Merry Christmas. Sunrise in Crosthwaite, Kendal UK, today

Our team are just back from fieldwork in SE #Jordan! They were east of Bayir looking at a series of #Roman camps we first identified on satellite imagery in 2022. Look out for news of this survey in our future posts. @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @cbrl.bsky.social @robertbewley.bsky.social

📣📣 This Saturday 6th September EAMENA features on Bettany Hughes show on Channel 4 about the Nabataeans, which features flights with our Bob Bewley over the Roman camps we identified in SE Jordan. www.channel4.com/programmes/b... For our original research paper:👇🏻 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Final episode on Saturday. #apaame #eamena123 Thanks to Dr Michael Fradley’s discoveries #robertbewley Seen 'Bettany Hughes' Lost Worlds: The Nabataeans'? Watch it here on Channel 4: www.channel4.com/programmes/b...

📣📣 Our Bill Finlayson & fellow archaeologists help to uncover the mystery of the hundreds of 'desert kites' stretching across the Arabian desert. Find out who built these megastructures, the purpose they served & the ingenious discovery that was unearthed...👇🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#OnThisDay. 19th July 1545, The Mary Rose sank during the Battle of the Solent, just a few miles from the coast of Portsmouth. Of her 500 crew, only around 30-40 were saved. The Mary Rose Museum is dedicated to those who lost their lives that day. 🖼️ Geoff Hunt PPRSMA

One of the best views over breakfast ever. Kildonan, Isle of Arran.

BREAKING: Canada officially cuts ties with Trump’s America open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

A very rare sight- no traffic at London Heathrow

📣 Our work with Palestinian colleagues in monitoring heritage damage in #Gaza is mentioned as part of an article out in @theguardian.com:👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social

I’d been thinking of starting my own boycott of buying any USA-made material. Now it’s easy, we just can’t afford them, thanks to tariffs.Thank you to The Donald.

World Book Day If you read just one story from this today, it will change your life. #worldbookday

When President Zelensky is next in the company of Trump or Vance - why not ask them how they’d feel if Putin’s troops crossed the Bering Sea & invaded the USA? It’s only about 12 miles, so perfectly possible. Maybe, only maybe, only then might they begin to understand how ‘being invaded’ feels!

Not a great week-end for those of us who enjoy rugby and cricket & are English, and also support Man U. “It can only get better..”

A couple of drone images from today of the archaeology around Little and Great Urswick, Cumbria. Stunning light #aerialphotography @school_of_arch #aerialsurvey @apaame @eamena123 #prehistory #historicengland #earthworks #aerialsurvey

A couple of drone images from today of the archaeology around Little and Great Urswick, Cumbria. Stunning light #aerialphotography @school_of_arch #aerialsurvey @apaame @eamena123 #prehistory #historicengland #earthworks #aerialsurvey

Robin in the reedbed! 😍 Taken last weekend at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊🐦 #Birds 🪶 All my links here; linktr.ee/carlbovis

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity Surely some revelation is at hand Surely the Second Coming is at hand The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

I was introduced to this poem recently: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; 1/3

You've heard of Boudica - the warrior Queen in Britain who led a revolt against the Romans. Well, she probably wasn't alone. DNA analysis of another tribe shows that it was built along women's blood lines - with daughters inheriting land and wealth. My story here - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today in 1842 a shattered army surgeon, William Brydon, made it to Jalalabad bringing news that a British army had been annhilated in Afghanistan.

Hard to process the devastation I’ve witnessed in the last two days. Still in a state of shock for those who have lost so much in such a short period of time. #NoWords 💔

It's our 10 year anniversary! We thank Bob Bewley, David Kennedy & Andrew Wilson our co-founders, @ox.ac.uk for supporting us, Arcadia & the British Council for backing us, all our colleagues past & present who joined us, and our partners in the MENA region whom we have worked & collaborated with!

Proper winter yesterday - near Kendal!

Is there a single word in English for ‘takingtheChristmasdecorations’ down? Or perhaps in German?

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

Today is the anniversary of the Penlee lifeboat disaster & a stark reminder of the dangerous conditions RNLI volunteers face whilst saving lives The Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne battled heavy seas & hurricane force winds to reach the Union Star, which was being swept towards the coast in Cornwall

Wonderful contrast (post privatisation of national utilities & Brexit), we receive an update from Northern Rail saying when they won’t be running a full service. From Europe news of the new, high speed -direct- train from Paris to Berlin. Time to catch up,please.

Sad day yesterday at the funeral of Gordon Maxwell, but I count myself as fortunate to have worked closely with him over a number of years and learnt a huge amount which led to my PhD research and publications

Nice view to accompany afternoon cup of tea in the north of England just now.

Our team held a Publication & Archaeological DAta Workshop at #Oxford with our colleagues from #Palestine's Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities & #Jordan's Department of Antiquities to address scholarly inequalities and support our database contributors to publish their data in research & data papers.

Our @bill-finlayson.bsky.social and Jehad Yasin, Director of Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities, Palestine at the wonderful #Stonehenge this morning. @englishheritage.bsky.social @visitstonehenge.bsky.social @oxsocsci.bsky.social

Dear BBC The only Wallace we want to hear about over Christmas is the one with Grommit, please!

DO NOT give your money to Jeff Bezos. He has plenty. Make a list of the books you want to buy as gifts and buy or order from a local bookstore...if you want those stores to continue to exist.

Four brothers who fought heroically in the First World War. Two were awarded VCs. All were wounded. Three never came home. These are the Bradford boys:

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

I miss Valentina & her kiosk. I miss her positivity & warm-heartedness. Valentina has been undergoing cancer treatment. To cheer her up I turned the Valentina’s Kiosk theme into a song & the legendary BBC Singers have recorded it for her. Here is Valentina’s Song. Conducted by David Hill.

Super day ‘up north’ & wonderful light as the sun is setting.

Our Thomas Huet recently co-organised a 'Documenting Coptic Monastic Heritage' workshop in Alexandria, Egypt. It focused on Coptic monastic heritage & best practices in #cultural #heritage #data #management. Organised by Center for Coptic Studies @ Bibliotheca Alexandrina & University of Ljubljana.

Lucky enough to visit the sublime Qasr Mshatta in Jordan at sunset the other day. #jordan #archaeology #umayyad #architecture #amapandlens