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I am an extremely over-qualified high school chemistry teacher. (Photos captured by myself unless mentioned otherwise.)

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · Apr 4

Hi there, welcome, I don't "follow back" people.🙋‍♀️

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1h

Congratulations! And you look great!😃

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Iza Miszczak @izamiszczak.bsky.social · 4h

Topkapi Palace’s famed timepieces—long counted among the world’s notable clock collections—will go on view for the first time in a new clock museum created inside the palace’s Has Ahirlar (Royal Stables) with the theme “Time and Art at Topkapi Palace.”

www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/topk...

Topkapi Palace to unveil historic clock collection to visitors for the first time - Türkiye Today

Topkapi Palace converts its Royal Stables into a clock museum, preparing to show more than 300 pieces from a 380-strong collection for the first time

www.turkiyetoday.com

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 4h

Witness Augustus as you’ve never seem him, re-sculptured to look nothing like himself!

The scene is ostensibly Augustus driving a chariot of Tritons. The imagery includes Tritons holding a shield with an oak wreath (thought to be the clipeus virtutis) and Victoria.

#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome

Description from Kunsthistorisches Museum: “The cameo shows Augustus, clad in a toga – the heads of the figures are all modern – viewed from the front in a chariot being pulled through the sea by Tritons. The triumphant naval victor holds a branch in his right hand and a sceptre in his left. An oak wreath is attached to the parapet of the chariot, and a shell is attached to the end of the handle. While the two middle Tritons – one holding a horn in his right, the other a dolphin in his left – each raise an arm symmetrically as if pointing at Augustus, the two outer Tritons carry the symbols of his reign in front of him: the left holds a globe, on which a shield with an oak wreath (clipeus virtutis) flanked by two ibexes, and the right shows Victoria floating on the globe. The cameo was probably created soon after 27 BCE, when Augustus was awarded the oak wreath, which - together with the ibex - was also engraved on the back of the stone in the 16th century.”

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 4h

Enamel orchids (Elythranthera sp.) are endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. These orchids really do have the shiniest petals and sepals you will ever see 💜🩷

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

A pinky/purple Enamel orchid with highly shiny petals

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 7h

Is there anything about the link? Or is it with me?🫣

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 17h

Also the one in Sayburç

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 17h

Also, can anybody say a few words about the catastrophic "phallus pool" interpretation of Karahantepe
(Spoiler: Every erect thing with a head isn't a penis)

Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 17h

A pillar carved with a face has been discovered at the Neolithic site of Karahantepe, similar to pillars found nearby at Göbeklitepe. The going theory is these served as architectural elements—some 12,000 years ago.

archaeology.org/news/2025/10/07/12000-year-old-carving-found-in-turkey/

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 17h

Now that I boiled or roasted all the dishes to avoid gastroentertis I want to share with you this beauty.
I was there.🥲

Detail from Bernini's "Apollo and Daphne" in Galleria Borghese in Roma

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 18h

Go away, cholera

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 19h

Was it Haeckel's obsession with physical beauty that led him to a racism of an extreme degree even for the age he lived?

A beautiful colored drawing of a siphonophor

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 19h

If you were planning to visit Ankara lately... Don't.
This is our tap water rn. I am planning to boil the dishes to sanitize them.😖

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 20h

4 months before, 4 months after. Good work kid. Grow up, give us bananas.😍🍌

Comparison of 2 photos of the same banana sapling within a 4 month interval

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 21h

Cyclamen maritimum

Read more about the species here…

www.cyclamen.org/plants/speci...

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 23h

Trunculus murex, Bolinus brandaris and Thais haemostoma shells from Alişar. They have been used to extract color purple to dye the fabric.
The abundancy of weaving instruments like spindle whorls, loom weights, needles and awls suggest a very active textile business in Bronze Age in Alişar.🏺

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 23h

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Hellenistic jug from Alişar, on temporary display in Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara.
Gladly tagging #archaeobirds here.🥳🏺

A terracotta jug, about 50 cms tall, has handles in both sides, and has leaf and bird motifs on it

Bird motifs, closer. Don't resemble any particular species.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

And look at the smooth, balanced, simple and unique form of this jug from Gordion. Perfect.
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A black clay jug in the form of a goat. The tail and the horns have been made as cusps.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

It is a piece of a bigger mosaic, and it is written to be dionysiac mask

Four dionysiac masks and 2 Nikes (?) surround a central Nike, there is a large blank space between them

From a Roman villa in Tuscolo in Villa Ruffinella area, end of 1st cent AD

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 1d

#inktober2025 6)pierce. Ok confession: I’m a massive coward. Hate needles. So am full of wonder for my friends that have been pierced for tattoos. Going back to prehistory & the most astonishing Scythian Iron Age tattoos: mythical beasts preserved by permafrost in human skin at Pazyryk. #archaeology

A sketch of mythical beasts on the form of tattoos

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 2d

And I only now learned that these stuccoes on the ceiling of "Galleria degli Arazzi" (ie, tapestry gallery) of Musei Vaticani are not stuccoes but plain paintings.😖

A vaulted white ceiling with a honeycomb like patten of cells each having a different relief- like painting on it. On both sides are the huge sized tapestries

Ceiling fresco details showing a Roman ruler(?) and the public
There is a "taped" crack going horizontally in the middle

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 2d

A similar albeit less masterful one is on display in Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Roma

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2d

Spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii! 🐙 🦞

Fantastic fishy onlookers too! 👀

From the House of the Geometric Mosaics. Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a polychrome mosaic depicting Mediterranean marine life using earthy-coloured tesserae (mosaic tiles) against a black tessarae background. At the centre of the mosaic is a pale-coloured octopus composed of off-white and light brown tesserae with some of its writhing tentacles wrapped around the body of a lobster composed of light red, and pinky-brown tesserae. The octopus has an egg shaped body/head and it stares at the viewer with large eyes made of brown and pink circles with black centres.

The octopus and lobster are surrounded by various species of large and small Mediterranean fish and a mollusc, including an eel and a flat fish. On the left hand side of the scene there is a small kingfisher bird on top of a rock. Some of the fish appear to be watching the fight between the octopus and the lobster

This mosaic comes from the House of the Geometric Mosaics in Pompeii. Now on display at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

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Archaeologs @archaeologs.com · 2d

First Human-Faced Pillar Discovered at Karahantepe

#archaeology #karahantepe #tastepeler #gobeklitepe #news #neolithic #turkiye

www.archaeologs.com/n/first-huma...

First Human-Faced Pillar Discovered at Karahantepe - Archaeologs

Recent archaeological excavations at Karahantepe have brought to light a remarkable find from the depths of prehistory: a T-shaped pillar bearing the depiction of a human face. This discovery reshapes...

www.archaeologs.com

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 2d

@ah-arkeolojihaber.bsky.social 's Instagram post shows a clear photo of it

On the short side of the head of the T pillar was carved a human's eyes and nose

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 2d

A T-pillar with a human face on it, the first one ever having a detail as such, has been recently found in Karahantepe.😃

Habertürk @haberturk.com · 2d

Kültür ve Turizm Bakanı Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Karahantepe'de gerçekleştirilen son kazılarda, ilk kez insan yüzü betimli bir T biçimli dikilitaş gün yüzüne çıkarıldığını duyurdu www.haberturk.com/karahantepe-...

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