Al Green
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WOW! This late Roman blue glass cup made an epic 12,000 km journey!
Made in the eastern Mediterranean, it was excavated from the Cheonmachong Tomb, a royal tomb of the ancient Silla Kingdom in Korea! 🤯
Early AD 500s. Gyeongju National Museum, South Korea. 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Made in the eastern Mediterranean, it was excavated from the Cheonmachong Tomb, a royal tomb of the ancient Silla Kingdom in Korea! 🤯
Early AD 500s. Gyeongju National Museum, South Korea. 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
January 16, 2026 at 2:22 PM
WOW! This late Roman blue glass cup made an epic 12,000 km journey!
Made in the eastern Mediterranean, it was excavated from the Cheonmachong Tomb, a royal tomb of the ancient Silla Kingdom in Korea! 🤯
Early AD 500s. Gyeongju National Museum, South Korea. 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Made in the eastern Mediterranean, it was excavated from the Cheonmachong Tomb, a royal tomb of the ancient Silla Kingdom in Korea! 🤯
Early AD 500s. Gyeongju National Museum, South Korea. 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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The Train Journey (1939) by the exceptional Tirzah Garwood
Her self-portrait, surrounded by semi-conscious commuters, has Mount Caburn hillfort #Sussex in the distance
#HillfortsWednesday #WoodcutWednesday
For more see @dulwichgallery.bsky.social
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exh...
Her self-portrait, surrounded by semi-conscious commuters, has Mount Caburn hillfort #Sussex in the distance
#HillfortsWednesday #WoodcutWednesday
For more see @dulwichgallery.bsky.social
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exh...
April 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The Train Journey (1939) by the exceptional Tirzah Garwood
Her self-portrait, surrounded by semi-conscious commuters, has Mount Caburn hillfort #Sussex in the distance
#HillfortsWednesday #WoodcutWednesday
For more see @dulwichgallery.bsky.social
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exh...
Her self-portrait, surrounded by semi-conscious commuters, has Mount Caburn hillfort #Sussex in the distance
#HillfortsWednesday #WoodcutWednesday
For more see @dulwichgallery.bsky.social
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exh...
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Tracking down the Cassiterides - the ancient Tin Islands: A British-led group of archaeologists have analysed the composition of bronze artefacts from across Europe, tracing the tin in these objects dating to more than 3000 years ago to Cornwall and Devon...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists
British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Tracking down the Cassiterides - the ancient Tin Islands: A British-led group of archaeologists have analysed the composition of bronze artefacts from across Europe, tracing the tin in these objects dating to more than 3000 years ago to Cornwall and Devon...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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DNA and tomb styles suggest they might have been communal rather than dynastic burial spots. 🧪🏺
Stone Age tombs for Irish royalty aren't what they seem, new DNA analysis reveals
A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.
www.livescience.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
DNA and tomb styles suggest they might have been communal rather than dynastic burial spots. 🧪🏺
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#FindsFriday: a well-preserved #Neolithic knife, the blade was made of flint and fastened with birch tar in a handle made of wood. From the pile dwelling settlement at Wangen-Hinterhorn, Lake Constance, dating 3800-3500 BC.
One of the highlights of our collections.
One of the highlights of our collections.
August 4, 2023 at 10:41 AM
#FindsFriday: a well-preserved #Neolithic knife, the blade was made of flint and fastened with birch tar in a handle made of wood. From the pile dwelling settlement at Wangen-Hinterhorn, Lake Constance, dating 3800-3500 BC.
One of the highlights of our collections.
One of the highlights of our collections.
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It really would enjoy this post, if the OP would have mentioned that he used my picture....
March 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It really would enjoy this post, if the OP would have mentioned that he used my picture....
/2 ATM Cave, Belize - pics not my own - cameras are banned now. And what else lies elsewhere, undiscovered underground, undamaged by the pestilencial arrival of the Spanish?
March 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
/2 ATM Cave, Belize - pics not my own - cameras are banned now. And what else lies elsewhere, undiscovered underground, undamaged by the pestilencial arrival of the Spanish?
More Mayans for #tombtuesday, underground in Belize last month. Maybe the most extraordinary site I've visited. The sacred - no cameras - Actun Tunichil Muknal [ATM] cave, accessible only with guide, river wadings, caving, Mayans AD c250-900, human sacrifice
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Details: belizing.com/ATM-Cave-Bel...
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Details: belizing.com/ATM-Cave-Bel...
March 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
More Mayans for #tombtuesday, underground in Belize last month. Maybe the most extraordinary site I've visited. The sacred - no cameras - Actun Tunichil Muknal [ATM] cave, accessible only with guide, river wadings, caving, Mayans AD c250-900, human sacrifice
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Details: belizing.com/ATM-Cave-Bel...
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Details: belizing.com/ATM-Cave-Bel...
For #tombtuesday, at Tikal, Guatemala last week - 'Temple 1', Tomb of The Great Jaguar, long-lived Mayan ajaw/ruler 682-734 AD, Jasaw Chan K'awiil, aka Ah Cacao & Sky Rain (so my guide says!). Bonkers: 47m tall, & 'possibly' also decorated with masks like those on his wife's pyramid Tomb. Go!
March 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
For #tombtuesday, at Tikal, Guatemala last week - 'Temple 1', Tomb of The Great Jaguar, long-lived Mayan ajaw/ruler 682-734 AD, Jasaw Chan K'awiil, aka Ah Cacao & Sky Rain (so my guide says!). Bonkers: 47m tall, & 'possibly' also decorated with masks like those on his wife's pyramid Tomb. Go!
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She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe- "Didn't It Rain?" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years Archive)
YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66
youtu.be
December 15, 2024 at 2:33 AM
She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.
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Well, it’s finally happened, one for the bucket list.
This week I found a flint handaxe at Happisburgh while walking with friends. Their shared concern was due to my delighted dancing looking like I was having a funny turn!
This week I found a flint handaxe at Happisburgh while walking with friends. Their shared concern was due to my delighted dancing looking like I was having a funny turn!
December 13, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Well, it’s finally happened, one for the bucket list.
This week I found a flint handaxe at Happisburgh while walking with friends. Their shared concern was due to my delighted dancing looking like I was having a funny turn!
This week I found a flint handaxe at Happisburgh while walking with friends. Their shared concern was due to my delighted dancing looking like I was having a funny turn!
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My first @bsky.app #HillfortsWednesday!!
🥹😃😃😃🎉
Our oldest and most visited 'Chilfort' here in the @chilternsnl.bsky.social is Ivinghoe Beacon, looked after by @nationaltrust.bsky.social
A couple years ago I made a film about it.
youtu.be/6ZTwTP4CPjA?...
🥹😃😃😃🎉
Our oldest and most visited 'Chilfort' here in the @chilternsnl.bsky.social is Ivinghoe Beacon, looked after by @nationaltrust.bsky.social
A couple years ago I made a film about it.
youtu.be/6ZTwTP4CPjA?...
Hillforts of the Chilterns: Ivinghoe Beacon
YouTube video by Chilterns National Landscape
youtu.be
November 20, 2024 at 8:22 AM
My first @bsky.app #HillfortsWednesday!!
🥹😃😃😃🎉
Our oldest and most visited 'Chilfort' here in the @chilternsnl.bsky.social is Ivinghoe Beacon, looked after by @nationaltrust.bsky.social
A couple years ago I made a film about it.
youtu.be/6ZTwTP4CPjA?...
🥹😃😃😃🎉
Our oldest and most visited 'Chilfort' here in the @chilternsnl.bsky.social is Ivinghoe Beacon, looked after by @nationaltrust.bsky.social
A couple years ago I made a film about it.
youtu.be/6ZTwTP4CPjA?...
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Such a fascinating chart
Commons Library visualisation of the history of refugees: Syrians were the largest group of refugees in the UK in the years after 2011
December 9, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Such a fascinating chart
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Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.
On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld
📷me
🏺
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.
On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld
📷me
🏺
December 7, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.
On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld
📷me
🏺
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.
On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld
📷me
🏺
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December 9, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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The secret trap doors on the floor of All Saints Church, Alton Priors, Wiltshire, reveal sarsen stones thought to have been part of a stone circle that stood there long before the church was built.
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
December 8, 2024 at 3:23 PM
The secret trap doors on the floor of All Saints Church, Alton Priors, Wiltshire, reveal sarsen stones thought to have been part of a stone circle that stood there long before the church was built.
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
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A pagan New Year’s folk tale called “Shchedryk” (meaning bountiful in Ukrainian) composed by Ukrainian music teacher Mykola Leontovych became one of the most famous Christmas songs in modern times — “Carol of the Bells.”
Carol of the Bells — the classic, and Ukrainian, Christmas song
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December 5, 2024 at 8:19 PM
A pagan New Year’s folk tale called “Shchedryk” (meaning bountiful in Ukrainian) composed by Ukrainian music teacher Mykola Leontovych became one of the most famous Christmas songs in modern times — “Carol of the Bells.”
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Highly recommend a read of this lovely paper by Richard Bradley and Aaron Watson on Neolithic monument complexes in Scotland and Ireland, and the connections between them. Journeying must have been a significant component of beliefs, social organisation and identity in the middle-late Neolithic:
Sailing to Calanais: Monument Complexes and the Sea in the Neolithic of Western Scotland and Beyond | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society | Cambridge Core
Sailing to Calanais: Monument Complexes and the Sea in the Neolithic of Western Scotland and Beyond
www.cambridge.org
December 4, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Highly recommend a read of this lovely paper by Richard Bradley and Aaron Watson on Neolithic monument complexes in Scotland and Ireland, and the connections between them. Journeying must have been a significant component of beliefs, social organisation and identity in the middle-late Neolithic:
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Japan to order all water suppliers nationwide to take steps to counter the spread of PFAS “forever chemicals” that have been found in drinking water by next spring.
MeanwhIle in the UK, the EA says it can hardly afford investigatory work on just 4 sites.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12...
MeanwhIle in the UK, the EA says it can hardly afford investigatory work on just 4 sites.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12...
Japan eyes new PFAS regulations for drinking water by spring
Water suppliers nationwide must upgrade their safety standards to counter the spread of 'forever chemicals.'
www.japantimes.co.jp
December 3, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Japan to order all water suppliers nationwide to take steps to counter the spread of PFAS “forever chemicals” that have been found in drinking water by next spring.
MeanwhIle in the UK, the EA says it can hardly afford investigatory work on just 4 sites.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12...
MeanwhIle in the UK, the EA says it can hardly afford investigatory work on just 4 sites.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12...