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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Museo Nacional de Antropologia: insanely cool

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Teotihuacan: pretty fucking cool, guys

Pyramid of the Sun viewed from the pyramid of the moon, Teotihuacan

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

First night in Mexico City and who do I get to hang out with? @peark.es!!! What a wonderful bit of timing and luck to chill with a great dude!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If this isn't your shaman the testimony isn't valid

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Pazyryk mummies are notable for the quality of their preservation, most notably the presence of extraordinary tattoos on their skin. These are some examples from a recent study, using infrared imaging, led by my buddy Gino Caspari. Absolutely unreal stuff.

Examples of Pazyryk mummy tattoos from Caspari et al (2025)

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Researching an episode on the Siberian Ice Maiden, a mummy of a Scythian woman buried in the Altai Mountains c. 300 BC. It's recently been argued she was suffering from breast cancer when she died around age 25; she may have treated her pain and symptoms with cannabis found in her tomb.

Reconstruction of the Ice Maiden at the time of burial

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Getting real close to releasing the first chapter of my new novel "The Wolf and the Eagle" on the Past Lives Patreon. Check out the first page here:

Page 1 of Patrick Wyman's novel "The Wolf and the Eagle"

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Brb gonna start selling poleaxes for precisely this type of situation. You want the extra reach afforded by a polearm to keep the sex cultists at bay

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Check out these European Neolithic jade axes

Two Neolithic ground-stone jade axes dating to c. 4000 BC, found in Ireland.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bog bodies are also our best source for perishable material culture in the distant past. These clothes belonged to a girl who died in Denmark around 1370 BC!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is the head of Osterby Man; the soft tissue has decayed, but note the distinctive Suebian knot hairstyle.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you've never seen a bog body, it's a genuinely unsettling experience. This is Tollund Man, who died around 400 BC.

Tollund Man, a bog body found in Denmark dating to c. 400 BC.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Don Nelson died today, and while his life was full of accomplishments (basketball and otherwise), if you go out at 86 with a photo like this in your recent past, you probably did it right

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Would you rather loose a whole clip from that or one shot from Henry Morton Stanley's 22-pound 4-bore rolling block rifle? The lead ball is almost an inch across

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is what I looked like at the time

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

First one is the Uluburun ship, which is a merchantman dating from around 1300 BC. Second is from a fragment of Mycenaean art - oared, but not a penteconter, which were designed for fighting at sea and had a ram

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Not pictured: the second bookcase or the multiple stacks, piles, and less dignified arrangements scattered around

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Egypt channeling the spirit of the ancient pharaohs out there today

Depiction of the first Egyptian king, Narmer, smiting an enemy with a mace

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The Belly Rubs Enjoyer has entered the chat

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm going to be Don Nelson-maxxing when I'm that age

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Look what just arrived from @edsbs.bsky.social! Space Marines aren’t the Emperor’s Angels, Spencer is

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Gaunt’s Ghosts are ready to paint!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

New pleasure reading/listening - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

7 PM tonight @powells.bsky.social with the fantastic @rkambury.bsky.social! Be there if you’re in PDX!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Spotted by my wonderful cousin at my favorite place in the world, @powells.bsky.social!

Poster for Patrick Wyman’s book Lost Worlds

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

An artistic rendering of the Shaman of Bad Durrenberg:

The Shaman of Bad Durrenberg, buried 9,000 years ago

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It’s real! It’s really real! Preorder at the link in my bio right now, it’s good, I promise!

Patrick wyman holding a copy of Lost Worlds

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Catching up with one of my favorite medieval mercenaries, the sharp one himself, John Hawkwood

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Imagine getting drunk as hell on cheap wine, eating free bread provided by some fool of a senator, and watching the chariots you’re betting on win a race at the Circus Maximus 2,000 years ago. The Romans did NASCAR better than we ever could.