An adorable Egyptian figurine: a resting hippo, painted with Nile flora in black lines, evoking the lush riverbanks where hippos lived. In Egyptian culture, hippos were generally associated with life, fertility, and rebirth. Dating around 1900 BC.🧵1/2 📷 me

I wonder what award Infantino will give Trump this time...

St Mary’s Church, #Wimbotsham #Norfolk A sad, but now more positive sight. The church of c. 1500 had a devastating fire in 2019 & has been a shell since then However, it looks like restoration has now started on the 3 stage tower of carstone, limestone dressings & brick parapet. #SteepleSaturday

The Balkerne Gate at Colchester (Camulodunum) in Essex. The gateway was the original main entrance to the town, and is the oldest surviving Roman gateway in Britain. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Colchester #Essex

Le musée des éclairages anciens, une pépite méconnue cachée au cœur d'une boutique-atelier à Paris. www.sortiraparis.com/arts-culture...

An adorable Egyptian figurine: a resting hippo, painted with Nile flora in black lines, evoking the lush riverbanks where hippos lived. In Egyptian culture, hippos were generally associated with life, fertility, and rebirth. Dating around 1900 BC.🧵1/2 📷 me

Ancient Greece beyond myths, marble statues and temples: an everyday craftsman. The terracotta shows a carpenter at work with a bow-saw - a timeless image of human creativity and craftsmanship. From Boeotia, Greece, late 6th/early 5th century BC On display at National Museum Copenhagen 📷 me 🏺

#Archéologie : près de Pompéi, de somptueuses fresques découvertes dans l’ancienne villa de l’épouse de Néron. www.connaissancedesarts.com/monuments-pa...

A bronze head of Marcus Aurelius which was found in 1976 when ploughing at Steane, near Brackley in Northamptonshire. The head is now part of the collections at the Ashmolean in Oxford. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Ashmolean

#Etruscan alabaster funerary urn 2nd century BCE Produced in #Volterra Pelops & Oenomaus chariot race scene. (See ALT text) #Medieval period it was reused to hold the remains of St Felice the Presbyter. Found 1414 in the Duomo. Now Museo dell’Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi, #Pistoia. #FindsOnFriday

Ancient Greece beyond myths, marble statues and temples: an everyday craftsman. The terracotta shows a carpenter at work with a bow-saw - a timeless image of human creativity and craftsmanship. From Boeotia, Greece, late 6th/early 5th century BC On display at National Museum Copenhagen 📷 me 🏺

For New Year’s Day a #Roman #glass bottle in the shape of a date: dates, figs, and honey were New Year's gifts in Roman times. According to Ovid, they should make the new year a sweet one. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! 🍀 📷 by me, taken in Pompejanum Aschaffenburg

A robin for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BranchingOut

For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD. A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead! 📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/... #Archaeology

Happy New Year and good fortune to everyone during 2026! Below is a relief of the Roman goddess Fortuna which was found at Castlecary Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall. Now part of the collections at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #NewYear

Je vous souhaite une bonne année 2026 ! Wishing you a happy New Year 2026 !

For New Year’s Day a #Roman #glass bottle in the shape of a date: dates, figs, and honey were New Year's gifts in Roman times. According to Ovid, they should make the new year a sweet one. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! 🍀 📷 by me, taken in Pompejanum Aschaffenburg

As 2026 approaches a happy new year's toast to you all with this marvellous 4th century Roman cage-cup, which bears an inscription, a toast that reads: BIBE MULTIS ANNIS - Drink for many years! Cheers and here's to a far better year in 2026! 🥂 #NewYear2026 🍀

Das Team des Archäologischen Landesmuseums Baden-Württemberg wünscht allen ein glückliches, gesundes und inspirierendes Neues Jahr! 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

Eva Jospin transforme merveilleusement le Grand Palais en grotte baroque. #Exposition www.beauxarts.com/expos/eva-jo...

Relief with a teaching scene from sacred area of the Via della Foce in Ostia Antica, near Rome. Dating to the late 4th century AD, the relief is on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #Ostia #Roman #Archaeology

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

For #HillfortsWednesday, the gorgeous Rumps on a cold but glorious day. Great inspiration for a name in the nearby Christmas reindeer trail (possibly aimed at younger visitors 😉) but has this reindeer got his facts right ...? 1/2

Happy New Year (and happy #HillfortsWednesday) to you all from the Durotriges Project 🥳 (detail from 🖼 © Michael Leonard 1973 to accompany the Sunday Times series *Discovering Ancient Britain* written by Barry Cunliffe) Hope to see you for more Iron Age fun in 2026 😊

“Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find” - Walt Whitman Wishing everyone a Happy New Year. I posted this twelve months ago & it still seems an appropriate message as we “voyage” into 2026. Detail from a #HelenWhittaker window - #Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford, #Suffolk

As 2026 approaches a happy new year's toast to you all with this marvellous 4th century Roman cage-cup, which bears an inscription, a toast that reads: BIBE MULTIS ANNIS - Drink for many years! Cheers and here's to a far better year in 2026! 🥂 #NewYear2026 🍀

Peak procrastination level unlocked 😆

Peak procrastination level unlocked 😆

This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old! It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara/#Egypt and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me

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Painted tile - 1564-8 Made by Jasper Andries & Jacob Jansen, in #Antwerp or #Norwich The wild boar with a crescent was used by Sir Francis Bacon to show he was his father’s second son. Made for Old Gorhambury House, near St Albans, #Hertfordshire Now V & A Museum #London #TilesOnTuesday

Milestone of Postumus - the Roman general who established the independent Gallic Empire between 258–268. It was found near the Roman road to Carlisle, and can now be viewed at Brougham Castle. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain

Félix Vallotton was a painter and printmaker born #onthisday in 1865. He worked in woodcuts in the 1890s and began to focus on painting around 1900 using blocks of colour that mimicked his printing style. 'Road at St Paul (Var) (Route à St Paul (Var))' by Félix Vallotton (1865–1925), Tate

This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old! It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara/#Egypt and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me

#Caturday is every day 🐈😻😼

Clay goblet from Early Bronze Age Troy. Known as a depas goblet after the Homeric ‘depas amphikypellon', recent residue analysis shows these two-handled vessels were used for drinking wine some 4,250 years ago! Istanbul Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

#Caturday is every day 🐈😻😼

An early medieval claw beaker from Nettersheim. Claw beakers, so named for the applied "claws" attached to their bodies, were prevalent during the 6th and 7th centuries. Fun fact: in German, these vessels are called Rüsselbecher - trunk beaker On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷me 🏺 #archaeology

Musées de #Rouen : 5 expositions gratuites pour découvrir des trésors cachés du dessin. #Exposition www.connaissancedesarts.com/arts-exposit...

👀 All Saints Church #Kenton #Devon A detail from an opus sectile panel in memory of Frederick Charles Marshall, Churchwarden. #MosaicMonday

#SaxonSunday 10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem. Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969. Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.

Two copper alloy daggers and a whetstone - grave goods discovered in an early Bronze Age barrow (1700-1600 BC) at Norton Bavant in Wiltshire. Now part of the collections at Salisbury Museum. 📸 My own. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #NortonBavant #SalisburyMuseum

An early medieval claw beaker from Nettersheim. Claw beakers, so named for the applied "claws" attached to their bodies, were prevalent during the 6th and 7th centuries. Fun fact: in German, these vessels are called Rüsselbecher - trunk beaker On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷me 🏺 #archaeology

The most adorable chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷 me #archaeology

One of the standing stones that surround the central ring cairn at the Clava Cairns - a spectacular Bronze Age cemetery, near Culloden in the Scottish Highlands. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Highlands

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The most adorable chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷 me #archaeology

An almost 6,000 years old wooden cup, found in the Late #Neolithic pile dwelling settlement of Hornstaad-Hörnle at the Lake Constance. The waterlogged, anaerobic environment provided ideal conditions for the preservation of organic materials. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social

Celtic Gold Coins Found in Switzerland. archaeology.org/news/2025/12...