British surgeon Nick Maynard, who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza, explains to #GMB viewers how Israel confiscates all baby formula that doctors like him try to take with them. Why does Israel do this? Because they want to starve Palestinian babies to death.

let the horror of this sink in www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Beyond Orwellian 🤮 #FreePalestine

Seems trivial in the face of this horror but if I know one thing from studying Carthage it’s the importance of preserving the counter-narrative, the documentation of the evidence, and bearing witness.

"It’s clear now that nothing will shame the West into stopping Israel from carrying out its “total victory” in Gaza. But I’ve written this to serve as yet another reminder that we all knew what was coming. Nobody can feign ignorance. Nobody can pretend they didn’t know."

Yesterday marked my 8-year #Workiversary at the @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social - something I'd never have believed 8 years ago. Still very proud to work with such a special collection which continues to delight and surprise our visitors every day! #Egypt #Sudan #Museums #Archaeology #LoveWhatYouDo

“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.” Rumi

ENOUGH ENOUGH ENOUGH www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Not sure I could love this smug little ginger boy any more 🥰🐱 #EgyptianCat #AdoptDontShop

When a #museum visitor just gets it 🥰 This makes me very happy! @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social #Egypt www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see...

Archaeologists, if you are truly inclusive in your practice please sign this open letter. Everyone is welcome within the field of archaeology, whatever your gender or any other identity for that matter. We literally study the entire human past, so how can you ever exclude!

I never take this gorgeous place for granted. How lucky I am to have all this in my backyard #WilliamMorrisGallery #Walthamstow #E17Life #SpringtimeInLondon

'On a typical day, groups of school children would stare in awe at this reminder of their nation's imposing past, tourists would file through one of Khartoum's must-sees and concerts were held in the grounds. But that was before war broke out' #KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'The idea of #Salah and #Liverpool bound to each other, each looking out for the other, is perhaps one that speaks to the city’s broader mythology. “My kids are scousers now,” he joked in a recent interview' #MoSalah #LFC #Egypt #EgyptianKing www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Birthday Dude 🥰 #AprilBaby

Egyptologi Anne Garnettin ketjun avulla voi nojatuolimatkustaa Egyptiin. Hyvää pääsiäistä!

Enjoyed another very special journey up the #Nile last month. Starting off in Cairo and in the Grand #Egyptian Museum, we made our slow way south towards Aswan (1/ )

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

The looting of the National Museum of Sudan is catastrophic for cultural heritage there and around the world. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/01/h...

My #Gizapolitan stash from Cairo. Stuff that looks like #Egyptian stuff is truly my favourite kind of stuff 😁 #Cairopolitan #Egypt

Albie hopes that you've had a good day. Much like his hero #Garfield, he doesn't much like Mondays either... #MondayMotivation #CatsOfBluesky #EgyptianCat #قلبي

Albie admiring my new stash of books from #Egypt 🐱 #BooksOfBluesky #CatsOfBluesky

"The museum held an estimated 100,000 artefacts from thousands of years of the country’s history, including the Nubian kingdom, the Kushite empire and through to the Christian and Islamic eras." A desperate tragedy & shameful indictment #KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Wishing a beautiful and blessed #EidMubarak to all those celebrating 🌛 Especially to all those who cannot be with their families or are marking their Eid el Fitr amongst terror in #Sudan and #Palestine. كل سنة وانت طيب

Saluting the sun at the Temple of Hathor ☀️🐱 #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday #EgyptianCat

A very wise colleague suggested to me that travelling by boat in #Egypt means seeing the country as the ancient Egyptian people would have seen it... #UpTheNile #Egypt #Archaeology #Horizons

Wee bit proud ❤️

Today I taught my last class of the academic year. It's been quite a challenge to get here this time round so I'm pretty proud of that! Huge thanks to the 100s of students for their enthusiasm & special thanks to @catrionacurator.bsky.social for always having my back ❤️🙏 #Egypt #Sudan #Archaeology

Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs

Beautiful smug little Albie. He has ambitions to be the next big feline talk show host 🤣 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #PetsOfBluesky #EgyptianCat #AdoptDontShop

Written 78 years apart and very interesting to compare. What is the future of #Egyptology? #WeekendReads #Egypt #Archaeology #Futures

Convinced that this little #Egyptian boy has his own nemes-headdress and uraeus! Anyone else see it?? #Egypt #Pharaoh #NewCat #CatsOfBluesky @grmorgan.bsky.social

Two weeks with this sweet little #Egyptian boy and he's made himself very much at home - chilling with @grmorgan.bsky.social while gaming, and checking over my #Arabic homework! #NewCat #AdoptDontShop

When a #millennial curates an Egyptology exhibition 🤘 Huge congratulations to Ben Hinson & team on the incredible #MakingEgypt exhibition at the Young V&A. Go see it! www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #Egypt #Museums #London

Sunday morning lie-ins a thing of the past 😬 but being woken by this beautiful #Egyptian face is no hardship! #CatsOfBluesky #NewCat

I've never been too keen on cats. But I love #Egypt and really wanted a new pet. So we combined the two & this beautiful little ginger boi was the result! This is Albie (قلبي) a street cat from Giza. He's taken his big move to the UK in his stride & now living his best life in E17 🐈 #CatsOfBluesky

How fortunate I was to work there, for three months, back in 2009. The very best way to beat the January gloom! Why Egypt’s Colossi of Memnon are my wonder of the world www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... #Egypt #Archaeology

A fantastic aerial photo of the #Giza plateau: the #pyramids are not nearly as remote as many people think. Nowadays they are flanked on three sides by the roads and neighborhoods of Giza, one of #Egypt's largest cities. Photo: Sebastian Nagy 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

Today marks Independence Day for #Sudan. These are my reflections and a call to #archaeology and #archaeologists 🏺 thejebelmoyaproject.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/r...

Best Christmas present of all today. First sunshine I've seen for ten days 😬 #Betwixtmas #Walthamstow

"But it is in the old story that all beasts can talk, in the night between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the morning (though there are very few folk that can hear them, or know what it is that they say)" The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter (1903) #BeatrixPotter #PeterRabbit #ChristmasEve

Not the easiest week. But I found a bit of joy when a wee #robin joined me for lunch on Thursday, and then brought his little mate along the next day. Little things eh! #NearlyChristmas

Back in September, I was fortunate to celebrate the 20th anniversary of moving to #Liverpool for my #Egyptology studies. The best part was spending it with my amazing friends. We bonded immediately back in 2004 over our questionable hieroglyph translation skills 🤣 alumni.liv.ac.uk/blog/2024/eg...

🎄 DEC 2: Bir Tawil If yesterday was about sovereignty without territory, today is about territory without sovereignty. The Bir Tawil is one of the few pieces of land territory on earth which no state claims, meaning it is a terra nullius. So how did this happen? 🧵(1/x)

#museum30 day 29: hope We’re always hoping for a better week, month, year, one more calm, more organised, more measured, with no catastrophes, etc., but they rarely seem to come. Instead, I hope we can at least find a precious work/life balance and claw back some time, reinforcing our boundaries

Few things more perfect than a sunny, cold winter morning. Grateful for every moment I'm able to spend in this kind of life #E17 #Walthamstow

So fortunate to live within a stone's throw of the wonderful William Morris Gallery! Their new exhibition explores art from the #Islamic world inc. Morris's own lecture illustrations inspired by ancient #Egyptian design More here: www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/willia... #Walthamstow #E17

How to bridge Modern #Egypt with Ancient and medieval Egypt? Prof. Hany Rashwan (UAE University) emphasises that one key solution is for *Euro-American Egyptologists to learn #Arabic* to engage and better understand contemporary issues. I couldn't agree more! #BodiesOfKnowledge

Happiness is two weeks' worth of Corrie to catch up on, heat on for the first time (I know...), knitting and a curry. Live your best life folks, always ☺️

I clearly can't control myself in #Egyptian bookshops! I've somehow brought 25 new books back with me from this trip, a mix of Egyptian fiction (my current obsession), Arabic language books and non-fiction on Cairo and Egypt's modern history, politics & popular culture #BookSkeet #ReadMoreBooks