.

This stunning floor mosaic in opus sectile work once adorned an ancient Roman villa in Baiae, near Naples. It was unearthed last year. The colourful marble made up a C3rdAD Roman porch. The photo is as amazing as the mosaic 🐠 🐡 🐟 🐙 🏛️Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park 📷 Edoardo Ruspantini

As nights are getting markedly colder and winter approaches here, it seems apt to cheer myself up with this beautiful summer garden fresco. 📍 Pompeii 🏛️ House of the Golden Bracelet 📷 mine

Und um das erste DAI-Gebäude aus dem 19. Jahrhundert noch einmal in seiner Ganzheit als Ergebnis dieser kleinen Exkursion zu zeigen, hier rasch noch eine Impression aus dem Skizzenbuch:

This is son's recent obsession, and it is funny indeed! visdeurbel.nl/en/

The part where Akhilleus invites Priamos to dine, adding even Niobe ate after she lost her 12 children. Or Andromakhe mourning for Hector saying everybody will scold Astynax from thereafter, without knowing the worse fate of the boy. Or Helen regretting adultery. What a timeless book.🥺

Just read about Oskar Kokoshka's Alma Mahler doll🤢

This 1,800 year-old Roman glass cup is so well preserved that the railway construction worker who found it in the 1800s used it as a flower vase not realising its age! 💐 😲 From Himlingøje, Denmark. National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

Thursday tiles. Noto, Sicily.

Court sentenced Turkish crossdresser Murat Övüç to 11 months in prison for "InSuLtiNg reLiGiOuS vaLuEs" for wearing a headscarf.😖

“I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful…” April 22, 1984, died #OTD aged 82 years Ansel Easton Adams. He was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.

Turkish parliament has just passed a law that mandates users to log in social media accounts with their real ID.🤡

Last night in my dream I watched a few eiders in a river

Part of a colourful Roman mosaic floor depicting doves drinking from a vase from a townhouse that dates AD 1-50. The house is now below the Caseggiato delle Taberne in #OstiaAntica. 📷 my own. #MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome

✨Lion versus Leopard✨ This mosaic immediately captures your attention - the direct gaze of the lion forcing the leopard into submission is hard to miss. The mosaic has suffered some damage from subsistence over the years but feels acutely compelling even with the rough edges. #MosaicMonday

Eating orchids to extinction

Birds drinking. From Santa Maria Capua Vetere, now in the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy. #MosaicMonday

Saturday (I was planning to go to butterflying): ☁️⛈️🌪️🥶 Sunday (I was planning to go to butterflying): ☁️⛈️🌪️🥶 Monday (I am going to work):🌞🏵️😎 How is this possible?😖😖😖

This realistically rendered Flavian era mummy portrait from Roman Egypt gives us a rare look at an older person from that era. It has been on loan for over 70 years to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, but was recently sold at auction. Will it disappear into a private collection? 🏺 📸 Sotheby’s

I still feel confused when I remember that I climbed the steps, and without noticing the elephant in the middle (the floor patterns or Marcus Aurelius) I headed to the ticket desk in the building to the right, went inside and wandered around in the museum without the slightest sense of orientation.😳

Beautiful illustration😃

I did myself a favor and watched "The Peasants" today. Fell in love with the paintings, got curious about the story, will read the novel too.😃

This morning's joy🥳

Going to a wedding. The groom is a relative who hasn't come to Turkey for the last 20 years, the bride is foreign. Hoping to harvest as many gossip materials as possible.🥳😂

The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dalì, 1931 Failed pancakes, 2026, Sapinuwa🤕

#RomanRoadsFriday with these wonderful surviving streets around the Gymnasium on Kos 🇬🇷 Loads more to see in our Greek playlist inc. a new episode on Athens & Aegina Island >>> www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

>50,000-year-old worked tree resin from the Raja Ampat islands, north-west of New Guinea. Resin was used by ancient humans for fire-lighting, hafting tools and constructing boats. This is the oldest example of its processing outside of Africa! 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

I've never seen poppies that black.

I sometimes help son with his geometry questions😎 He said "That one is hard"🥵 I said "Bring it"😏 Geometry is an art of seeing, I thought😌 Extracting meanings😌 Building a symphony of equations🤩 I drew lines, angles, found similarities, made equations 🥳 I ended up with "54=54".🫩 I hate maths.😖🤣

This guy is so Ekr*m İmam*ğlu...

A nice walk this afternoon looking at urban and bedrock geology in Walthamstow with a team of TfL engineers. We started of with a bit of Jurassic pavement palaeontology #urbangeology

Brother is planning a trip to Roma. He texts me. -Which district did you stay in? Send me a link of the house. Did you use public transport? -That's all? I mean... AREN'T YOU GOING TO ASK ME ANY TIPS ABOUT THE MUSEUMS??? (He didn't🙃) (But I have so much prepared myself🤣)

Scientists once held that the boundary between species was their ability to mate and make viable offspring. But hybrids, it turns out, are everywhere. Now, as geneticists gain insight into animals’ inner workings, they’re learning that the boundaries between species have always been porous.

Last Sunday while having breakfast I thought "Why am I not reading about art?" and ordered John Berger's "Portraits" and "Landscapes". Today the books arrived. "Portraits" is not about portrait paintings as I thought. "Landscapes" is not about landscape paintings as I thought. I am an idiot.😳😬

Back then you didn't necessarily have to be a nerd to read encyclopedias for fun

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

#MosaicMonday with this Bird Mosaic at Palazzo Massimo. Discovered in a necropolis on the former Via Imperiale (Via delle Terme di Caracalla / via Cristoforo Colombo). #AncientBlueSky🏺

Why don't we make table tops with a design like this 16th/17th c. table anymore❓ These features are typical of Rome in the years around 1600 and distinguish the tabletop from Florentine examples. 🗃️ #arthistory #art #academia 🏺 #mosaicmonday #skystorians #earlymodern #mosaicmonday #mosaic #Rome

We've got a visitor!

Just finished reading God of Little Things. Now I have a lump in my throat.😖

Dear Brits, is this how a lemon surprise pudding should look like? The bottom is delicious but the crust tastes like scrambled eggs to my Turkish palate, and I am not sure I did everything right.🫣

Extremely detailed shrimp fossils in Narodnì Muzeum, Prague

I just learned Yuri Gagarin died in 1968 when he was just 34. What a shame.😖

Shit.😖

Today I while I was voting in Ankara Chamber of Medicine elections I saw İskender Sayek, one of the legendary professors of my medical school. After greeting him saying I was a 2003 graduatee I was burst into tears so much that a poll watcher asked whether I was OK. I hate embarrassing myself.😖