Sapinuwa
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I am an extremely over-qualified high school chemistry teacher. (Photos captured by myself unless mentioned otherwise.)
In other news just after 5 months I was at the same city with Pope Francis today.🤣
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
In other news just after 5 months I was at the same city with Pope Francis today.🤣
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair
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Alright, one more. Because the big fancy stuff is cool and all, but sometimes it's the small thing which really take your breath.
Like … how about some #Neanderthal #fingerprint on an at least 80,000 y/p inconspicuous lump birch bark pitch? 🤯😉
Like … how about some #Neanderthal #fingerprint on an at least 80,000 y/p inconspicuous lump birch bark pitch? 🤯😉
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Alright, one more. Because the big fancy stuff is cool and all, but sometimes it's the small thing which really take your breath.
Like … how about some #Neanderthal #fingerprint on an at least 80,000 y/p inconspicuous lump birch bark pitch? 🤯😉
Like … how about some #Neanderthal #fingerprint on an at least 80,000 y/p inconspicuous lump birch bark pitch? 🤯😉
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Mosaic cornucopia-like scroll borders with various fruits and animals
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Mosaic cornucopia-like scroll borders with various fruits and animals
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
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Human-like faces carved into stone, a rare double-sided bead, and an unsettling sculpture evoking the stillness of death—Türkiye’s vast Taş Tepeler region has revealed some of its most enigmatic Neolithic discoveries to date.
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/a-new-wave-o...
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/a-new-wave-o...
A New Wave of Neolithic Surprises at Taş Tepeler: Mysterious ‘Death Mask’ Sculpture Unveiled in Southeastern Türkiye - Anatolian Archaeology
Türkiye’s Taş Tepeler project has unveiled 30 new Neolithic discoveries, including a mysterious “death mask” sculpture,
www.anatolianarchaeology.net
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Human-like faces carved into stone, a rare double-sided bead, and an unsettling sculpture evoking the stillness of death—Türkiye’s vast Taş Tepeler region has revealed some of its most enigmatic Neolithic discoveries to date.
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/a-new-wave-o...
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/a-new-wave-o...
😲😲😲
I mean, I'm seriously going to eat my hat if these eyes aren't meant to depict cowrie shells. 🤔
(Ashmolean's Jericho Skull for reference: www.ashmolean.org/jericho-skull)
(Ashmolean's Jericho Skull for reference: www.ashmolean.org/jericho-skull)
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
😲😲😲
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The more of these other #TasTepeler sites in SE #Türkiye is coming to light, the more fascinating the early #Neolithic of the region gets:
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The more of these other #TasTepeler sites in SE #Türkiye is coming to light, the more fascinating the early #Neolithic of the region gets:
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
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Who loves spolia? I mean, who doesn't.😍
📌Basilica di Santa Maria di Trastevere
📌Basilica di Santa Maria di Trastevere
June 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Who loves spolia? I mean, who doesn't.😍
📌Basilica di Santa Maria di Trastevere
📌Basilica di Santa Maria di Trastevere
Wow wow wow, look at the new finds from Taş Tepeler sites😍
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Wow wow wow, look at the new finds from Taş Tepeler sites😍
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Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865.
Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/aurora-borealis-church/
More images of Aurora Borealis in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World” https://buff.ly/38dxgft
Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/aurora-borealis-church/
More images of Aurora Borealis in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World” https://buff.ly/38dxgft
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865.
Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/aurora-borealis-church/
More images of Aurora Borealis in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World” https://buff.ly/38dxgft
Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/aurora-borealis-church/
More images of Aurora Borealis in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World” https://buff.ly/38dxgft
Reading cuneiform is magic
"Ur-Ishkur received 1 pair of shoes with long laces," dated Shulgi 37 (c. 2057 BCE).
CDLI: cdli.earth/artifacts/25...
CDLI: cdli.earth/artifacts/25...
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Reading cuneiform is magic
How can a human being click on the profiles of 122k accounts, let alone following them
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
How can a human being click on the profiles of 122k accounts, let alone following them
Yeah that's me, apparently sending my kisses to the red backed shrike couple🤣
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Yeah that's me, apparently sending my kisses to the red backed shrike couple🤣
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The colossal columns of the Hadrian Temple in the ancient city of Cyzicus (Kyzikos), on the Kapidag Peninsula in northwestern Türkiye, are coming back into view as excavations continue and reveal new clues about Roman art and religious life.
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/colu...
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/colu...
Columns of Türkiye's Cyzicus Hadrian Temple shed light on Roman art, faith - Türkiye Today
At Cyzicus in northwestern Türkiye, excavations at the colossal Hadrian Temple reveal giant Corinthian columns that illuminate Roman art and faith
www.turkiyetoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The colossal columns of the Hadrian Temple in the ancient city of Cyzicus (Kyzikos), on the Kapidag Peninsula in northwestern Türkiye, are coming back into view as excavations continue and reveal new clues about Roman art and religious life.
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/colu...
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/colu...
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18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)
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November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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A mummy portrait from #Roman Egypt, depicting a bearded young man dressed in a white tunic with dark red stripes. We don't know his name, but he probably lived & died towards the end of the C2nd AD, & may well have been a soldier in life 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A mummy portrait from #Roman Egypt, depicting a bearded young man dressed in a white tunic with dark red stripes. We don't know his name, but he probably lived & died towards the end of the C2nd AD, & may well have been a soldier in life 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
Wait, I skipped seeing this too😶😶😶
#MosaicMonday
Mosaico romano del siglo II d.C.
Proveniente de una villa en Tor Marancia, cerca de las Catacumbas de Domitila.
🏛️ Museos Vaticanos, Roma 🇮🇹 Italia.
#History #Roma
#RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #Art
#AncientBluesky
Mosaico romano del siglo II d.C.
Proveniente de una villa en Tor Marancia, cerca de las Catacumbas de Domitila.
🏛️ Museos Vaticanos, Roma 🇮🇹 Italia.
#History #Roma
#RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #Art
#AncientBluesky
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Wait, I skipped seeing this too😶😶😶
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#MosaicMonday and we're at the MANN! This scene of comes from, preusmably, a larger Nilotic scene found at the House of the Faun in Pompeii.
It mostly features a group of ducks, though you can also spot a kingfisher and a frog in the scene.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
It mostly features a group of ducks, though you can also spot a kingfisher and a frog in the scene.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
#MosaicMonday and we're at the MANN! This scene of comes from, preusmably, a larger Nilotic scene found at the House of the Faun in Pompeii.
It mostly features a group of ducks, though you can also spot a kingfisher and a frog in the scene.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
It mostly features a group of ducks, though you can also spot a kingfisher and a frog in the scene.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
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A heavy crane truck seen inside Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque has raised concerns over how its latest restoration is being carried out.
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/heav...
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/heav...
Heavy crane truck driven onto Hagia Sophia floor during restoration sparks concern - Türkiye Today
Images from Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque show a crane truck on temporary floor panels, raising questions over how well the fragile historic ground is protected
www.turkiyetoday.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A heavy crane truck seen inside Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque has raised concerns over how its latest restoration is being carried out.
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/heav...
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/heav...
In other news mosquefied Hagia Sophia (or let's call it with its new muslim name: Âyâsôfyâ-yî Kebîîîîîr Câğmî-î Şêrîfî) keeps being fucked
Yes that's a truck
Yes that's a truck
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
In other news mosquefied Hagia Sophia (or let's call it with its new muslim name: Âyâsôfyâ-yî Kebîîîîîr Câğmî-î Şêrîfî) keeps being fucked
Yes that's a truck
Yes that's a truck
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A lovely 3rd century mosaic with the personification of a lake wearing crab claw hairclips has been unearthed in the city of Iznik, Türkiye.
Yusuf Kahveci “We can read the name Askania beside the central figure. This was the Roman-era name of Lake Iznik".
www.dailysabah.com/life/history...
Yusuf Kahveci “We can read the name Askania beside the central figure. This was the Roman-era name of Lake Iznik".
www.dailysabah.com/life/history...
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A lovely 3rd century mosaic with the personification of a lake wearing crab claw hairclips has been unearthed in the city of Iznik, Türkiye.
Yusuf Kahveci “We can read the name Askania beside the central figure. This was the Roman-era name of Lake Iznik".
www.dailysabah.com/life/history...
Yusuf Kahveci “We can read the name Askania beside the central figure. This was the Roman-era name of Lake Iznik".
www.dailysabah.com/life/history...
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Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than animals. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/germ...
Germany is offering asylum to donkeys from Gaza. Gaza’s children? Not allowed.
Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than…
mondoweiss.net
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than animals. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/germ...
Dining across this view🥳
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Dining across this view🥳
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#MosaicMonday
Floor mosaic with 4 #horses. The horses are identified by name and represent the 4 factions, each indicated by a color: Pupillo the blue faction, Cupid the white, Amatore the green and Aura the red.
📸Archaeological Museum of Sousse, #Tunisia ##Roman #History
Floor mosaic with 4 #horses. The horses are identified by name and represent the 4 factions, each indicated by a color: Pupillo the blue faction, Cupid the white, Amatore the green and Aura the red.
📸Archaeological Museum of Sousse, #Tunisia ##Roman #History
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#MosaicMonday
Floor mosaic with 4 #horses. The horses are identified by name and represent the 4 factions, each indicated by a color: Pupillo the blue faction, Cupid the white, Amatore the green and Aura the red.
📸Archaeological Museum of Sousse, #Tunisia ##Roman #History
Floor mosaic with 4 #horses. The horses are identified by name and represent the 4 factions, each indicated by a color: Pupillo the blue faction, Cupid the white, Amatore the green and Aura the red.
📸Archaeological Museum of Sousse, #Tunisia ##Roman #History