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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · Sep 2

#TombTuesday
Ghirza's North Cemetery is about half a km west of the center of the desert town. Unlike the tombs on the South Cemetery, which look like obelisks, the mausoleums of this cemetery resemble temples.

#Roman #Libya 🇱🇾
#architecture #History #Archaeology

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · Aug 24

@helsinki.fi saattaa rahoittaa sivistystehtäviään kiinteistötuotoilla, mutta kiinteistöjohtaja ei ole sisäistänyt sivistysarvoja.
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Lukijan mielipide | Helsingin yliopisto rahoittaa tilojen vuokrauksella sivistystehtäviään

Yliopiston talousnäkymät ovat haastavat, sillä perusrahoitus on riittämätöntä ja nyt uhkana ovat uudet leikkaukset.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Aug 22

Register for the webinar series Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture @ Yale Institute of Sacred Music ism.yale.edu/late-antique...

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Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · Aug 22

At the easternmost point in the US. Walked a bit of coast trail today. I could've stayed out there all day... #Maine

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · Aug 18

(241) Lost Kingdom of the Desert: How the Nabataeans created an Empire - YouTube
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Lost Kingdom of the Desert: How the Nabataeans created an Empire

YouTube video by Ancient Rome Live

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 18

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ISIS Beheads Elderly Archaeology 'Pioneer' in Palmyra: Reports

ISIS militants beheaded one of Syria's most prominent antiquities scholars in the ancient town of Palmyra, Syrian state media and activists said.

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 18

10 years ago, Khaled al-As’ad gave his life defending the ruins of Palmyra. His belief endures: people without history are people without a future. A symbol of courage and resilience against barbarism.

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Aug 16

#RomanSiteSaturday: the #Roman burial chamber of a wealthy family in Cologne-Weiden. The subterranean burial chamber (hypogaeum) dates back to the 2nd century AD. It's considered the best preserved of its kind north of the Alps. It was discovered... 🧵 1/2

#archaeology 🏺

A Roman burial chamber with stone walls and arched niches. Marble busts are placed in recessed alcoves on both sides, while a decorated sarcophagus stands in the center, carved with figures in relief. The room is dimly lit

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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · Aug 15

Italy marks Ferragosto with a national holiday today

Ferragosto: Italy's summer holiday in August

Italy marks the national holiday of Ferragosto each year on 15 August, in a tradition that dates back to Roman times, with many Italians going on vacation.

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · Aug 14

BTA :: Hellenistic Gold from Bulgaria's SE Sakar Region Is Now on Display at National Archaeology Museum
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Hellenistic Gold from Bulgaria's SE Sakar Region Is Now on Display at National Archaeology Museum

An exhibition titled The Splendour of Hellenistic Gold: the Ruler of Sakar, is now on display at the National Archaeology Museum in Sofia. At the opening event on Tuesday night, Deputy Culture Ministe...

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · Aug 13

Relief with a teaching scene from the Via della Foce in Ostia Antica, near Rome. Dating to the late 4th century AD, the relief is on display at the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #Roman #Ostia

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · Aug 13

#OnThisDay - 13 August - in 29 BC Octavian celebrated the first of three triumphs on successive days - his notable 'Triple Triumph'. This one was for his conquest of Dalmatia. #AncientHistory 🏺

Image: RIC Augustus 268; Münzkabinett Berlin (18202352). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Obverse of a Roman aureus: Head of Octavian, bare, right.

Reverse of a Roman aureus: Victory, draped, standing front on globe, head left, holding wreath in right hand and vexillum over left shoulder.

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · Aug 11

Why Ancient Romans Paid a Fortune for the Color Purple — More Than Even Silver | Open Culture
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Why Ancient Romans Paid a Fortune for the Color Purple — More Than Even Silver

Purple may not be one of the most popular colors in the apparel of our age, but if you want it — as certain cultural figures have amply demonstrated — you can get as much of it as you like, even if yo...

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 10

3. The Romantic era saw a widespread interest in the "mysterious and exotic" Orient, inspiring artists and writers: “Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work." Edward W. Said, Orientalism

Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 10

2. Originally published by @sothebysinstitute.bsky.social in 2019 in absorbing essay 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑙 𝐻𝑎𝑎𝑔'𝑠 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑇𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡 by Harry Edmonds:
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Watercolours From Carl Haag's Important Tour of the Levant

Eugene Delacroix once wrote that he was “truly sorry for the artists gifted with imagination who [could] never have any idea of [the] virgin, sublime nature” of the Orient. The vision of an exotic lev...

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 10

1. “𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎 𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝐼 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑎!” Carl Haag in 1859, below his watercolour 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏 [Bel Temple - ŁS]. The work from the same year with a rich, transcending and astonishing, hazy light.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · Aug 10

#SpoliaSunday shows us how to use an ancient basin of #Aswan #granite from the #Baths of #Nero in #Rome as it should be. Enough with locking #Roman #fountains in museums. Put them back to work, ad ornamentum Urbis. #AncientBluesky 🏺

FOUNTAIN OF VIA DEGLI STADERARI, C1-C3 CE, RECONSTRUCTED 1985-1987

This huge basin of Aswan was found in eight pieces during excavations in the Palm Courtyard of the Italian Senate complex, between palazzo Madama and palazzo Carpegna in the background of this photo. It came from the Baths of Nero, built in 62 CE on this site, and renovated in 227 by Alexander Severus, when they became known as the Thermæ Alexandrinæ. The basin is probably Neronian but could also date from the Severan restoration. The eight pieces were expertly reassembled, a task that took two years, and the basin was given a new base and lower pool when it was installed as a gift from the Senate to the city in 1987. This is the oldest new fountain in central Rome, a fitting gift from the Senate to decorate the capital, and in being put to use instead of being put into a museum, it became spolia.

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 8

Must be awesome ;)

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 7

I wouldn't mind dancing with horns during a full moon forest party.
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · Aug 7

🚨🏛️ Pompeii news! People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say

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People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists says

New evidence suggests an informal settlement was established after the eruption that buried much of the city.

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 7

Looks exactly like that. Syncretism forever.

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · Aug 7

Secrets of Pompeii's survivors, revealed: Study reveals how brave people RETURNED to live in the ruins after the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius | Daily Mail Online
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Secrets of Pompeii's survivors, revealed

The ancient Italian city of Pompeii soon experienced a second life after it was blanketed by pumice and ash from the Mount Vesuvius eruption of AD 79, say experts.

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · Aug 7

1. Did 𝑫𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂 had a chance to be Augustus' descendant, as now taken for granted? The last of the nobilitas among homines novi. A striking contrast of class and cultural background, and the the expansion of the Empire in the East. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒔, 1885