Maya Chen Mul-style effigy incense burner, Dzibanché, a major Maya city in Quintana Roo, 1200–1500CE. The cylindrical body held burning copal incense. A human or divine figure is attached to the vessel. The figure represents a young wind deity or a priest wearing the attributes of a wind god.

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Early yesterday the Sun produced multiple large eruptions of filament plasma from opposite sides of the Sun. My research investigates solar flares, but I’ll readily admit that filament eruptions like this are the most beautiful show the Sun provides!

Lovely drawing of the birth of Mary in 'Fleur des histoires', 15th century. Completely historically inaccurate, people didn't look or live like that in AD0 ;) Sorry, couldn't resist, but let's do a mini thread looking at some details. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

We love the ordered chaos and the different information in the "Out of the Crate" @artukdotorg.bsky.social exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This is "Perseus Arming", Alfred Gilbert, 1911, 14kg(!) 😁

#TodayInQueerHistory June 28 (1970) The 1st Pride marches happen. Tom Limoncelli said: "The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why LGBT Pride Month is June, tell them, 'A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.'" Brenda is known as The Mother of Pride.

The good news is the venue will be packed when it happens and we'll all be wearing party hats

He is AMAZING

Took some pics of a few of my favourite things from the Museo Egizio in Turin! Here’s one - this absolutely gorgeous ostracon with a dancer from the New Kingdom (around 1200 BCE or so!) (inv. C. 7052) #Egyptology #Archaeology

Highlight of the #Durotriges26 Open Day @durotrigesdig.bsky.social? Enjoying Miles's excitement at the two overlapping Iron Age roundhouses in the 'emergency trench'. 😆👏 The later one was built through the remains of the older one. It was occupied around the very time of the Romans' arrival.

To complement last week's #MosaicMonday shaggy-haired Orpheus in the Archaeological Museum in Split, here are two of the animals - bear and lion - in small compartments around him. They are each given the same backdrop of a tree. 📷2004 #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#MosaicMonday Villa Romana del Casale. Villa de lujo tardorromana, con 48 estancias y una excepcional colección de mosaicos. Piazza Armerina, Sicilia 🇮🇹 Italia. Finales s. III - principios s. IV d.C. #History #Roma #Archaeology #Art #RomanArchaeology #AncientBluesky

Entspann dich, und lausche dem Meer 🌊 Relax and watch the sea 🌊

Surprising diversity found among Europe's last Neanderthals. phys.org/news/2026-06...

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. 📷 Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

This is a truly remarkable development: A carbonized scroll, sealed since the eruption of #Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and successfully deciphered in its entirety. What informations will the other carbonized scrolls reveal? What an exciting project! scrollprize.org/firstscroll

​Hot property. A cross-section from the Villa of the #Quintilii shows the brick skeleton of a massive hypocaust network, a vast thermodynamic machine designed to transform the #opussectile above into an active sensory experience, warmed from below by enslaved labour. #MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky 🏺

Born on this day (or yesterday, really) in 1529, in Bologna, Bartolomeo Passarotti. Painter of portraits, histories, & genre scenes. Here, by himself in 1560.

Five carnival revelers. One v. unhappy cat. Painted by Bartolomeo Passerotti of Bologna, born on this day(ish) in 1529.

It’s my 30th ancient relic from each country in the #WorldCup. It’s NORWAY 🇳🇴 This is the Oseberg ship. It was unearthed in a Viking ship burial in the early 1900s. Whilst it wasn’t buried earlier than 834, experts think parts of the ship may date to 800. It’s now in the Viking ship museum in Oslo

'There it is, Wendy. Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.' ✨ -- Peter Pan What I think of every time I see this wondrous Spanish Colonial Revival weathervane in my neighborhood. 😍

Maya Stela 51, Calakmul, Campeche, 731CE. This stela, with an irregular top, is decorated on three sides. The front features an anthropomorphic figure with its head in profile, facing left. In its right hand, it holds a scepter and wears a headdress with a plume, necklace, bracelet, and wide belt.

I utterly adore the fresco of a fountain that was revealed in recent excavations in #Oplontis (room of the peacocks). The three spouts fixed on the wall each with a jet of water filling the marble basin which is supported on those beautiful curved legs. It silently creates an air of fresh coolness.

57 years ago, queer and trans folk who frequented a bar called Stonewall decided to push back against state persecution and policing. They sang, threw things, shouted, danced, and were joined by many more people in solidarity. We mark this as the start of Pride. Pride is joy. Pride is resistance.

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

🪷 #Takeyourdogtoworkday 💙🐕💙 The #Lanuvium basrelief shows #Antinous as #Dionysus or #Aristaeus #Silvanus, harvesting grapes, as a dog looks up at him adoringly. Its inscription says #Antinoos ' birthday is Nov 27th. #AntoniusSubia explains it in full: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... 🪷

Mark has found an almost complete Iron Age black burnished ware pot from the pit he's currently excavating at #Durotriges26 It has lain undisturbed in the soil of #Dorset for over 2,000 years He is happy #Archaeology #FindsFriday

I'm not sure how so many people have managed to forget that if we cook the planet, we cook ourselves. Guys, we're on the planet. The one that's cooking.

Dangerous to record setting heat will expand across the eastern two-thirds of the nation this week. Be sure to follow your local forecast information from weather.gov and heat.gov

So yesterday evening at Chalke History Festival a remarkable thing happened, a procession of a reconstructed Iron Age chariot led to the site of a reenacted chariot burial based on those found at Wetwang in E.Yorkshire c.200BC…. 1of2

Final spot of Iron Age charioteering before I leave wonderful Chalke. Magical weekend, and can’t emphasise how hard the chariot builders worked in impossible heat to enable this. Next stop @durotrigesdig.bsky.social open day!

Class, in accordance with Texas’s new law, we are going to engage in Bible study. Please open you Bibles to Ezekiel 23:20. “There she lusted after her lovers, whose penises were like those of donkeys and whose ejaculations were like that of horses.” The Bible, pornography for the WHOLE family!

'The Opening Ceremony of the Great Exhibition, London' (1851) by James Digman Wingfield (Nottingham City Museums & Galleries)

Storm Over The Irish Sea, 2022 by Welsh land and seascape painter Sarah Evans #WomensArt

Bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin (1888) representing a classical caryatid, normally standing upright and bearing her burden for eternity. Here she has collapsed, pressed down by the weight of the heavy vessel she carries. It was originally titled ‘Sorrow’. #ClassicalReception 1/

I want there to be a national law against anonymous child abuse tips. Folks need to go on the record, with serious penalties for swatting.

Also sharing today, the little-known Reyer van Blommendael of Haarlem. It's his birthday! Here, mother feeding child.

Looking right at you from 1650: a woman, portrayed by Reyer van Blommendael.

Me with my adored wife Isabella in 1609, just married. Young love! I was also v. fond of my orange hose. Today is my birthday.

Something lovely for the weekend! 🤩❤️ Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This magnificent #Roman #fish-shaped flask was found during the excavation of a storeroom in the ancient city of Begram/Afghanistan. It was probably made in a workshop at Alexandria/Egypt, dating 1st/2nd century AD. Begram was a major....🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

#ResistanceRoots Pearl Buck was born on this day in 1892 in Hillsboro, W.Va. She is best known for her novel The Good Earth and for becoming the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was also a fierce advocate for human rights, civil rights and cross-cultural education. /1

July is the time for threshing. #MedievalCalendar BnF MS Latin 1173; Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Heures de Charles d'Angoulême); 15th century; f.3v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Look at this huge #sarcophagus a lenòs in the Belvedere courtyard of the #VaticanMuseums. This massive Naxian marble tub, complete with two intact skeletons, was the highlight of a chaotic 1777 excavation. The design relies on a brilliant visual illusion of eternal cosmic time. #SarcophagusSaturday

🚗 We’re almost ready to go on our Italian Grand Tour! First stop: the Egyptian museum in Turin. 👇 🦁 The line drawings behind the sphinxes show how they would have been presented originally - stunning! Sign up for our travelogue: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🏺 #caturday 🗃️ #arthistory #Egypt #art

This one's for SciFi-lovin' @edrybicki.bsky.social

#TodayInQueerHistory June 27 (2009) Toronto has its 1st Trans Pride 🏳️‍⚧️ What started as a Facebook event page by Karah Mathiason, who expected "only 10 people" to be interested, soon had 300+ RSVPs. Karah and her wife Diane wanted to provide a safe space to highlight the trans community in Toronto.

This room in the "House of #Augustus" on the #Palatine is often called Augustus’s private study, the "Syracusa", but its floor-to-ceiling #fresco work lacks any unornamented space for the scroll cupboards essential to a Roman study. It’s Augustan but not of Augustus. #FrescoFriday #AncientBluesky 🏺