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We look forward to collaborating on our joint event this Wednesday 29 May showing how your work is encouraging shifts in harmful gender social norms & wider systems transformation. Still time to join:
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#TombTuesday
Detail of central niche on rear wall, Tomb of the Reliefs, late 4th or early 3rd century B.C.E., Necropolis of Banditaccia (Cerveteri), Italy (📸, CC BY-SA 2.0)
#Archaeology #History

The Portland Vase is a  #Roman  cameo #glass  vase, which is dated to between AD 1 and AD 25, though low BC dates have some scholarly support. 👀🤩
#Ancient #art #art work #History

Grape agate

📷: Royals Stone

Chlorastrolite, also known as Isle Royale Greenstone, is a rare gemstone found primarily in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and on Isle Royale in Lake Superior.

Photo ©️: WildsuperiorGems

#FrescoFriday
Two frescos from a wealthy town house in Herculaneum, portraying images of fruit. 📸 My own.
#Archaeology #History #Art

The Bedale Hoard is 12 years old today! Obviously, it's much older than that, dating from the late 9th to early 10th centuries AD but it was excavated by Adam Parker and I #OTD in 2012. What a day that was! Happy hoard-iversary Bedale! finds.org.uk/database/artef…

Poppleton Road Memorial & The Poppy Road Project.

Unusual #Roman strips of elephant ivory found in a female burial 'near Mr Close's house' during excavations at the Cholera Cemetery in York. They are believed to be a Roman parasol, and have silver sheaths where they once joined together. #YorkRomans #archaeology

When recording Roman Trumpet brooches Portable Antiquities we describe their decorative mouldings as 'acanthus' style. This ⬇️⬇️⬇️ is what we mean. See the similarity in the deeply lobed leaves. Thanks to Adam Parker 🤟🤖 is in need of biscuits. for the plant picture.

#StandingStoneSunday
The surviving fragment of the Govan Cross, also known as the Jordanhill Cross, which was produced in the early medieval period by the Brittonic Viking-age Kingdom of Strathclyde.
#Archaeology #History

Rare Enhydro Quartz contains over a hundred moving bubbles, each in a tiny cavity filled with ancient water.

Formed in a hydrothermal solution, water in some specimens have been preserved within crystals for millions of years,

📹Rocks for the Spirit

The origin of the word ‘rune’ is so fascinating. When ancient Germanics invented their own alphabet, they called the letters *rūna or ‘whispers’, because as your eyes followed them, they spoke to you, silently—whispered not only words, but worlds. Reading must be magic to a

This is Rinka. She loves her dinosaur friend. Likes having someone around who knows what it's like to have teeny tiny arms. 12/10

Exploring photography beyond its ability to record a moment in time, #JuliaMargaretCameron and #FrancescaWoodman use this medium for creative storytelling, including the Greek myth of Daphne: the Nymph who escaped the unrequited love of Apollo by transforming into a laurel tree.

#Ad Why is Dame Mary Perkins, the entrepreneur co-founder of Specsavers, out on the streets of London selling The Big Issue? Find out below why we’re joining forces with the UK’s leading high-street opticians to provide free eye and ear care for our vendors #VisionForChange

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 Goldsmiths UCU The government has been dismantling arts& humanities for years and low and behold it’s now totally crumbling. Our uni is transforming into one ginormous STEM facility before our eyes, it’s extremely sad.

If Barbie had moths ...

#Roman bead made of Whitby jet, found at Hungate, York, 1950. It is flat and trapezium shaped with decorative grooves on its surface. It is pierced from top to bottom by two holes & was once strung with other beads as part of a necklace or bracelet. #archaeology #YorkRomans

He reckons the next few years will be the most dangerous we've ever faced but because of 'issues facing society'. Not a single mention of the global Heating Emergency. It's barely on his radar . Terrifying. 😡 news.sky.com/story/rishi-su…