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
For today's #MosaicMonday a #Roman guard #dog chained to the door, a detail from a mosaic at the entrance of the House of Paquius Proculus in #Pompeii.
Dating 1st century AD.
Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
Dating 1st century AD.
Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
February 9, 2026 at 12:55 PM
For today's #MosaicMonday a #Roman guard #dog chained to the door, a detail from a mosaic at the entrance of the House of Paquius Proculus in #Pompeii.
Dating 1st century AD.
Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
Dating 1st century AD.
Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
Reposted by Nina Willburger
2nd century mosaic from Roman St. Albans (Verulamium) depicting Oceanus or Cernunnos. The mosaic is one of 49 discovered during excavations, and is on display at Verulamium Museum in St. Albans. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #VerulamiumMuseum
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 AM
2nd century mosaic from Roman St. Albans (Verulamium) depicting Oceanus or Cernunnos. The mosaic is one of 49 discovered during excavations, and is on display at Verulamium Museum in St. Albans. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #VerulamiumMuseum
Reposted by Nina Willburger
“Art” floor mosaic
@nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #London
By the Russian-born artist Boris Anrep.
#MosaicMonday
@nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #London
By the Russian-born artist Boris Anrep.
#MosaicMonday
February 9, 2026 at 8:35 AM
“Art” floor mosaic
@nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #London
By the Russian-born artist Boris Anrep.
#MosaicMonday
@nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #London
By the Russian-born artist Boris Anrep.
#MosaicMonday
Reposted by Nina Willburger
It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl.
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#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026
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#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl.
🏈🦉
#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026
🏈🦉
#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026
For today's #MosaicMonday a #Roman guard #dog chained to the door, a detail from a mosaic at the entrance of the House of Paquius Proculus in #Pompeii.
Dating 1st century AD.
Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
Dating 1st century AD.
Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
February 9, 2026 at 12:55 PM
For today's #MosaicMonday a #Roman guard #dog chained to the door, a detail from a mosaic at the entrance of the House of Paquius Proculus in #Pompeii.
Dating 1st century AD.
Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
Dating 1st century AD.
Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩
📷me
🏺 #archaeology
Reposted by Nina Willburger
For #SuperbOwlSunday a gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.
📷Louvre, Paris
📷Louvre, Paris
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
For #SuperbOwlSunday a gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.
📷Louvre, Paris
📷Louvre, Paris
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.
February 8, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Happy #SuperbOwlSunday!
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Happy #SuperbOwlSunday!
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Looking back on an interesting Steentijddag/Stone Age Day yesterday @rmoudheden.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Looking back on an interesting Steentijddag/Stone Age Day yesterday @rmoudheden.bsky.social
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Rothbury Cross c. 800 CE
Northumberland
Part of the shaft section of the Anglo Saxon cross. On one face a haloed Christ holds a book.
Now Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
#SundayStonework
#SaxonSunday
Northumberland
Part of the shaft section of the Anglo Saxon cross. On one face a haloed Christ holds a book.
Now Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
#SundayStonework
#SaxonSunday
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Rothbury Cross c. 800 CE
Northumberland
Part of the shaft section of the Anglo Saxon cross. On one face a haloed Christ holds a book.
Now Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
#SundayStonework
#SaxonSunday
Northumberland
Part of the shaft section of the Anglo Saxon cross. On one face a haloed Christ holds a book.
Now Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
#SundayStonework
#SaxonSunday
Reposted by Nina Willburger
Cullerlie stone circle, near Echt in Aberdeenshire. Within the Bronze Age circle are eight small ring cairns which contained cremated remains. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Cullerlie #Prehistory #Aberdeenshire #Archaeology
February 8, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Cullerlie stone circle, near Echt in Aberdeenshire. Within the Bronze Age circle are eight small ring cairns which contained cremated remains. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Cullerlie #Prehistory #Aberdeenshire #Archaeology
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A square-headed Anglo-Saxon brooch from Warwickshire. Dating to the 6th century, the brooch is now on display at the Ad Gefrin Anglo-Saxon Museum at Wooler in Northumberland.
📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #AdGerfin
📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #AdGerfin
February 8, 2026 at 7:46 AM
A square-headed Anglo-Saxon brooch from Warwickshire. Dating to the 6th century, the brooch is now on display at the Ad Gefrin Anglo-Saxon Museum at Wooler in Northumberland.
📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #AdGerfin
📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #AdGerfin
For #SuperbOwlSunday a gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.
📷Louvre, Paris
📷Louvre, Paris
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
For #SuperbOwlSunday a gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.
📷Louvre, Paris
📷Louvre, Paris
Reposted by Nina Willburger
me before coffee
February 7, 2026 at 10:04 AM
me before coffee
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
🏺
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
Luxury Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass. 1st century AD.
This opulent glass was made by encasing strips of gold leaf between layers of colourless glass.
Beautiful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago!
The Met. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
This opulent glass was made by encasing strips of gold leaf between layers of colourless glass.
Beautiful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago!
The Met. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
February 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Luxury Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass. 1st century AD.
This opulent glass was made by encasing strips of gold leaf between layers of colourless glass.
Beautiful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago!
The Met. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
This opulent glass was made by encasing strips of gold leaf between layers of colourless glass.
Beautiful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago!
The Met. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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