A display of a well preserved object resembling a bucket, with a triangular handle and rough, decayed texture. The object is mounted upright in a glass case within a modern museum setting.

A Neolithic well bucket made of lime bast and a willow handle, dating back some 7000 years ago.
Lime bast fibre is a strong and flexible inner bark of a lime (linden) tree that was, for example, used to make textiles or ropes.
Found in a well in Eythra, dating 5100-5000 BC. 🧵1/2

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My recent photo shows detail of Nephthys, a protective goddess on one side of the gilded wooden canopic shrine containing king Tutankhamun’s internal organs. Each of the four faces of the shrine has a goddess with open arms watching over the shrine. Nephthys stands upright, her body facing the shrine wall. Her face is turned slightly to the right in profile, showing her smooth gold-painted face. Her almond-shaped eye and brow are sharply outlined in black. She wears a long wig which falls neatly down her back, and a headdress (only partially seen) of a hieroglyph which identifies her as Nephthys. She wears a close-fitting, short-sleeved sheath dress with fine vertical ridges that give her body a slender, graceful shape. Her arms are outstretched, fingers extended, as if embracing and shielding the shrine containing Tutankhamun’s internal organs. The gilded wall of the shrine is covered in ancient Egyptian carvings and hieroglyphs. Nephthys and the shrine wall glow with a warm golden light, highlighted from the shadows of a dark museum gallery, thanks to the display lighting.

Exquisite ancient artistry!

Beautiful gilded figurine of ancient Egyptian goddess Nephthys, c.1327 BC.

Her outstretched arms spread protection over Tutankhamun’s gilded wooden canopic shrine.

Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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Hope the missile is ok.

Zealot.

My photo shows an ancient Egyptian Senet gaming board. It is a small rectangular box made of glossy bright blue faience with a separate sliding drawer at one end (shown at left) for storing the blue faience gaming pieces. Six gaming pieces are shown on the game board on top of the box. Three are reel-shaped and three are semi-conical. There are four reel-shaped pieces and one semi-conical piece on the display case surface beside the game board. The long side of the gaming board is decorated with alternating ‘Isis Knot’ and ‘djed pillar’ symbols. The gaming board dimensions are 5.5 x 7.7 x 21 cm. On display at Brooklyn Museum. Dated New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III c. 1390-1353 BC Here’s the Brooklyn Museum Catalogue description: “Top of board divided into thirty compartments with dividing lines glazed black. Four squares inscribed with numerals and a nefer sign. Long sides decorated with painted design of seven panels, each with alternating ankh and djed signs. Solid end bears painted Horus name (Amenhotep III?) ‘beloved of Amon.’ Open end pierced twice on one side. Base glazed black. Ends of drawer glazed dark and light blue in checkerboard pattern. Base and interior of drawer glazed dark purple-blue. Front of drawer pierced with four small holes (for handle?); sides pierced three times and two times - purpose not evident. Condition: Object has been assembled from fragments. Extensive scattered areas of plaster restoration. The drawer was probably originally much longer. Glaze worn in spots. Numerous firing cracks”.

A 3,400 year old Ancient Egyptian ‘Senet’ game board with gaming pieces.

Senet is one of the earliest known board games. Popular in ancient Egypt, it was associated with the soul’s journey through the underworld and was often placed in tombs.

Brooklyn Museum 📷 by me

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Pigs.

Israel’s parliament approves hanging as the default death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis. Meanwhile, human rights groups—including Israeli B’TSelem—report Israelis kill Palestinians with impunity.

This is apartheid, and anyone claiming otherwise is gaslighting.

At the forefront, the dome of Golgotha marks the site of Jesus Christ's crucifixion. From this location, the four rivers of Paradise flow: the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris (Hiddekel), and Euphrates (Perath). In the background, the Holy Sepulchre, recognisable by its entrance, is flanked by two buildings that symbolise Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

#MosaicMonday - A 6th-century AD Roman Christian mosaic depicting the Holy Sepulchre and Golgotha in Jerusalem.

National Museum of Bardo, Tunisia.

Down with the monarchy.

Omar: Trump’s idea of liberating women is bombing schools in Iran.

War criminals gonna war criminal.

The US bombed a primary school in Iran, killing 168 girls.

Why is nobody talking about this anymore?

These abominable war crimes should not be forgotten — and nor should the lives, hopes and dreams of human beings who were slaughtered with impunity.

My favourite thing about this war is that it's a complete disaster for the Americans. 🥰

Could've sworn the Americans won this war a week ago. 🤔

I look forward to seeing your boys being chased out of another country you illegally invaded. 🥰

They never miss.

An enamelled dragonesque brooch - part of a Romano-British hoard which found in c. 1845 at Lamberton Moor in the Scottish Borders. Dating to the 2nd century AD, the brooch is now part of the collections at the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shown from the front and back with some partial view of the sides. At the bottom is an eBL watermark showing that the tablet is about 5 inches wide. (eBL stands for electronic Babylonian Library)

tušāma ina urri iššira damiqtī
arḫu innammaru inammira šamšī

"Perhaps, at daybreak, good things will come to me
A new moon will appear, my sun will shine."

A couplet from Babylonian poem, Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, whose protagonist hopes for better days. A lengthy, beautiful, bizarre work of literature.

A circular necklace made of alternating dark and light cylindrical beads, with three larger flat, L‑shaped pendants hanging from the lower half, displayed against a black background.

This 6,000-year-old necklace offers a glimpse into the artistry of the Neolithic Schussenried culture in southwest Germany.
Its three marble pendants and jet‑and‑limestone beads create a striking black‑and‑white contrast, characteristic of the Schussenried culture's jewellery design. 🧵1/2

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Book number 7 of 2026. #BookSky

At least 148 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us.

Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

60,000 years ago humans were already using poisoned arrows Sixty thousand years ago, humans in southern Africa were already mastering nature’s chemistry. Scientists have discovered chemical traces of poison from the deadly gifbol plant on ancient quartz arrow...

People living in the Stone Age in Africa, 60,000 years ago, already understood how to harness toxic plants to improve their hunting success.

It’s the oldest confirmed use of arrow poison ever identified.

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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

A display of the grave goods, featuring a he chainmail shirt, a helmet on a stand, a long sword, small gold ornaments, and various metal, glass, and ceramic objects, all arranged against a dark background.

The early medieval burial from Gammertingen, 6th century AD.
The high-ranking warrior died in his early 30s and was buried with a Byzantine helmet (a so-called Spangenhelm), his weapons, and his mail armour, which consisted of about 45,000 iron rings!

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Islam is the USA’s target. DT is supporting Netenyahu in his quest for a Greater Israel.

It’s ghastly watching two warmongers cause this destruction & civilian deaths.

Down with the Great Satan.

Israel killing children as usual because that’s what they do

My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with its eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️

Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

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Three terracotta statues of Orpheus, sitting on a stool and playing his instrument, and two sirens, half human and half bird, standing in front of him.

Three terracotta statues of Orpheus, sitting on a stool and playing his instrument, and two sirens, half human and half bird, standing in front of him.

A highlight of early Hellenistic Taranto is the stunning terracotta group of Orpheus and the Sirens, recently returned from the Getty to Italy. While striking, their original setting, possibly on a funerary monument, remains a mystery.

Taranto, late 4th c. BCE, 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

Down with the Great Satan, dude.

A close-up of a small horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory with a weathered surface. The figure features a bowed head and arched neck, and all four legs are broken off. It's displayed on a dark, speckled platform against a black background, with soft lighting highlighting its contours.

As I'm attending a conference in Tübingen today, for #findsfriday an #IceAge masterpiece that is on display at the University museum: a tiny but most splendid figurine from the Swabian Jura - a #horse carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago - the oldest known sculpture of a horse.

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