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Dr. Alexandra F. Morris @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy to have been invited to give the inaugural lecture for The Classical Association in Northern Ireland 2026-2027 this Wednesday October 7 at 6:30 PM. Come if you wish to hear more about ancient disability and Alexander the Great:

Event poster in three panels. Left: a fragment of the clepsydra (water clock) of Philip III Arrhidaeus, in dark stone, incised with hieroglyphs, a cartouche, and a crowned king offering to two deities, one with a sun disc. Centre, in orange italics: "The Classical Association in Northern Ireland presents:". In bold: "All Our Yesterdays: Alexander the Great and Disability in Ancient Macedonia and the Ptolemaic World". Below: "Alexandra Morris (QUB), 27 University Square, room 01/003, 7 October 2026, 6:30 pm". Right: Alexandra, a white woman with long curly brown hair and blue-pink glasses, smiling against a cream wall. She wears a black velvet dress embroidered with silver suns, moons and stars, gold earrings and a long gold pendant necklace. Along the bottom: CANI logos and icons for YouTube, Bluesky, Instagram, Ko-fi, Mastodon, TikTok and X.

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(355) History of the Seleucid Empire | Complete Animated Documentary - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikJG...

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History of the Seleucid Empire | Complete Animated Documentary

YouTube video by Ancient History Guy

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The Egyptomania Museum @egyptomaniamuseum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Day 277 of #photoaday A 1970s Europop disco song inspired by the boy king Tutankhamun 💃 🪩 🕺 #365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge #Egypt #ancientEgypt

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Garstang Museum and Research Centre @garstangmuseum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#ObjectoftheDay, is this stone #scarab which has an image of a #baboon on the back. The other side depicts a number of different #animals, including a #fish and a #gazelle, as well as a wadjet-eye. This scarab comes from the ancient Sudanese #settlement of #Meroë. E.1035

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm a fan of the "insular G"

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, September 30th, is the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation in 🇨🇦

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want to find out how to play this!

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The Egyptomania Museum @egyptomaniamuseum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Day 264 of #photoaday Dark and dramatic pottery that captures the mood of ancient Egypt… complete with little crocodiles 🐊🐊 #365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge #Egypt #ancientEgypt

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

J. Roberson “No One Should brave the Underworld Alone: A Scenic View of Ancient Egyptian Cosmology” Free Hybrid Lecture 25 Sept www.facebook.com/share/1CEDxK...

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The Egyptomania Museum @egyptomaniamuseum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Day 263 of #photoaday A stylised early 20th century scarab that was inspired by analysis of ancient Egyptian glazes #365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge #Egypt #ancientEgypt

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Eye of God - A Deep View into the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2dSe6yU

www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/Astrophotography/Nebula...

Been working on this for a while. Have to say it was probably one of the more challenging datasets I have processed due to the delicate combination of LRGB and narrowband data required to tease out the colours and fine structures in the nebula as well as the deep background detail.

About the image:
This deep view of the Helix Nebula combines light from traditional LRGB filters together with specific narrow Ha and OIII wavelengths to reveal the colourful and complex structures of this magnificent planetary nebula.
The Helix Nebula is located around 700 light years away towards the constellation Aquarius. It is one of the nearest planetary nebulae and therefore appears quite large and detailed although its surface brightness is rather low.
The nebula is the result of a sun-like star shedding its outer layers during its final stages of evolution. Several rapidly expanding shells of dust and gas surrounds the intensely blue stellar remnant in the centre, giving the appearance of a giant eye in space. The inner and outer shells were expelled from the star approximately 6,500 and 12,000 years ago respectively and are expanding at a speed of 32-40 kilometres per second.
The brightest ring is currently two light years across, while the faint outer structures extend to a diameter of four light years - the same distance as between the Sun and the nearest other star; Alpha Centauri.
Powerful ultraviolet radiation from...

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The Egyptomania Museum @egyptomaniamuseum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Day 254 of #photoaday A striking piece of 1930s glass jewellery featuring an Egyptian queen. #365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge #Egypt #ancientEgypt

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have something almost exaccyly like that, albeit slightly damaged. However, it appears to have been a butter 🧈 dish.

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mummy of a Young Boy (aged 2–5 years) in Shroud & Coffin Roman Period, c. 230-250 A.D. From Egypt British Museum. EA6715 /2 www.facebook.com/share/p/1FTE...

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Billywarren007 @billywarren007.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For all Egyptology fans and star gazers alike, ACRE is holding an event that should be of interest to you all :) #Egyptology arce.org/event/arce-c...

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ARCE-Chicago: Ancient Egyptian Astronomy: Quest for Immortality under the Starry Firmament of Gods by Alicia Maravelia - ARCE

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The Egyptomania Museum @egyptomaniamuseum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Day 232 of #photoaday One of the newer objects in the collection, a 2017 figurine based on an ancient Egyptian character from the 1966 Batman TV program #365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge #Egypt #ancientEgypt

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A 3,400 year-old Egyptian glass kohl tube and applicator! ✨ It belonged to a woman named Merit, and was part of her beauty case. Glass was a luxury material at that time, making this a precious possession. From Merit’s tomb (TT8), Deir el-Medina. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin #Archaeology

The Museo Egizio photo shows a small deep cobalt-blue glass kohl tube standing on a grey display surface. It contains a dark wooden applicator stick, of which only half can be seen. The main body of the blue glass tube is decorated with white and yellow festoons (a repeated curved motif like a garland). The festoons were created by wrapping white and yellow glass rods around the surface of the tube while it was still hot, and dragging them with a pointed tool across the surface to produce the festoon pattern. The top of the glass tube widens to look like an open petalled flower with blue petals edged with yellow arranged around the neck of the tube. The bottom of the container also widens slightly to form a base to stand on. This glass container held kohl, a dark cosmetic made from soot, fat, and antimony, which was applied to the eyelids and eyelashes with the applicator stick.

This kohl tube belonged to Merit. It was found in her makeup box, inside her tomb (TT8) at Deir el-Medina, dated 1425–1353 BC, 18th Dynasty. It was excavated by Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1906.

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Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

After the ancient city of Ptolemais was destroyed, shepherds discovered that they could watch their flocks from atop the ruined city walls—and they could pass the time playing board games ... archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2026/digs-discoveries/game-on/

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

MMA 21.9.447 Upper end of terminal post with cartouches of the Aten From Amarna (Akhetaten), Great Temple of the Aten, pit outside southern wall, Petrie/Carter excavations, 1891–92 Medium: Indurated limestone

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The Egyptomania Museum @egyptomaniamuseum.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Day 227 of #photoaday Rockabilly Pharaoh? A 1980s Scottish band who clearly had a love and appreciation for ancient Egypt! #365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge #Egypt #ancientEgypt

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Debborah Donnelly @debborahdonnelly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Egypt: New Discoveries in the Bahariya Oasis—Three Tombs and Numerous Archaeological Artifacts Unearthed #Egypt #archaeology #Egyptology www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo... Photo: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

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The Egyptomania Museum @egyptomaniamuseum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Day 226 of #photoaday 120 years later and this floral bouquet is still being produced by Grossmith London We wonder, does it smell the same as in 1906? 🌷 🌺 #365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge #Egypt #ancientEgypt

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Call for Papers by The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities / La Société pour l'Étude de l'Égypte ancienne. Deadline August 31 Information at www.thessea.org/symposium-20...

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Call for Papers, 2026 Scholars' Colloquium

Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities

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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A new study, led by University of Staffordshire, has found evidence of potentially hazardous microbial growth on mummified human and animal remains advertised for sale online – posing risks to both sellers and buyers.

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‘Real mummy’s curse’ behind sale and trade of mummified remains exposed

Experts have warned of the hidden health risks associated with the unregulated global trade of mummified remains

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Likewise are presented iw3-beef, wnḏw-beef, birds. They are fattened for the altars of He-of-the-dappled-plumages, to permeate his residence with their fragrance, to fill for him the altar with wine and šdḥ-drink, to present to him oil,... (WWO)

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

NGC 5972 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/jTFaCU

I can't explain this because it's too weird. I saw the image processed at this article and decided I wanted to try processing away some of those cosmic rays. Anyway, read that blog entry if you want to know more about it.

I spread the filters across the channels slightly to give it a more balanced look but [O III] is still represented by blue and Halpha is red.

The data is pretty noisy because it's all medium and narrowband imagery. Can't really be helped. Well, not without a bunch more orbits.

Giant Ionized Clouds Around Local AGN - Obscuration and History (HST Proposal 12525)

Red: WFC3/UVIS F763M + WFC3/UVIS F673N + WFC3/UVIS F621M
Green: WFC3/UVIS F621M + ACS/WFC F505N
Blue: ACS/WFC F505N

North is NOT up. I'm not actually sure which way is up. Sorry about that.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 09/08/2026

🚨 Calling all book lovers this #NationalBookLoversDay! 🚨 We list and review tons of the newest #archaeology books on our website, so if you're looking for something new to read, head over to antiquity.ac.uk/open/books

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Books and reviews

Read the latest (and archived) book reviews, review articles and New Book Chronicle, and find out how to submit your book for review.

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"Found in both houses and funerary chapels, busts such as this one were a focus for ancestor worship during the New Kingdom. " Miniature Bust, ca. 1336–1327 B.C.E., ca. 1327–1323 B.C.E., or ca. 1323–1295 B.C.E.. Wood, 3 1/16 x 2 1/16 in. (7.8 x 5.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, 53.246.

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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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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Nubian Decorated Jar 3rd–5th century C.E. Dimensions. 10 5/8 x Diam. 8 15/16 in. (27 x 22.7 cm) Brooklyn MFA 15.490

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A series of posts on this amazing survival. It's well worth reading them all.

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Sue Fleming @chefsfleming.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you look closely, in tiny letters, they have the ancient Minoan saying: "Don't even speak to me before I've had my coffee"

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows:

Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles. Each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines.

Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet!

Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins

Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines.

Bottom right: A central band delineated with white lines contains white 's'-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background.

This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My stomach and spine are those of Sekhmet, my buttocks are those of the Eye of Horus, my thighs and flanks are those of Nut, my legs are those of Ptah, my toes are those of living falcons. (BDQ)

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