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马年大吉 Happy Year of the 🔥 🐎 #yearofthehorse

Bonne Journée du Louis Riel!

Happy Valentine's Day ❣️ " ᓇᓪᓕᑦᑎᒌᓐᓂᖅ Nallittigiinniq Na-lli-ti-gii-nniq Romance (Image: Kenojuak Ashevak's Courting Loon) " www.facebook.com/share/p/1Afi...

This is a great article about the 80 pairs of sandals 🩴 buried with King Tut (afterlife shoes!), but it’s disappointing that they don’t mention the 4 pairs of socks (from the Greek σύκχος) 🧦 discovered. Note: the socks worn with the sandals are just as interesting! www.zmescience.com/science/arch...

Teleilat Ghassul, just north of the Dead Sea, yielded an assemblage that has baffled scholars for a century: hundreds of ceramic vessels shaped like ice cream cones. Were they cups? Candleholders? archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2026/digs-discoveries/cup-or-cone/

ᓇᓪᓕᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᖅ nallinirmut ulluq na-lli-nir-mut u-lluq Valentine's Day (Image: Kenojuak Ashevak's Raven's Proposal) Inuktitut Word of the Day ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᔾᔪᑎᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ www.facebook.com/share/p/1Gcw...

A rock shelter with paintings up to ten thousand years old discovered in southern Sinai www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/02/a...

FEBRUARY 11th is 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.

FEBRUARY 11th is 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.

"Playing to the Crowd: Royal Ritual Performance in Context" Speaker: Prof Katja Goebs, U of Toronto 26 Feb 6:30 pm Eastern In person & online [For zoom link, contact [email protected] ] Free & open to all #ancientEgypt #freelecture

Happy #SuperbOwlSunday! Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍 From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.

"Inuktitut Word of the Day ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᔾᔪᑎᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᑦ Uqalimaagat u-qa-li-maa-gat Books (Image: Ningiukulu Teevee's Sedna's Creation) " Originally at www.facebook.com/share/p/15hk...

"Mortuary practices and social organisation of the #Meroitic State: Kedurma, Third Cataract region of the Nile" #Sudan Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2026 Author: Mohamed Bashir www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The evening of February 5th (Pharmuti 4th) is the day of the Festival of "Chewing of Onions", a festival of #Bastet. Happy Chewing Onions🧅, everyone!

Indigenous words for groundhog from a link at www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cvo...

Happy Groundhog Day

Looks more like a 😉 to me. 🙂 is proof that Mars was inhabited -- by emojis

The History Girls: Egyptomania by Rachel Louise Driscoll the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2026/01/egyp...

Forgotten Australian Television Plays: Antigone - FilmInk www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-au...

5,000-year-old rock art from ancient Egypt depicts 'terrifying' conquest of the Sinai Peninsula #Egypt #archaeology #Egyptology www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Surrounded by giant 🍓 #Caturday #medieval

@tygerheart8.bsky.social Thanks for the #archaeology humour

Looks like a beer-marinated Cheshire to me.

Discoveries revealed at the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Gobeklitepe and Karahantepe near Sanliurfa, Turkey, are giving archaeologists new understandings of how humans transitioned from hunter-gatherers to settled societies more than 11,000 years ago. www.reuters.com/science/new-...

OSC memories, @kmvanstone.bsky.social If only we'd had cats

The perfect word for today.

#Caturday Detail of a Roman mosaic from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, Italy: a cat clutches a quail. Current location variously given as National Archaeological Museum of Naples or Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome

Totally adorable Mouse eating a walnut. Detail of a #Roman #mosaic from 200 BCE. Vatican Museums Musei Vaticani

Also 🧈 & 🍯. And a pot of tea.🫖

(743) Who the 'eck is Ptolemy XII - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=04V-...

She is the lady of drunkenness, the queen of the dance. She stabs the enemy, drives back the rebels, kills off the enemies in the place of internment; she is Sekhmet the great, who has power over the masses--the countless crowd trembles upon seeing her. (OGC)

Check out this issue of RAWI. Lotsbofninteresting short articles on dress & fashion in Ptolemaic, Roman & Coptic times www.rawi-publishing.com

Came across this post in that other place today. A Roman Period painting from Karanis 🇪🇬, excavated by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, and a facsimile by Hamzeh Carr. It depicts the god Harpokrates and the Sphinx god Tutu. Harpokrates is the Greek rendering of Hr-pA-Xrd, or Horus the child.

Deir el-Ballas 2026 blog, Week 1: 1/3-1/8 From www.ancientegyptarchaeologyfund.com/blog/

In memory of hoggie 🦔 aficionado Gwyn Ashworth-Pratt

A magnificent cat in front of the magnificent ruins of Ephesus #Caturday

A team excavating in the west Nile Delta have discovered a necropolis and industrial complex dating from the Roman Period. www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

Story of my life (Sung to the tune of "Tomorrow Never Comes")

today i learned about Livius Andronicus' translation of the Odyssey into Old Latin, of which we have only fragments, incl. the first line: virum mihī, Camēna, insece versūtum tell to me, Muse, the man of many turns the meter is Saturnian which predates the adoption of hexameter into Latin

To my Coptic friends Ⲡⲓⲭⲣⲓⲥ Toς ⲁⲩⲙⲁⲥϥ Ⲋⲉⲛ ⲟⲙⲉⲑⲙⲓ ⲁⲩⲙⲁⲥϥ

🏺Dab a Little 3,000-Year-Old Greek Civilization on Your Wrist🏺 Photos courtesy of - @michaelnordstrand.bsky.social - Mythologist Studio™ - The Pylos Tablets Digital Project, © Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati

#Caturday This Ancient Paw Print on a Pottery Fragment in Jerusalem Is the Oldest Known Evidence of a Cat Kneading The 1,200 year old imprint shows claw marks, suggesting that the cat was "making biscuits" while the jug was drying. Photo credit Shimon Gibson / Mount Zion Expedition.

Bom Ano Novo! Buon anno! Ein glückliches Neues Jahr! Gelukkig nieuwjaar! Gott nytt år! Feliz año nuevo! Boldog új évet! ⲛⲟϥⲣⲓ ϯⲣⲟⲙⲡⲓ ⲙ̀ⲃⲉⲣⲓ ⲉ̀ⲛⲏ ⲉⲧϣⲱⲡⲓ ϧⲉⲛ ϯⲟⲓⲕⲟⲙⲉⲛⲏ ⲧⲏⲣⲥ! Gelukkige nuwe jaar! С Новым Годом! 明けましておめでとうございます Blwyddyn newydd dda! ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒋᔅᓯ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᒥ ᓄᑖᒥ!

The mat is laden with loaves of bread: bread of various grains, well-baked bread, bread split down the middle, the whole production of the bakery! There are no hungry people, the breads make people live. (OGC)

GEM installs 1st beam of Pharaoh Khufu's second solar boat #Egypt #Egyptology english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/...

#Caturday kitten LACMA M.80.203.54 - Kitten Figurine Crouching on a Long Box LA County Museum of Art Acc no. M.80.203.54 Late Period - Ptolemaic Period ca. 664 - 30 BCE Bronze Length: 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm); Width: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm) From www.facebook.com/share/p/1AFe...