Passenderweise sehe ich gerade, dass mein Beitrag über "Arier, Aliens & Atlantis: Archäologische #Wissenschaftskommunikation zwischen Popkultur & #Ideologie" inzwischen auch bei @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de online nachgeschaut & -gehört werden kann: lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/antike_im_ze...

9 November 1930 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Betsij Kaatje van Geldere, was born in Tilburg. In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

For #AncientSiteSunday the #Hellenistic theatre at Pergamon, #Türkiye, built in the 3rd century BC, alterations were made in the #Roman period. It's one of the steepest known ancient theatres. The capacity was about 10,000 spectators. 📷 C. Bredfeldt 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

An idea for your Christmas tree this year - stacks of Celtic gold torcs! Known as the Ipswitch Torcs after the location where their hoard was found, the terminals are decorated in the swirly La Tène style (Tène II), save the top one which is unadorned. 🎄🏺 1/ 150-50 BCE. 📸 me #BritishMuseum

A lone standing stone at Milton of Clava - a Bronze Age cemetery close to the more famous Clava Cairns in the Scottish Highlands. The stone may have been part of a larger stone circle. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #ClavaCairns #Archaeology #Prehistory

A decorative mount from Roman Norfolk that once formed part of a crown worn by priests during Roman religious ceremonies. Now part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #RomanReligion #NorwichCastle

Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙 Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

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 🏺

For #AncientSiteSunday the #Hellenistic theatre at Pergamon, #Türkiye, built in the 3rd century BC, alterations were made in the #Roman period. It's one of the steepest known ancient theatres. The capacity was about 10,000 spectators. 📷 C. Bredfeldt 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

Stanydale Temple - a Neolithic structure located 3 miles east of Walls on the west mainland of Shetland. Referred to as a ‘temple’ by Charles Calder who excavated the site in the 1940s, its purpose is unknown, though possibly ceremonial. 📸 My own. #Archaeology #Shetland

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

8 November 1934 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Raphaël Pais, was born in Harlingen. In November 1942, he was deported to #Auschwitz with his sister Jansje. After the selection, they were murdered in a gas chamber together with their mother Roosje.

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 🏺

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 🏺

Der von Römern beschriebene, mehrfach abgebildete, an Moorleichen gefundene "Suebenknoten" der Männerelite von Elbgermanen taucht auch mehrfach in der Ausstellung "Fremde Nachbarn"- #Römer und #Germanen im #Limesmuseum Aalen auf 📸 me

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

“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

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

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

We picked up a few new followers yesterday, so if you're new around here, here's a bit about us: We're a Roman site on the South coast of England. If you like Mosaics, you'll like us. You can get the rest on Wikipedia. 😄

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 🏺

I just leave this one for #PhallusThursday 👃 Bronze amulet from Egypt, 1st c. BC. Mougins, Musée d’art classique de Mougin 📷 me 🏺

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

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

We think they're having too much fun in the post ex laboratory #Archaeology #Whatsup #Durotreegezinthelab @megsdigs.bsky.social @derekpitman.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social 👇👇👇 www.instagram.com/reel/DQcOPLy...

Researchers led by Emil Jęczmienowski of the University of Poland's Institute of Archaeology found traces of a first-century AD Roman fort near the Romanian-Serbian border and mapped it with geophysics. It was for 1,000 auxiliary forces near the Iron Gate. #RomanFortThursday

Remains of the south west corner of Lanchester Roman Fort (Longovicium) in County Durham. The fort was originally built in around AD150 by the 20th Legion, and served as part of a chain of defensive forts along Dere Street 📸 My own #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Lanchester

It's World Digital Preservation Day. Don't worry folks - we've got this digital preservation thing completely under control. 👍 #digipres #WDPD2025

🇪🇺🏆Großer Erfolg für Baden-Württembergs Wissenschaft: Verbundprojekte mit Beteiligung aus #Freiburg, #Heidelberg und #Tübingen haben rund 96,5 Millionen Euro bei der Vergabe der ERC Synergy Grants eingeworben. Kein Land ist erfolgreicher t1p.de/7it31

I just leave this one for #PhallusThursday 👃 Bronze amulet from Egypt, 1st c. BC. Mougins, Musée d’art classique de Mougin 📷 me 🏺

Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!

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

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

This #ReliefWednesday we celebrate Hecate, the goddess of the crossroads and transitions. This is a votive relief to Hecate and the inscription warns against defacement of the place where the relief was located. Presumably the relief was originally located in a sanctuary to the goddess.

Saint Barbara #TilmanRiemenschneider - c. 1510 Linden wood, originally painted. “The high quality of the sculpture suggests it was done by the master himself” - museum caption Mainfränkisches Museum, #Würzburg #Woodensday #WoodcarvingWednesday

We're kinda new to #HillfortsWednesday. Are we doing it right? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

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

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 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

November is depicted in this mosaic from Sousse, Tunisia, with a priest in the guise of Hermanubis with two pterophoroi. It commemorates the Inventio Osiridis, a week-long reenactment of the death of Osiris and the quest of Isis to recover his body, held in the month of Khoiak (Oct-Nov). 🏺 1/

Des traces de Neandertal à Amiens (Somme). #Archéologie www.inrap.fr/des-traces-d...

Altar dedicated to the god Huitris which was set up by Aspuanis. Found at Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, the stone is now part of the collections at Chesters Roman Fort Museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain

Medieval floor tiles (still in situ) at Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #MelroseAbbey #ScottishBorders

16th-century majolica tile flooring. Santuario Casa di Santa Caterina #Siena The tiles were produced at a variety of dates, 1504-1505, 1527, 1579-1582, 1598-1599, 1972. Recently restored & now exhibiting some of their original brilliance. #TilesOnTuesday #Renaissance

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

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD. On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology