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I do believe it’s one of @danherb10.bsky.social favourite nights of year (they do come round quickly nowadays) when Obelix visits every stone circle to correct the time. Busy night! #ClocksGoBack #TheTimesTheyAreAChangin #PlaymobilInfestation

Because “Archaeologists digging at Sanam Temple in Napata, the old capital of the Kushite Empire in Sudan, have uncovered a faience workshop” dating to the 7th century BCE. I give you my favorite faience object archaeologymag.com/2026/10/anci... It is a New Kingdom rolled up hedgehog (at the Met) 🦔.

This is a positive development, full stop. Anti-racism norms matter, elite cues on anti-racism norms matter, a broad political consensus on anti-racism norms matter so a strong signal from the leader of a party which has been blurring red lines lately is good news.

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

This is your semi-regular reminder that pensioner poverty: a) is real b) is significantly less prevalent than working-age poverty and half the rate of child poverty, and c) is such that a pensioner is statistically more likely to live in a household worth over £1 million than to live in poverty

Sting on Laura Kuenssberg dressed like a 1930s mechanic. Not sure why. 'AI ...'.

Minoan vases with octopuses are relatively common but this one shows a more unusual type of marine animal: an argonaut. It's an octopus-like animal that lives on the seabed in a shell. The Minoans were masters of depicting aquatic creatures. 🕰️c1500 BC 🏛️📷Heraklion Museum

Male Figure Pendant gold c. 500-1000 CE Tolima culture Colombia #handmade #gold #pendant #male #figure #jewelry #jewelrydesign #Tolima #culture #Colombia #ancientart #art #ancientjewelry #precolumbian #prehispanic #precolumbiangold #goldjewelry #ancientgoldjewelry #metropolitanmuseum #nyc

Too cute! The charming forms in gold-silver alloy date to the 15-16th centuries. These examples that survived the Spanish metal meltdown are one section of our introduction to the Inka (Inca) on Smarthistory. Come for the cute camelid; stay for the quipu smarthistory.org/inka-intro2/

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

In an infamous series of experiments in the 1950s, Corporation engineers attempted to determine the tilt required to throw yer granny aff a bus. After many failures, the task was admitted to be impossible. (Virtual Mitchell: www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitch...)

"Dear Diary, Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck bollocks"

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a dog walked across a wet clay tile as it lay drying at Chedworth #Roman villa in Gloucestershire 🐾🐕 "Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog" (Terry Pratchett) Canis malus. Nulla tibi cena 📷 August 2026 #TilesOnTuesday #Archaeology

A little Roman bronze dog affectionately known as the ‘Chesters Scottie dog’ 🐾 This lovely figurine was found at Chesters Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall. You can meet this good boy at the site museum! 📷 English Heritage www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

Fire-damaged head from a Chryselphantine (ivory & gold) statue thought to represent Apollo. Dated to 6th century BCE. Found buried next to the Sacred Way, Delphi, Greece. Sacred items could not be destroyed so were therefore buried. Archaeological Museum of Delphi. 📷 Helen Simonsson

Pictish carving of a dog-headed man, known as the ‘Mail Stone’. Possibly dating to the late C7th or early C8th, the carving was found by a grave digger at Mail cemetery, Cunningsburgh, Shetland in 1992. Part of the collections at Shetland Museum & Archives 📸 My own #FindsFriday

How and why did Middle Eastern gods end up on Hadrian’s Wall? And how does the famous gorgon face carved into stone in Bath blend Celtic and Roman spiritual beliefs? linktr.ee/empirepoduk

A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Viva la vida -- Frida Kahlo celebrating #NationalWatermelonDay. I never realized the fruit's power!

All - all! - Reform have are the small boats. And they even manage to botch their flagship policy on that. Just hopeless.

Perfect day for a dip in Wardie Bay!

"Oh sh*t, did I leave the oven on?" #FindsFriday Wooden figure of tomb servant from Ancient Egypt, unclear date 📍 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology

You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

Wardie Bay.

An unknown horned fertility god sacred to a local tribe in the North East of Britannia, according to the Durham Archaeology Museum. To be honest I’m getting serious Donnie Darko do NOT mess with this bunny vibes #FindsFriday

The famous Hindsgavl Dagger, found by a young boy out walking with his mum on the Danish island of Fænø! A masterpiece of flint knapping from Late Neolithic Denmark, c. 1900-1700 BC. 📷 National Museum of Denmark #FindsFriday #Archaeology

The one thing I can't posdibly do is mention that small boat crossings are down by 44% this year, because scare mongering about this is the central pillar of my whole grift.

It's fascinating to watch commentators who sat completely silently for a decade as the Conservative Government changed its leader four times in a row mid-term, now suddenly discover such a keen interest in the concepts of 'mandates' and 'legitimacy'

Jeez. Not again! #Edinburgh #ArthursSeat #Fire (View from daughter's window)

When your dog hears a bag of treats being opened…

Gold funeral mask known as the 'Mask of Agamemnon', discovered during Heinrich Schliemann's archaeological dig at Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece in 1876. Dated 1550–1500 BCE, several centuries earlier than when Agamemnon was supposed to have lived. Archaeological Museum of Athens,Greece 📷 me.

I found this story genuinely shocking to report. The legislation has expanded so much that now the grounds on which citizenship can be stripped are incredibly vague and there is hardly any recourse. Anyone who the government believes MIGHT have a claim on another nationality can be denationalised.

A very good boy guarding his family home for 2,000 years! 🐾 ❤️ Roman mosaic in the entrance passage of the House of Paquius Proculus, Pompeii. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

This moment asked so little from them. All they had to do was pay their respects, express their sadness and join the chorus of horror about the manner of Widdecombe’s death. But even that was evidently beyond their moral capacity inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

One of my favorite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume. Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD. 📷️ Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

Timeless art from Minoan Crete! Some 3,500 years ago, a Minoan sculptor transformed a piece of ivory into this dynamic and graceful figurine of a bull leaper! From Knossos Palace. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

Just another monday... A grumpy #squid on a Greek #fish plate from Apulia, dating 330-300 BC. Fish plates were decorated with various examples of seafood. They were invented in Athens in the 5th century BC. Most of them are found in Southern Italy, where they were produced in... 🧵1/2

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

When I was growing up, space exploration was BIG. Books, music, TV, the news … But nobody did it better

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. 📷 Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

little demon, france, 15th century

🏺A really wonderful faience hedgehog-shaped rattle from Egypt, now on display at the Brooklyn Museum. 📜 Check the link for an x-ray image showing the pellets inside to make it rattle! www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object...