Exquisite ancient artistry! Beautiful gilded figurine of ancient Egyptian goddess Nephthys, c.1327 BC. Her outstretched arms spread protection over Tutankhamun’s gilded wooden canopic shrine. Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology

A 3,400 year old Ancient Egyptian ‘Senet’ game board with gaming pieces. Senet is one of the earliest known board games. Popular in ancient Egypt, it was associated with the soul’s journey through the underworld and was often placed in tombs. Brooklyn Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Israel’s parliament approves hanging as the default death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis. Meanwhile, human rights groups—including Israeli B’TSelem—report Israelis kill Palestinians with impunity. This is apartheid, and anyone claiming otherwise is gaslighting.

#MosaicMonday - A 6th-century AD Roman Christian mosaic depicting the Holy Sepulchre and Golgotha in Jerusalem. National Museum of Bardo, Tunisia.

Omar: Trump’s idea of liberating women is bombing schools in Iran.

The US bombed a primary school in Iran, killing 168 girls. Why is nobody talking about this anymore? These abominable war crimes should not be forgotten — and nor should the lives, hopes and dreams of human beings who were slaughtered with impunity.

An enamelled dragonesque brooch - part of a Romano-British hoard which found in c. 1845 at Lamberton Moor in the Scottish Borders. Dating to the 2nd century AD, the brooch is now part of the collections at the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday

tušāma ina urri iššira damiqtī arḫu innammaru inammira šamšī "Perhaps, at daybreak, good things will come to me A new moon will appear, my sun will shine." A couplet from Babylonian poem, Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, whose protagonist hopes for better days. A lengthy, beautiful, bizarre work of literature.

This 6,000-year-old necklace offers a glimpse into the artistry of the Neolithic Schussenried culture in southwest Germany. Its three marble pendants and jet‑and‑limestone beads create a striking black‑and‑white contrast, characteristic of the Schussenried culture's jewellery design. 🧵1/2 📷 me

Book number 7 of 2026. #BookSky

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us. Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People living in the Stone Age in Africa, 60,000 years ago, already understood how to harness toxic plants to improve their hunting success. It’s the oldest confirmed use of arrow poison ever identified. 🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

The early medieval burial from Gammertingen, 6th century AD. The high-ranking warrior died in his early 30s and was buried with a Byzantine helmet (a so-called Spangenhelm), his weapons, and his mail armour, which consisted of about 45,000 iron rings! 📷Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

Islam is the USA’s target. DT is supporting Netenyahu in his quest for a Greater Israel. It’s ghastly watching two warmongers cause this destruction & civilian deaths.

Down with the Great Satan.

Israel killing children as usual because that’s what they do

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️ Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

A highlight of early Hellenistic Taranto is the stunning terracotta group of Orpheus and the Sirens, recently returned from the Getty to Italy. While striking, their original setting, possibly on a funerary monument, remains a mystery. Taranto, late 4th c. BCE, 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

As I'm attending a conference in Tübingen today, for #findsfriday an #IceAge masterpiece that is on display at the University museum: a tiny but most splendid figurine from the Swabian Jura - a #horse carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago - the oldest known sculpture of a horse. 📷me 🏺

#FrescoFriday Fresco from #Pompeii, Italy - Wall painting with Hercules fighting a lion. #Archaeology #History #art

keir Starmer, wes streeting, margaret thatcher, francisco franco, rangers football club, hermann goering, ally mccoist.... your boys just took one helluva beating

This Byzantine ivory casket was my favourite thing in the Musée de Cluny. One of the best museums in Paris and less busy than the Louvre and d'Orsay.

A stunning #Neolithic rock crystal arrowhead found in the pile-dwelling settlement of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, dating from around 3500 BC. The raw material was not available in the immediate area, but came from the Alps. Rock crystal has been mined in the Swiss Alps since the early Mesolithic.🧵1/3 🏺

Book number 5 of 2026. #BookSky

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

#findsfriday - the ‘Face of Agamemnon’. A gold funerary mask from Mycenae - probably 16th C BCE. Sadly not the face of the king though. One of those wow moments when you finally see the object that has become incredibly familiar to you from books & stories #archaeology #greekmyths #trojanwar #gold

A complete Roman dodecahedron from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt – one of about 130 known examples found across the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. We don’t really know what these mysterious objects were used for. Over the years, countless (and sometimes rather absurd) theories ...🧵1/3 📷me

A 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian beauty box with original containers for makeup and beauty products! 🤩 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin #Archaeology

Over 26,000 have emailed their local trust to keep Palantir out of the NHS. Will you join them? https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media

This wonderful Ancient Greek gold coin dates from late 5th-century BCE. It was issued by the city of Akragas, today’s Agrigento, in Sicily. The coin features a crab on the reverse, and an eagle standing on a rock, devouring a snake.These symbols were common designs on the coinage of Akragas.

Assyrian relief from the South-West Palace at Nineveh in Iraq depicting the Assyrian victory over the Elamites at the Battle of Til-Tuba. Dating to around 653 BC, the relief is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #Nineveh #Assyria

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

#RomanSiteSaturday The great baths of Mactaris, a old Phoenician town in Tunisia that eventually became a Roman colony These baths are some of the best preserved in all of North Africa. Walls rise to 15m and #mosaics still line the floors! 📸 Mine #archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺

These stunning golden #duck heads flanking the head of Hathor were found in the royal tomb at Qatna/#Syria, dating 15th/14th century BC. The unique object may have been part of a cosmetic container. National Museum Damascus #archaeology 🏺 🦆

The richly decorated umbo (shield boss) from the parade shield of a Roman cavalryman shows Virtus, the personification of valour. Parade armours were not worn in battle, but during parades and tournaments. Found in Welzheim, dating 3rd century AD 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

A sleeved tunic, made from linen, from Egypt, Roman Period, 4th century AD. The garment, designed for a child, likely around five years old, has survived remarkably well due to the arid climate. The tunic's design allowed for adjustments as the child grew. 🧵 1/2 🏺 #archaeology 📷 me

When my time machine works again I'm going to buy some copper from Ea-nāṣir.

Video shows two Palestinian men pinned down by Israeli gunfire near an aid distribution site in northern Gaza.

Hind Khoudary explains what happened in the attack on Nasser hospital. An explosive drone targeted two civilians, one of whom was a journalist. Then, as rescuers went to retrieve the bodies and additional journalists were filming what had happened, a missile targeted them.

Some glimpses from today's visit to the ancient Lycian city Limyra (modern Antalya), including its Early Byzantine church, Roman theater, and Lycian tomb Looking forward to sharing more about this site in the future

For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called....🧵1/2 📷 Rami Rizk 🏺 #archaeology

This 3,300 year-old Mycenaean terracotta chariot was found in a rock-hewn tomb at Megalo Monastiri, in the region of Larissa, Greece. Dated ca. 13th century BCE. Archaeological Museum of Volos, Greece. 📷 Athenologio.

One of the oldest known musical instruments: a Palaeolithic flute made from a vulture bone some 38,000 years ago! This is one of 8 known flutes found on the Swabian Jura. The finds suggest that music played an important role in this region. 🧵1/2 📷 me #archaeology #music 🏺

Egypt retrieves parts of 2,000-year-old sunken city off coast of Alexandria

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns. They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings. That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this humorous illustration of a cat herding geese on a flake of limestone. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology

Pieces glass objects from early imperial period of Rome, in the lovely Palazzo Altemps.🏺

An impressive #Roman cavalry helmet with a face mask that was made of iron and plated with silver (Nijmegen-Kops Plateau type). The mask was attached to the iron helmet, which was covered with horse hair showing an elaborate and highly decorative hairstyle. 🧵 1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology