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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A Roman curse, written on metal and thrown into the sacred spring at Aquae Sulis (modern day Bath) as a plea to the goddess, Sulis Minerva. The text complains about the theft of ‘Vilbia’ - probably a woman, possibly a slave. #FindsFriday 📷 my own

Mounted grey metal square inscribed with white Latin letters

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sharing one of my all time favourites for #findsfriday. This eerily lifelike wooden statue of a priest by the name of Ka-aper dates to around 2,435-2,429 BC - making it more than 4,400 years old! 🤯 Discovered in Saqqara, Egypt 📸 Mine via Egyptian Museum Cairo egyptianmuseumcairo.eg/artefacts/st...

Hyperrealistic wooden statue of an older man with a rotund face made from reddish brown wood, with rock crystal, calcite, copper, and black stone for the eyes.

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Triumph of Neptune and the Four Seasons, Late 2nd-century AD, from La Chebba, Tunisia #MosaicMonday 📸 my own via Bardo Museum, Tunisia

Detailed mosaic showing Neptune with a trident rising out of the sea on a chariot pulled by horses, surrounded by decorative detail including animals, flowers and classical figures representing the seasons

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A lovely chunk of bog butter for #findsfriday Dated to 400-350 BC, it may have been a votive offering, a way of preserving a valuable commodity, or even a way of maturing the butter #Ancientbluesky 📷 my own via Nat Museum of Ireland. Found in Co. Kildare www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

A roughly 60cm high, uneven cylinder of pale, solid ‘butter’ in a display case

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It really is a masterpiece, isn’t it.

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We’d visited Knowth the day before so we were on the lookout for this when we visited the museum. The craftsmanship is mind boggling!

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ha, it does doesn’t it. Like it should be filled with praline!

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Megalithic art outside Knowth passage tomb, Ireland, which dates to around 3,200BC 📸 my own #ancientsite #Ancientbluesky

Spiral and circular motifs carved into a large slab of grey stone

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

An exquisitely crafted ceremonial macehead dated to around 3300-2800 BC. Found in Knowth passage tomb in Ireland, It bears spiral motifs similar to those found on the megalithic art surrounding the tomb 📷 my own via Nat Museum of Ireland #findsfriday #Ancientbluesky www.museum.ie/en-IE/collec...

A finely crafted rounded macehead made from cream and brown flint and carved with spiral motifs and ridges

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A medieval wooden coffin embedded in a ruined wall at St John the Baptist Church, Chester, which dates to C11-12th Supposedly it was installed here after a church sexton unearthed it in C19th. The inscription reads ‘Dust to dust’ #mementomorimonday #MedievalMonday www.atlasobscura.com/places/25205

A warped wooden coffin embedded in a stone wall beside a medieval arch

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Caerphilly Castle, still not talking any shit after 700 years

Formidable castle with high walls and towers in the middle of a moat, one tower leaning sharply

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🎶 In the jungle, the mighty jungle

A black cat (Monty) peering out from giant leaves

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy summer solstice! Had the privilege recently of filming early morning at Stonehenge. To stand in the centre with the trilithons towering over you, it feels like an open air cathedral. An immensely powerful place, even after 4,500 years #Standingstonesunday #summersolstice #summersolstice2026

Centre of Stonehenge, early morning with no one in sight. Trilithon to one side with the outer ring beyond it. 📷 my own

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The supposed severed hand of a 19th century card cheat clutching his final hand of cards. On display at the 15th century Salisbury pub, the Haunch of Venison www.atlasobscura.com/places/61475

A bony hand with playing cards, covered in dust and brick fragments, on display behind bars and lit by orange light

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Carthaginian jewelry, 6-7th century BC #findsfriday 📷 my own, Bardo National Museum, Tunis

Bracelet with variously colored beads, some gold with intricate designs

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Today, and every day, trans rights are human rights

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Banteay Srei, 10th century. Angkor, Cambodia. 📸 my own #ancientsite #Ancientbluesky

Elaborately carved stone temple with three prangs on a raised stone platform. Tall trees in background

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The three main temples of the complex. Easily as impressive imo as the headline grabbing Borobudur!

Three elaborately carved stone temples in the middle distance, each tapering in layers to a point. Smaller similar temples behind them and stone rubble in the near distance.

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The beautifully preserved/restored Prambanan temple complex in Central Java, Indonesia, built 9th century CE by the Mataram Kingdom and dedicated to Siva, Vishnu and Brahma 📸 mine #archaeology #Ancientbluesky #temple

An ancient stone temple, elaborately carved, with a layered pyramidal top. In the foreground, a stone walkway with a line of round, crown like decorations on its wall

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A beautiful Oriental Pied Hornbill (and doesn’t he know it!) 📸 my own. Pangkor island, Malaysia #birds #nature #birdphotography

A large black and white hornbill with a long, curving beak, yellow with and a bony prominence running along the top

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Beautiful mossy forest in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia (jungle trail 3 - 5 is the way to go!) 📸 my own #forestfriday #treemagic #forests #moss

A cluster of gnarled trees covered in thick moss and lichen, dark and atmospheric like something otherworldly lives there

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Sunset at Taman Negara in Malaysia, the second oldest rainforest in the world at 130 million years old (meaning it was a rainforest when the dinosaurs still roamed the earth!)

Rainforested hillside in silhouette with the orange clouds of a sunset above

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

5/5 Kids on bicycle by Ernest Zacharevic

Old bicycle lent against a peeling street wall with a painting of two small, excited children looking like they’re riding the bicycle

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

4/5 the Indian boatman by Julia Volchkova

Realistic street mural of an old Indian man standing as he rows a wooden boat, painted on a old colonial building beside a covered wallet

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

M3/5 ‘folklore by the sea’ (Chew Jetty), by Yip Yew Chong

Street art depicting a boy leaping, a fat man sleeping in a hammock, a child sorting fish and a cat looking down, all painted on a wooden jetty building on stilts above the sea

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

2/5 Boy on Motorbike by Ernest Zacharevic

Street mural with a real motorbike leant against a pealing red doorway with a painted young boy in a helmet looking like he’s sitting on the bike

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

A short thread of street art from George Town, Malaysia 📸 my own 1/5 by Alex Face

Street mural of cartoon boy with blue and yellow eyes dressed in a cat costume riding a scooter

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I’ll take that under careful advisement

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

The gleaming temple of Wat Pra That Doi Suthep, just outside of Chiang Mai Taken last Thursday (July 10) on the Buddhist holiday of Asalha Puja, also known as Dharma Day, celebrating the day the Buddha gave his first sermon. melting photographer not pictured, which is for the best 🥵

Buddhist temple with shining gold stupa, golden statues of the Buddha, and worshippers walking it around holding flowers. More flower offerings in the foreground along with red and green paper lanterns overhead

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

2/2 I was lucky enough to have it virtually to myself. Anywhere else, this would be a headline act!

5 tiered pyramid temple with smaller ruined stone structures in front on either side

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

‘Personally I’m a big fan of their early material’ 250+ years before Angkor Wat, there was Bakong. It was the 1st Khmer temple mountain - a representation of Mt Meru, centre of the universe & home of the gods in Hindu myth 1/2 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_a... 📸 mine #ancientsite #Ancientbluesky

A 5 tiered pyramid style temple with a tower on top, located at the end of a stone then dirt path fringed with tall trees

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Ruins of the 11th century temple, Wat Banan, just outside of Battambang, Cambodia (built by King Udayadityavarman II) #ancientsite #Ancientbluesky 📸 my own en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Banan

Two crumbling stone temples about 10 meters high, roughly pyramidal with a thick stone framed doorway and dark interior. Ground littered with stone and overgrown with flowering plants

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

A 10th century temple at the Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary in Central Vietnam, built by the ancient Hindu kingdom of Champa 📸 my own (this is temple B5 I think) #Ancientbluesky #ancientsite more info here www.vietnamcoracle.com/my-son-sanct...

A crumbling brick temple with statues and decorated pillars on either side of a dark doorway. Trees in background

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Entrance to Bich Dong Pagoda, northern Vietnam, a Buddhist site featuring cave temples dating from 15th to 18th centuries. 📸 my own

Buddhist gateway across a narrow stone bridge with water and boats beside the bridge and lush green hills in the background

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Exploring the 'City of Silence', Pakistan’s vast city of the dead Read my article about Makli, one of the largest necropolises in the world. Published by Globetrotters mag over on Medium medium.com/globetrotter... #Ancientbluesky #Findsfriday 📸 my own: Tomb of Nawab Shurfa Khan

Large, Mughal era mausoleum made of red brick with a blue tiled dome and blue tiled calligraphy over the 4 arched entrances. Built 1639.

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

One of the of the Bản Giốc Waterfalls on the border of Vietnam and China (on the Vietnam side)

Waterfall from green cliffs with aquamarine pool in foreground and green hills in backfield

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Rice and corn terraces, North Vietnam, just outside of Sa Pa, with our guide Su sporting a lovely purple umbrella Highly recommend these folks for trekking if you’re ever in the area: sapaochau.org/sapa-trekkin...

Steep hills with rice terraces and corn. Guide in foreground with purple umbrella. Mountains in distance.

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A work shift ended (1963) By NGUYỄN SỸ NGỌC (1919 - 1990) Lacquer painting 📸 taken from original

Vietnamese lacquer painting showing workers standing and walking, including a woman in loose black clothing and a traditional hat

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Very much so. One from the bucket list!

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Statue of Avalokitesvara at Vietnam National Museum of History, Hanoi (museum replica, original 1656) Artist Trương (family name), from Northern Vietnam 📸 my own

Large painted red wooden statue of seated bodhisattva with many arms and heads

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Statue of the Fasting Buddha, from the Gandhara civilization, 2nd century AD Excavated from Sikri in modern day Pakistan #FindsFriday 📸 my own via Lahore Museum

Dark stone statue of an emaciated Buddha in meditation posture

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Glacial river in Passu, northern Pakistan

Aquamarine river in foreground with spectacular white capped mountains in distance

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