This beautiful glass bowl looks modern, yet it’s about 2,250 years old! 🤩 Made using an innovative technique in which thin threads of twisted glass were spiralled over a convex mould. Wonderful example of the skill of ancient artisans! Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 me #Archaeology

1/ The losses suffered by the Wermacht in the so-called “great battles” of the WWII, were pretty modest. The Germans lost 350 Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV) in the first ten days of the Battle of Kursk. Yet in 1943 Germany produced a total 12,000 AFV.

The 3,000-year-old gold Shropshire sun pendant was dicovered in 2018. Crafted with incredible skill and decorated with intricate geometric patterns, it symbolizes the importance of the sun in Bronze Age society. As scientific analysis has indicated, the pendant...🧵1/2 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

Stunning Fountains Abbey near Ripon. A Cistercian House, it was founded in 1132. It was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. Now in the care of @nationaltrust.org.uk #fountainsabbey #dissolutionofthemonasteries #cistercians

It's 2000, & wreck diver Rod Macdonald has discovered something terrifying: "Dave and I couldn’t resist the temptation to fin over to the edge of the pinnacle & look over the side, down into the 200-metre deep abyss. [Then] I became aware that my exhaled bubbles had stopped rising upwards..." 1/

Slightly diminish a book Lord Of The Ringtones

In 1996, highway construction in Lod (in present-day Israel) uncovered impressively well-preserved Roman mosaic floors from a 3-4th century luxury villa. Here are panels depicting wildlife & marine scenes metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at...

The magnificent nose guard ('nasal') on the 8th century #York Helmet, found in 1982 during building work for the Coppergate shopping centre. It is one of six surviving Anglo-Saxon / early English helmets, and is on display at the #Yorkshire Museum. #FindsFriday #Helmet 📷 Mine

Wonderfully-decorated main gate of the 1824 Swaminarayan Temple in Bhuj, Gujarat, India ~ sadly destroyed in the tragic earthquake of 2001 (photo: Christophe Boisvieux)

Small touches of brilliant colours evoke the effect of sunlight filtering through the foliage on the pergola where women sit knitting or sewing, in this painting by post-impressionist Henri Martin (1913, Musée d'arts de Nantes)

If you want some slow TV over the next few days, Swedish TV is live streaming the relocation of a 113 year old wooden church in Kiruna. It's being shifted to a new site 5km away. www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...

7th century Reliquary of Theuderic, a masterpiece of silversmithing and cloissoné work. Good stuff. At Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.

This Madonna of the Veil, originally hailed as a Botticelli masterpiece, is sadly a 20C fake. Doubts about it were raised because of a supposed resemblance to 1930s film star Jean Harlow (at R), & were confirmed by the forger's use of modern pigments courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/art...

Incredible. Roland Reisley is 101 years old, the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright. He still lives in the 3,200 square foot home that Wright built for him in 1952. The price? $40,000. Or a little less than half a million in today's money.

Sophisticated Anglo-Saxon metalwork from ancient ship burial, probably of king, at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, dating from 7C and first unearthed in 1939 ~ purse lid ■ gold belt buckle ■ shoulder clasps

The King and Queen: from The Lewis Chessmen, 12th Century, walrus ivory figures from a group unearthed at Uig Bay on the Scottish Isle of Lewis in 1831; part of 11 figures which remain in Scotland. 82 other pieces are on display in The British Museum. National Museum Scotland #InternationalChessDay

#InteriorScape #GothicArchitecture Saint James and his flowers Basilica of Saints James and Agnes in Nysa biking in Silesia, 2022 #Silesia #Poland #interior #scape #architecture #CityScape #UrbanScape #UrbanGaze #ArtYear #FlowersOnFriday

The month of July Juillet, Palais Comtal de Poitiers Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Painted on vellum, 1412-1416 Musée Condé ⁦‪Château de Chantilly - Exhibition until 5 October 2025

1/ Ancient Roman baths were very dirty. After bathing in several different tubs of water, the Romans still needed to wash and scrape themselves before drying with towels.

The Sprotta hand axe is a #Neanderthal masterpiece. The flint tool was found in northern Saxony in 1996 and dates back to 50,000 to 80,000 years ago. This hand axe demonstrates not only the technical skill but also the aesthetic sense of its maker, as it is noted for its carefully...🧵1/2 📷 me

John Atkinson Grimshaw is famous for his nocturnes ~ here’s his ‘Moonlight on the Lake, Roundhap Park, Leeds’ (1872). I’m admiring the subtle reflections in the calm water, the shimmering effect of the moonlight and even the wetness of the path

Divine Providence: acclaimed illusionistic frescoed ceiling, Palazzo Barberini, painted di sotto in sù by influential Italian Baroque artist & architect, Pietro da Cortona. Trained in Florence, he worked in Rome, died #OTD 1669. Palazzo Barberini

Lugano, Switzerland 🇨🇭

I never cease to be amazed by the realism and sophistication of the paintings created over a period of 20,000 years by prehistoric artists on the ceiling of the Altamira Cave, Spain. Discovered only in 1868, here’ a bison and a deer whc.unesco.org/en/list/310/

Middle Ages, gray, dark, all mud, no color, grim. St Zeno Verona: you were saying?

Prince of mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss, exceptional mathematician, known for Normal Distribution, born #OTD 1777; astronomer & scientist, Professor at Göttingen University, he made significant contributions to algebra, geometry & number theory. Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen, 1840

Francesco Primaticcio, influential Italian Mannerist architect, painter & sculptor trained under Giulio Romano, born #OTD 1504; known for complex decorative schemes at Fontainebleau (Fontainebleau school), under patronage of François I, Henri II, François II. Château de Fontainebleau

Hard to believe, but this ‘Rare Teapot’ by British designer Christopher Dresser is not modern ~ it dates from 1879, which makes it almost 150 years old! Made from electroplated metal and ebonised wood, it was sold for $400,000 at auction in 2019 www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...

A virtual riot of colour ~ the Impressionist Camille Pissarro depicts the garden and henhouse of his friend, the writer Octave Mirbeau’s house in Normandy (1892)

This beautifully delicate limestone mould of an Egyptian ibis, just 6 inches wide (15cm), is attributed to the Ptolemaic Period c 300 BC. It may presumably have been used as a mould for making reproductions

In 1888 Van Gogh left bustling Paris for sun-drenched Arles. There, the golden wheat fields captivated him. To heighten the contrast, he painted the sky and mountains an even deeper blue. 💙🌾   🚨https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Vincent-van-Gogh--2ee8d593647611d5c347ad2d490afbfe

The Epic of Gilgamesh tells the story of king Gilgamesh’s quest for eternal life, but tucked within his epic story is another tale told by the oldest man in the world, Uta-napishti. It’s a story of the Flood and how Uta-napishti survived. The description of the storm itself is really something.

There are so many unfounded rumours about which is the oldest pub in the country. However after extensive research, and on present evidence, the oldest purpose-built pub seems to be the George Inn at Norton St Philip, Somerset. Here's a thread on how it was dated... 🧵

Isabeau de Bavière, Queen of France c1400. Even after 600 years, I can almost imagine her looking up and speaking to us (Guy de Dammartin, Palais de Justice, Poitiers)

Ronald Lampitt’s 1951 illustration of an ideal city ~ waterside, gently undulating & spacious, featuring the world’s iconic structures such as Venice’s canals, Edinburgh Castle, The Acropolis, NY’s CBD & St Paul’s London. What others can you find? Key at earthlymission.com/what-the-ide...

French-educated, British-based Edmund Dulac was a talented book illustrator in the early 20th century ~ here are examples of his work in The Little Mermaid (rescuing the prince) ■ The Princess & the Pea

Deciphering an early-Renaissance painting ~ in this Annunciation by Petrus Christus (1445), the artist’s botanical precision enables us to identity of 12 varieties of plant, and their religious/social significance ~ see detailed key at R www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-o...

Remarkable 2,000-year-old wall frescos found in the House of Julia Felix, Pompeii, uncovered in 1755 ~ eggs, gamebirds & bronze/silver dishes, with hanging napkin ■ glass bowl of fruit with vases (National Archaeological Museum of Naples) www.teachercurator.com/art/house-of...

Monet set this painting ‘The Luncheon’ in the garden of his house in Argenteuil. His young son Jean is playing in the shade by the uncleared table, and the child's nanny is in the background, keeping close watch (1873, Musée d‘Orsay)

Buried in a pit under the Great Pyramid of Giza about 4,500 years ago, this is the Khufu Ship. When first uncovered, in 1954, you could still smell the scent of the cedar wood. It will be housed in the new Grand Egyptian Museum

Vincent van Gogh’s panoramic Landscape at Twilight, Auvers-sur-Oise, June 1890, painted a month before he died (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)

Opinion | It's time to end DEI and bring back the meritocracy. by Tucker Carlson's son Buckley

The (very) baroque Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, Germany, built in 1748, now a world heritage site (photo: villa-rosie.tumblr.com/post/3643163...) mymodernmet.com/beautiful-op...

Admiring this set of doors at the Casa Comalat, a private house in the Eixample neighborhood of Barcelona, designed in 1911 by the young modernist architect Salvador Valeri i Pupurull