As it's on the horizon here's an episode all about the origins of the Saturnalia and what went on. #ancientrome #saturnalia sites.libsyn.com/105935/the-s...

A Roman dagger from a waterlogged environment at #Vindolanda Roman fort in #Northumberland. Every Roman soldier carried a dagger like this. The handle is missing - it may have been made of bone or wood. Early AD 2nd C. #Archaeology #RomanBritain 📸 my own.

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#FrescoFriday and we're at the Verulamium Museum in St. Albans. Here is a large section of surviving fresco wall, painted in a way to replicate marble. #AncientBlueSky🏺

Roman inkwell discovery reveals advanced ink chemistry 300 years earlier than expected | Chemistry World www.chemistryworld.com/news/roman-e...

Ancient Greeks Engineered a Divine Light Show Inside the Parthenon, Oxford Study Reveals greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/29/p...

Quickly photographed fancy floors of Villa Farnesina in Palazzo Massimo alle Terme #MosaicMonday 🏺

My latest for National Geographic on the pervasive myth that everyone in the ancient world was ableist and eugenist. Featuring the work of @debscavator.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

#MosaicMonday #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky Found only last year in #Eretria on the island of Evia in an andron where symposia would have taken place. With two satyrs, cronies of Dionysos, one of whom is playing the aulos and the other presumably dancing

Riding into December like an Eros drives his wild-cat chariot. 📸 Us, #Roman villa, Desenzano del Garda. #MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Skystorians #AncientBluesky #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome

Yes, we’re doing a Christmas giveaway as usual this year No, we didn’t quite get it organised for the 1st Yes, it’ll still be twelve bundles/gifts No, you don’t have to do anything arduous to enter - just an entry form and a follow Yes, we’ll have it up as quick as we can 🫡

Museums in Rome will be filled with music until late tonight with an entry fee of just €1.

This wonderful Ancient Greek gold coin dates from late 5th-century BCE. It was issued by the city of Akragas, today’s Agrigento, in Sicily. The coin features a crab on the reverse, and an eagle standing on a rock, devouring a snake.These symbols were common designs on the coinage of Akragas.

New exhibition in Rome

Here to brighten up your #FrescoFriday with some summery tones and alpine flowers. 📸 Us, #Roman Villa in Desenzano del Garda. #Archaeology #Skystorians #AncientBluesky #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome

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Here to brighten up your #FrescoFriday with some summery tones and alpine flowers. 📸 Us, #Roman Villa in Desenzano del Garda. #Archaeology #Skystorians #AncientBluesky #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome

14.5 cm in diameter, this #Roman Iron flask was found at #Trimontium in the #ScottishBorders . It dates to AD140-180 & is a very rare example of a metal #flask from this period. This would have been issued to a soldier who was stationed at the fort over 1,800 years ago. @National Museums Scotland

A quick guide to the best events and things to do in the Eternal City in December.

Simple but effective - monochrome mosaic (with bonus hypocaust wall flume). Perfect for a chilly Monday morning 🔥 At the wonderful #Roman villa on Lake Garda. 📸 Us, Desenzano del Garda #MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Skystorians #AncientBluesky #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome

The Vindolanda military standard. Dated to c. AD200-212, it may have been part of the standard of a cavalry troop, and seen service beyond the Wall in the brutal campaigns of Septimius Severus. #FindsFriday On display at the brilliant @vindolandatrust.bsky.social museum.

Ancient Roman pool in Turkey revealed as a healing sanctuary dedicated to Asclepius Archaeologists in central Turkey have rewritten the history of one of the most iconic Roman-era structures in the ancient city of Tyana: the so-called “Roman Pool... More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/roma...

✨Augustus in colour✨ The Prima Porta Augustus is one of the most famous sculptures of ancient Rome. Earlier depictions of the sculpture noted the remnants of colour but the craze for cleaned statuary meant much detail was lost to the casual gaze. #AncientRome #History

Season 4 continues! "The Romans II - Behind the Curtain" Where we take a rollercoaster ride through the Ancient Roman beauty cabinet. From the highs of saffron & gold dust to the lows of leeches & sheep grease...🐑 #imperialrome #classicsteacher #sensory #ancientrome #ancientbluesky #skystorians

In Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders, with Raksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social you'd have seen a Venus figure like this from Magna Roman Fort. I'm running a Lamp & Deity workshop at Magna this Saturday where you'll make your own figurines Roman Lamps. Book here www.vindolanda.com/Event/potted...

A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Inkwell Found in Portugal Contains a Technological Recipe That Shouldn’t Exist - Arkeonews arkeonews.net/a-2000-year-...

A view of the Roman drain now fully uncovered at the Uncovering Roman Carlisle excavation just south of #HadriansWall, stone robbers have removed a section but it’s still impressive #Archaeology

Marble clad toilet seats in an ancient #Roman latrina in Ostia Antica - Toilets were shared spaces. Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today. #RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology 📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.

The #Romans opened the Mundus—a sacred pit to the Underworld—on 24 Aug, 5 Oct & 8 Nov - harvest days with offerings to the Manes. Mundus Patet — “the Earth is open.” A Roman festival of the dead when the living paused, the veil between worlds grew thin, and even temples fell silent. ⚱️ #RomanHistory

#EpigraphyTuesday Bronze tablet on which are engraved two decrees by Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo; in the first, Roman citizenship is granted to several Iberian equestrians. It includes the name of a Lucius Sergius, almost certainly Lucius Sergius Catilina there as witness. 👀 #Roman #History

At the AD 3rd C Baths of Caracalla scraps of floor mosaics lean casually against the ancient walls. #AncientRome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology 📸 my own, Rome.

Herculaneum, Roman sideboard restored after ninety years of silence www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...

Bullhead shaped double lamp - Late 1st Century CE At San Rossore, the wrecks of 30 vessels were discovered in the late 1990s Cargos & everyday items were found including this Roman lamp, found in the flood levels of the shipyard Now in Museo delle Navi Antiche di Pisa, #Pisa #RomanSiteSaturday.

Calling all teachers and professors of Classics, history, mythology, etc. please join us in VA next June!! We’d love to learn and hear from you, especially if you are from the VA area! www.aclclassics.org/ACL-Institut...

Video: Newly re-opened passageway beneath the Roman Colosseum was used by emperors | CNN www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/t...

Series 4 starts today! Episode 1: "The Salutatio!" We're hitting the mean streets of Ancient Rome at an ungodly hour, come rain or shine, in search of patronage or at least the Roman equivalent of a mini muffin..🧁 Join us! #historypodcast #sensory #roman #ancientrome #ancientbluesky #skystorians

Happy golden #Doorsday from Verona 😍 #AdoorableThursday #Verona

Floating up from the darkness of late antiquity is this #opussectile #octopus from the #domus of #PortaMarina in #OstiaAntica, now in the #MuseodelleCiviltà in #Rome. This sea creature in giallo antico comes from somewhere in the famous opus sectile room, dating from 385-388 CE. #MosaicMonday 🏺

An altar from Roman Vindolanda which was set up by Senilis to the Veteres - a Celtic god who was worshipped along Hadrian’s Wall. On display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #Vindolanda #HadriansWall

🎃Time for the Halloween Bash #Raffle! 🗓The raffle runs from October 1-31 @ 11:59 PM. 1 lucky winner will be randomly selected on November 1 👻#Donate and Enter for a Chance to a SASA Halloween Gift Basket!!! ➡️Click here to purchase a raffle ticket now! saveancientstudies.org/halloweenbash#Raffle

The train station serving Ostia Antica is to be completely transformed amid plans by Italy to seek UNESCO recognition for the ancient port city near Rome.

TrovaTrivia is a new story-led quiz app designed to help kids discover Ancient Rome in a fun way.

#MosaicMonday - Kibyra's captivating Medusa Mosaic. Made in opus sectile, a technique using thin marble slabs, the mosaic adorned the entire orchestra floor of the Roman Odeon in Kibyra, an ancient Greek city in southwestern Türkiye. Unearthed in 2009, the mosaic dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.

Wow, a small Roman glass bottle with preserved ointment from almost 2,000 years ago! 🤩 The ointment is composed of fatty acids, glycerine, and plant fibres (wood, pollen, and seeds). Perhaps a valuable cosmetic or medicinal cream. Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier 📷 by me #Archaeology

9:32am TODAY on ⁦‪@bbcworldservice‬⁩ CrowdScience, Can we record our senses? Cameras and microphones can record what we see, and hear. Anand Jagatia discovers the technology that might allow us to record our other senses, like smell and touch, too.

This is a fabulous large hanging oil lamp from the Augustan era theatre in #Verona Depicting a comic mask of an old bearded man. 8 flames per 🪔 Just imagine the lumens! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 📸 Us, #Roman Theatre Museum #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Skystorians #AncientBluesky #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome

This is a fabulous large hanging oil lamp from the Augustan era theatre in #Verona Depicting a comic mask of an old bearded man. 8 flames per 🪔 Just imagine the lumens! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 📸 Us, #Roman Theatre Museum #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Skystorians #AncientBluesky #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome

There's a lot going on here. Not least the cameo appearance of Captain Blackadder.

@classicsacademy.bsky.social unsure how to pronounce 'goêteia' (will be used in an upcoming episode). Any help appreciated!