These are gorgeous! The ancient Egyptian game Mehen (snake) used 6 x 6 marbles, plus a lion figurine for each player.

Different race/strategy game-boards and pieces are found across Western Asia back to 4th mill BCE (possibly 6000 BCE…!)

Perhaps the 4 x 6 pieces suggests a 4 player game…

Oh my goodness - what a blast from the past! I loved those games - the visuals were all in your head super fun….

A somewhat disgruntled #MosaicMonday Medusa(?)… wishing that the famous dogs at the centre of the mosaic would hush their excited yapping so her hair can go back to sleep.

Corner of the Hunting Dogs mosaic at Corinium Museum, Cirencester, UK

When in Rome…see the Etruscans?! Super fun to work with the fabulous @profaliceroberts.bsky.social and sparkmedia.tv discovering the Etruscans for Roman Empire by Train! Terrific site visit with Jamie Aprile, Colleen & Davide Zori, AC Gibbs & the San Giuliano team!
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Emma holding pot - pieces held together with tape

Reconstruction in progress - all the work 'behind the scenes' after the excavation! An Etruscan blackware pot and a horse tooth in the post-ex labs at San Giuliano Archaeological Project! Thanks to ceramic specialist @jerolynmorrison.bsky.social for the fab lab tour www.sgarp.org/excavations

Intriguing discoveries - thanks for sharing Alice! Weapons and ‘warrior burials’ are fascinating aren’t they? Removing all that metal from circulation? And how do we know if the deceased was a warrior or honoured for another status? A battered sword but also a battered skeleton - parry fractures…?

Clip from Jan/Feb 2026 British Archaeology Magazine

Really sad to read about the passing of the fabulous Mike Corbishley in the Feb 2026 British Archaeology Magazine. I was one of Mike’s first Archaeology and Education MA students in 2003 - he was an enormous inspiration and infectiously enthusiastic. He is missed @archaeologyuk.bsky.social