A Roman fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back, crafted in bronze with colorful enamel inlay. Panthers were linked to the god Dionysus/Bacchus, often depicted as his favored mounts, suggesting a symbolic or protective function for fibulae ...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

I think the cubic shape is the *unintentional consequence* of their very long digestive process (14+ days), required to process tough roots & grasses, extracting all moisture. The cubes are just a fortunate happenstance of super-efficient distal colons. Article here:

Re: the difference in information environments between the US and UK available for applicants, one of the largest culprits of poor funneling is, imho as a former UK academic staff member, the ill designed National Student Survey.

A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil. The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD On display at Römermuseum Xanten. 📷 me 🏺#archaeology

Exciting! Congrats @musicheritageplace.bsky.social #earlymodern 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?' Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England) manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...

7 October 1582: In much of Europe it is 17 October and people are still blinking in the light of the Gregorian calendar. In England, more pressing concerns: plague in London. The Privy Council, meeting at Windsor, writes to the mayor of St Albans, informing them that the law ... 1/ #earlymodern

The Jarrow Crusade, in which 200 unemployed men marched to London calling for government intervention to restore jobs, began on this day 1936. Unsuccessful at the time, but helped to shape postwar attitudes to employment and social justice.

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

Many of you won’t have heard of him, but since the prog 60s has influenced such a large number of bands…even John Lydon cites him as a formative influence. Waiting to see his final concert of this tour at Royal Festival Hall…looks like each set list is going to be completely different each night.

At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times! Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a #Roman bracelet made of turquoise and dark blue glass beads. They are imitating beads made of the lapis lazuli and turquoise, semi-precious stones mined in Afghanistan and Egypt. Found in a burial in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland, 4th c. AD 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Owner of massive Thunderbird 3 space rocket parked outside Humberside Airport allegedly thought he was buying a model. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farewell to one of the greats www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Gold death-mask, known as the ‘Mask of Agamemnon’. Found at Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876. Schliemann thought he’d uncovered the tomb of the legendary king. It has since been dated c. 1550 BC, predating the time of Agamemnon. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 📷 by me #Archaeology

I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades. One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.

The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. He convinced countless others to donate blood during the war.

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

This week on #findsfriday we have An Early Iron Age copper alloy linear-decorated socketed axehead, found in or near Oldbury Castle hillfort, Cherhill.

Charity Giant Postcards now all signed & stamped - shipping 1st class tomorrow! There’s still a few available (in a box on my kitchen table). Please see link below👇👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

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While it is objectively hilarious that Grimey has lost his grift, the funniest part of this is the idea that he "gave up" his GB News job, when he was so obviously sacked.

This one never ages

Yesterday was the opening of our major special exhibition "Foreign neighbours - Rome and the Germanic people" in our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen. A highlight of the exhibition is the presentation of prestigious grave goods from Germanic burials unearthed in Kariv, Western Ukraine, in 2017. 🧵1/3

Why is it that the same media who can't wait to cover every brain fart that emerges from Farage's mouth seem uninterested in a scandal showing close associates of Farage taking bribes to spread Russian misinformation?

A Hindu goddess, AD 650 - 800 collected in Cambodia, possibly Shiva’s consort Parvati. Last quarter of C19, collected by French archaeologist Etienne Aymonier. Part of the wonderful BM exhibition on ancient India, living traditions exploring Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism - on till 19th October.

When Reform's Nathan Gill is sentenced for bribery, he will be the third of Nigel Farage's former MEPs to be jailed for being corrupt, after Tom Wise (expenses fraud) and Ashley Mote (falsely claiming benefits). What is it about Farage that attracts crooks?

In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this

"How many traitors are in Farage's new party?" would, I suggest be a better line than Digital ID. To beat Reform, make wavering voters ashamed to back them.

The Hove Amber Cup. A beautiful and rare Bronze Age amber cup which glows when it catches the light! 🤩 Carved from a single block of Baltic amber some 3,500 years ago! Found in 1856, inside Hove Barrow, a large burial mound in Sussex. Brighton Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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This beautiful object is a Bronze Age barbed & tanged arrowhead, c.2300 - 1700 BC. Arrowheads often represent the pinnacle of flint working, requiring extensive detailed working to create the necessary shape. These Bronze Age examples are some of the finest. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Not this old canard again.

De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."

On this day in 1983, #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees released "Dear Prudence". A cover of a song by #TheBeatles it also featured #RobertSmith of #TheCure on guitars, covering for recently departed #JohnMcGeoch. It was a smash hit for the band, peaking at No. 3 on the #UKSinglesChart

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

It is with profound sadness that The Yorkshire County Cricket Club announces the passing of Harold Dennis “Dickie” Bird MBE OBE, one of cricket’s most beloved figures, who died peacefully at home at the age of 92. Read more: yorkshireccc.com/news/harold-...

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

The condition of fabrics from pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900 to 3300 BC. The thread measures a total of about 10 m in length. 📷 Laténium 🏺

Paul Swan 1907

May all the gods and ghosts curse these scumbags and haunt them for the rest of their life and their entire afterlife. "A 3,000-Year-Old Bracelet Belonging to an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Has Been Stolen, Sold and Melted Down for Gold" www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Roman advertisement for wine! 🍷 At the entrance to a bar in ancient Herculaneum, this fresco with four coloured jugs, and the text ‘Ad Cucumas’ / ‘To the vessels’, was preserved by volcanic ash from the eruption of Mt Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago! 📷 by me #AncientSiteSunday #Archaeology

I love these weird lil guys

Liddington Camp, a 3 hectare hillfort above Swindon. The first occupation dates back to the 7th century BC, making it a late Bronze Age / early Iron Age hillfort.

Pilgrim's Costrel, c.1610-40 These drinking bottles were decorated with marbled slip. They had lion-headed loops through which to string a cord for carrying over the shoulder. Exported from #Italy, probably #Pisa. Displayed - @penleehousegallery.bsky.social #Penzance #Cornwall #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday: A #Roman amber flask, from Aquileia, dating 1st/2nd c. AD. Aquileia's position at the end of a main amber trade route resulted in its becoming a centre for the carving and distribution of Baltic amber across the Roman Empire. 📷: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Aquileia