Lead ingot stamped with the name and titles of #Roman emperor Domitian, found in 1735 on Heyshaw Moor #NorthYorkshire and now in the excellent Craven Museum #Skipton Made in AD 81, *BRIG* on the side records it was mined and taken from the land of the #Brigantes 📷 Aug 2022 #FindsFriday

The Iron Age ‘Battersea Shield’ which was found in the River Thames at Battersea in 1857. Dating to around 350-50 BC, the shield is now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #BatterseaShield #IronAge

Nothing has changed - #Egyptian flip flops 😃: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1000 BC. It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate. On display at National Museum Copenhagen. 📷 me 🏺 me

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#PhantomsFriday The Flavian Amphitheater or Colosseum is associated with the ghost of Valeria Messalina, wife of Emperor Claudius. Local legends suggest her restless spirit wanders the area searching for a lover…

I just leave this for #PhallusThursday: A Roman oil lamp featuring an inscription and a phallus. The inscription reads "ne atigas non sum tua marci sum" (don't touch me! I'm not yours; I belong to Marcus'). From the Esquiline necropolis in Rome, 2nd century BC 📷 me (Musei Capitolini) 🏺

What's that? 🤔 You wanted an isolated Cornish boulder shaped like a dog's head? Of course.. 😊🐶 📷 Gwennap Head, West Penwith, last week

800-Year-Old Sealskin Book Studied in Norway. archaeology.org/news/2025/11...

#AdoorableThursday Doors/not doors in frescos all round the atrium of luxurious #Roman Villa A / Oplontis near Pompeii. Also called Villa Poppea as it may have belonged to Poppea, second wife of Emperor Nero or her family. 🏺 #archaeology

The remains of the Roman fortlet at Kinneil, near Bo’ness on the Antonine Wall - the only example of an Antonine Wall fortlet which is still visible. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanScotland #Kinneil #AntonineWall

Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏 www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...

Adorable cat netsuke with eyes closed and an expression of contentment! Purrfect! 😻 Circa 1820-1840, Edo period, Japan, 📷 © The Trustees of the British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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I just leave this for #PhallusThursday: A Roman oil lamp featuring an inscription and a phallus. The inscription reads "ne atigas non sum tua marci sum" (don't touch me! I'm not yours; I belong to Marcus'). From the Esquiline necropolis in Rome, 2nd century BC 📷 me (Musei Capitolini) 🏺

Ah hah. Prittlewell Prince Saxon burial (early med c.580) had these whalebone gaming pieces, found in close group so believed to have been hanging in a cloth bag. Also near a wooden gaming board, but 9 rather than your 10. Antler dice thought to indicate a game of chance. Southend Museum. 🏺

Some 1,500 years ago, a child was buried with a set of game pieces made of animal bones. Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare. Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology

Die neuen #DAIBlogs sind online! Zum Start zeigt DAI-Präsidentin Friederike Fless, wie historische Tagebücher, Fotos & Fundinventare erschlossen werden. Digitale Methoden eröffnen neue Perspektiven auf die mehr als 1.500jährige Geschichte dieser @unesco.org-Welterbestätte: www.dainst.org/blogs

"The red-slipped pottery formerly known as Late Roman C" In case anyone is in need of a band-name.

A dramatic recreation of Medmenham Camp hillfort #Buckinghamshire, its Iron Age inhabitants seeking shelter as snow sets in Produced for @chilternsnl.bsky.social © Jennie Anderson 2022 www.chilterns.org.uk/map_marker/m... For more see: www.jennieanderson.co.uk #HillfortsWednesday #WinterIsComing

The remains of the 12th century chapel on St. Ninian’s Isle in Shetland. The site is famous for its hoard of Pictish silver which was discovered in 1958. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #StNiniansIsle #Shetland

November 12, 2019: A formal complaint is lodged about stolen papyri fragments at Oxford. One of the wildest heist tales ever was about to unfold. www.theguardian.com/news/2020/ja...

Luxurious duck-shaped vessel carved from a single piece of rock crystal around 3,500 years ago! From Bronze Age Mycenae, it is said to be an exquisite example of imported Minoan stoneworking. Probably used to hold oils or cosmetics. National Archaeological Museum Athens Greece 📷 me #Archaeology

Some 1,500 years ago, a child was buried with a set of game pieces made of animal bones. Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare. Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology

Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2 #TilesOnTuesday 🏺

Floor tiles Duomo di Siena, Italy The same floor tiles rotated, as if viewed from North, South, East & West. Very Escher like. #TilesOnTuesday

A bronze and enamel cockerel figurine from Roman Cirencester (Corinium). Dating to the later 3rd or 4th centuries AD, the figurine was discovered during the Bridges Garage Excavations. Now part of the collections at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain

All roads in ancient Rome stretched far longer than previously known, study shows. phys.org/news/2025-11...

Specialized potteries reveal complex organization of El Argar society 4,000 years ago. phys.org/news/2025-11...

Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2 #TilesOnTuesday 🏺

#TombTuesday A fitting place for the dead 💀: an early Bronze Age cairn- possibly the furthest west on the British mainland - sited close to the sea on Mayon Cliff above Sennen, West Penwith, Cornwall Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed 📷 My own, last week

"Vast numbers of people are very interested in learning more about some of history’s most beautiful works of art, as any quick visit to the Met or the Uffizi Gallery will make abundantly clear." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #filmsky #museum ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/identity-c...

For #MosaicMonday a charming duck. Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD 📷 me On display at Museum am Dom, Trier 🏺 #archaeology

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Chûn Quoit photographed by @matthewmshaw.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday

I regret to inform you that I’ll be staying in this utter hellhole for the next six days (please don’t hate me). #vacay #Mexico #Compostela

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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

For #MosaicMonday a charming duck. Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD 📷 me On display at Museum am Dom, Trier 🏺 #archaeology

The central panel from the ‘Geometric Mosaic’ which decorated one of the rooms at Rudston Roman Villa in East Yorkshire. The mosaic is now part of the collections at the Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #RudstonRomanVilla

A rather angry sea gryphon chases a cheeky dolphin across a 2nd century #Roman mosaic Found at #Cirencester in 1849, the entirety of this decorated floor (featuring hunting dogs) can now be seen in the excellent @coriniummuseum.bsky.social 📷 Aug 2022 Don't play with your food this #MosaicMonday !

There's been a request for elephants in mosaic, and we always like to oblige! To start with, here is the splendid beast from the Horkstow Orpheus mosaic. 1/2 #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺 @classicalalan.bsky.social

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