ESA/Hubble photo of a distant stellar birthplace, region of the N159 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 160 000 light-years away. Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Indebetouw Link for more information: esahubble.org/images/potw2...

Geological map of the area around Cartagena, Spain, showing where the Punic capital of Qart Hadasht likely sourced materials to build its walls. The medium- to long-distance supply indicates Carthage had extensive knowledge of hinterland resources. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

The Sombrero galaxy (Messier 104) is in the Virgo cluster & is 1 of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns. It's 50,000 light-years across & is 30 million light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA/ESA & The Hubble Heritage Team More info: esahubble.org/images/opo03...

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

Opalite In the Roman era, a manmade opal (opalite) was made of glass paste. Pliny’s normative stance, revering nature, was to prefer naturally made products to manmade versions. Pliny was concerned that Romans might mistake a luxury product (opal) for a manmade one (opalite).

Now that it’s in Italian news, I can share: a new inscription has been found on Egadi Ram 25. It reads SER SOLPICIO C F QUAISTOR PROBAVE[T] — “Servius Sulpicius, son of Caius, Quaestor, approved (this).” This likely refers to the son of Caius Sulpicius Galus, Roman consul in 243 BCE.

The @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (#EAA2025) annual meeting starts today! 🏺 Our collection of European #Archaeology is completely free for the conference, so check out the latest European archaeology research, from Stonehenge to the Second World War: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The last known inscription made in #Egyptian hieroglyphs was carved #OnThisDay in AD 394 🏺 #Archaeology The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom depicts the god Mandulis, accompanied with a text hoping the inscription will last forever. It seems the engraver got their wish 1/2 📷Olaf Tausch / CC BY-SA 3.0

Cat herding a flock of geese (EMC inv. no. JE 63801), limestone flake, Deir el-Medina, Ramesside period (Image courtesy of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Nearly-full Moon peers through the arches of Rome's Colosseum. Photographer captures the spectacle | BBC Sky at Night Magazine www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/full-mo...

Artist Cleverly Turns Manhole Cover Into a Waffle Maker for a 3D Chalk-Drawn Possum and Squirrel laughingsquid.com/manhole-cove...

A poignant tombstone from Roman Corbridge in Northumberland for Vellibia Ertola who ‘lived happily for four years and six days’. The tombstone was set up by Sudrenus, probably her father, and is on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Corbridge

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Something else for the list at Pompeii www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Overheard at the War in the Ancient World International Conference (WAWIC), Münster, Germany. “Unlike the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, this talk will be in German.” BMCR