WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.

📷 Royal Ontario Museum
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I always find the survival of glass from antiquity to be amazing, but sometimes you come across quite extraordinary pieces.

This Romano-Germanic glass item is moulded into the form of a little fish or whale and it’s delightful.

🏛️📷Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne
🏺 #AncientBlueSky

Detail of the provenance mark reading: Catrina Leoners hoort dit bouck toe, die het vindt die doet haer weer om een appel of een peer die het en doet

First page in the manuscript with a decorated letter A in blue and red and border decoration in green and red

Finder’s fee: seasonal fruit.

Early modern provenance mark on the flyleaf in a 16th-century illuminated manuscript: ‘This book belongs to Catrina Leoners. Whoever finds it should return it to her for an apple or a pear…’

#rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 💙📚📜

ALA Prevails in Federal Lawsuit to Preserve IMLS. ALA 150, American Library Association.

ALA and our co-plaintiff AFSCME have signed a binding settlement agreement with the federal government, keeping the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) intact. This marks the conclusion of ALA's lawsuit - and victory for library supporters. The settlement follows the dismissal earlier this week of the appeal in a separate, related case. But the fight isn't over.

"When the administration began shuttering IMLS last year, it set off a chain reaction. Libraries across the country started cutting hours, staff and services people rely on - after school programs, support for jobseekers and connection for older adults. This settlement protects life-changing library services for communities across the country. ALA will continue to defend every American's freedom to read and learn.” - ALA President Sam Helmick

MORE NEWS: ALA & our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social have prevailed in our lawsuit to preserve the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS)!

Our binding settlement agreement with the Dept. of Justice protects the agency and its congressionally mandated work. More: www.ala.org/news/2026/04...

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: We cannot simply speak about withdrawing from Donbas as a matter of compromise. Our withdrawal from Donbas would open up opportunities for the Russian Federation to occupy our most fortified territories without losses.

People across Lebanon were holding their breath for a ceasefire agreement, but a wave of deadly strikes plunged the country into panic and chaos. Many who had begun thinking of the moment when they might return to their homes have been rushing to streets and hospitals, searching for missing loved ones or seeking a safety that feels increasingly out of reach.”

We are outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations.

Read more: ms.spr.ly/63322QNhSA

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

Exposition « Inoubliables » : plus de 40 femmes artistes des anciens Pays-Bas sortent enfin de l'ombre au musée des beaux-arts de Gand Nombre d’artistes femmes flamandes et hollandaises, actives dans les années 1600 à 1750, ont réussi à se faire un nom de leur vivant, et à conquérir une place dans le monde artistique et sur le marché...

Plus de 40 femmes artistes des anciens Pays-Bas sortent enfin de l’ombre au musée des beaux-arts de Gand. #Exposition
www.connaissancedesarts.com/arts-exposit...

The title page of a pamphlet printed in York in 1739 regarding the trial and execution of the notorious highwayman Richard Turpin. The pamphlet details the trial of Richard Turpin on March 22, 1739, at York Assizes before Sir William Chapple,. It includes an exact account of Turpin from his arrival in Yorkshire until his imprisonment at York Castle. The document contains a copy of a letter to his father, details of his behavior at execution on April 7, 1739, and his confession to the hangman regarding robberies and murder

🧵On tomorrow's date, 7 April in 1739, Richard (Dick)Turpin, was executed in York. A violent criminal - not the romantic hero later legends made him out to be. Though often remembered as a dashing highwayman, Turpin was in reality a poacher, burglar, horse thief, and killer.

Russia's greatest disinfo campaign They're not winning the war. And some other thoughts about where we are.

'That Russia is winning the war is the greatest disinformation campaign Putin’s regime has ever launched.' @sianushka.bsky.social
sianushka.substack.com/p/russias-gr...

It’s #MosaicMonday in 🇦🇺 so here’s the cockerel-headed man of Brading Roman Villa. There’s been much discussion about this. My favourite interpretation is the villa owner, living in disgrace in Britannia, is making a joke about the emperor Constantius Gallus (cockerel in Latin) who exiled him.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

A must read

This image is a vintage Easter Greetings postcard featuring a common aesthetic from the late 19th to early 20th century. The illustration depicts two small children in a grassy field surrounded by large white eggs and small yellow chicks. One child is shown using a hammer to crack open an egg, a popular and somewhat absurd theme in Victorian-era greeting cards. The postcard style is reminiscent of Swedish illustrator Jenny Nyström's work, which often depicted children in holiday scenes. Such postcards were widely sent during the Victorian era and early 20th century

This item is a vintage Victorian-era postcard titled "Easter Greetings". It features a humorous and somewhat surreal illustration of a boy falling headfirst into a giant egg while another child watches. Such postcards were popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often featuring unusual or whimsical themes rather than traditional religious imagery. This specific postcard design is sometimes referred to as "Weird Victorian Easter Greetings" by collectors.

This image is a vintage Easter greeting card featuring four rabbits dancing while inside large, colorful eggs. The card has a distinctive Victorian or Edwardian aesthetic style, often known for bizarre or whimsical imagery. It prominently displays the text "EASTER GREETINGS" in the lower-left corner. Similar vintage postcards from this era are highly collectible and known for unusual illustrations of anthropomorphic animals.

As you know In the run up to Christmas and Easter I always try and post a few of the weird and wonderful Victorian/Edwardian cards and postcards. 😂

#INHALab Soirée-exposition Entre forêt et fumée : regards d’artistes sur les transformations du paysage

Cette soirée met en lumière les regards d’artistes du XIXe siècle sur les mutations du paysage.

🗓️ 07/04

👉 https://inha.pulse.ly/3rhyggjxty

#INHA

Qu'est-ce que la Révolution française a fait à la littérature ? La Révolution française est d’abord restée, dans les mémoires, comme un grand moment politique. On la raconte à travers les journées révolutionnaires, les assemblées, la chute de la monarchie, la Terr...

Et voilà ! On peut déjà écouter en ligne et sur l’application de @radiofrance.fr.
Un beau cadeau de France Culture, de Quentin Lafay et de son équipe. Merci !

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Rare Roman Bone Phallus Unearthed in Nijmegen as Museum Opens Forgotten Boxes - Arkeonews Roman artifacts discovered in storage boxes at Nijmegen’s Valkhof Museum reveal rare pottery and a unique bone phallus,

As @georgetakei.bsky.social might say "oh my!"

'Rare Roman Bone Phallus Unearthed in Nijmegen as Museum Opens Forgotten Boxes'
arkeonews.net/rare-roman-b...

De laatste communie van aartsbisschop Juan de Ribera (1532 - 1611), geschilderd door Juan Bautista Súñer in 1796 🎨
Daarachter is zijn lichaam opgebaard 🙏
Regelmatig wordt hij ter verering getoond 💫
Iglesia del Patriarca o del Corpus Christi in Valencia 💒

Good reminder that the Vatican Library is digitizing 80,000 medieval and humanist manuscripts, with free access. While this is invaluable to academics, there is also much of interest in terms of illustrations, as the example below shows - which could be great writing prompts!

Aryballos in the form of a foot with shoe - Greek, Attic - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Hoppin, James C. and Albert Eugene Gallatin. 1926. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, USA 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections. p. 18, Gallatin pl. 30.4, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Bothmer, Dietric...

Aryballos in the form of a foot with shoe - Greek, Attic - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
www.metmuseum.org/zh/art/colle...

What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history | Will Bunch The “No Kings” movement brushed off its doubters with a record turnout that gave protesters hope in an age of insanity.

I have a crazy way of reporting on 'No Kings' that's different from the NYT...I go out and talk to protesters about what they think

Sure, size matters, but so does the passion of a movement offering the 4-letter word that beats back dictators

Hope

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Scandinavia's largest 'burial mound' may be a monument to catastrophe, not a king New LiDAR analysis suggests Raknehaugen may have been built in response to a devastating landslide, not to honor a high-status individual. The study by Dr. Lars Gustavsen, published in the European Jo...

Scandinavia's largest 'burial mound' may be a monument to catastrophe, not a king. #Archaeology
phys.org/news/2026-03...

Ter gelegenheid van het zeventigjarig bestaan van Antiquariaat Brinkman is 'Drukkers en schrijvers in de Jordaan, 1670-1750. Een wandeling' van Anna de Haas verschenen. Met deze gids kunt u een wandeling maken door de Amsterdamse Jordaan:
mdnl.nl?p=19630

Modern reconstruction of a prehistoric bronze helmet with two crescent-shaped crests with red feather ends on display in a museum case

A stunning recreation of the bronze helmet found in a prehistoric grave in North Bersted West #Sussex

On display in the #Novium Museum #Chichester

Customised with two crescentic openwork crests, this was undoubtedly one of the blingiest hats in the British Iron Age

📷 March 2026

#FindsFriday

#Colloque « Découper suivant les pointillés » : images manufacturées à manipuler (XVIIIᵉ-XXIᵉ siècle)

✒️ Ce colloque s’intéressera au rapport triangulaire entre image, papier, et manipulation.

🗓️ 31/03 et 01/04

https://inha.pulse.ly/7d9o7ckihi

#INHA

Three historial illustrations depicting figures interacting with intricate clocks. Each scene features a detailed and colourful medieval design.

Remember to change those clocks! ⏰

Shelmarks: MS. Bodl. 421, fol. 004v
MS. Laud Misc. 570, fol. 28v
MS. Rawl. D. 1220, fol. 032r

#BritishSummerTime

At the centre of the dais sits Tyrannia, with the appearence of a demon, with horns and fangs. The figure of Tyranny has flowing woman's hair, a cloak with gold embroidery and precious stones, a gold cup in her hand and a goat, the traditional symbol of lust, at her feet. Below is the vanquised Justitia: the scales are broken and scattered around her on the ground. Around Tyranny's throne are gathered the Vices. (Taken from the Web Gallery of Art’s description of the fresco.)

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Bad Government, 1338–40, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

This Turin Egyptian Museum photo shows a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills. There is a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a clear round base against a grey background. Dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm. Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. It was formed by wrapping molten glass around a sandy core. Coloured glass rods were then wrapped around the surface of the vessel while it was still hot, and dragged with a pointed tool across the surface to produce festoon patterns. The vessel was left to cool and the core was removed.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! 🦆❤️

It belonged to a lady called Merit. Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so it would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, Theban tomb TT8. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin.

#Archaeology

Just flagging up this great digitisation on a budget guide from the HLF for small organisations:

www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/good...