@itinerans.bsky.social
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We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔
But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️
If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!
But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️
If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔
But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️
If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!
But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️
If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!
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Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
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At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
October 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
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Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
September 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!
We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, and thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval m...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
July 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!
We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
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Fascinating account of how the cracking of a mysterious lost language is leading to other discoveries.
Mysterious pre-Islamic script from Oman finally deciphered
Cracking the main subtype of the Dhofari script could reveal “an entirely new page of the history of Arabia”
www.science.org
July 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Fascinating account of how the cracking of a mysterious lost language is leading to other discoveries.
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A disc brooch from a rich woman's grave in Unterhaching/Bavaria, 5-6th century.
This is one of a pair of brooches that fastened the garment at the waist.
The brooches, made in a workshop in Italy, likely in Ravenna or Rome, serves as evidence of the ties between Bavaria's...🧵1/2
📷me
#archaeology
This is one of a pair of brooches that fastened the garment at the waist.
The brooches, made in a workshop in Italy, likely in Ravenna or Rome, serves as evidence of the ties between Bavaria's...🧵1/2
📷me
#archaeology
June 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
A disc brooch from a rich woman's grave in Unterhaching/Bavaria, 5-6th century.
This is one of a pair of brooches that fastened the garment at the waist.
The brooches, made in a workshop in Italy, likely in Ravenna or Rome, serves as evidence of the ties between Bavaria's...🧵1/2
📷me
#archaeology
This is one of a pair of brooches that fastened the garment at the waist.
The brooches, made in a workshop in Italy, likely in Ravenna or Rome, serves as evidence of the ties between Bavaria's...🧵1/2
📷me
#archaeology
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The so-called Treverermännchen ('little man of the Treveri'), a charming Roman bronze figurine depicting a man wearing a short hooded cloak (cucullus). Gaiters are wrapped around his legs. It's unknown what the figure once held.
Found in AugustTreverorum/Trier, dating 3rd c. AD
🏺 #archaeology
📷 me
Found in AugustTreverorum/Trier, dating 3rd c. AD
🏺 #archaeology
📷 me
May 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The so-called Treverermännchen ('little man of the Treveri'), a charming Roman bronze figurine depicting a man wearing a short hooded cloak (cucullus). Gaiters are wrapped around his legs. It's unknown what the figure once held.
Found in AugustTreverorum/Trier, dating 3rd c. AD
🏺 #archaeology
📷 me
Found in AugustTreverorum/Trier, dating 3rd c. AD
🏺 #archaeology
📷 me
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I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.
March 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.
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Hey Cambridge people. If you want to hear about othe most challanging project where we pulled whole arsenal of imaging technologies. Join a talk @bird-gerhl.bsky.social & Blazej Mikula to learn more. languagecollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/2025/03/04/c... #DH @camdiglib.bsky.social #HeritageScience
Cambridge festival talk: the medieval French fragment of Merlin re-discovered at Cambridge University Library
Back in 2022, library staff from Archives and Modern Manuscripts, Conservation & Heritage, Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory, and Collections and Academic Liaison was awarded funding from Ca…
languagecollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hey Cambridge people. If you want to hear about othe most challanging project where we pulled whole arsenal of imaging technologies. Join a talk @bird-gerhl.bsky.social & Blazej Mikula to learn more. languagecollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/2025/03/04/c... #DH @camdiglib.bsky.social #HeritageScience
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My digital reconstruction depicts Markinch Parish Church under construction. The MacDuff Earls of Fife built it in the early twelfth century to replace an earlier church dedicated to St Drostan. Commissioned Work. © Bob Marshall / Fife Coast and Countryside Trust 2015.
February 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My digital reconstruction depicts Markinch Parish Church under construction. The MacDuff Earls of Fife built it in the early twelfth century to replace an earlier church dedicated to St Drostan. Commissioned Work. © Bob Marshall / Fife Coast and Countryside Trust 2015.
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im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell
February 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell
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Thread: I’ve spent today railing about online performative fascist ‘resistance’ by anonymous accounts & memes. I’ve already explained how this is self-defeating.
Let me show what REAL resistance looks like. Please read the thread, before reacting. It’s not just America at stake, it’s the West.
Let me show what REAL resistance looks like. Please read the thread, before reacting. It’s not just America at stake, it’s the West.
February 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Thread: I’ve spent today railing about online performative fascist ‘resistance’ by anonymous accounts & memes. I’ve already explained how this is self-defeating.
Let me show what REAL resistance looks like. Please read the thread, before reacting. It’s not just America at stake, it’s the West.
Let me show what REAL resistance looks like. Please read the thread, before reacting. It’s not just America at stake, it’s the West.
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Spent the evening watching Egyptology documentaries with my dad and discovered work (mid 1800s) of Scottish artist David Roberts.
Wow.
Wow.
February 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Spent the evening watching Egyptology documentaries with my dad and discovered work (mid 1800s) of Scottish artist David Roberts.
Wow.
Wow.
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Today I am looking at precious stones & their properties: in one of my Scottish manuscripts, but also drawing in one of my favourite illuminations in Latini's Le livre du Trésor. Each stone is paired with a personification of virtue & set in a Rouen street scene [Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160]
February 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Today I am looking at precious stones & their properties: in one of my Scottish manuscripts, but also drawing in one of my favourite illuminations in Latini's Le livre du Trésor. Each stone is paired with a personification of virtue & set in a Rouen street scene [Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160]
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I still remember the great joy it gave me 15 years ago to reconstruct Portencross Castle. I had no idea at the time the adventure that this little project would start for me. A few anachronisms in places, which I put down to my lack of experience at the time, but hey, one has to start somewhere ;)
February 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I still remember the great joy it gave me 15 years ago to reconstruct Portencross Castle. I had no idea at the time the adventure that this little project would start for me. A few anachronisms in places, which I put down to my lack of experience at the time, but hey, one has to start somewhere ;)
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#Finds
This week’s object is a medieval heraldic harness pendant, which has dropped off the back – or side or front - of a horse. The Arms are identified as those of Savoyard knight Guillame [William] de Grandison.
This week’s object is a medieval heraldic harness pendant, which has dropped off the back – or side or front - of a horse. The Arms are identified as those of Savoyard knight Guillame [William] de Grandison.
February 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#Finds
This week’s object is a medieval heraldic harness pendant, which has dropped off the back – or side or front - of a horse. The Arms are identified as those of Savoyard knight Guillame [William] de Grandison.
This week’s object is a medieval heraldic harness pendant, which has dropped off the back – or side or front - of a horse. The Arms are identified as those of Savoyard knight Guillame [William] de Grandison.
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Reddit user u/onestonewithlichen 's Mum has brought some of the Luttrell Psalters' marginalia monsters to life via the medium of wool-felt.
February 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Reddit user u/onestonewithlichen 's Mum has brought some of the Luttrell Psalters' marginalia monsters to life via the medium of wool-felt.
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Suilven. 🏴😍
📷 Joshua Earle.
📷 Joshua Earle.
February 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Suilven. 🏴😍
📷 Joshua Earle.
📷 Joshua Earle.
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#Roman helmets with face masks found at various sites in southwestern Germany. They were worn by cavalry soldiers during parades and tournaments.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
February 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
#Roman helmets with face masks found at various sites in southwestern Germany. They were worn by cavalry soldiers during parades and tournaments.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
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What’s happening in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 is absolutely extraordinary!
Mount Etna is erupting while its summit remains covered in snow—an incredible clash of fire and ice.
Here are some explorers skiing between lava flows and snowy slopes—a truly unprecedented sight! ⛷🔥❄️
Mount Etna is erupting while its summit remains covered in snow—an incredible clash of fire and ice.
Here are some explorers skiing between lava flows and snowy slopes—a truly unprecedented sight! ⛷🔥❄️
February 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
What’s happening in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 is absolutely extraordinary!
Mount Etna is erupting while its summit remains covered in snow—an incredible clash of fire and ice.
Here are some explorers skiing between lava flows and snowy slopes—a truly unprecedented sight! ⛷🔥❄️
Mount Etna is erupting while its summit remains covered in snow—an incredible clash of fire and ice.
Here are some explorers skiing between lava flows and snowy slopes—a truly unprecedented sight! ⛷🔥❄️
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saw these guys at a castle and had to draw them
February 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
saw these guys at a castle and had to draw them
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Iron Age roundhouse cutaway reconstruction. #Blender3D © Bob Marshall 2020. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 #DigitalReconstruction
February 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Iron Age roundhouse cutaway reconstruction. #Blender3D © Bob Marshall 2020. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 #DigitalReconstruction
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Say it with Megafauna on February 14th!
Cave art drawing of a mammoth, perhaps showing the position of the heart. From El Pindal Cave, Asturias, Spain.
Around 15,000 years old.
Photo: Berenguer (1994)
🦣❤️🏺
Cave art drawing of a mammoth, perhaps showing the position of the heart. From El Pindal Cave, Asturias, Spain.
Around 15,000 years old.
Photo: Berenguer (1994)
🦣❤️🏺
February 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Say it with Megafauna on February 14th!
Cave art drawing of a mammoth, perhaps showing the position of the heart. From El Pindal Cave, Asturias, Spain.
Around 15,000 years old.
Photo: Berenguer (1994)
🦣❤️🏺
Cave art drawing of a mammoth, perhaps showing the position of the heart. From El Pindal Cave, Asturias, Spain.
Around 15,000 years old.
Photo: Berenguer (1994)
🦣❤️🏺
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