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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Next Artefacts in Focus article is in production, looking at this rather beautiful wooden rearing cobra in the collection at Bolton Museum. Did I think it would be straightforward? Yes. Did my ADHD brain then find a massive rabbit hole to fall down? Also yes 😐 Anyway, coming soon ...

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

As we run headlong into the autumn here in the northern hemisphere, this is your reminder that you don't need 'good' weather to get good photos. The colder months can bring fog, cloud, or low, raking light, which can add an amazing atmosphere to your photos. #Photography

The head of one of the Anthony Gormley 'Another Place' iron men statues in Liverpool. The surface is rusted and damaged from being on the beach for years. Behind him, the beach stretches out into the fog.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

🐱 Not only is it #Caturday, it's also #InternationalCatDay, so here's a gorgeous little bronze figurine of Bastet, with a sundisk flanked by rearing cobras on her forehead. From the collection at Bolton Library and Museum Services (8.8 cm, unprovenanced). 📷 © me. #TinyJoys #AncientEgypt #Egyptology

A seated cat in the classic Egyptian style on a small, rectangular, flat base. She has an Egyptian collar around her neck. The collar and sundisk-and-cobras are incised into the surface of the bronze.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

🌞 The girls have broken up for the summer holidays, which means no more 6.25 a.m. alarm for a few weeks. This makes me so happy I want to ride through the streets on a goose with a jolly smile on my face like Harpocrates here. Photographed for Golden Mummies of Egypt. 📷 © me

Roman-style terracotta figure of Harpocrates riding on the back of a goose. Harpocrates is a child, and is naked except for a conical headdress. He is holding his index finger to his mouth. Traces of white plaster on surface.

Roman Period statuette, 15.2 cm, in the collection at Manchester Museum.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026

Life hasn't dealt me a great hand lately, but Sunday breakfast in the garden, reading a bit of Nile magazine reminds me there are ways to keep finding those #TinyJoys that keep me going.

My lap tray with a bowl of porridge, a big cup of tea and the latest issue of Nile magazine. In the background is my back yard with several plants in pots.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026

🐝 Rescued a bee from the paddling pool this morning. Sat with it on my hand for nearly half an hour while it dried itself off. Second photo was taken literally seconds before it flew off. Seeing it finally fly away did kinda make me feel a little emotional! 🥹 #TinyJoys

The same bee on my hand, now dry and ready to fly away.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 21/06/2026

Missed my husband’s skate photography exhibition launch in Liverpool last night (ME/CFS had other plans). So, I’m living vicariously this weekend. If you visited any museums or historic sites, share your photos with me. I’d love to see what you’ve been up to. Cheer me up with your adventures!

A family walking across a grassy area with lots of trees in the background. In the foreground is a pair of sandaled feet stretched out on the grass.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026

🐊 Greywacke statuette of a crocodile, found at Nekhen (Hierakonpolis), one of Egypt's most ancient cities, now in the collection at the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social. More info in alt text. Photographed for the 'Before Egypt' exhibition in 2019. 📷 © me. #WorldCrocDay #AncientEgypt #Egyptology

The crocodile is on a spatulate base which has perforations at each corner at the wider front edge. The snout of the crocodile is broken off and the details of its skin texture are incised into the greenish grey stone. Viewed from above the body describes a sinuous curve with the end of the tail flicking to the right and the legs bent in a walking posture.

It dates to the early Dynastic Period (c.3150 BCE–2686 BCE) and is the only one of its kind found at the city.

Crocodiles were associated with Sobek, a ferocious, yet protective, deity, who guarded Egyptians from the dangers of the Nile.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026

🏺For #FindsFriday this week, I'm sharing with you an ancient Greek kylix – a wide, shallow cup used for drinking wine – dating to the 6th century BCE and now in the collection at the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social. More info in the alt-text. Photographed in 2023. Photo © me. #AncientGreece

The kylix is wide and shallow with small, D-shaped handles on the sides and a stem base. The outside is painted orange, with the people painted in black, in the classic ancient Greek style. The handles and stem are black. The interior is black with a decorative orange circle in the centre with a lion.

It was found in several pieces and underwent reconstructive conservation in 2023. Areas where the kylix has been reconstructed are clear, as the surface is more matte and the decoration has not been reconstructed.

It measures 29 × 12.3 cm.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026

I know rainbows are a bit of a photographic cliché, but this one that appeared last night was unusually intense; I stood outside the front door for several minutes, just watching it glow and feeling just a little bit of joy and peace 🌈 #TinyJoys

A rainbow stretching over the chimney and roof of a house.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 01/05/2026

For #FindsFriday this week, I'm sharing with you this photo of an ancient Egyptian wooden mallet, worn down by use and the handle smoothed to a shine by human hands. It is testament to the hard work and grind of the ancient Egyptian workforce. Happy #InternationalWorkersDay and #MayDay! Photo © me

A plain mallet with a tall, cylindrical head that has a lot of damage to the surface, and has narrowed particularly around the centre of the head from use. The handle is a little shorter than the head.

Found at Gurob in Egypt, now in the collection at Manchester Museum, it dates to the New Kingdom (c. 1570–1352 BCE).

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 24/04/2026

1/2 For #FindsFriday this week, I'm sharing with you a photo of a Roman-era shroud for a young girl. It was featured in Manchester Museum's Golden Mummies of Egypt exhibition, and it's the subject of my next Artefacts in Focus article, dropping tomorrow. #Egyptology #AncientEgypt #MuseumPhotography

The middle section of the shroud. It's made of linen and covered in painted plaster, although the plaster is damaged in many places. The bulk of the shroud is taken up with a depiction of the girl herself, in typical Roman style. She has a gold necklace made of painted plaster.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 21/04/2026

My latest article is coming on Saturday morning, looking at a Roman-era painted shroud I photographed for the Golden Mummies exhibition in 2019. If you'd like it to drop straight into your inbox rather than hoping you see it in your newsfeed, be sure to subscribe before then tetisheri.substack.com

Artefacts in focus #6: a shroud for a young girl. Get a closer look at a Roman-era linen-and-plaster shroud from the Golden Mummies of Egypt exhibition. Tetisheri. Tetisheri.substack.com

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026

The dog's not the only one enjoying some gorgeous spring sunshine in the garden, but she makes for a much more adorable photo than I do ... 😅😎 #TinyJoys

My apricot labradoodle sitting in the sun next to a redbrick wall.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 27/03/2026

🌸 As we head full-on into Spring in the northern hemisphere (despite what the weather outside might be telling me), it makes me think of these lotus flowers from ancient Egypt that I photographed for Manchester Museum's 'To Have and To Heal' project in 2021. 1/2 #FindsFriday #AncientEgypt #TinyJoys

A dried lotus flower with another lotus bud next to it. The stalk on the flower is long and slightly curved, and is covered in dark-coloured resin. The petals are a burnt orange colour.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 06/03/2026

🏺A tiny (8 cm) pot found during John Garstang's excavations at the ancient site of Koshtamna in Sudan, seemingly plain until you realise all those marks in the surface were made by straw inclusions in the clay. It's details like that that make me happy ... Photo © me. #FindsFriday #TinyJoys

The vessel is cup shaped with a slightly rounded base. It's rough in texture with no decoration. It's a natural buff colour with some darker patches around the top and down part of the side, caused by the firing process. The marks where the straw inclusions were cover most of the surface. Extra info for the photo: The vessel is several thousand years old and measures only 8 cm. I photographed it for the Garstang Museum of Archaeology's 'Before Egypt' exhibition back in 2019.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

🏺 Bronze statuette (11.4 cm) of Harpocrates (Horus the Child), personification of the reborn morning sun. He's recognised by his crown, sidelock-of-youth hair, his finger at his mouth, and ... his complete butt-nakededness. Now at the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social. Photo © me #AncientEgypt #TinyJoys

Harpocrates is in a classic Egyptian striding stance, with his left arm by his side and his right raised to his mouth. He's wearing the 'deshret' crown, in a low conical shape with a long, curved extension coming out the top and a rearing cobra on his forehead. His head is shaved, with the exception of the sidelock, which is a thick, plaited piece of hair on the right side of his head. He's standing on a small, rectangular base with a tenon on the underside.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026

Amulet of Thoth in his form as a seated baboon, patron deity of scribes. The crescent & full moon on his head reflect his lunar connection. Dating from around the New Kingdom, the amulet is only 5.5 cm tall, and is in the collection at Manchester Museum. Photo © me #FindsFriday #TinyJoys #TinyEgypt

The amulet is a pale brown colour. He's in a seated position with his hands on his knees, and has a large headdress of a full moon sitting inside a crescent moon. He has some cursive hieroglyphs inscribed down the front of his torso.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 13/02/2026

Osiris on his throne in the Hall of Judgement. Detail, just a few cm tall, from the Book of the Dead. The papyrus is broken where it was rolled up, and the fragments had slipped inside the glass, so I realigned them in Photoshop tetisheri.co.uk/repairing-pa... #FindsFriday #TinyJoys #AncientEgypt

The papyrus is decorated with line drawings in black ink. Osiris is sitting on a throne, wearing the double crown of Egypt and holding a crook and flail as a symbol of royalty. In front of him is a large lotus flower with deities standing on top, and behind him a papyriform column. Along the top of the papyrus are some hieroglyphs and two rows of seated underworld deities. At the very top is a row of stars.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 06/02/2026

Carnelian bead carved in the shape of a hyena's head, with that distinctive ridge of fur on its neck. Unprovenanced, sadly, but now at the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social. Oh, one other thing ... it's literally a centimetre big ... 🤯🔬 Photographed for my #TinyEgypt project. Photo © me. #FindsFriday

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 28/01/2026

I do love a Predynastic red-and-buff decorated pot like this. The painted decoration depicts people on a boat, with a standard in the centre. This early Egyptian art is so full of character. Photographed January 2019 for the Before Egypt exhibition by the Garstang Museum of Archaeology. Photo © me.

An oval-shaped ceramic pot with small lug handles. The decoration, in red paint, shows a curved boat in a typical ancient Egyptian style. Two people are on the right of the boat with a tall, curved standard to their left and two rectangular shapes in the centre. Below the boar are horizontal lines representing water. The top third has sustained damage and the decoration is lost.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 03/01/2026

I'm always excited to see one of my photos featured in the amazing Nile magazine. This one is of a stela with a possible depiction of Tutankhamun, and is part of the December issue's review of Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries, a book I helped produce as @theees.bsky.social's Publications Manager 😎

A double-page spread in the magazine. On the left is my photo of the limestone stela with the heading '27 Stela of Tutankhamun?', and on the right is an old black and white photo of the Osireion temple at Abydos with the heading '28 Temple of Seti I and the Osireion'.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 21/12/2025

New read to get stuck into over Christmas. A gift from my mum, inspired by the conversation we had recently, reminiscing about the time she took me to see the Lindow Man – an ancient body preserved in a peat bog – at Manchester Museum in the late 80s, and what a formative experience it was for me.

Cover of the book 'Bog Queen' by Anna North. The cover design features green and red painted mosses and ferns and has the face of a woman on her side behind them.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 12/12/2025

Today, I am petitioning the goddess Sekhmet to rid me of this virus that's dragged on for two weeks now 🤧 Faience amulet, 6.1 cm tall, dating to the 23rd Dynasty. From Haraga in Egypt, now in the collection at Manchester Museum. #FindsFriday #AncientEgypt #Egyptology

Blue faience amulet of the goddess Sekhmet, in her form as a woman with a lioness's head. She's holding a sistrum and is seated on a throne with depictions of the serpent god Neheb-kau along the side of the throne. There's a loop at the back of her head for suspension.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 05/12/2025

Here in the UK, it's cold, it's dark and it's wet, so for those of us running headlong into the darkest part of the winter, here's an ancient ceramic lamp from the Levant to light up your day. 📷 by me for @jennycromwell.bsky.social's 'Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging' project #FindsFriday

Oval lamp with an upright stub handle. The nozzle-channel is decorated with a pattern of four raised dots. The discus has a circle of raised dots. The shoulder is decorated with a wavy line, plus circles and dots.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 28/11/2025

It's been a bit chilly over the last in the UK, so for #FindsFriday, here's a rather gorgeous Roman Period knitted children's sock to help your toesies feel cosy. It was found in Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, and is now in the collection at Manchester Museum. 📷 © me #Egyptology #AncientEgypt

The sock is ankle height, and knitted in red, green and yellow stripes. It has a separate toe for the big toe so the sock can be worn with sandals.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 21/11/2025

My #Egyptology friends here may recognise this fabulous small limestone ostracon, from Campbell Price's social media accounts. The artwork depicts a funeral, and it's the subject of my next Artefacts in Focus article, dropping tomorrow morning at tetisheri.substack.com #FindsFriday #AncientEgypt

A roundish shard of limestone with a sketched drawing in black ink. The drawing depicts and Ancient Egyptian funeral, with mourners, priests and tomb workers. The tomb has burial chambers at the bottom of a vertical shaft.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 11/10/2025

My youngest decided a trip to the World Museum was her chosen activity for her birthday (that's my girl!), so while she and her gaggle of teens are wandering around the various exhibits, I've set up camp in the Egyptian galleries. There could be worse ways to spend my Saturday morning …

One of the Egyptian galleries with visitors wandering around.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 07/09/2025

We didn't get to see much of the #LunarEclipse tonight, because we had to wait for the moon to rise above the houses across the street, but we managed to see a bit of it before the shadow of the earth disappeared.

The full moon with the shadow of the Earth covering the top left quarter.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 21/08/2025

Six years ago, I photographed this rather beautiful fish-shaped greywacke palette for the Garstang Museum of Archaeology's Before Egypt exhibition. It was found at the Hierakonpolis Fort Cemetery in Egypt, and dates to the Predynastic Period (c.4000–3000 BCE). #AncientEgypt #Egyptology

The palette is oval and flat, and grey in colour. It has holes for stringing on the top centre, and where the eye would be. It has lines etched into the surface along the back, denoting the dorsal fin, and on the tail.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 19/08/2025

Charlcombe Church – a Norman church, and the smallest in Bath – with the late afternoon sun flooding through the Victorian-era stained-glass windows. #TinyJoys

The south end of a small church with a double stained glass window and a candelabrum hanging from the ceiling.

The interior of a small church, looking south to north. There are stone plaques on the wall and in the foreground is stone font.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 17/07/2025

Six years ago today I embarked upon the first of many sessions photographing artefacts in the collection at Manchester Museum for their Golden Mummies of Egypt exhibition. Having a trolley full of objects wheeled up to my photography corner in the museum stores was just utter joy!

A blue, wheeled trolley with three trays of small Roman-era Egyptian artefacts. There are ceramic pots and statuettes, and a few pieces of jewellery.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 13/07/2025

Just been reminded of some of my absolute favourite photography: Don McCullin's photography of culture and heritage, particularly of ancient sites like this one from the pyramids of the ancient kingdom of Kush (now part of Sudan). 1/2 #Photography

Don McCullin's photo of ancient pyramids in Sudan. In the foreground is a sand dune with a man on a camel. The pyramids are visible dropping behind the sand dune.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 12/07/2025

Good morning! It's a lovely sunny morning here in Liverpool, and the garden's already buzzing with life 😍 #TinyJoys

A pink flower in a pot with the morning sun shining on it.

A flowering purple buddleia in the morning sunshine with a bee buzzing next to it.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 26/06/2025

This time 2 years ago I was busy photographing artefacts at the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social for their Creatures of the Nile exhibition, including this gorgeous little 2cm amulet of a hare. Composite image made from 140 photos using focus stacking & exposure bracketing. 📷 © me #AncientEgypt #TinyJoys

A faience amulet of a recumbent hare with its long ears lying flat along its back.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025

Today, I caught (briefly) a hummingbird hawk-moth in the garden, darting about at high speed, filling its belly with nectar from our honeysuckle. (Video is at ¼ speed.) #TinyJoys

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 05/05/2025

Helios (scale model of the sun) at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral today ☀️ They even gave us beanbags to lie on 😌

A scale model of the sun in Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. It's hanging from the ceiling and has people lying on orange beanbags on the floor underneath it.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 13/04/2025

Back in April 2018, I bought a new macro lens: the Fujifilm XF 80 mm. This photo, of an amulet of the sun god Re as a falcon-headed man, is one of the first images I made with the lens and I fell in love. Seven years later, it's still my faithful workhorse and one of my favourite lenses. #TinyJoys

The top half of a blue faience Egyptian amulet of a man in a striding pose, wearing a pleated kilt. He has a falcon's head and wears a wig and a sun-disk headdress.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 05/04/2025

Leaves pinging open and buds appearing on my potted apple trees always raise my spirits. Plus, we have a new insect hotel ready for some tiny visitors 🐝 #TinyJoys

New leaves and blossom buds on the branches of a small tree. In the background is a red-brick wall with a small, house-shaped insect hotel filled with small wooden tubes

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 23/03/2025

So that's it, everything's charged, cleaned, packed and ready for my first artefact photography session in 21 months. I'm so excited to be going to the Garstang Museum tomorrow. 1/2

A camera tripod in a black carrier case and a black suitcase standing in front of a set of shelves.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 07/03/2025

#OTD in 2019 I photographed this 23 cm-tall Predynastic black-topped redware vessel with a small glyph inscribed in the centre. Originating from ancient Nekhen (Hierakonpolis), I photographed it for the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social exhibition Before Egypt. Feels so long ago now ... #AncientBluesky

A tall, cylindrical ceramic vessel, mostly red with a thick band of black around the top. The inscription is a ladder-shaped glyph scratched into the surface.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 28/02/2025

I got out to the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social again yesterday (hooray!) and spent a little time leafing through some boxes of amulets, making a to-photograph list. Proper update coming shortly, including details of the first amulet I'll be photographing next month 😊 #AncientEgypt #Egyptology

A shallow plastic box containing ancient Egyptian amulets.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 01/02/2025

Caught a lovely view out of the living room window of the crescent moon and Venus just after sunset this evening. #TinyJoys

A darkening sky with Venus shining just above a crescent moon. The roof of a house and power lines are in the left of the photo

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 31/01/2025

This morning, I've been working on a photo of this happy chappie in the collection at the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social. I think he's quite pleased it's Friday. But, who is he ...? #AncientEgypt #Egyptology

A screenshot of a photo being edited in Affinity Photo. The photo's of the head of a faience Egyptian amulet in the form of a man with achrondroplastic dwarfism.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 29/01/2025

Look at me! I went Out Of The House today for a visit to the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social for a catch up with sorely missed friends and to test the water to see how I felt spending a bit of time there. Tired now (and will be tomorrow), but so happy to have done it 😊 #ChronicIllness #MECFS

A selfie of me standing outside the main entrance to the Garstang Museum of Archaeology in Liverpool.

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Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social · 29/01/2025

My husband found this for me on our local buy nothing site this morning. I love me a bit of chintzy Egyptology-related shelf-crap 😁 #TinyJoys #Egyptology

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