Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

#TombTuesday Ghirza's North Cemetery is about half a km west of the center of the desert town. Unlike the tombs on the South Cemetery, which look like obelisks, the mausoleums of this cemetery resemble temples. #Roman #Libya 🇱🇾 #architecture #History #Archaeology

@helsinki.fi saattaa rahoittaa sivistystehtäviään kiinteistötuotoilla, mutta kiinteistöjohtaja ei ole sisäistänyt sivistysarvoja. www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

Register for the webinar series Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture @ Yale Institute of Sacred Music ism.yale.edu/late-antique...

At the easternmost point in the US. Walked a bit of coast trail today. I could've stayed out there all day... #Maine

(241) Lost Kingdom of the Desert: How the Nabataeans created an Empire - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEz6...

10 years ago, Khaled al-As’ad gave his life defending the ruins of Palmyra. His belief endures: people without history are people without a future. A symbol of courage and resilience against barbarism.

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#RomanSiteSaturday: the #Roman burial chamber of a wealthy family in Cologne-Weiden. The subterranean burial chamber (hypogaeum) dates back to the 2nd century AD. It's considered the best preserved of its kind north of the Alps. It was discovered... 🧵 1/2 #archaeology 🏺

Italy marks Ferragosto with a national holiday today

BTA :: Hellenistic Gold from Bulgaria's SE Sakar Region Is Now on Display at National Archaeology Museum www.bta.bg/en/bg_archae...

Relief with a teaching scene from the Via della Foce in Ostia Antica, near Rome. Dating to the late 4th century AD, the relief is on display at the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #Roman #Ostia

#OnThisDay - 13 August - in 29 BC Octavian celebrated the first of three triumphs on successive days - his notable 'Triple Triumph'. This one was for his conquest of Dalmatia. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Augustus 268; Münzkabinett Berlin (18202352). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Why Ancient Romans Paid a Fortune for the Color Purple — More Than Even Silver | Open Culture www.openculture.com/2025/08/why-...

1. “𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎 𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝐼 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑎!” Carl Haag in 1859, below his watercolour 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏 [Bel Temple - ŁS]. The work from the same year with a rich, transcending and astonishing, hazy light.

#SpoliaSunday shows us how to use an ancient basin of #Aswan #granite from the #Baths of #Nero in #Rome as it should be. Enough with locking #Roman #fountains in museums. Put them back to work, ad ornamentum Urbis. #AncientBluesky 🏺

🚨🏛️ Pompeii news! People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say www.bbc.com/news/article...

Secrets of Pompeii's survivors, revealed: Study reveals how brave people RETURNED to live in the ruins after the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius | Daily Mail Online www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

My picture of the Arch of Titus and menorah carried during Emperor's triumph after coming from Judea. 11 June 2023, @khiflorenz.bsky.social

1. «𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲», oil on canvas, 179 x 130 cm, 1860 by Franz von Lenbach 1836 – 1904. The remarkable contrast between grey remains of 'classical' antiquity and bright folk costumes of contemporary Romans. Hungarian National Gallery, 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 245.𝐵.

1. Did 𝑫𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂 had a chance to be Augustus' descendant, as now taken for granted? The last of the nobilitas among homines novi. A striking contrast of class and cultural background, and the the expansion of the Empire in the East. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒔, 1885

𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚 50-123/7 CE. Fascinating person and appearance always. The "Orbis comarum" hairstyle, jewellery, vanity and calm, yet haughty, aristocratic pride. Political instinct, flexibility, and adaptability. The last of the nobiles. A descendant of Augustus who was more cunning than Livia.

1/ Hunting Animals, a remarkable Roman mosaic from a luxurious villa at Daphne near Antioch in Syria. Between 450 and 520 CE, a marker of the Late Antique transformation originally located in a building was destroyed by an earthquake in 526 CE Unexpectedly kept in the Honolulu museum #MosaicMonday

Sunday, in its turn, reminds me of the fragment of a Late Antique sarcophagus with 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔 scene I saw on 3/6/2025 in 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝑪𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚𝒔𝒌𝒊 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒖𝒎 in Cracow. Christ giving the laws, peacocks and palms. Full visual program of emerging, triumphant early-Christianity. Photo: Ł. Sokołowski

1/ #SarcophagusSaturday brings my thoughts to the extraordinary "The Paideia Boy" Sarcophagus I saw in Vatican Museums, 9/6/2023. A reclining boy dressed in exquisite robes shown with the book open and a stylus in his hand, accompanied by a small dog. Photo: Łukasz Sokołowski

The 81st anniversary of '44 Warsaw Uprising. My Grandfather's brother, warmly memorised by older family members of my younger age: 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐳 𝐃𝐳𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐳, 𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐦 "𝐒𝐳𝐲𝐬𝐳𝐤𝐨" 𝟏𝟑.𝟏𝟏.𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟐, 𝐋𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧 - 𝟏𝟕.𝟎𝟖.𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟒 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐳𝐲 𝐮𝐥. 𝐆𝐫𝐳𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐣 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

"Archaeology of Castrum Inui: a sacred and maritime site in the Tyrrhenian landscape of Latium vetus (Italy)." A new project funded by our #archaeology #grant program. Each year we award over $600,000 to bring completed fieldwork results to print. whitelevy.fas.harvard.edu/archaeology-...

Deadline Extended to 28th June: "Bridging Research to Publication – Advanced Writing Workshops (2025-2027)" - CBRL's support package for early career researchers based in Jordan, affiliated with academic, research, or heritage institutions. Details/applications here: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

I could recognise all the sculptures shown on the pictures. Dear friends. A Report on the Confiscation of Looted Palmyrene Funerary Reliefs in Idlib: syriansforheritage.org?p=3750

1/ Regarding the questions about the sculptures' survival, the current situation remains unclear as the DGAM has not yet released official damage assessments.

1/ Moqîmû son of Wâhbai, #Palmyra, Hypogeum of Arṭaban, 100-130 CE. Smooth face and coma in gradus hair reflect the imagery of 1st c. emperors. But the eyes are overlarge, and he seems to flow art from the semi-circular slab, resembling the funerary steles of Arameans before the adaptation of images

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1960: Harper Lee publishes her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Noted for its treatment of a child’s awakening to racism in the South, the book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was an immediate success, eventually selling more than 40 million copies.

The latest issue of the Mitteilungen is out now! t1p.de/b2gvs

I am happy to let you know that I am once again associated with @khiflorenz.bsky.social "Images of Individuals, Dialogues of Globalisation. Triggers of Artistic Transformations in the Roman Middle East between the 1st and 4th centuries CE" www.khi.fi.it/en/institut/...

Julian died one month later, on 26th of June 363. Below: "Saint Mercurius Killing Emperor Julian the Apostate", wall-painting, 12th c. AD,From Polish excavations in Faras; in the National Museum in Warsaw since 1964, 149672 NMW artsandculture.google.com/asset/saint-...

29 May 2025, 72th Anniversary of the Fall of #Constantinople in 1453. 'Entry of Sultan Mehmed II in Constantinople', oil on canvas, 697 x 536 cm, by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1876). Musée des Augustins de Toulouse. And Constantine XI - a ruler who was not afraid to face danger.

The man who spent 40 years preserving #Palmyra’s past Polish archaeologist Michal Gawlikowski on his hopes for the war-torn city and his friendship with murdered scholar Khaled al-Asaad: www.theartnewspaper.com/2016/10/21/t...

Pompeii - town with Vesuvius; Watercolour by Max Littmann (1888). © Archive of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich #AncientBluesky ⚱️ www.mpg.de/11390710/pom...

Amazing Terracotta Figurine of Camel with Driver from #Sogdiana in #CentralAsia dating to the Tang Dynasty AD 618-906. A fascinating land on the crossroads of #Silkroads with merchants, generals, and statesmen acting between #Byzantium and #China.

Archaeologists dig up an ancient deity's head beneath a centuries-old church - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trend...

Presentation of the #Digesta ( #Codex of Justinian, also Pandéktai, "All-Containing") to Emperor #Justinian (design for a mural in the Court building in Kassel, 1891) by artist Hermann Knackfuss. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie (Inv.-Nr. A III 570).

[AI?]Ancient Ptolemaic statue returns to Libya after decades - The Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com/archaeology/...

"Chariot Race", most complete of its kind, dicovered in 2016 at Akaki, Lefkosia, #Cyprus. 4th c. CE, 36-f-long, 13-f-wide work cements scenes from one public stadium, featuring four chariots each pulled by springing horses and commandeered drivers #MosaicMonday hyperallergic.com/317654/newly...

Palmyra by Alexander Jacovleff (1887-1938). Between 1931 and 1932, he travelled through Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia and China, and created several orientalist paintings. From 1934 to 1937, Jacovleff was the Director of the Painting Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

"Black elephant", charming and a bit in a fighting mood, Ancient Ostia. Place des Corporations. Mosaic of the Sabratha Seafarers Corporation. Probably 2nd c. AD. As Sabratha was in Roman Africa, it possibly signifies the geographic connotations. #MosaicMonday

Studying female presence in a sanctuary from Stockholm #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

#SarcophagusSaturday - The Pashley Sarcophagus, a sarcophagus showing the triumphal return of Dionysos from India. A Satyr carries a child behind an elephant, while two Maenads play the 'aulos' and two Satyrs sit on it. Found in Arvi (Crete), dated AD 125-150. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK).