Happy birthday to the City of Rome #onthisday A.U.C. 2778. (Rome was founded on 21st April 753 BCE, according to the traditional chronology of Varro and the Fasti Capitolinus.)

This looks great - can’t wait to read it! 😃👇

And so he shouldn’t! It is, after all, his sofa. And he’s just such a good boy 😍😍😍

What a wonderful boy! ❤️#SundayHuxley

Lioness from the Milan Archaeological Museum.

Milan has a lot of mosaics and I stocked up on photos on my recent trip!

#MosaicMonday

The fab feeling when you’ve done a viva with the awesome @valmhope.bsky.social and you end the week feeling so very positive about… well… everything really! Times like today I really love my job 😃

A meme showing a picture of assorted merchandise branded with the Fishbourne Roman Palace brand. There are jars of perserve, bags of sweets a badge and a notebook. The text reads "Beware the ides of merch!"

It's that time of year again....
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So close!! Can we get it across the line and into the safety of Leicester Museums Service, where it can be researched, studied... and looked after in perpetuity!

#Archaeology 🏺

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Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

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A youth kneeling on a roman mosaic. He's using a tiny brush to carefully sweep this immense floor while he quietly regrets his life choices.

Want to help keep our mosaics looking spick and span?

We're looking for a (very) part time mosaic cleaner.

Flexible hours and.... and we wouldn't joke about this.... YOU GET TO STAND IN THE HYPOCAUST!!! 🤩

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Help Save Leicestershire’s Bronze Age Torc The Leicestershire Torc is a stunning 3,200-year-old gold object dating to the Middle Bronze Age period and is the only torc ever discovered in the county. It was a piece of very high-status jewellery...

Help save the Leicestershire Torc!

“A stunning 3,200-year-old gold object dating to the Middle Bronze Age period and the only torc ever discovered in the county”.

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Oh oh oh - so fabulous! They are both so very gorgeous - and I LOVE their names! Currently in between piggies atm but hopefully looking to get some more soon! They just make my house feel like a home! 😃

Nothing better in the world than pigtures! Feel free to send through some! 😍😃

The founding meeting of the non-tenure #MCRHumNetwork on Tuesday February 24 at 6pm on Zoom
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Wow! What a superbly beautiful picture of St Edmund’s Cathedral Suffolk - really quite stunning 🤩

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Well they’re getting prepped! 🤣😂

Better than Hampy and Captain Berticle??!

@jezcarlton.bsky.social thought you might like to see this most excellently good doggy! 😍

And my favourite of his … “He’s not a-donis… He’s the-donis.”

Like Sid Waddell - BBC darts commentator - said of the success of darts player Eric Bristow “When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer... Bristow's only 27.”

February Half Term at Fishbourne Roman Palace - Sussex Past Live Like a Roman this half term with fun family activities from 16th to 20th February at Fishbourne Roman Palace, near Chichester

🚨We're reopening!!! 🚨

Next week we'll be OPEN from 10am to 4pm with special activities for youngsters. 🤩🤩

Bring your kids along and we promise to get them so wound up and excited that your drive home will be a living nightmare.

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But did it help with the networking??? 🤣😂

Love this! 😍🦉🏈