Even 2,500 years ago, people loved a novelty cup! 🦞 🍷 😄 It’s suggested this Ancient Greek terracotta vessel in the shape of a lobster claw was used as a drinking horn at parties! The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

Out of the ashes.

Also struck by this on my visit yesterday.

Even 2,500 years ago, people loved a novelty cup! 🦞 🍷 😄 It’s suggested this Ancient Greek terracotta vessel in the shape of a lobster claw was used as a drinking horn at parties! The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

A window to the ancient world... The Roman Amphitheatre of El Djem, Tunisia 📸 Mine #RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

Marble clad toilet seats in an ancient #Roman latrina in Ostia Antica - Toilets were shared spaces. Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today. #RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology 📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.

The remains of the mighty basilica wall at Roman Wroxeter (Viriconium) in Shropshire. Established by the end of the 1st century AD, Viriconium was one of the largest cities in Roman Britain. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Wroxeter #Shropshire

#RomanSiteSaturday The Amphitheatre of #Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving #Roman amphitheatres. #Archaeology #History

It's time for #Caturday and a timeline cleanse! A terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp. From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Have a lovely #weekend! 📷 me 🏺

This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

#FindsFriday A set of walrus-tusk and whalebone pendants, from around 3000 BC! These may have been strung together with small beads to form a necklace Found at Skara Brae Neolithic village in Orkney, Scotland #archaeology #museums 🏺

#FindsFriday out in Trellech, Monmouthshire yesterday on fieldwork with Churchill Archaeology in the landscape around the famous Harold's Stones stone row. ..and we stumbled across a prone cupmarked slab which echoes the prominent pair of cupmarks on the cylindrical central stone 👍👌 📷 My own

#FrescoFriday Heading from the Egyptian section to Braccio Nuovo of Musei Vaticani we passed through a narrow vaulted corridor which has bird painted fresco plates on its walls. #archaeobirds

#FrescoFriday from the tablinum of the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto (V-4-A) #Pompeii. This #painting from the centre of the north wall portrays Mars and Venus on the left, Eros in the centre and groups of serving girls. #Archaeology #Art #History #Myth

This #FrescoFriday we travel to the tomb of Gaius Vestorius Priscus, Pompeii. This scene is part the inner west wall of the tomb and depicts gladiators squaring off. It seems reasonable to suppose this fresco captures a fight held in honour of the departed Gaius Vestorius Priscus.

This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

“The Trumpington Cross” Trumpington bed burial c 650 -710 AD The burial of a female teenager. 1 of only 5 crosses of this type found in Britain. Excavated in 2011. Now Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology #Cambridge #FindsFriday #medieval #archaeology

A Roman roof tile with multiple dog paw prints from Leicester. Now in the Jewry Wall Roman Experience. #FindsFriday

A gorgeous early Iron Age round-based pottery bowl from Howe broch #Orkney The unusual design and decoration may have been intended to mimic a riveted bronze cauldron 🤩 On display in the wonderful Orkney Museum in #Kirkwall #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #AncientBluesky 📷 Aug 2024

#FindsFriday It’s no great surprise to find #Roman remains if you dig in your garden at Great Casterton. The crossing point of the River Gwash was the location of a fort and the next significant town north of Durobrivae on Ermine Street.(1/4) #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #History👇🧵

A wonderful selection of ancient Roman finds from the city of Colchester in Essex, known in ancient times as Camulodunum, including jewellery, coin hoards, pottery and fresco fragments. Now on display at Colchester Castle. @colmuseums.bsky.social #FindsFriday

I love them all

Restored painted walls from Lullingstone Roman Villa in Kent. Dating from the 4th century AD, the figures have been interpreted as priests at prayer. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Lullingstone #RomanBritain

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s. Which is your favourite? From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain. Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia 📷 by me #Archaeology

This #funerary #altar for #EpigraphyTuesday and #ReliefWednesday is of late #JulioClaudian date. It names one T. Apusulenus Alexander and his slaves, and the delicate #relief shows a seated woman releasing a dove, helped by an #Eros, while a little girl at left is doing the same. #AncientBluesky 🏺

A #Roman helmet with a bit of a decorative surprise - on the back, it features two little mice chasing after loaves of panis quadratus bread. Made about 1850 years ago, it once belonged to a soldier named Julius Mansuetus - did he choose this unusual decoration? 🐭 (📷Christies) 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

Neolithic carvings of eyes above the entrance to a tomb, 6000 years old... What were these for? 👀🤔 📍 Holm of Papay South chambered tomb, Orkney, Scotland #TombTuesday #archaeology #photooftheday

📰 New research finds evidence for human occupation in one of the least hospitable areas of prehistoric Iberia, challenging the belief that the highlands were abandoned during the last Ice Age #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/a...

Map of Sweden with locations of some #Viking Age anthropomorphic figurines #MedievalMonday Often studied for what they symbolised, new research analyses how they were made and used, moving beyond categorisation to understand how the objects 'intra-acted' with the world. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Explore Ancient Egyptian symbolism through the first comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of the iconic temple complex of Karnak 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

One of the houses built into the ruined west front of the former Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #BuryStEdmunds

The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age. #Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s. Which is your favourite? From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain. Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia 📷 by me #Archaeology

How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/ Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me

Today's a perfect day to post some beautiful blue glass! A gorgeous #Roman flask in the form of a shell, mold-blown from dark blue glass. It was used to hold perfume. Dating 1st century AD. On display at British Museum. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

TL cleansing time!😍

This gold spray of myrtle was found in a tomb, inside a bronze vessel, resting atop the cremains of the tomb's occupant. Gold myrtle wreaths were buried with the dead to signify the deceased’s importance or as an offering to the gods for safe passage into the next world. 🏺 1/ Greek, 400-350 BCE

A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’ “Be glad that you are here” Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷 📷 Corning Museum of Glass #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

Maeshowe Chambered Cairn on Orkney with its ditch and outer bank. A remarkable Neolithic monument which also contains over 33 Norse runic inscriptions, as well as various sketches and motifs. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Orkney #Archaeology

⚠️ Durotriges on TV Alert ⚠️ Join #SandiToksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social as they explore Iron Age #Dorset in episode 1 of the new #archaeology series #HiddenWonders tonight on #More4 at 9pm @buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social See you there !! 👇

A brand new UK TV #archaeology series starts TONIGHT Tues 4 November 9pm on More4 With #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students of @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social HUZZAH !! 🥳 Available for download after on Channel 4 #4OD 👇

A 2,000-year-old 'Tomb of Cerberus' with stunning frescoes discovered in #Italy The fresco portrays the moment in the #myth of Heracles, where he captures Cerberus as part of his twelve labors. 📸 Credit: Ministry of Culture, Italy #TombTuesday #Archaeology #art

“Be glad that you are here”

#MosaicMonday takes us back to the #MuseodelleCiviltà in #Rome, this time to look at the dazzling #opussectile floor of the #domus of #PortaMarina from #OstiaAntica, 385-388 CE. Its complex #geometric design makes it the most perfect floor of its kind in #LateAntiquity. #AncientBluesky 🏺

A tiny but very charming #Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a squatting #monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana 🏺 #archaeology

A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’ “Be glad that you are here” Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷 📷 Corning Museum of Glass #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

Can you imagine what our ancestors thought of these? Pure magic.

Something lovely for the weekend! Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago. Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨ 📷 me #Archaeology

New discovery: A #bakery was unearthed in the Roman town of Sisapo, Spain. The town was part of a major economic center linked to mining in the Sierra Morena region. The bakery occupied a large complex of over 200 m² with five rooms, including a large circular oven, milling areas with stone ...🧵1/2