How 'Chief of War' recreated the spirit and history of ancestral Hawaiʻi.
'Chief of War', Apple TV's epic drama, draws on the tumultuous period in Hawaiian history that ultimately led to the unification of the Hawaiian Islands
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British Museum’s controversial forecourt plans given green light.
Camden Council grants planning permission for new welcome pavilions and informal landscaping
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Round-topped limestone stele with a shallow relief scene; traces of pigments can still be seen. In the top register and on the sides are rows of hieroglyphic text; in the middle register, the deceased man, User, sits before offerings of food and baked goods, with a male figure (a priest?) facing him; on the bottom register are three kneeling female figures smelling lotus-flowers. A prosperous, fruitful afterlife with three wives ... and the little dog at his feet, with upright ears and a curly tail. A translation of the inscription isn't provided by the British Museum, so we don't know if the dog's name is given.
The funerary stele of User, who lived in Egypt during the 12th Dynasty (c. 1991–1802 BCE), at the apex of the Middle Kingdom. Here he's shown seated before offerings of meat and baked goods, with three kneeling female figures smelling lotus flowers below. *AND* ... 😮 🐕 🏺 1/
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Didn’t expect to see this fellow at the #samurai exhibition at the British Museum, but I see the influence now!
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Frontal photo of the entire gilded cartonnage of a woman at the Brooklyn Museum. We can clearly see the looped rose petal funerary wreath clutched in her right hand, held across her left breast. It's painted with a pinkish-red pigment. She holds a sheaf of gilded wheat in her left hand, held across her body below her right arm, the wheat drooping downwards. She wears a fringed shawl across her shoulders, tied at the center of her chest into a loop that looks very like an ankh shape. Perhaps symbolizing immortality. She's probably also wearing a himation that's pulled over her head in a veil - the back of this is painted with Egyptian symbols.
Alabaster bust of the Egyptian goddess Isis, in her Greco-Roman form. She's identifiable by the fringed shawl tied in a knot between her breasts (although this could certainly also be a priestess of Isis). Note the little curls in front of her ears, which was a style specific to Roman Egypt. This bust was probably once brightly painted. Romano-Egyptian, ca. 150-250 CE. Height: 21 cm (8.27 in.) British Museum, London (1972,0817.226)
Her knotted fringed shawl identifies her as a devotee (perhaps a priestess?) of Isis. We can see the same Greco-Roman style shawl on a small 2nd c. CE alabaster bust of Isis, seen at the #BritishMuseum. The rose petal funerary wreath and wheat in her hands also connect her to Isis. 🏺 4/
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The New York Review of Books calls FRIEZE FRAME by A. E. Stallings a "lively, ingenious, humane set of essays." @nybooks.com @consortiumbooks.bsky.social #elginmarbles #parthenon #Greece #BritishMuseum #poetry
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This is like when the BBC geolocated the Sounds content so "forrins don't listen for free" and just shrink the UK's cultural reach.
South Korea invests in it's culture and promotes it around the world, and we all know what Kimchi is […]
Closeup of the mummy portrait of the young boy, dozens of complex layers of linen wrappings holding it into place over the head of the deceased. Here we can see his straight Trajanic hairstyle framing his heart-shaped face, with its overly-large dark brown eyes and small pink bow-shaped mouth.
Museum photo of the entire mummy, showing how the portrait is incorporated into the complex wrappings, which form concentric diamond shapes down the length of the torso. Gilded studs are placed at the center of each diamond (some are missing), and gilded wooden feet emerge at the bottom.
The photos from the #BritishMuseum website give a better idea of how the portrait is incorporated into the complex layers of woven linen bandages. The gilded studs and gilded feet are symbolic of the incorruptible flesh of the gods and immortality in the afterlife. 🏺 2/ #polychromy #ancientbluesky
Love this decorative #britishmuseum fire bucket. Made of leather, it was part of the Museum’s fire protection (with its own firemen) in Montagu House & on view here in the front hall. We have a few buckets in the collection but this is the oldest. #archives #exploreyourarchive #londonfirebrigade
A graphic advertising the event. A stone face is in the background. In the foreground, text reads: 2-Part workshop. Open Maya Glyphs. Practical introduction to reading and writing Maya hieroglyphs. 8-10 April 2026. Booking essential. Limited places available. A UCL logo sits in the bottom right corner.
📣Open Maya Glyph Workshop (OMG)
Learn to read and write Maya hieroglyphs whilst exploring the ancient writing system of the Maya.
No prior knowledge of Maya glyphs is required!
🚨Booking essential: tinyurl.com/OMGwsko
#BritishMuseum #Archaeology #Workshops #Maya
A photo of red and black samurai armour in a glass case. The wall behind is painted black and a giant sign in lit neon red letters above the case reads: 1869. The Samurai class is abolished.
Is it just me or is this not such an ominous way to end your exhibition! (Okay there were a few more displays of samurai in modern pop culture but still!) #BritishMuseum #Samurai
A photo of a suit of samurai armor in a glass case. The wall behind the armor shows a projection of a silhouetted scene of trees, hills and buildings. The scene is dusk, the screen lit up in a gradient of pink, purple and blue.
I don’t know whose decision it was to light up half the exhibit with #BisexualLighting but it was a great choice. 10/10 for design. #BritishMuseum #Samurai
New #EchoesofHistory from @assassinscreed.ubisoft.com & #HistoryHit for #AssassinsCreedShadows - Samurai Armour: How It Evolved Through Time
@mattlewishistory.bsky.social speaks with #DrRosinaBuckland from the #BritishMuseum about Samurai Armor.
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A visit to the #BritishMuseum confirms that the Romans must have played cricket. Here's a statue of a Roman umpire in match regalia giving a batsman out. Billy Bowden notably used the same "Roman" style to dismiss a batsman. #cricket #rome
British museum on a Sunday - London
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Poem 820 - The British Museum
Lost in time
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WALL FRESCO SHOWING ARIADNE ON NAXOS, C1 BCE - 69 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM This scene from an unidentified site in Herculaneum shows the Minoan princess Ariadne after she helped Theseus escape the Labyrinth and he took her with him on his ship, leaving Knossos and everything she knew behind her. She fell asleep on the isle of Naxos with Theseus but awakened to find him already gone, nearing the horizon. We see her lying against a red cushion, half nude, raising one arm plaintively to Theseus as he's hauling up a sail at upper right. Her helplessness and dismay are poignant. She doesn't know what Theseus does: that he was ordered to leave her, because the god Dionysus wanted her as a bride. He was a faithful husband, too.
For #FrescoFriday we're looking at a #fresco from #Herculaneum now at the #BritishMuseum. This shows a scene of #Ariadne on #Naxos, seduced and abandoned by #Theseus, in a rare depiction of her fear and confusion, rather than of her discovery by #Dionysus. #AncientBluesky 🏺
The base of an Avar golden bowl which has a central scene of a griffin attacking a goat. Around it is an inscribed intertwined floral design, which is also around the rim of the bowl. Not illustrated, the inside has , a Byzantine-style openwork roundel which is circled by a Turkic inscription written in Greek letters. Its central cross hints that Avar elites knew about Christianity, perhaps via their interactions with the Byzantine empire. The Avars were a formerly nomadic people, they migrated west from the northeast Asian Steppe and, by the late AD 500s, established a powerful, multi-ethnic realm east of Francia, in present-day central Europe. In the late 700s, Charlemagne waged war against the Avars. Maybe, it was buried at this time.
Golden bowl - c. 750-800 CE
A griffin is mauling a goat. Other motifs may have adapted Byzantine, Sasanian & Islamic influences
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One of 23 gold vessels found in Nagyszentmiklós treasure. 1799
Disvovrred Sânnicolau Mare, Romania
In “Silk Roads” exhibition #BritishMuseum
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This is the recently conserved 1753 foundation deed of the British Museum, where Hans Sloane’s executors vest his collection into the hands of the Trustees. It’s now safe to be viewed & exhibited after being permanently folded since the 1750s. Harwell have done a great job! #britishmuseum #archives
How do you take a 70-metre medieval masterpiece and put it on a 780-square-metre screen? 📜 -> 📺
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at bringing the Bayeux Tapestry to one of the most famous screens in London.
source: Elliot Wheatland-Clinch - The British Museum
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And of course, this is just in time for #phallusthursday. Oh, those wacky satyrs …
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The Medieval Jug that Travelled from England to West Africa and Back www.medievalists.net/2026/03/the-... #BritishMuseum #medieval
FLOOR MOSAIC WITH ANTELOPES, C4-C5 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM This is another piece of British imperial spolia, dug up by Nathan Davis in 1858 and received by the British Museum the following year. It comes from a late antique domus in Roman Carthage and was probably a threshold mosaic between two rooms. Against a white background, two horned animals drink from a cantharos fountain whose waters shoot up and divide into two cascades which overflow the cantharos and fall into a square basin below. Usually the animals in similar scenes are deer, and they represent the spirit's thirst for God. In this case they're Bohor Reedbuck antelopes, which might have been found in North Africa when this mosaic was made, though now they do not appear north of the Sahara. Plants with red flowers dot the ground, perhaps poppies. Two fancy fowl, gallinules with their characteristic arched heads, fill the space over the antelopes' backs.
#MosaicMonday at the #BritishMuseum presents us with a floor #mosaic from C4-C5 CE #Carthage, where two antelopes drink from a #fountain, a #Christian metaphor for the soul's thirst for God, while a pair of #gallinules look on. #AncientBluesky 🏺
She’s wearing an almost identical necklace to this one in the #BritishMuseum (1917,0601.2737) - the style of links is the same as well. Romano-Egyptian, abt. 200 CE, around the same time as the mummy portrait.
Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst requested a reader’s ticket for the #britishmuseum reading room in 1908 to study women’s employment. In 1914 the Suffragettes committed an ‘outrage’ in the Museum & women’s entry was then restricted temporarily by the Trustees. #internationalwomensday #archives
