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Nina Willburger
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Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
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Hello new followers and welcome! My focus is on #archaeology, you can expect posts from me covering a wide range of topics, e.g. objects, exhibitions, and latest discoveries, primarily from the European Paleolithic to the early medieval period.
I may also share posts about nature and Star Trek.

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A Corinthian delight: three examples of ancient caricatures. The pyxis at the top shows a child-like Herakles drawing water from a fountain. On the lower left, a kylix depicting a woman playing the usually all-male drinking game kottabos. On the lower right, Artemis and her curious dog. 🏺 1/

📸 me
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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📘 New volume out! 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭: 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social)
Co-edited with F. Mazzilli & R. Montoya Gonzáles.
My chapter: Roman Syria, #Palmyra & glocal visual culture
🔗 link in comments
#RomanArchaeology #Glocalization #VisualCulture
February 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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#RomanFortThursday: a #Roman dagger and and two dagger sheaths, both elaborately decorated with inlays (silver, brass, enamel).
Found in the Roman fort at Ehingen-Risstissen, dating 1st century AD.

On display at our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen

🏺 #archaeology
February 5, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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Small Bone from Possible War Elephant Identified in Spain.
archaeology.org/news/2026/02...
News - Small Bone from Possible War Elephant Identified in Spain - Archaeology Magazine
CÓRDOBA, SPAIN—According to a Live Science report, a 2,250-year-old bone unearthed in 2019 during excavations […]
archaeology.org
February 5, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life.
phys.org/news/2026-02...
Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life
Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have revealed that ancient objects can retain the molecular fingerprints of past aromatic practices. These molecules provide unprecedented insight into anci...
phys.org
February 5, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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The northern defences of Birrens Roman Fort (Blatobulgium) in Dumfriesshire - an outpost fort for Hadrian’s Wall. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Birrens
February 5, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Central Station, Newcastle

Porte cochère, covered entrance way for vehicles, of 1862

Still with original iron gates, with pierced upper panels.

Passengers pass them daily to enter the station, but vehicles no longer use the porte cochère.

#MetalworkThursday
#IronworkThursday
#AdoorableThursday
February 5, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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First night in #NYC, and it’s crazy that this is the view from my room, 22 stories above the city. Tomorrow, the #MetMuseum.
February 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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February 5, 2026 at 1:20 PM
#RomanFortThursday: a #Roman dagger and and two dagger sheaths, both elaborately decorated with inlays (silver, brass, enamel).
Found in the Roman fort at Ehingen-Risstissen, dating 1st century AD.

On display at our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen

🏺 #archaeology
February 5, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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For #ReliefWednesday a representation of Minerva, the #Roman goddess of wisdom, arts, crafts, and warfare. She's carrying the helmet, a lance and a shield. The deity is accompanied by an #owl, her sacred animal.
Found in Burgstall an der Murr.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemnberg

🏺 #archaeology
February 4, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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#Römer in Württemberg ! 🏺 #archaeology
(auch im kleinen Burgstall an der Murr!)
- und nur ein paar römische Meilen entfernt:
die vor Ort zu besichtigende Römerstraße in Benningen am Neckar - streckenweise direkt unter dem heutigen Asphalt
: links: 📷me, rechts LDA Esslingen
February 4, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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Medieval Burial Found in Croatian Bronze Age Burial Mound.
archaeology.org/news/2026/02...
News - Medieval Burial Found in Croatian Bronze Age Mound - Archaeology Magazine
PULA, CROATIA—Croatia Week reports that researchers from Juraj Dobrila University of Pula conducted an excavation […]
archaeology.org
February 3, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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From the NE, the ramparts of Flowers Barrow Iron Age hillfort, atop a cliff at the seaward end of a ridge overlooking Worbarrow Bay, give a great idea of how the enclosure originally dominated the land 🤩

It's one of our favourite #Dorset hillforts (just don't tell the others)

#HillfortsWednesday
February 4, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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This is such exciting news for the prehistory & early history of western Britain & the wider European seaways, providing further firm evidence for the tin trade documented by classical authors 👇
February 4, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Vendel Helmet 1. Iron helmet with bronze fittings from a boat grave in Vendel, Uppland, Sweden, c. 550–793 AD.

📷 Swedish History Museum samlingar.shm.se/object/F0DD4...

#Archaeology
February 4, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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One of the surviving ramparts of Burghead Fort - a Pictish promontory fort in Moray. The fort was occupied between 6th and 10th centuries AD, and was a major centre of Pictish power. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Burghead #Picts
February 4, 2026 at 7:01 AM
For #ReliefWednesday a representation of Minerva, the #Roman goddess of wisdom, arts, crafts, and warfare. She's carrying the helmet, a lance and a shield. The deity is accompanied by an #owl, her sacred animal.
Found in Burgstall an der Murr.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemnberg

🏺 #archaeology
February 4, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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A #Roman glass bowl in cobalt blue with white irregular swirls; it was made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, but ended up in a C1st AD grave in Roman Britain

#AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientRome
February 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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February 3 is the day in 700 when St Werburga, 4th Abbess of Ely died.

Originally buried in Hanbury, Staffordshire her remains were translated in 975 to the Church of SS Peter and Paul in Chester which later became the Cathedral.

She is the Patron Saint of Chester.

📸c/o Chester Cathedral
February 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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2,000 year-old Roman ‘Beware of the Dog’ mosaic.

This good boy looks ready for walkies! 😍🐾

Chained black guard dog from the entry passage of the House of Orpheus, Pompeii.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
February 2, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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For #EpigraphyTuesday a Roman infantery helmet (Weisenau type) with an owner’s inscription formed by punched dots on the neck guard: the helmet belonged to Lucius Lucretius Celer, legionary in the centuria of Gaius Mummius Lolianus of the legio I adiutrix. 🧵1/2

📷me

🏺 #archaeology
February 3, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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Central Exchange Building,
Newcastle, Tyne and Wear

Built 1837-8. At times, an art gallery, concert hall & vaudeville theatre. But interior destroyed by fire in 1900.

Reopened 1906 as Central Arcade with Burmantofts tiles & Rust’s mosaics.
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#TilesOnTuesday
#MosaicMonday
February 3, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology
February 3, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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#HappyHedgehogDay !!! 🦔 Check out this little guy!! A small model of a hedgehog that is about 4,500 years old! from Chalandriani, Syros, Greece. Early Cycladic II period (2800-2300 BCE). National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. 📷 My own.
February 2, 2026 at 9:46 AM