A standing stone carved with a stylised face. The ground around it is covered in fallen leaves and there are trees behind.

I am off to Brittany on Tuesday, and I hope to visit one of my favourite ancient (or probably ancient) monuments. Known as 'Babouin' (the Baboon), this enigmatic carved stone of indeterminate age can be found in the woods near Trédion. #StandingStoneSunday

A wooden toy horse on for wheels. Its surface bears incised vertical lines, chips, cracks from age. There is hole in the head, likely for attaching a string to pull it along.

Adorable wooden horses on wheels were pulled around by little ones in the past, too. A timeless reminder that play has been part of the human experience for millennia.

From Egypt, Roman period, 30 BC-150 AD.

📷 Julia Thorne/Manchester Museum

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Depressing

how it feels to read demotic

Yes yes yes, at least going for it, that’s all we ask. Thank goodness he put Bijol back in

This is what happens when 'treasure' can't be bought by a museum - the hoard has been broken up into individual auction lots & will disappear into many different hands, some overseas.

When do we start saying enough is enough??

www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/cal...

#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

This is a great idea. I am only 4 years out from my phd, working in commercial archaeology, but still trying to work on my specialist area and publish. Difficult on many levels, especially lack of access to resources (like literature).

So so so typical of us

So poor up front so far

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Pretty cool

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gonna do his best to hand this game to Liverpool

Ah yes

This is worth reading

People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine.

Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.

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Image uploaded from tweet

Image uploaded from tweet

🚨🟡🔵 Leeds United have agreed deal in principle with OL for goalkeeper Lucas Perri. Medical tests booked and formal steps to follow, as @FabriceHawkins reported. Deal in place to join #LUFC.

Subway style map to go with The Lord of the Rings, showing the different pathways of various parties throughout the book. The title reads: "Lord of the Rings Transit Map: One Does Not Simply Walk Ino Mordor When One Can Ride." The map takes up the middle part of the page, and there are two keys. The one on the left is titles "Standard Service Lines, and has color keys matched to the subway lines on the map. Lines are named: "Shire-Bree Commuter Line Old Forrest Crescent Wildland Scenic Line Fellowship Line Gollum / Sméagol Line Uruk Hai Express Three Hunters Line Fangorn Slow Service Rohan to Gondor Business Line Black Ships Ferry Service Oliphant Direct Line Army of the West Line Gandalf Express A smaller key on the right side of the map is labeled: "Limited Service Lines" and has color keys matched to the following names lines: "Eagle Express Paths of the Dead Line Nazgûl Search & Resuce Valinor Ltd." A note at the bottom reads: "* Mount Doom station only accepts Rings of Power in payment. Plan accordingly."

The other day I drew a subway-style map for The Hobbit, and it was very well received. Some of you asked if I could do one for LoTR, so I have!

Forgive the eel watermark; I'm working on making these something you can buy, if you like.

Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain would support UK rejoining EU, poll finds YouGov survey suggests majority support idea of Britain returning to bloc – but not on same terms it once enjoyed A decade after MPs voted to hold the referendum that led to Britain leaving the European Union, a poll has found majorities in the bloc’s four largest member states would support the UK rejoining – but not on the same terms it had before. The YouGov survey of six western European countries, including the UK, also confirms that a clear majority of British voters now back the country rejoining the bloc – but only if it can keep the opt-outs it previously enjoyed. Continue reading...

Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain would support UK rejoining EU, poll finds

Archaeologists discover 3,500-year-old city in Peru Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes and Amazon.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The 3,500-year-old city, named Peñico, is believed to have served as a key trading hub connecting early Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes mountains and Amazon basin.

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

"No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us, but any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Rewatched the ‘Do you want to win’ doc, brings everything back from when I was aged 11-14. Special time at the club and the juggernaut Leeds is @leedsista.com #lufc #mot

Please please let there be no substance to the Sargent or Ramsdale rumours….

Leeds United are now close to a deal with Lille for left-back Gabriel Gudmundsson. Understand he could arrive in England tomorrow as talks continue. Leeds saying nothing on it right now.

#lufc

The world club cup making top premier league clubs richer, who also make a mockery of the PSR rules. Making the premier league brand weaker as top clubs get richer and monopolise the best players.

Leeds United have confirmed the £5.2m signing of 6ft 3in centre-back Sebastiaan Bornauw. The Belgium international has signed a four-year contract.

Another one for the team of giants. #lufc

Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack BBC last week announced it had dropped the film over concerns it may create a ‘perception of partiality’

The BBC is destroying itself over this issue. Today it was censoring Glastonbury shows; earlier this week it refused to screen a doco it commissioned, because the film showed … doctors talking about what they experienced in Gaza.
Obviously BBC mgrs haven’t heard of the Streisand effect either.

Anything and everything Trump does is to benefit one person, Trump. America needs to wake up. Democracy or its form of it (that’s a conversation for another day) is being systematically dismantled as we speak, breaking the constitution, which the republicans are supposedly all about.

The fall of a republic "As a regular visitor to the US over the last thirty years and just back from the States I am getting a definite feeling that something is brewing"

"Historians will be working around the clock trying to understand how the Republican Party, in a few short years, got to the point where their loyalty is to one person and not the constitution."