Gürkan Ergin
@ivanhoe76.bsky.social
Classical archaeologist and historian at Istanbul University | unrests and rebellions in Roman Asia Minor, Roman state reliefs, Aegean Bronze Age, ancient world in cinema | curator 👉 #ancientartinfilm
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Gürkan Ergin
@ivanhoe76.bsky.social
· Jun 9
- Why do men revolt?
- To find beauty, either in life or in death.
(Peter Brook’s Mahābhārata)
- To find beauty, either in life or in death.
(Peter Brook’s Mahābhārata)
Photo of the Colosseum, taken between 1848 - 1852 by French photographer Eugène Constant
January 18, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Photo of the Colosseum, taken between 1848 - 1852 by French photographer Eugène Constant
Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2-million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Most complete Homo habilis skeleton ever found dates to more than 2 million years ago and retains 'Lucy'-like features
Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.
www.livescience.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2-million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Enormous set of Hook
January 13, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Enormous set of Hook
Reposted by Gürkan Ergin
My obituary for the 20th century's most famous ancient astronaut theorist: Remembering Erich von Däniken, 1935 – 2026. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/remembe...
Remembering Erich von Däniken, 1935 – 2026
When Erich von Däniken died in Interlaken, Switzerland, at the age of 90 on January 10, I was offline for the weekend. My parents had come to visit their grandson after a major snowstorm had...
www.jasoncolavito.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
My obituary for the 20th century's most famous ancient astronaut theorist: Remembering Erich von Däniken, 1935 – 2026. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/remembe...
Sophocles, Roman copy of a 4th cent. BC original at Vatican & Fallout 2.3 #ancientartinfilm
January 12, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Sophocles, Roman copy of a 4th cent. BC original at Vatican & Fallout 2.3 #ancientartinfilm
Augustus Prima Porta, 1st cent AD & Fallout 2.3 #ancientartinfilm
January 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Augustus Prima Porta, 1st cent AD & Fallout 2.3 #ancientartinfilm
Audio-Visual Roman Women: Gender, History and Screen Media tinyurl.com/2bp9q3yo #freeaccess
January 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Audio-Visual Roman Women: Gender, History and Screen Media tinyurl.com/2bp9q3yo #freeaccess
Reposted by Gürkan Ergin
Better photos of torc & discs/terminals on #Carnyx.
Colour difference suggests torc might be gilded, although by no means certain.
From colour, I don't think it's solid gold & they didn't plate then. It could also be bronze, but with better preservation.
#Archaeology 🏺 #CarnyxCrazy
📷 ITV News
Colour difference suggests torc might be gilded, although by no means certain.
From colour, I don't think it's solid gold & they didn't plate then. It could also be bronze, but with better preservation.
#Archaeology 🏺 #CarnyxCrazy
📷 ITV News
January 10, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Better photos of torc & discs/terminals on #Carnyx.
Colour difference suggests torc might be gilded, although by no means certain.
From colour, I don't think it's solid gold & they didn't plate then. It could also be bronze, but with better preservation.
#Archaeology 🏺 #CarnyxCrazy
📷 ITV News
Colour difference suggests torc might be gilded, although by no means certain.
From colour, I don't think it's solid gold & they didn't plate then. It could also be bronze, but with better preservation.
#Archaeology 🏺 #CarnyxCrazy
📷 ITV News
Relics of a Lost England: Archaeology in Robin Hood (2010) howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/r...
Relics of a Lost England: Archaeology in Robin Hood (2010)
In times of tyranny and injustice when law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history. England at the turn of the 12th century was such a time. Archaeologies are prominent dimensio…
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Relics of a Lost England: Archaeology in Robin Hood (2010) howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/r...
Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with gold hair ornaments and Persian coins www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75087
Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with gold hair ornaments and Persian coins – The History Blog
Between January 2022 and April 2024, a team from the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology excavated a series of ancient tombs in the Jiali Village area of Xi’an. Tomb M228 proved particularly notable, thanks to its high-value, well-preserved artifacts and precisely defined date. The epitaph, carved on a stone slab, records the tomb as belonging to Ma San Niang, the wife of Dong Shunxian, a Left Guard of the Imperial Guard in Longxi. She died on May 17th, 698 A.D., at her home in Daixianli. She was 29 years old.
www.thehistoryblog.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with gold hair ornaments and Persian coins www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75087
Reposted by Gürkan Ergin
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V nice work: poison-tipped projectile weapons in early H. sapiens S. Africa 60 Ka.
Thoughts:
- tiny lithics framed as *adapted* for poisoning makes me think of Néronian micro-points in France, 54 ka
- focus here is hunting, but potentially useful against humans
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
V nice work: poison-tipped projectile weapons in early H. sapiens S. Africa 60 Ka.
Thoughts:
- tiny lithics framed as *adapted* for poisoning makes me think of Néronian micro-points in France, 54 ka
- focus here is hunting, but potentially useful against humans
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago
Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.
www.science.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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V nice work: poison-tipped projectile weapons in early H. sapiens S. Africa 60 Ka.
Thoughts:
- tiny lithics framed as *adapted* for poisoning makes me think of Néronian micro-points in France, 54 ka
- focus here is hunting, but potentially useful against humans
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
V nice work: poison-tipped projectile weapons in early H. sapiens S. Africa 60 Ka.
Thoughts:
- tiny lithics framed as *adapted* for poisoning makes me think of Néronian micro-points in France, 54 ka
- focus here is hunting, but potentially useful against humans
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus Fossils Bolster Case for Earliest Upright Walking www.sci.news/otherscience...
7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus Fossils Bolster Case for Earliest Upright Walking | Sci.News
For more than two decades, Sahelanthropus tchadensis -- a very early (6.7 to 7.2 million years old) hominin species discovered in Chad in 2001 -- has hovered at the center of a contentious question: d...
www.sci.news
January 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus Fossils Bolster Case for Earliest Upright Walking www.sci.news/otherscience...
Cinnabar Identified in Scythian Graves archaeology.org/news/2026/01...
News - Cinnabar Identified in Scythian Graves - Archaeology Magazine
KHERSON OBLAST, UKRAINE—Science in Poland reports that cinnabar has been recovered from graves in a […]
archaeology.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Cinnabar Identified in Scythian Graves archaeology.org/news/2026/01...
Un carnyx, la estruendosa trompeta de guerra celta que atemorizaba a los romanos, encontrado completo en Norfolk junto a un estandarte de cabeza de jabalí www.labrujulaverde.com/2026/01/un-c...
Un carnyx, la estruendosa trompeta de guerra celta que atemorizaba a los romanos, encontrado completo en Norfolk junto a un estandarte de cabeza de jabalí
Un equipo de arqueólogos ha desenterrado en un paraje rural de Norfolk, a escasas millas de Thetford en Reino Unido, lo que los expertos no dudan en calificar como el descubrimiento de una vida profes...
www.labrujulaverde.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Un carnyx, la estruendosa trompeta de guerra celta que atemorizaba a los romanos, encontrado completo en Norfolk junto a un estandarte de cabeza de jabalí www.labrujulaverde.com/2026/01/un-c...
Missing Evidence in the Study of Ancient Cultures.
Methodological Reflections and Case Studies on Fragmentary Sources tinyurl.com/28momdll #freeaccess
Methodological Reflections and Case Studies on Fragmentary Sources tinyurl.com/28momdll #freeaccess
January 7, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Missing Evidence in the Study of Ancient Cultures.
Methodological Reflections and Case Studies on Fragmentary Sources tinyurl.com/28momdll #freeaccess
Methodological Reflections and Case Studies on Fragmentary Sources tinyurl.com/28momdll #freeaccess
Hello darkness, my old friend
January 5, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Hello darkness, my old friend
Das Erfassen von Zeit im Kontext der Vergangenheit.
Zu den Anfängen der hethitischen historischen Erzählungen tinyurl.com/24wmccwh #freeaccess
Zu den Anfängen der hethitischen historischen Erzählungen tinyurl.com/24wmccwh #freeaccess
January 5, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Das Erfassen von Zeit im Kontext der Vergangenheit.
Zu den Anfängen der hethitischen historischen Erzählungen tinyurl.com/24wmccwh #freeaccess
Zu den Anfängen der hethitischen historischen Erzählungen tinyurl.com/24wmccwh #freeaccess
Column of Marcus Aurelius gets high-tech laser facelift edition.cnn.com/2025/12/27/t...
Ancient Roman column gets high-tech laser facelift | CNN
A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of Marcus Aurelius.
edition.cnn.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Column of Marcus Aurelius gets high-tech laser facelift edition.cnn.com/2025/12/27/t...
Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece tinyurl.com/24apxzrf #freeaccess
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece tinyurl.com/24apxzrf #freeaccess
Reposted by Gürkan Ergin
Ostrom-Byzanz zwischen Resilienz und Vulnerabilität.
Bedeutung, Gebrauch und Transformation staatlicher Herrschafts- und Verwaltungsstrukturen unter Kaiser Herakleios (610–641) is.gd/L1SXAO #freeaccess
Bedeutung, Gebrauch und Transformation staatlicher Herrschafts- und Verwaltungsstrukturen unter Kaiser Herakleios (610–641) is.gd/L1SXAO #freeaccess
January 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Ostrom-Byzanz zwischen Resilienz und Vulnerabilität.
Bedeutung, Gebrauch und Transformation staatlicher Herrschafts- und Verwaltungsstrukturen unter Kaiser Herakleios (610–641) is.gd/L1SXAO #freeaccess
Bedeutung, Gebrauch und Transformation staatlicher Herrschafts- und Verwaltungsstrukturen unter Kaiser Herakleios (610–641) is.gd/L1SXAO #freeaccess