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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I sometimes put YouTube animal videos on just to see my dog Teddy’s reaction. 😁🥰🐾

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A photographer captured a family of owls and accidentally ended up with the perfect cover for a music album. Original post

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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Love this so much! 😍 The photographer is Pete Arnold. share.google/pmwTrMyFTV1Q... 😊 It seems too good to be real but apparantly it is! 😀

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She turned it on herself and her water bowl is already full. IG: @charlieeandlaylaa

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 25/09/2026

This is a weight that was used by a Viking trader, some time in the 9th or 10th century. This is one of a number of weights discovered in Dublin. They were used in balance scales to weigh silver in the time before standardised currency. See it on display in the National Museum of Ireland.

A small weight on display in the National Museum of Ireland. It consists of lead attached to a small animal head made of gilt bronze.

With pointed ears and flared nostrils, the head may depict a wolf or dog, and it has been likely recycled from a stolen piece of metalwork taken from a shrine from an Irish church.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 26/09/2026

The tall stone cross of Skellig Michael. It is decorated with a double-lined Latin cross, carved into a weathered stone that had been roughly hewn into a cross shape. This 2.4m high cross stands on a leacht, a drystone altar, giving it an even more imposing aspect in the small monastery. #Ireland

A roughly shaped stone cross on a drystone altar, or leacht, in the monastery of Skellig Michael

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 30/09/2026

Situated in Tipperary's Suir Valley, Molough Abbey is a very interesting example of a medieval nunnery. The ruins that we can see today relate to a nunnery founded by the Butlers in the 14th century. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

A fine medieval stone doorway at Molough Abbey

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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

🏛️ Beautiful mosaic floor of the Roman baths at the Sanctuary of Poseidon, Isthmia, Greece. The baths were built ca 150 CE and were used by the athletes who performed in the Isthmian Games. The mosaic depicts Triton and sea creatures. (📹 me - filmed last October)

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Museum Stories @museumstories.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A 650-year-old jewelry box with its paint still on it. 16 inches wide, 9 inches tall, wood coated in gesso, then painted and gilded. Made in Italy, probably Siena, in the late 1300s. Note the keyhole in the front. These locked.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘Alphonse Legros.’ #Sculpture by Aimé-Jules Dalou (1876) #art

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy #TombTuesday to those who celebrate On Saturday I made my first ascent up Carn Llidi above St David's & finally saw the two small Neolithic tombs built on a rocky ledge 👌 Helpfully the wartime builders of an adjacent concrete lookout didn't disturb them; an amazing ancient place 📷 My own

Two low rocky chambers on a grassy saddle below an outcrop

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Medieval floor tile from Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset. The tile is on display in the abbey museum. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #ShaftesburyAbbey #Dorset

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Modern replica of a #Roman mosaic floor set into the approach to Sudeley Castle Winchcombe #Gloucestershire The original was found in 1882 during excavations at Spoonley Wood but has since been largely destroyed 📷 Aug 2026 #MosaicMonday

Mosaic set into the floor of a terrace with stone benches looking out at a rural landscape with trees

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A deep-sea fish with a transparent head and rotating eyes, the Barreleye is one of the ocean’s strangest creatures. Original post

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you like hillforts AND Brochs, here's a fantastic combo for #HillfortsWednesday Edin's Hall: a Late Iron Age broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside an earlier Iron Age bivallate 0.9ha hillfort Scottish Borders / Crìochan na h-Alba Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday

Aerial photo looking down at the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with circular stone broch on the left and trees beyond

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Humpback whale birth captured by drone: #AGoodPlace Source: NY Times

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Felt like painting some autumn leaves… Each are 6”x6” oil and are available on my website.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As it's St. Michael the Archangel's day to whom I'm grateful for chasing away a few devils, here's the glorious Rawson memorial window, designed by Powell Brothers, 1899, which can be found in Holy Trinity church, Stockton.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sheep returning to the valley in autumn Swiss/Italian border Photo by Alessandra Meniconzi

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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Annaghmore Dolmen A pretty little portal tomb right by the side of a quiet rural road. County Leitrim October 2024 #TombTuesday

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876–1950) "Sailing Boats in the Morning, Inland Sea", 1926. Color Woodcut, 54.5 × 40 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A unicorn trampling a snail with the head of a man, a c1520 misericord in the Tunstall Chapel of Durham Castle for #Woodensday.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This beautiful Roman glass bowl was found around Vesuvius. Its bold colours and lines make for a striking piece. 🕰️C1stBC-1st AD 🏛️📷 MANN 🇮🇹

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Harebell @harebell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A window from the church at Temple, St. Catherine's. #windowsonwednesday Have a good Wednesday.

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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The King of Egypt as a Lion Subduing a Nubian carved gold, Egyptian Blue pigment c. 1279-1213 BCE Reign of Ramesses II Ancient Egypt #ancient #art #ancientart #propaganda #ancientegypt #RamessesII #ideology #conquest #newkingdom #egypt #gold #EgyptianBlue #pigment #flywhisk #whip #MetMuseum #NYC

This piece, fashioned from Egyptian Blue and gold, presents a striking image of the head of a Nubian man engulfed by the jaws of a lion.
Egyptian blue is the world's oldest known synthetic pigment, created over 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt to mimic expensive natural stones like lapis lazuli and turquoise. Made by heating a precise mixture of silica (sand), copper (like malachite or metal filings), calcium (lime/chalk), and an alkali flux (such as natron or plant ash). Heated in a kiln at temperatures between 800°C and 1000°C (about 1,470°F to 1,830°F) for hours to form a glassy blue compound, which was then cooled, crushed, and ground into a powder paint.
Though compact in scale, the piece is monumental in its ideological intent. Most likely the terminal of a ceremonial fly whisk or whip, the handle is more than decorative; it is a potent visual expression of royal power and Ancient Egyptian supremacy.
The lion, sculpted in lustrous gold and detailed with stylised precision, symbolises the pharaoh himself, a living god and the ultimate authority over Egypt and its dominions. Its grip upon the Nubian's head is not merely violent but
symbolic, embodying Egypt's dominance over its southern neighbours and reiterating the pharaoh's divine role as protector and conqueror.
The object is said to originate from Qantir, in the eastern Delta region of Egypt, the site of ancient Pi-Ramesses, the grand capital city established by Ramesses II. In the king's day, this area would have been a flourishing centre of political power, military activity, and artistic production. Situated strategically near the route to the Levant, Pi-Ramesses was both a royal residence and a critical base for Egypt's northern campaigns. Its palatial complexes, temples, and extensive workshops made it one of the most
important urban centres of the New Kingdom.
This object is now on display at the Met Museum, NYC, after being gifted by the Norbert Schimmel Trust in 1989.

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Puget Sound Whale Sightings @pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧡🐣🧡 Tue, Sep 29 New calf at T36A1's side continues their 1st foray in their Puget Sound home waters. Official ID to come, but likely is Tierna's 2nd. Per Bart Rulon: "...still fetal folds visible on the dorsal fin so this calf is probably only days or weeks old". 📸 By Jami Cantrell 9/28. #psws

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This find comes from Steane from the age of Roman Britain, and it is a wonderful example of provincial style interacting with imperial portraiture. Here we see a bronze Marcus Aurelius, only 16cm tall and an incredible 2kg, presumed to be a sceptre or pole head.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This ICBC bank located on Calle Florida in Buenos Aires, Argentina, features a 4-tonne bronze door. Crafted in England in 1924, it sinks completely into the ground every morning at 10 AM to open. TT: @elianagimenez48

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This beautiful ring is carved from a single piece of amber. It’s Egyptian and dated to the New Kingdom, so 16th-11th centuries BC. The inscription shows hieroglyphics but I can’t find any information that has a translation. Grateful if anyone knows. 🏛️📷 BM

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Sanat Tarihi @sanatintarihi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

John William Waterhouse - Ulysses and the Sirens 1891 (National Gallery of Victoria)

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Museum Stories @museumstories.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Push the turtle's head and a bell rings downstairs. The butler comes up. Carved from a single piece of milky agate, 3 inches long, an inch tall. Gold, silver, diamonds, rubies. Made by the jewelers of Fabergé in St. Petersburg sometime between 1895 and 1915.

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ancient Yemen Limestone Funerary Stele, c. 2nd Century B.C. – 2nd Century A.D. www.reddit.com/r/AncientCiv...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as...🧵1/2 🏺

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The famous Neolithic ‘dresser’ from House One at Skara Brae on Orkney. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Prehistory #SkaraBrae #Orkney

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A truly marvellous object: a 16th-century incense storage container in the shape of a #ship. Coins of the #Roman Emperor Nero, minted between 64 and 68 AD, have been attached as wheels. 📷️ Landesmuseum Württemberg

A intricately crafted incense storage container shaped like ship, made of bronze with a weathered patina. The container features a central lighthouse-like structure rising from its deck and is supported by Roman coins serving as decorative wheels, on is missing. The ship’s bow and stern are elevated and adorned with geometric carvings and porthole-like cutouts, enhancing its detailed, miniature design.

A Roman bronze coin, used as one of the ship's wheels, depicting Emperor Nero.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Cave of Swimmers, Wadi Sura in the Gilf Kebir plateau of the Sahara, in SW Egypt near the Libyan border, ca 6000 BCE

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You're no Adonis / Having you gone is the best. For #SarcophagusSaturday, a look at this stunning late-C3 BCE #Etruscan terracotta cinerary urn from #Tuscania. It depicts a high-relief sculpture of the dying #Adonis. But was the deceased really such a catch? #AncientBluesky 🏺

TERRACOTTA CINERARY URN FROM TUSCANIA, LATE C3 BCE. VATICAN MUSEUMS

This spectacular polychrome terracotta cinerary urn depicts Adonis dying on a draped couch, a mortal wound visible on his left thigh, while a hunting dog licks its own wound at the base. It reflects a Hellenistic trend in Tuscania where workshops used moulds to produce these urns in series. Portraying the deceased as a dying hero was highly fashionable. The ashes inside might have belonged to a youth who died tragically young, but Etruscan funerary art frequently heroicised the dead, so it could equally hold the remains of an older man projecting an idealised divinised image for eternity. Despite its theatrical beauty and striking pigments, this urn was never meant for public display. It was destined for a tomb, only to be seen by the gods, the ancestors and living relatives during subsequent burials.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fayum Mummy Portrait flanked by Gods, Egypt, ca.1st century CE

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lamenting Women, from the tomb of Ramose, Sheikh Abd el-Qurnac, Egypt, 1411-1375 BCE

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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The world hide and seek competition was held in Dolgellau yesterday, Wales were eliminated in the first round.

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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cappuccino at Llys-y-Fran? Don’t mind if I do! 😊

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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Teddy living his best life. Coppet Hall Beach, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week in Pembrokeshire has been full of beautiful beaches,medieval castles & Neolithic sites.There have been visits to places I haven’t yet posted on here,but I have to say,there is still much to see here.Sadly,I’m leaving tomorrow but I’ll definitely be coming back.I’m in love with the place!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The 5,500 year-old Neolithic Pentre Irfan Burial Chamber in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The chamber, constructed ca 3,500 BCE to 3,000 BCE, is constructed of local bluestone which was also used at Stonehenge. It also has a capstone that weighs 16 tons! There was a class of art students at the site today.😊

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Egyptian ceremonial shield, from the tomb of Tutankhamun (King Tut) 1333-1323 B.C.E.

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