Nina Willburger
@drnwillburger.bsky.social
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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I may also share posts about nature and Star Trek.
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Reposted by Nina Willburger
Timeline cleanse!
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
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A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
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February 7, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Timeline cleanse!
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
🏺
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
🏺
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Elephant bone finding in Spain may be from time of Hannibal's war against Rome
A new study suggests that a 2,200-year-old bone, which was discovered in 2020 near Córdoba might have originated from one of Hannibal's war elephants during the Second Punic War.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
A new study suggests that a 2,200-year-old bone, which was discovered in 2020 near Córdoba might have originated from one of Hannibal's war elephants during the Second Punic War.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
February 7, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Elephant bone finding in Spain may be from time of Hannibal's war against Rome
A new study suggests that a 2,200-year-old bone, which was discovered in 2020 near Córdoba might have originated from one of Hannibal's war elephants during the Second Punic War.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
A new study suggests that a 2,200-year-old bone, which was discovered in 2020 near Córdoba might have originated from one of Hannibal's war elephants during the Second Punic War.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.
A fort, built c. 125 CE, to house c. 600 men, stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall
The tower gives a view over extensive remains, with a television screen showing a reconstruction of the sites’s development
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
A fort, built c. 125 CE, to house c. 600 men, stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall
The tower gives a view over extensive remains, with a television screen showing a reconstruction of the sites’s development
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
February 7, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.
A fort, built c. 125 CE, to house c. 600 men, stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall
The tower gives a view over extensive remains, with a television screen showing a reconstruction of the sites’s development
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
A fort, built c. 125 CE, to house c. 600 men, stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall
The tower gives a view over extensive remains, with a television screen showing a reconstruction of the sites’s development
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
Reposted by Nina Willburger
#FindsFriday
#Roman wild boar sculpture carved from local red sandstone, with local character I feel.
The boar was symbol of 20th Legion - Legio XX Valeria Victrix, instrumental in building Hadrian's Wall, Chester fort + much more; stationed in Britain till early 4th C.
@tulliecarlisle.bsky.social
#Roman wild boar sculpture carved from local red sandstone, with local character I feel.
The boar was symbol of 20th Legion - Legio XX Valeria Victrix, instrumental in building Hadrian's Wall, Chester fort + much more; stationed in Britain till early 4th C.
@tulliecarlisle.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM
#FindsFriday
#Roman wild boar sculpture carved from local red sandstone, with local character I feel.
The boar was symbol of 20th Legion - Legio XX Valeria Victrix, instrumental in building Hadrian's Wall, Chester fort + much more; stationed in Britain till early 4th C.
@tulliecarlisle.bsky.social
#Roman wild boar sculpture carved from local red sandstone, with local character I feel.
The boar was symbol of 20th Legion - Legio XX Valeria Victrix, instrumental in building Hadrian's Wall, Chester fort + much more; stationed in Britain till early 4th C.
@tulliecarlisle.bsky.social
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Some of the surviving third century walls of Caistor Roman Town (Venta Icenorum) in Norfolk. The town was established in around AD 70, and served as the principal centre for the region. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
February 7, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Some of the surviving third century walls of Caistor Roman Town (Venta Icenorum) in Norfolk. The town was established in around AD 70, and served as the principal centre for the region. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain
Elephant bone finding in Spain may be from time of Hannibal's war against Rome
A new study suggests that a 2,200-year-old bone, which was discovered in 2020 near Córdoba might have originated from one of Hannibal's war elephants during the Second Punic War.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
A new study suggests that a 2,200-year-old bone, which was discovered in 2020 near Córdoba might have originated from one of Hannibal's war elephants during the Second Punic War.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
February 7, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Elephant bone finding in Spain may be from time of Hannibal's war against Rome
A new study suggests that a 2,200-year-old bone, which was discovered in 2020 near Córdoba might have originated from one of Hannibal's war elephants during the Second Punic War.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
A new study suggests that a 2,200-year-old bone, which was discovered in 2020 near Córdoba might have originated from one of Hannibal's war elephants during the Second Punic War.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Reposted by Nina Willburger
New 3D method maps Paleolithic engravings at submillimeter resolution.
phys.org/news/2026-02...
phys.org/news/2026-02...
New 3D method maps Paleolithic engravings at submillimeter resolution
A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has developed a new methodology that allows fo...
phys.org
February 7, 2026 at 7:20 AM
New 3D method maps Paleolithic engravings at submillimeter resolution.
phys.org/news/2026-02...
phys.org/news/2026-02...
Timeline cleanse!
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
🏺
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
🏺
February 7, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Timeline cleanse!
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
🏺
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
🏺
Reposted by Nina Willburger
An Etruscan vessel in the shape of Charun, the demon of death.
Dating around 400 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Dating around 400 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
February 6, 2026 at 10:02 AM
An Etruscan vessel in the shape of Charun, the demon of death.
Dating around 400 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Dating around 400 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Samian ware bowl (fragment)
Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.
The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear.
The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall.
#FindsFriday #Roman
Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.
The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear.
The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall.
#FindsFriday #Roman
February 6, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Samian ware bowl (fragment)
Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.
The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear.
The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall.
#FindsFriday #Roman
Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.
The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear.
The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall.
#FindsFriday #Roman
Reposted by Nina Willburger
One of the Lewis Chessmen - currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen #NMS
February 6, 2026 at 7:25 AM
One of the Lewis Chessmen - currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen #NMS
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🔎 Read this thoughtful essay about how the 'standard account' of the competition between Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi obscures almost as much as it reveals.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky #AdoorableThursday #renaissance
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-...
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky #AdoorableThursday #renaissance
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-...
Revolving doors
The oft-overlooked details of Lorenzo Ghiberti's famous reliefs of the Florentine Baptistery
ideasroadshow.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
🔎 Read this thoughtful essay about how the 'standard account' of the competition between Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi obscures almost as much as it reveals.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky #AdoorableThursday #renaissance
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-...
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky #AdoorableThursday #renaissance
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/revolving-...
An Etruscan vessel in the shape of Charun, the demon of death.
Dating around 400 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Dating around 400 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
February 6, 2026 at 10:02 AM
An Etruscan vessel in the shape of Charun, the demon of death.
Dating around 400 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Dating around 400 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Reposted by Nina Willburger
#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
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
#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
Found in the Roman fort at Ehingen-Risstissen, dating 1st century AD.
On display at our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen
🏺 #archaeology
Reposted by Nina Willburger
A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM
A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Reposted by Nina Willburger
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
📸 me
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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
📸 me
Reposted by Nina Willburger
📘 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
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
📘 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
Co-edited with F. Mazzilli & R. Montoya Gonzáles.
My chapter: Roman Syria, #Palmyra & glocal visual culture
🔗 link in comments
#RomanArchaeology #Glocalization #VisualCulture
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Small Bone from Possible War Elephant Identified in Spain.
archaeology.org/news/2026/02...
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
Small Bone from Possible War Elephant Identified in Spain.
archaeology.org/news/2026/02...
archaeology.org/news/2026/02...
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life.
phys.org/news/2026-02...
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
Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life.
phys.org/news/2026-02...
phys.org/news/2026-02...
Reposted by Nina Willburger
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
The northern defences of Birrens Roman Fort (Blatobulgium) in Dumfriesshire - an outpost fort for Hadrian’s Wall. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Birrens
Reposted by Nina Willburger
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
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
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
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
Reposted by Nina Willburger
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
First night in #NYC, and it’s crazy that this is the view from my room, 22 stories above the city. Tomorrow, the #MetMuseum.
Reposted by Nina Willburger
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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
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
#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
Found in the Roman fort at Ehingen-Risstissen, dating 1st century AD.
On display at our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen
🏺 #archaeology
Reposted by Nina Willburger
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
Found in Burgstall an der Murr.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemnberg
🏺 #archaeology
February 4, 2026 at 7:27 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
Found in Burgstall an der Murr.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemnberg
🏺 #archaeology