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A fur lining adds warmth as well as luxury to an outer garment. This type of cape might feature a finer fur at the edges with something less valuable under the velvet. [🧵5/6]
February 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A fur lining adds warmth as well as luxury to an outer garment. This type of cape might feature a finer fur at the edges with something less valuable under the velvet. [🧵5/6]
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#WorldWhaleDay 🐳
Kwakwaka'wakw artist
Baleen #Whale Mask, 19th c.
Alert Bay, Cormorant Is., BC, Canada
Cedarwood, pigment, hide, cotton cord, metal nail
“Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” @ Brooklyn Museum (2023)
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt
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Kwakwaka'wakw artist
Baleen #Whale Mask, 19th c.
Alert Bay, Cormorant Is., BC, Canada
Cedarwood, pigment, hide, cotton cord, metal nail
“Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” @ Brooklyn Museum (2023)
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt
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February 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#WorldWhaleDay 🐳
Kwakwaka'wakw artist
Baleen #Whale Mask, 19th c.
Alert Bay, Cormorant Is., BC, Canada
Cedarwood, pigment, hide, cotton cord, metal nail
“Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” @ Brooklyn Museum (2023)
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt
See ALT for more info
Kwakwaka'wakw artist
Baleen #Whale Mask, 19th c.
Alert Bay, Cormorant Is., BC, Canada
Cedarwood, pigment, hide, cotton cord, metal nail
“Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” @ Brooklyn Museum (2023)
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt
See ALT for more info
@alisonfisk.bsky.social Hello! Can I add you to the Museum Nerds Feed? (So your posts automatically show up there? Or, I can set it so they only get added if you tag them with 🏛️ )
February 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@alisonfisk.bsky.social Hello! Can I add you to the Museum Nerds Feed? (So your posts automatically show up there? Or, I can set it so they only get added if you tag them with 🏛️ )
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Meet “the sheep of the Mesozoic,” Protoceratops andrewsi. This herbivore was a very common animal and is remarkably well-represented in the fossil record.
February 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Meet “the sheep of the Mesozoic,” Protoceratops andrewsi. This herbivore was a very common animal and is remarkably well-represented in the fossil record.
This is so cool!
Wow, a 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box containing its original pigments!
Looks similar to a modern-day set!
An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of king Amenhotep II. 📷 The Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
#Archaeology
Looks similar to a modern-day set!
An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of king Amenhotep II. 📷 The Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
#Archaeology
![A Cleveland Museum photo showing an ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigments. Dimensions 2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm. From top to bottom the preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal).
On the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope who was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreifxdihfkji3qsxevxjr3szesqg2pgvueax2omtlwnz4kwgcztzbky@jpeg)
February 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is so cool!
🦛🦛🦛🦛!!
It’s #WorldHippoDay! 🦛 ❤️
To celebrate and spread some hippo happiness here are some Ancient Egyptian blue hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
Which is your favourite? 😍
Photos my own.
#Archaeology
To celebrate and spread some hippo happiness here are some Ancient Egyptian blue hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
Which is your favourite? 😍
Photos my own.
#Archaeology
February 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🦛🦛🦛🦛!!
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Diese Gussform zum Herstellen eines Pilgerzeichens aus dem 11. bzw. frühen 12. Jahrhundert wurde in der Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Magdeburg gefunden. Das zehn Zentimeter breite Fundstück aus Kalkstein zeigt als Bildmotiv den Einzug Jesu in Jerusalem.
© LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták.
© LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták.
February 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Diese Gussform zum Herstellen eines Pilgerzeichens aus dem 11. bzw. frühen 12. Jahrhundert wurde in der Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Magdeburg gefunden. Das zehn Zentimeter breite Fundstück aus Kalkstein zeigt als Bildmotiv den Einzug Jesu in Jerusalem.
© LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták.
© LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták.
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This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me 2023
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me 2023
#Archaeology
February 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me 2023
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me 2023
#Archaeology
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Admittedly a large find for #FindsFriday
The Carpow Logboat recovered from the River Tay near Perth 🏴 in 2001 is Late Bronze Age in date (c 1000BC, radiocarbon date). Made from a huge oak, it was quite sophisticated with a transom. You can see it in the Perth Museum along with the Stone of Destiny
The Carpow Logboat recovered from the River Tay near Perth 🏴 in 2001 is Late Bronze Age in date (c 1000BC, radiocarbon date). Made from a huge oak, it was quite sophisticated with a transom. You can see it in the Perth Museum along with the Stone of Destiny
February 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Admittedly a large find for #FindsFriday
The Carpow Logboat recovered from the River Tay near Perth 🏴 in 2001 is Late Bronze Age in date (c 1000BC, radiocarbon date). Made from a huge oak, it was quite sophisticated with a transom. You can see it in the Perth Museum along with the Stone of Destiny
The Carpow Logboat recovered from the River Tay near Perth 🏴 in 2001 is Late Bronze Age in date (c 1000BC, radiocarbon date). Made from a huge oak, it was quite sophisticated with a transom. You can see it in the Perth Museum along with the Stone of Destiny
So neat! 🏛️
An interesting find in the 15th-century Dorotheenkloster MS: Instructions for drying (named) mushrooms. This is quite uncommon in medieval sources where mushrooms were usually considered unhealthy, not proper food at all.
#culinaryhistory #medievalsky
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#culinaryhistory #medievalsky
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February 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
So neat! 🏛️
🏛️ !
Le Muséum rejoint Bluesky ! 🦋
👉 Suivez-nous pour en apprendre un peu plus sur la Terre et le vivant, l'actualité de la recherche scientifique menée au Muséum, les coulisses de nos collections, et bien plus encore...
👉 Suivez-nous pour en apprendre un peu plus sur la Terre et le vivant, l'actualité de la recherche scientifique menée au Muséum, les coulisses de nos collections, et bien plus encore...
February 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🏛️ !
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Welcome back to Trilobite Tuesday! Holmia, a rare Lower Cambrian trilobite, is named after the Latin word for Stockholm, Sweden—the city near which these 520 million year old trilobites are found. This specimen is 2 in (5.1 cm) in length.
February 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Welcome back to Trilobite Tuesday! Holmia, a rare Lower Cambrian trilobite, is named after the Latin word for Stockholm, Sweden—the city near which these 520 million year old trilobites are found. This specimen is 2 in (5.1 cm) in length.
Museum + book + plants = 💙💙💙 'Ectypa vegetabilium' (1760-) by Christian Gottlieb Ludwig... 1/ 🏛️
February 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Museum + book + plants = 💙💙💙 'Ectypa vegetabilium' (1760-) by Christian Gottlieb Ludwig... 1/ 🏛️
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Flash back to my previous #Orkney life for #StandingStoneSunday ... This is #RingofBrodgar in sunnier times with the heather blooming. Hope you've all 'weathered' Storm Bert ok up there ❤️
November 24, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Flash back to my previous #Orkney life for #StandingStoneSunday ... This is #RingofBrodgar in sunnier times with the heather blooming. Hope you've all 'weathered' Storm Bert ok up there ❤️
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A beautiful socketed axe and a casting mould fragment from Hungary. Socketed axes are between the most widely used tool types of the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin.
NHM Vienna #Archaeology
NHM Vienna #Archaeology
November 25, 2024 at 10:41 AM
A beautiful socketed axe and a casting mould fragment from Hungary. Socketed axes are between the most widely used tool types of the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin.
NHM Vienna #Archaeology
NHM Vienna #Archaeology
@blueskyfeedcreator.com I can't seem to figure out how to make a Feed that actually works. I tried the Help document - do you have anything more idiot-proof?
November 24, 2024 at 7:47 PM
@blueskyfeedcreator.com I can't seem to figure out how to make a Feed that actually works. I tried the Help document - do you have anything more idiot-proof?
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Nicolas Revire, my colleague on the Art Institute of Chicago's provenance research team, has written a fascinating article about his research into a 12th-century Khmer pilaster, which led to the museum's decision to return this ancient and sacred artifact to Thailand: www.artic.edu/articles/115...
A Sacred Pilaster Returns Home | The Art Institute of Chicago
In January 2023, I joined the provenance research team at the Art Institute, tasked with studying objects in the collection from Southeast Asia.
www.artic.edu
November 24, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Nicolas Revire, my colleague on the Art Institute of Chicago's provenance research team, has written a fascinating article about his research into a 12th-century Khmer pilaster, which led to the museum's decision to return this ancient and sacred artifact to Thailand: www.artic.edu/articles/115...
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Foundation of an oforu (Japanese bathhouse) from early 20th c Japanese settlement in Canada. Very cool site. No historical documents mention it. Very little arch visibility on surface. Excavations revealed evidence of about a 14 small houses, a garden, and a shrine. Sudden abandonment.
November 23, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Foundation of an oforu (Japanese bathhouse) from early 20th c Japanese settlement in Canada. Very cool site. No historical documents mention it. Very little arch visibility on surface. Excavations revealed evidence of about a 14 small houses, a garden, and a shrine. Sudden abandonment.
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For this fine #RomanSiteSaturday (34 degrees here☀️ ), it’s Roman Trier (or Augusta Treverorum) in Germany. Here is the city gate, Porta Nigra (started 170), the Aula Palatina, or imperial court (early C4th), the baths (same date) & the amphitheatre (mid-C2nd). Incredible remains.
🏺 #AncientBlueSky
🏺 #AncientBlueSky
November 23, 2024 at 7:36 AM
For this fine #RomanSiteSaturday (34 degrees here☀️ ), it’s Roman Trier (or Augusta Treverorum) in Germany. Here is the city gate, Porta Nigra (started 170), the Aula Palatina, or imperial court (early C4th), the baths (same date) & the amphitheatre (mid-C2nd). Incredible remains.
🏺 #AncientBlueSky
🏺 #AncientBlueSky
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Here’s a 4,000-year-old clay tablet from an ancient Babylonian school in Nippur.
There are excerpts from a dictionary on one side, and what sorta looks like the drawing of a stick figure on the other. A bored kid’s doodle?
You can read the excerpts here oracc.museum.upenn.edu//dcclt/signl...
There are excerpts from a dictionary on one side, and what sorta looks like the drawing of a stick figure on the other. A bored kid’s doodle?
You can read the excerpts here oracc.museum.upenn.edu//dcclt/signl...
November 21, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Here’s a 4,000-year-old clay tablet from an ancient Babylonian school in Nippur.
There are excerpts from a dictionary on one side, and what sorta looks like the drawing of a stick figure on the other. A bored kid’s doodle?
You can read the excerpts here oracc.museum.upenn.edu//dcclt/signl...
There are excerpts from a dictionary on one side, and what sorta looks like the drawing of a stick figure on the other. A bored kid’s doodle?
You can read the excerpts here oracc.museum.upenn.edu//dcclt/signl...
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#FindsFriday
Beautiful Mesolithic baskets!
So well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago!
A rare glimpse of ancient crafts still in use today!
Cave of Los Murciélagos, southern Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Beautiful Mesolithic baskets!
So well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago!
A rare glimpse of ancient crafts still in use today!
Cave of Los Murciélagos, southern Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 22, 2024 at 9:53 AM
#FindsFriday
Beautiful Mesolithic baskets!
So well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago!
A rare glimpse of ancient crafts still in use today!
Cave of Los Murciélagos, southern Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Beautiful Mesolithic baskets!
So well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago!
A rare glimpse of ancient crafts still in use today!
Cave of Los Murciélagos, southern Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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As we are talking about nice axes: gold axe from Țufalău, southeastern Transylvania. Mid 2nd millennium BCE. NHM Vienna. #Archaeology
November 16, 2024 at 1:03 PM
As we are talking about nice axes: gold axe from Țufalău, southeastern Transylvania. Mid 2nd millennium BCE. NHM Vienna. #Archaeology