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Dear oh dear this relegation battle stuff is stressful #coys #thfc ⚽️

What to read this week: the persuasive How Flowers Made Our World We shouldn't dismiss flowers as merely ornamental – these blooms are world-changers, argues a vivid new book by David George Haskell. Michael Marshall is mostly convinced

We shouldn't dismiss flowers as merely ornamental – these blooms are world-changers, argues a vivid new book by David George Haskell. Michael Marshall is mostly convinced

What if, instead, foreign tourists from the countries whose heritage the British Museum stole were paid upon entry?

Ruins of a Roman outpost seemed constructed through ‘the works of giants’ — great listen here on the making of medieval #London

Tom Stevenson · Iran, Week One It may well be true that Israeli officials told the White House they planned to attack Iran with or without American...

‘Hours before the bombing started, Oman’s foreign minister, who had hosted a round of negotiations on 26 February, said Iran had agreed to essentially all the US terms. It didn’t matter.’

@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the US attacks on Iran.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Happy Nowruz my friend

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The USraeli terrorists (I am increasingly convinced this is what they are) have started bombing the beautiful Caspian province of Gilan, both Rasht & Anzali, one of the prettiest cities in the country and its only large port on the Caspian coast. This is criminal & has no purpose but destruction.

🙏🏼🙏🏼 #COYS

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“The sky over Tehran is black. Like the night sky…” a friend

“i cannot breath, I am breathing through a wet towel”. My mum

10.000.000 people are being choked to death. Tehran is surrounded by mountains. There is very little wind.

I’ve no words anymore

Since many seem keen to explain to me the finer points of a moral war & bring historical examples of just wars, let me pitch the book I edited on history of war in ancient Iran.

Ancient bone may be first physical evidence of Hannibal’s ‘war machine’ elephants in Western Europe | CNN Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

First physical evidence of Hannibal’s ‘war machine’ elephants? buff.ly/0avdhq6 #archaeology #ancientRome #ancienthistory #carthage

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Thinking about Rag-i Bibi rock relief of the #Sasanians with this magnificent #rhinoceros.

Very! Yay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We #sco 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 supporters in disbelief but will take it #SCOvENG

Elephant Bone in Spain May Be Proof of Hannibal’s Tanks With Trunks

Elephant Bone in Spain May Be Proof of Hannibal’s Tanks With Trunks www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/s...

Myth vs. Reality: Carthage, A New History Carthage, Rome's most famous rival, was home to legendary figures like Queen Dido and Hannibal. These dramatic tales capture our imagination, but the true story of Carthaginian civilization runs far d...

Want to know more about the real story of ancient Carthage — doing a 4 session deep dive into Carthaginian history starting Feb 27th - come and explore

How the Sasanian Empire REALLY Fell | A Conversation with Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani YouTube video by Sképsislamica

Why did the Sasanian empire fall? The brilliant @sasanianshah.bsky.social answers all m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTuk...

Thank you! Great to hear.

Myth vs. Reality: Carthage, A New History Carthage, Rome's most famous rival, was home to legendary figures like Queen Dido and Hannibal. These dramatic tales capture our imagination, but the true story of Carthaginian civilization runs far d...

Want to know more about the real story of ancient Carthage — doing a 4 session deep dive into Carthaginian history starting Feb 27th - come and explore

The elephant in the oppidum. Preliminary analysis of a carpal bone from a Punic context at the archaeological site of Colina de los Quemados (Córdoba, Spain) Prior to the construction and enlargement of the medical consulting room of the Cordoba Provincial Hospital (Spain) an archaeological excavation was r…

And this - a rare elephant carpal bone from Punic period contexts - elephant in the oppidum (great title too 🐘) but what kind of elephant….

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Buckland wrote this despite understanding that women of his time, whether his wife Mary, or #MaryAnning whose work he benefitted from, were serious, skilled palaeontological fieldworkers & thinkers...
Here's the @trowelblazers.bsky.social article on Mary Buckland
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/m...

It’s absolutely insane — there should not be interest on these student loans beyond covering cost — it’s a choice, about how we value education, training and opportunity for next generations

Now that’s a conference and location 👏👏

How the Phoenicians Laid the Foundations For Modern Commerce and Civilization Beyond the stories passed down to us through ancient Rome, of Dido and Hannibal and the conquest of the north African coast, the facts about the foundation of Carthage are only slightly less dramat…

@gevemac.bsky.social on the ancient Mediterranean realities, myths and conquests of the Phoenicians.

How the Phoenicians Laid the Foundations For Modern Commerce and Civilization Beyond the stories passed down to us through ancient Rome, of Dido and Hannibal and the conquest of the north African coast, the facts about the foundation of Carthage are only slightly less dramat…

“A novel is a minor conspiracy unto itself, a frenzied assembly of story and figures and motivations.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week.
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