What are these round holes found in a number of pillars of Göbekli Tepe? Pole supports?

While we're at it. The fingerprint on this alabastron makes me curious- It may be belonging to antiquity but to a modern looter or even to an officer as well, since these have been found in illegal digs of Lydian tumuli in 1960s, smuggled abroad, brought back in 1993. (Probably) #Ancientfingerprint

Turkish cuisine is all tomato and pepper, but how was it 500 years ago? Today I cooked "mutancana", a 500 year old Ottoman dish. Lamb, onions, honey, almonds, prunes, apricots, figs, sumack. No pepper, no tomato. Said to be one of the favorite dishes of Fatih the Conqueror. Let's see.

Son's recent fun: Asking me physics & maths questions of Turkish college entry exam in 1997 (which was the year I took the exam) and watching me fail (which is funnier when you know that I had answered all of them correct back then🫣).

While we're at it. The fingerprint on this alabastron makes me curious- It may be belonging to antiquity but to a modern looter or even to an officer as well, since these have been found in illegal digs of Lydian tumuli in 1960s, smuggled abroad, brought back in 1993. (Probably) #Ancientfingerprint

I had forgotten the hashtag🫣 #Ancientfingerprint

(Not very) #ancientfingerprint

Yes this was fun🥳

Hello old friend. Good to be back. #Pompeii #Vesuvius

A chink of light falls across the wall of the caldarium (hot room) in the women’s section of the Stabian baths in #Pompeii.

Such a perky little day to be on site. #Pompeii

Sometimes husband says we should have bought a house from 15th floor instead of 3rd. "No", I reply. "Because birds". I photographed this from my balcony.😁

Last night in my sleep I dreamed a male colleague of mine.🤔 Would it be fair if I told him this?🤔 Maybe. Would it be fair if I told him also that that he was pregnant in my dream?🤔 Via a uterus transplant from a cadaver?🤔 Forget it. Let him keep assuming me as a sane person.👍🏻🙂

1) #Türkei: der langjährige #DeutscheWelle-Reporter Alican Uludağ wurde am 19. Februar in Ankara festgenommen. Ihm wird „Präsidentenbeleidigung“ und „Verbreitung irreführender Informationen“ aufgrund eines kritischen Social-Media-Posts vorgeworfen. [1/3]

Admittedly, it is not the most beautiful of vessels. However, by depicting a funerary procession and rituals, the Catarinella Askos is one of the most fascinating painted pots from ancient southern Italy. It was quite fun to write about it. doi.org/10.1017/S104... #Archaeology 🏺

The Arch of Septimius Severus painted by Canaletto in 1742, before the excavation of the #Roman Forum (Royal Collection, UK). #Art #artwork #History

I think I shouldn't buy any more orchids🫣

I am looking for ideas for "texture hunting" (that's why I ordered polymer clay and stamp pad) but applying them on historical monuments??!? Don't such materials harm the surface? www.instagram.com/reel/DT8S3RU...

Turkish state schools distribute these sheets to kids to mark daily what they did in ramadan- Fast? Pray (5 times a day + the special ramadan pray)? Read qoran? Parrot the sacred verses? The minister of education also instructed teachers to bring preschoolers to mosque during ramadan.

The view from my balcony this evening. Yes the last one is jumping.🤣

Prague travel kit.🫣 I am terrible at visual arts but I am obsessed with travel ephemera, so let's see if I'll succees in that

A #Roman gold ring, set with an oval of green chalcedony which has been engraved with the image of a parrot; the level of detail is amazing, especially the texture on the feathers (especially given that it is only 2.6cm wide!) (📷 Christies)

Just happened again at the current #BuildingCommunity exhibition about #Göbeklitepe and the other #TaşTepeler here in #Berlin. The journal from 2015 even reveals which day this #ShaftStraightener came to light. It was a Wednesday. 😉

One of the more bizarre experiences as an archaeologist is to meet old finds you once dug up in long and hot days at the excavation behind glass in an air-conditioned museum exhibition. All of a sudden, they'd become something special, sacred things almost: an exhibit.

A hoopoe, a bee eater (which species?), a chameleon, a grasshopper and a butterfly-Parnassius apollo? I am dead🤤🤤🤤 #archaeobirds

I guess there will be no photo of @pompei79 which I will not like.🥹

We're bird haven again. From time to time this happens. Weather events, I guess. Yes I don't have the camera with me.😖

😳😖 www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-be...

A pair of male bramblings in a mid air clash @omsystem.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social

In Turkey people rather go blind by methanol via illegal alcohol consumption, as legal alcoholic drinks are heavily "taxated". Say hi to our mighty handsome tall strong president Erd*ğan.

Aaaand ... sorry, not sorry: This one here from #Karahantepe definitely wins the cutest Neolithic boar contest. 🤷‍♂️

Selfie time: Neolithic #DuckFaces! 😂😉

For #EpigraphyTuesday we're in the porch of #SantaMaria in #Trastevere, where we find a long #inscription in #verse from about 200 CE, an #epitaph which is a love letter from a wife, Victoria, to her husband Rhodanthion, "Rose-flower", without any status indicators or surnames. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Gulp.😳

Shit, the presence (or absence🫣) of so many erased figures on Göbekli Tepe's pillars is as cool as the existing figures. Scary, tempting, strange.

Would you dare auto translate this?🤣🤦🏻‍♀️🤬

I knew I've seen that face before. 😉 It's not the only miniature mask we documented at #Göbeklitepe by the way - and not the only one seen in the exhibition. Recognizing someone else?

The smallest one has arms.😳

So yeah, I went back. To that #TasTepeler exhibition here in Berlin - and down memory lane. 🏺👉 www.smb.museum/ausstellunge...

What did I just watch😳😳😳😳😳 💯💯💯💯 Miura Khiara⛸️❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

#MosaicMonday is a good excuse for repost🫣

I just noticed that winter olympics is all about ice being slippy

Many reliefs of Göbekli Tepe's pillars do not reveal themselves unless put under strong light coming from a certain direction and this is so tricky.🙃 The erased collars, the preserved hands. What were they after?🙃

Timur Soykan'ın, Aile ve Sosyal Hizmetler Bakan Yardımcısının yeğenine torpil yapıldığı iddiası ve söz konusu kişinin cinsel istismar suçlamasıyla tutuklanmasına ilişkin haberi, millî güvenlik ve kamu düzeninin korunması gerekçesiyle erişime engellendi. ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/a...

Enchanting detail of an ornate mosaic border with birds in blossoming floral scrolls, discovered in 1888 near Via Panisperna. 1st century BC. Rome, Musei Capitolini - Centrale Montemartini. 📸 Fabia Brunori #MosaicMonday

#MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics #MosaicMonday Detail of athletes from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, c 216 AD

I miss doing this.🥲 "I liked it... I was good at it... And I was... I was alive."

Good morning to you too, dear coal tit!🤗🪶