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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 10h

"You can tell the sun in his jealous sky / When we walked in fields of gold." For #FrescoFriday, the House of #Livia on the #Palatine. Painted c. 30 BCE during the ascendancy of #Augustus, this Second Style wall depicts his Golden Age of perpetual abundance. #AncientBluesky 🏺

FRESCO WITH GARLANDS AND COLUMNS, HOUSE OF LIVIA, C. 30 BCE. PALATINE HILL

A section of ancient Roman fresco displaying the Second Style of wall painting. Though Livia only inhabited this house after Augustus's death in 14 CE, it was decorated circa 30 BCE, contemporary with the nearby House of Augustus. The flat wall is painted to create a three-dimensional illusion, with fluted columns framing a central panel. Suspended between them is a heavy garland of pine foliage, leaves, and round fruits. Crucially, these plants are shown fruiting and flowering simultaneously, defying the seasons. This impossible ripening is a visual manifesto of the Augustan Aurea Ætas or Golden Age of perpetual abundance. The artist painted subtle cast shadows behind the ribbon-tied garland to enhance the depth. Above is a horizontal yellow frieze featuring faintly-sketched, monochrome sacro-idyllic landscapes showing rural shrines.

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Lindsay Powell FRHistS @lindsaypowell.bsky.social · 10h

A seated woman playing a kithara in one of three wall paintings from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, Main Reception Hall (H). Roman, Late Republican, ca. 50-40 BC. In the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 1903(03.14.5). Photo is my own. #FrescoFriday

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 9h

For #FindsFriday a beautiful small amber figurine of a bear 🐻 dating to the #Mesolithic 11000-6500 BC, Weststrand Fanø Denmark. Collection Nationalmuseet on display @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social Shaman exhibition.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 07/10/2026

Neanderthals were talented hunters AND home decorators. Evidence from a Spanish rock shelter includes new tool types and evidence for windbreaks and other domestic arrangements. “Now we can start to imagine the spaces they were living in,” says archaeologist @annemiekemilks.bsky.social. @science.org

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Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals

Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 15h

New discovery: A royal archive with 184 tablets unearthed at the Hittite settlement of Samuha, in present-day Sivas/Türkiye, sheds new light on the Hittite Empire, revealing records of a deadly epidemic, military threats and royal life dating back 3,400 years. www.dailysabah.com/life/hittite...

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Gladius 🗡️ Hispaniensis @gladiushispania.bsky.social · 15h

#FrescoFriday Fresco que representa un gallo con granadas, higos y peras. Procede de la Casa de los Castos Amantes en Pompeya, 45-79 d. C. 🏛️ Museo Nacional de Nápoles 🇮🇹 Italia #History #Roma #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #Art #AncientBluesky

Fresco que representa un gallo con granadas, higos y peras.
Procede de la Casa de los Castos Amantes en Pompeya, 45-79 d. C.
🏛️ Museo Nacional de Nápoles 🇮🇹 Italia

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 19h

The Carlisle Heads are two monumental, 3rd century sandstone sculptures discovered in 2023 at the site of a large Roman bathhouse in Carlisle. My photos in Tullie House museum in 2023. #FindsFriday

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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 15h

The really mind-bending thing about the Fenwick Treasure isn't just that it's gold and silver jewellery. It's that it was probably hidden in a hurry during the Boudican revolt of AD 61 and never reclaimed.

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#AncientTheatreThursday with the Gallo Roman theatre at Saxnay 🇫🇷 see more from the Loire & central France >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Cp...

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#AdoorableThursday In fact a false door, painted to left of tablinum, in house of local #Pompeii official C. Giulius Polybius w early style facade. As in recent discoveries in the city, owner was in process of upgrading 2C BC property, hence amphorae + heap of lime piled in the corner. #Roman 🏺

A painted door, included in the layout of the tablinium for symmetry. It's actually plaster, showing four panels within a red and white doorframe.
The four panels have the appearance of being on two doors, white with red borders bounded by darker outlines, and three circles on the section dividing upper and lower panels on each one.
A heap of building material and some broken amphorae are shown to the left of the false door.

A view showing the layout of the tablinium and the painted false door. The room has white painted walls with a red border at the top, a large entrance through the facing wall leading to other parts of the site. The painted false door is to the left of this, and an empty doorway is on the right - clearly intended to hold a 'real' door.
Remains of an upper level are also evident, with five window openings in the wall over the doors/entrance.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The remains of Hardknott Roman Fort in Cumbria. Located on the western side of the Hardknott Pass at 800 ft, the fort was built between 120 and 138 AD. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Hardknott #Cumbria

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, Wales 12th century external Norman south door. According to the cathedral guidebook -“Bishop William Saltmarsh either extended or rebuilt the church, using masons from St Augustine’s Abbey, Bristol” #Architecture #Romanesque #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday

Five orders of round arches with zig-zag, diamond & rectangle designs. Wooden doorway with metal cross hatching attached.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A painted #Etruscan terracotta cinerary urn lid with a reclining woman. Found in Chiusi, dating 150-120 BC. It was on display at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, which will be closed for the next couple of years. 📷️ me

Painted Etruscan terracotta funerary urn lid showing a reclining woman in banquet pose, holding a fan, wearing draped chiton, gold jewelry, on museum display.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

⛰️ #HillfortsWednesday Burnswark: (Dumfriesshire) hillfort surrounded by two Roman camps. One of the most remarkable concentrations of Roman fire power found at a native site in Britain. Lead sling bullets, ballista balls & bolts, & arrowheads tell the story of a Roman assault. 📷 ©TrimontiumTrust

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HillfortsWednesday High up on the mighty Ysgyryd fawr/Skirrid ridge hillfort yesterday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & Kate Churchill 🤩 The long ridge-top hillfort has remnants of surviving gateway stonework & commands unparalleled views across the hills & valleys of Monmouthshire 📷 My own

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A curious Celtic conundrum for #HillfortsWednesday A male mustachioed head said to have been found at Maiden Castle hillfort in #Dorset Is it Iron Age? 🤔 Part of the Rodney Legg collection 📷 © Trustees of the British Museum 2013.8017.106 Date unknown, importance unclear, investigation ongoing

A yellow block of limestone carved into a make face with moustache, flat nose and bulging eyes

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#TombTuesday Roman tomb on Dere Street, near High Rochester, Northumberland. #RomanBritain #Archaeology #History (see Alt.)

Dere Street Roman Road
was built by occupying Romans in AD 7981. It was reused during the time of the Antonine Wall, some 60 years later. It also found use in 1298, when King Edward
of England marched his forces north along Dere Street to the Battle of Falkirk.
A Roman cemetery is an area of ground set aside for the disposal, celebration and remembrance of the dead. Under Roman law it was illegal to bury or burn the dead within a town, so throughout the Roman
occupation
cemeteries were set up outside the settlement to which they belonged, usually alongside an approach road. The monument is situated on a rocky eminence some 400m SE
of High Rochester Roman fort close to Petty Knowes farmhouse, and comprises a Roman cemetery located on either side of Dere Street Roman road. Around I00 small barrows have been identified, these being largely low circular mounds averaging 3-4m dia. some of which also exhibit a shallow external ditch and low external bank.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#TerracottaTuesday Medusa has death in her eyes. She could cast her spell and turn you to stone from both sides of large askos from a 3-2 C BC tomb in Cannae, Puglia. Fine modelling, and the polychrome - especially red lips - would have added to a startling impression. 🏺 #Archaeology Canne Museum

A large terracotta jug (askos) with a spout, and faces of Medusa with wide glaring eyes on either side. traces of polychrome designs are evident on the body of the jug, and also on the face, particularly on red lips.
The citadel of Canne where this was excavated apparently overlooks the site of the 216 BC battle featuring Hannibal, between Romans and Carthiginians. Archaeological evidence hasn't yet confirmed this....

Side view of jug showing faces either side, and a polychrome design with long streaks and curves painted in red, pink, white and blue.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Medieval floor tile from St. Andrew’s Priory in Northampton displaying the Arms of the Fitzwalter Family of Daventry. Now part of the collections at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #Northampton

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✨ It wasn’t until I first saw the Saxon crypt at St Wystan’s, Repton, that I understood John Betjeman’s words: ‘Holy air encased in stone.’ I’ve never felt the past so close, or found such comfort in feeling rooted in a longer story. A real hidden gem, a must see.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy #TombTuesday to those who celebrate 💀🥳 The magnificent & enormous Bronze Age summit cairn on Aran Fawddwy mountain in Eryri/Snowdonia under a heavy frost on Christmas eve, 2025 ❄️ An epic place to inter the bones & ashes of the prehistoric dead 👌 📷 My own

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Sistory History Podcast @sistoryhistory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A #mosaicmonday from the House of the Birds at the ancient roman site of Itálica - birthplace of the Emperor Hadrian. Particularly loving the proud peacock second from bottom, strutting confidently into the week 🦚. #archeology #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #hadrian #ancientrome

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MosaicMonday Very pleasingly designed floor in tepidarium of women's baths in Herculaneum. Feels like a lovely, languid place to catch up with friends.

Geometric mosaic floor with design of trailing lines of black on white tesserae that form right angles and cross to make swastika like patterns. In spaces between trails of tesserae are rectangular panels that feature small images of eg vase, sun/flower, animal.

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Probably my favourite #StFrancis window, by Edward Payne at Didbrook, #Gloucestershire, 1962, showing the saint preaching to a parliament of birds. Lots of loving detail of bird life, including a handsome #OwlishMonday for tomorrow! #StainedGlassSunday

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MedievalMonday with Weobley Castle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and its incredible views out across the north of Gower see more of our journeys across the UK >>> www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Roman Sites @romansites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tiger mosaic from the 'House of Dionysus' (3rd cent. CE) at Nea Paphos, Cyprus - a site with fantastic mosaics (and a lot more to see). 📷 my own 2013 #MosaicMonday

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This delightful mosaic once decorated the courtyard of the so-called House of the Drinking Contest, near the port of Antioch-on-the-Orontes. The mosaic is thought to date to C3rd CE and depicts erotes frolicking among Mediterranean marine life. #MosaicMonday #Dolphins

This mosaic depicts three erotes riding dolphins. The erotes cast their fishing lines into a sea filled with marine creatures, including a long, thin garfish; brightly colored wrasses; gray and red mullets; a shrimp; and a clam.

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd be hopping mad too if someone put a glazing bar across my face.. #OwlishMonday

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the standing stones from the Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle at Stenness on Orkney. The stone circle dates to around 2600 to 2000 BC, and forms part of the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site’. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Orkney #Archaeology

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AnnieSAnderson @anniescottarch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Classic Callanish for #StandingStoneSunday

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Appropriate for #StandingStoneSunday: The Pipers: turned to stone for playing tunes on a Sunday. The Hurlers: 3 stone circles of men who had same fate for playing hurling on Lord's Day. That'll teach 'em. Evocative late Neolithic/early Bronze Age ceremonial landscape on Bodmin Moor. #Archaeology 🏺

Two standing stones in a bumpy green and brown landscape with gorse, boggy bits and lowering stormy sky.

Part of a lichen covered stone circle on green and brown Bodmin Moor. In the background is a pit head building and a hill with a tall transmission tower on top. Lowering storm clouds overhang the view.

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The ancient stone at Harry's Walls on St Mary's stands next to a modern daymark, the two seeming to work in synchrony. Maybe the stone itself was used as a marker by boats in prehistoric times. You can actually see it from the water in pic 2 ... Look for daymark's cross! #StandingStoneSunday

St Mary's harbour – can you spot the stone?

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sheep with standing stones at the Kerlescan alignments at Carnac in Brittany, June 2023. #StandingStoneSunday

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#1 Bestseller 💥 Archaeology. History. Boudica. Artefacts. Landscape. Travel. Torcs. Battles. Druids. Black Labrador. In a factual book. There might be more to life; but not much more… #BoudicaFriday #Echolands A Journey in Search of #Boudica

Echolands by Duncan Mackay with an Amazon best seller banner

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy weekend! 🦔 ❤️ Here’s a lovely ancient Egyptian blue faience hedgehog made some 3,800 years ago! Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A collection of Bronze Age spearheads with a Scottish provenance. The spearheads are currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh as part of the museum’s ‘Scotland’s First Warriors’ Exhibition. 📸 My own. #Prehistory #Archaeology #Scotland

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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FindsFriday Iron knife with bone handle inscribed with ring and dot decoration, and knurled headed copper alloy pommel. From a context dated c AD 290-320 in the ditch at Rock Roman Villa, #Brighstone, #Isle of Wight. See #NHLE 1008304 shorturl.at/sKuOw On display at Newport Roman Villa.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes you see an artefact where myth, magic & reality all seem to converge… Behold, the Iron Age Torrs Pony Cap; pulled from a Scottish bog in the 19thC & dating to the 3rdC BC, the horns were still attached when found. Chariot ponies knew they were cool. National Museum Scotland #FindsFriday

Decorated bronze pony cap with long, slender curving horns

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FindsFriday 🏺 Superb bronze chimera: likely emblem (episema) on C6 BC warrior's shield w lion's head on flame-like mane + scaly fierce snake striking from centre. From high status tomb w arms, tools, ceramics + iron wheels of chariot excavated in Melfi, Basilicata. Melfi Nat Archaeological Museum.

A large thin bronze decoration probably displayed on a 6th C BC warrior's shield. At the top the head of a beast with a stylised lion's head and snout, on a long neck with incised flame-like mane, emerges from a scaly circle. This serves as the body of a fierce snake (which probably wrapped round the lion's body), which extends to the top right with a long head and open mouth, with wing below lower jaw.
The culture in Melfi at the time was in flux, with native Daunian cultures interacting with Lucanians from the north.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ‘Malone Hoard’ - 19 polished stone axe heads from the Neolithic which were found at Danesfort House, on Malone Road in Belfast during the 19th century. Now part of the collections at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Belfast

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me today.... So glad the weekend is almost here 🫩 Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. 📷 Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana

Small translucent amber figurine carved in the shape of a squatting monkey. The figure has a detailed face with expressive eyes and rests its chin on its hands, appearing thoughtful. It sits atop a rectangular platform supported by four rounded, balloon-like legs.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Roman #glass - flask found at Caerleon (Isca Silurum) 1st Century AD . 📷 My own. On display at Caerleon Legionary Museum. #Roman #Archaeology #FindsFriday #artwork

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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tough choice for me today, but I’m going with #quartz because I’m ready for it to finally win #MinCup26

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy #ADoorAbleThursday! Here’s the porch of St Giles’ church in Bowes in the land of the haliwerfolc, though originally in the land of Alan rufus of the OG Richmond.

Photograph of a small stone porch in front of the main door of a small stone church in Bowes, County Durham, in northern England. The church dates to the late 12th century, but there was probably a church here in the 11th, if not the early 12th, century.

Photograph of a stone panel above the outer arch of the porch depicting the crucifixion.

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tasselled curved hinges at King's College Chapel, Cambridge. #IronworkThursday

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Autumn starts to steal into my garden, Picking off plants like a sharpshooting assassin. A summer flower is now filled with colour, life, Then, stopped in its track Turned into a withered wreck #NationalPoetryDay #ImageAndVerse #PaintByWords #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky

Still standing in faded glory. From main picture, clockwise: a pink rose, Harlow Carr, in front of a wooden garden fence: seeds on a Verbascum and behind that a Poppy; a yellow withered and drooping-petalled Rudbeckia-flower, behind it a Wild Teasel; another Rudbeckia in its final wrinkled, ochre and brown stage. These last three all against green garden blurriness.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Killing two birds with one vase on #InternationalMusicDay and #InternationalDayOfOlderPersons. An elderly lyre teacher instructs his pupil, with the more difficult cithara hanging on the wall for more advanced lessons if he improves. Vase made in Athens c. 470 BCE. Now in Berlin.

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