Holy ground: why Persian carpets play an important symbolic role in the funeral of Pope Francis For over 600 years carpets from Anatolia, Turkey and Persia have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists including Andrea del Verrochio to indicate a carefully defined, sacre...

Holy grounds www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/25/h...

A drawing of a Viking gravestone, which was in fact a prank and a fake used to lure an Antiquary into making a discovery which was a fraud.

Think you're good at spotting a fake? Come join us at Burlington House this Friday to take part on our Spot the Fakes' open day! It's free and you can drop in from 11am - 3.30pm. www.sal.org.uk/event/openfr...

No it’s not like that. But it was only first broadcast this morning, so you only have a chance to fall asleep to it (fully endorse) this evening.

Have you had an opportunity to hear the episode?

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Cyrus the Great Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.

*dons tin hat* 👀 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Title page in German of the first volume of Heeren’s researches into the peoples of the ancient world featuring a creative mash-up of Persepolitan architecture.

Designated intermittent KCL special collections MA seminar snapshot thread…

Help us by following and sharing @biblioiranica.bsky.social on here or by subscribing to our emails at the bottom of our website. We have been announcing publications relating to ancient and pre-Islamic Iran for 10 years. This is not for profit, wet just love to know that you know where to find us 😊

Will do!

Holbein rug | Oriental, Persian, Wool | Britannica Holbein rug, any of several types of 15th- to 17th-century Anatolian floor coverings, the patterns of which appear in paintings by the German painter Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1593). The best-k...

*(Turkish carpet www.britannica.com/art/Holbein-...) 😊

I’m going to assume someone mistakenly replaced “millennium” with “century” here. 👀

Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund 2024-25 The Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund was established according to the terms of the will of Sir Aurel Stein FBA, to commemorate his friendship with Sir Thomas Arnold FBA, for 'the encouragement of researc...

Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund for research on 'the antiquities or historical geography or early history or arts of those parts of Asia which come within the sphere of the ancient civilisations of India, China, and Iran, including Central Asia' is open. Award c. £2.5k; max £5k; deadline 8 Jan 25. 1/2

Doctoral fellowships at the National Trust Find out more about the doctoral fellowships available through the partnership between the National Trust and the British Library.

Funded 3 month Doctoral Fellowship opportunity:

'Presenting Agatha Christie to diverse audiences at the British Library and the National Trust's Greenway House'

Deadline for applications 15 December: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/r...

Please shoot me now

Anyone want an Aldine title page? Yes, yes you do.

Turkish pomegranate from Ocado vs pomegranate from Turkish grocery on Green Lanes #presentedwithoutcomment

Thanks Greg! With fewer recreational explosives going off, hers certainly will 🧨

Black cat white whiskers hunched in the space under a bath.

Tough weekend

Objects, space & imagination

Introductory panel for A Persian paradise in the Sissinghurst Library

Open photo album showing pictures of Iran in the 1920:, surrounded by 13th century ceramic sherds.

Scenes from an exhibition opening

Good sub-editor 😂

Sissinghurst Castle’s newest exhibition reveals its ancient treasures The exhibition has uncovered the true provenance of the ancient artefacts ‘collected’ by Vita Sackville-West

Might as well kick off here with a preview of the exhibition I’ve been assisting with at Sissinghurst in Kent: surfacing another place, another time, in an English family estate: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-...

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