Ladybird endpapers, “Finding nature in towns and cities” (1980) Artist: Christine Owen 'Nature in the Town'

‼️‼️Exciting news.‼️‼️ We have a fantastic new exhibit that went on display today for the first time. An exact replica of the most complete T-Rex skull ever found! The first visitors to see it said WOW! Very kindly purchased for the museum by our sponsor Suzy Eddie Izzard. #Bexhill

#FestivalOfArchaeology Bronze figurine of goddess Maat c.600 BC “Today’s favourite object is among the smallest in the exhibition but represents an enormous concept. For this is a seated bronze figurine of goddess Maat, who the Egyptians believed controlled the entire universe....

This fish hasn’t got time for your shit.

Why look to Mars when Earth hides animal ecosystems thriving 9,533 meters deep in the Pacific hadal zone, under over 900 times surface pressure? Our own planet is astounding!

"A Breeze After A Bathe." The Illustrated London News 5.10.1872. #WyrdWednesday #Beach #Holiday #Art #History #1870s

Come and see us today at Ightham Mote in Kent as part of the #FestivalOfArchaeology! The Archaeology Room is open all week and there will also be displays in the Great Hall this weekend.

#Woodensday #ReliefWednesday 2 #medieval fragments of 1400s featuring angels: only clue to origins of such rare remnants, survivors of London's 1666 Gt Fire, given on label as 'From a church in the City'.... Displayed in Museum of London shut in 2022. Will they feature in new London Museum in Nov?

Remembering Mary, wife of former weaver George Wilson, who died on this day in 1882 at the age of 76. George predeceased Mary on 9th December 1867, aged 59.

Emerald Tablet, the enigmatic text that revealed the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/e...

Last push for this afternoon's talk at Tabley House near Knutsford! #regency #cheshire

For those who fear the climb to Dinas Brân #SirDdinbych / #Denbighshire here's some pics of the Iron Age hillfort and shattered walls of the 13th century castle #RampartyGoodness 🛩📷 © @drtobydriver.bsky.social Feb 2013 @rcahmwales.bsky.social AP_2013_0996 👞📷 us Aug 2023 #HillfortsWednesday

Carved head of a beast. From the #VikingAge Oseberg ship burial of two women. It is one of five unique carved animal heads from the womens’ richly-furnished ship grave. AD 834. Norway. 📷 by me #Archaeology

With all the Odyssey chat this week with the film’s release, it made me recall these Mycenaean swords and spear heads. Intriguing to think that had Odysseus, Achilles and Agamemnon et al existed, these pieces of “cruel bronze” would have been their weapons. 🏛️BM 🕰️c1200BC 📷mine

Hoping everyone is doing well. We've just found the 1545 will of a guy called Thomas Boner. Thought it was important people knew.

Word of the day : Sammelband - from German, meaning a volume of separate printed items bound together. This one has two pamphlets that belonged to poet John Donne, both bearing his motto 'Per Rachel ho servito & no per Lea' and his signature.

I bought this little fossil plant from the Florissant Formation in Teller County, Colorado for just $5. It's not complete, but I really like it. Even as a fragment, it preserves a tiny piece of a forest that grew around 34 million years ago. #Fossils #Paleontology #FossilPlants #Geology

The Museum will be closed on 9 October 2026 as we are hosting a charity gala. 🦖 We rarely close to the public however, hosting events like this helps us to continue our vital work, including our +350 scientists’ research. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Want to beat the Saturday check-in queue? Check-in early! Please come to the DinoCon check-in desks in the Hilton Birmingham Metropole main reception foyer from 5pm-8pm on Friday 24th July! All tickets are nearly sold out and will not be available to purchase on the door!

For those wondering 🤔 Black people were present in Ancient Greece. They were not a large demographic, but through trade, the military, and cultural exchange, Africans from Nubia, Egypt, and Ethiopia lived and worked in the Hellenic world.

This is the inside of our model of a Martello Tower. It is on display in our Sargent Gallery. The circular Martello Towers were widely used for coastal defence, from the French Revolutionary Wars onwards. #Bexhill

So cool

Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English by Elisabeth van Houts is a sympathetic biography of the woman who would be king. ✍️ Judith Green reviews the recent #history book www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Marine bristle worms have jaws made from a mix of proteins and metal ions that may constitute a whole new kind of material, with possible applications in engineering.

Join James Kitto for our Festival of Archaeology 2026 guided walk, Castles and Quoits, on Tuesday 28 July, 10 am–12.30 pm. The walk will take in both the Iron Age Chûn Castle and the much earlier Chûn Quoit. Booking essential: penleehouse.org.uk/product/fest...

The menhir of La Pierre Longue in Le Croisic (Loire-Atlantique) is 2.4m tall. In C18 on the day of the Assumption people would gather at the menhir and call to the seagulls to bring their fishermen home safely. Card by Dugas in Nantes pre-1904.

#ObjectoftheDay is this moulded terracotta figurine of the #goddess #Nike. This figurine probably comes from Apulia, #Italy and dates to 2nd century BCE. Nike was the Greek goddess of #victory in war, arts and athletics. She was an attribute of another deity, #Athena, the goddess of wisdom. C.530

"Bexhill Information Bureau This Bureau has now been Transferred from 13, Sea Road, to the Kiosk (Opposite the Kursaal)." Bexhill Chronicle 22.7.1911. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Holiday #History #1910s

Cissbury Ring is the largest hillfort in Sussex and one of the county’s most important prehistoric sites ⛰️ Neolithic flint mines were worked here over 5,000 years ago, leaving behind an undulating landscape of pits and mounds that can still be seen today. 📸: John Manley [1/2]

Sunbeam #Wallangarra #Australia 22.7.1887. "No sooner had we alighted from the train than - I cannot say to my surprise, for familiar faces are always turning up in unexpected places - the grandson of an old wheelwright at Catsfield came to speak to me..." #Brassey #Victorian #Travel #History #1880s

I really miss the scale model of Roman Londinium in the old Museum of London. You could crouch down & peer along the streets. I wonder if there will be a similar model in the new museum? 1: Looking towards the forum from the bridge road 2: the forum 3: looking back towards bridge 4: bridge & docks

"The Colonnade, Bexhill-On-Sea." Postcard c.1932. #Colonnade #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Holiday #History #1930s

Glowering down at Llangollen #SirDdinbych / #Denbighshire is the mighty Castell Dinas Brân This 13th century stone fortress, built by Gruffydd Maelor II prince of Powys Fadog, sits directly upon the remains of an earlier Iron Age hillfort 📷 August 2023 #HillfortsWednesday

Happy Birthday, Eric William Ravilious, 22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942. 'Runway Perspective', 1942. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a source of food, then built wooden traps to catch them

James Lovelock is one of the greatest climate scientists that ever lived. We're about find out how on point his statements from over 18 years ago were.

A stylised beast — is it a lion? — steps out on a 14th century floor tile on display at Sherborne Museum. #TilesOnTuesday #medieval

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a #Roman bracelet made of turquoise and dark blue glass beads. They are imitating beads made of the lapis lazuli and turquoise, semi-precious stones mined in Afghanistan and Egypt. Found in a burial in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland, 4th c. AD 📷️ me

Part of the interior of Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn on Rousay - one of the Orkney islands. The cairn dates to the Neolithic, and is a wonderful example of a two-storey cairn with chambers on top of each other. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Rousay #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney

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Evening dress designed by Pierre Balmain, French, 1953-58. Via The Met.

‼️‼️Exciting news.‼️‼️ We have a fantastic new exhibit that went on display today for the first time. An exact replica of the most complete T-Rex skull ever found! The first visitors to see it said WOW! Very kindly purchased for the museum by our sponsor Suzy Eddie Izzard. #Bexhill

Shifts in the jet stream seem to be causing persistent heat domes over Europe, raising big questions – and concerns – for the future.

man landed on the moon as a side note is killing me

Buzz Aldrin is photographed by Neil Armstrong on the moon hours after Apollo 11 landed, 57 years ago tonight, July 20, 1969. 🇺🇸 It is believed 650,000,000 people were watching the landing on television. Buzz is now 96 years old

125 years apart. From Clayton Hall’s restoration in 1901, attended by Lord Mayor Sir James Hoy, to its reopening in 2026 with our patron Sir Warren Smith, former Lord Mayor Carmine Grimshaw, volunteers and visitors. A Hall truly open to the whole community.

Carreg Samson because 1. It's #TombTuesday and this is a really great Neolithic dolmen and 2. I'm excited to be heading to wonderful Wales very soon! (Although not Pembrokeshire.)

Archaeologists in Egypt find Homer's Iliad placed on a 1,600-year-old mummy share.google/ykdLUlzzxzCH...

Happy Monday! Here are two lovely little owls decorating an ancient Greek ceramic drinking cup made in Athens around 2,500 years ago! 🦉❤️ Louvre, Paris 📷 by me #Archaeology

Late 17th century wallpaper, English Decorating the walls of houses with printed patterned papers grew from their use in covering books and to line chests, cupboards &c. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)