Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones! LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.

Also this one

Not sure any work of art haunts me like this one

Holy smokes, FASCINATING thread about Caligula's "pleasure barges" and their attempted recovery by Mussolini.

A Moment In The Ruins

After the fire. #Photography #Urban #Street #Ruins

Ruins of Eldena Monastery near Greifswald, 1825, by Caspar David Friedrich, born OTD 1774. Love the little house nestled safely among the huge ruins!

Maybe @lukeoneil47.bsky.social is the poet laureate of our times...

#blackandwhitephotography #classicmono #fog #beach #graffiti #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited

Near Beetham you’ll find the Fairy Steps. Carved into limestone rock, local tradition says that if you can negotiate them without touching the sides, fairies will grant you a wish! more in: "Folklore of the Lake District" bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #bookologythursday #booksky

Little meander around the ruins of St Mary’s York this afternoon

Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor. In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.

Blakethwaite Smelt Mill in Gunnerside Gill, Swaledale. The area was a lead mining centre in the 18th and 19th centuries, this plant being built in 1821. The landscape is still scarred by spoil heaps and 'hushes' where dams were built and breached to strip soil from the bedrock.

British Camp, with Pinnacle Hill and The Malverns stretching out behind. This was a huge Bronze/Iron Age hillfort.

Another iconic monument ticked off the bucket list. Poulnabrone dolmen is one of Ireland's most photographed and photogenic monuments. It is set in the desolate and magnificent landscape of the Burren, Co Clare. #TombTuesday #Neolithic #Ireland

Painting for a railway poster of the Yorkshire Dales by Leonard Russell Squirrell (1893-1979). An accomplished printmaker he is also known for his paintings of East Anglia.

Some more angles on the industrials ruins of Wales

My good friend @infrabeige.bsky.social has just launched a new edition of his RPG Vaults of Vaarn I've watched this grow from the start, and if you're into tabletop RPGs, mad sci-fi, exploring ancient ruins & vast deserts I can't recommend it enough Support here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

We love being on the train don't we fellas

That time in 1902 when the medieval bell tower at St Mark's Square in Venice crashed to the ground. And was caught on camera!

Who up stroking they sword while lamenting social realities

Late evening of work in Pompeii yesterday but the reward of an empty site bathed in glorious warm light was a privilege.

The rock resisted. The tree persisted.

From Gabriel Zuchtreigel's "Buried City." When I finally get to Pompeii, I think my favorite part will be these anonymous intersections. The warren of a normal city. Look at the stone bollard in front of the fountain, so a cart wouldn't accidentally destroy the whole thing! We still do that!

After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won’t pick themselves up, after all. Someone has to shove the rubble to the roadsides so the carts loaded with corpses can get by. -Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak) #everynightapoem #war

Happy Solstice from Stonehenge. Trilithons, pyramidal orchids and dyer’s greenweed

A photograph of Rievaulx Abbey now some 175 years old taken 1852-54 by Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815-1894) who was one of the first British amateur photographers. Born in London, he became a ‘tallow-chandler’ and helped to run his family’s business.

September 1, 1939, W.H. Auden poets.org/poem/septemb...

📍Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy (Oct 2024) #Photography #photographersofbluesky #travelphotography #rome #italy #history #ruins #architecture #europe

Rough brushwork to match a rough, strong fortress in ruins: Hadleigh Castle, 1828, by John Constable. His day has been today.

Today's offering for #HillfortsWednesday is the enigma that is Carl Wark. The promontory is faced by vertical cliffs on all but one side, which is protected by an embankment, ditch and stone rampart, believed to date from Prehistory. There is no evidence of settlement within the enclosure.

'...most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”'

☀️We're giving away 5 special edition mugs, plus a free copy of the Sunday Times bestseller Fall of Civilizations! ☀️ To enter, just repost this and follow the publisher @duckworthbooks.bsky.social! Giveaway closes at midnight on Friday 23rd May. Good luck!

Today's love from the Roman world! Amazing Herculaneum!!!

#RomanSiteSaturday - Timgad (Roman Thamugadi) in #Algeria is often described as Africa's Pompeii. This UNESCO site has all the elements of a large Roman town: an orthogonal grid plan and two main oriented streets, a large forum, baths, markets, a library, a theatre, and an imposing Capitolium.

The very young amongst the very old... at the ruins of the Roman Forum #roma #photography #birds #gulls

2/2 Livestock among the ruins: Colosseum, with goats. Another of Turner's Roman water colors.

I enjoyed chatting to Flint Dibble about history, the Fall of Civilizations, and some of our mutual annoyances in the field. Catch it on YouTube at 7pm BST tonight.

The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr Paul M.M. Cooper @paulmmcooper.bsky.social We chat about real history, fake history, the romance of ruins, and what we can learn from the fall of past civilizations @fallofcivspod.bsky.social Premiering tomorrow at 7pm UK/2pm EDT youtu.be/E3GXbg5L4e4

Creake Abbey Ruins, Norfolk on a very sunny Sunday!☀️🚶‍♀️

La Selva Walkway along the paper mills river in northern Amalfi. You can wade the river and explore the ruins. #hiking #Italy #nature #photography

Bury St Edmund’s old Abbey ruins. A joy to wander around.

I'll be in Oxford tomorrow talking to @moudhy.bsky.social about history and Fall of Civilizations and signing books. Come join us! Date: 22 apr • 17:30 Location: 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moudhy-al-...

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The graffito of a horse at Birdoswald Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Cumbria. The horse is carved into one of the stones at the base of the remains of the drill hall - easy to miss! 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Birdoswald

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