Sapinuwa
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I am an extremely over-qualified high school chemistry teacher. (Photos captured by myself unless mentioned otherwise.)
Today we plantes trees in memory of Ömür Kotan who died in Kartalkaya hotel fire last January.
November 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Today we plantes trees in memory of Ömür Kotan who died in Kartalkaya hotel fire last January.
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Whenever you think these days that the #TasTepeler sites have already turned everything we thought we knew about the early SE Anatolian #Neolithic upside down after so many years of digging at Göbekli Tepe, they come up with something even crazier ...
Meanwhile in Sayburç, one of the PPN Taş Tepeler sites of Turkey: A human head carved on the base of one of the T shaped pillars has been found.🏺😲
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Whenever you think these days that the #TasTepeler sites have already turned everything we thought we knew about the early SE Anatolian #Neolithic upside down after so many years of digging at Göbekli Tepe, they come up with something even crazier ...
Meanwhile in Sayburç, one of the PPN Taş Tepeler sites of Turkey: A human head carved on the base of one of the T shaped pillars has been found.🏺😲
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Meanwhile in Sayburç, one of the PPN Taş Tepeler sites of Turkey: A human head carved on the base of one of the T shaped pillars has been found.🏺😲
Grinded some cardamom into my coffee and it has a superb flavor😍
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Grinded some cardamom into my coffee and it has a superb flavor😍
Homemade döner kebab try. Not even close to the genuine Ankara döner. Come and see (the latter, not mine🫣).
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Homemade döner kebab try. Not even close to the genuine Ankara döner. Come and see (the latter, not mine🫣).
I purchased this phalaenopsis 4 years ago from the supermarket just to save its life, back then it just had a few air roots, for the last 4 years I meticulously cared for it to keep it alive, and guess what, it started growing a branch for the first time! I don't even know what color it will bloom!😍
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I purchased this phalaenopsis 4 years ago from the supermarket just to save its life, back then it just had a few air roots, for the last 4 years I meticulously cared for it to keep it alive, and guess what, it started growing a branch for the first time! I don't even know what color it will bloom!😍
In other news just after 5 months I was at the same city with Pope Francis today.🤣
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
In other news just after 5 months I was at the same city with Pope Francis today.🤣
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair
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Alright, one more. Because the big fancy stuff is cool and all, but sometimes it's the small thing which really take your breath.
Like … how about some #Neanderthal #fingerprint on an at least 80,000 y/p inconspicuous lump birch bark pitch? 🤯😉
Like … how about some #Neanderthal #fingerprint on an at least 80,000 y/p inconspicuous lump birch bark pitch? 🤯😉
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Alright, one more. Because the big fancy stuff is cool and all, but sometimes it's the small thing which really take your breath.
Like … how about some #Neanderthal #fingerprint on an at least 80,000 y/p inconspicuous lump birch bark pitch? 🤯😉
Like … how about some #Neanderthal #fingerprint on an at least 80,000 y/p inconspicuous lump birch bark pitch? 🤯😉
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Mosaic cornucopia-like scroll borders with various fruits and animals
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Mosaic cornucopia-like scroll borders with various fruits and animals
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
From the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
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Human-like faces carved into stone, a rare double-sided bead, and an unsettling sculpture evoking the stillness of death—Türkiye’s vast Taş Tepeler region has revealed some of its most enigmatic Neolithic discoveries to date.
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/a-new-wave-o...
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/a-new-wave-o...
A New Wave of Neolithic Surprises at Taş Tepeler: Mysterious ‘Death Mask’ Sculpture Unveiled in Southeastern Türkiye - Anatolian Archaeology
Türkiye’s Taş Tepeler project has unveiled 30 new Neolithic discoveries, including a mysterious “death mask” sculpture,
www.anatolianarchaeology.net
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Human-like faces carved into stone, a rare double-sided bead, and an unsettling sculpture evoking the stillness of death—Türkiye’s vast Taş Tepeler region has revealed some of its most enigmatic Neolithic discoveries to date.
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/a-new-wave-o...
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/a-new-wave-o...
😲😲😲
I mean, I'm seriously going to eat my hat if these eyes aren't meant to depict cowrie shells. 🤔
(Ashmolean's Jericho Skull for reference: www.ashmolean.org/jericho-skull)
(Ashmolean's Jericho Skull for reference: www.ashmolean.org/jericho-skull)
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
😲😲😲
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The more of these other #TasTepeler sites in SE #Türkiye is coming to light, the more fascinating the early #Neolithic of the region gets:
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The more of these other #TasTepeler sites in SE #Türkiye is coming to light, the more fascinating the early #Neolithic of the region gets:
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
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Who loves spolia? I mean, who doesn't.😍
📌Basilica di Santa Maria di Trastevere
📌Basilica di Santa Maria di Trastevere
June 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Who loves spolia? I mean, who doesn't.😍
📌Basilica di Santa Maria di Trastevere
📌Basilica di Santa Maria di Trastevere
Wow wow wow, look at the new finds from Taş Tepeler sites😍
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Wow wow wow, look at the new finds from Taş Tepeler sites😍
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Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865.
Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/aurora-borealis-church/
More images of Aurora Borealis in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World” https://buff.ly/38dxgft
Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/aurora-borealis-church/
More images of Aurora Borealis in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World” https://buff.ly/38dxgft
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865.
Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/aurora-borealis-church/
More images of Aurora Borealis in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World” https://buff.ly/38dxgft
Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/aurora-borealis-church/
More images of Aurora Borealis in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World” https://buff.ly/38dxgft
Reading cuneiform is magic
"Ur-Ishkur received 1 pair of shoes with long laces," dated Shulgi 37 (c. 2057 BCE).
CDLI: cdli.earth/artifacts/25...
CDLI: cdli.earth/artifacts/25...
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Reading cuneiform is magic
How can a human being click on the profiles of 122k accounts, let alone following them
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
How can a human being click on the profiles of 122k accounts, let alone following them
Yeah that's me, apparently sending my kisses to the red backed shrike couple🤣
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Yeah that's me, apparently sending my kisses to the red backed shrike couple🤣
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The colossal columns of the Hadrian Temple in the ancient city of Cyzicus (Kyzikos), on the Kapidag Peninsula in northwestern Türkiye, are coming back into view as excavations continue and reveal new clues about Roman art and religious life.
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/colu...
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/colu...
Columns of Türkiye's Cyzicus Hadrian Temple shed light on Roman art, faith - Türkiye Today
At Cyzicus in northwestern Türkiye, excavations at the colossal Hadrian Temple reveal giant Corinthian columns that illuminate Roman art and faith
www.turkiyetoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The colossal columns of the Hadrian Temple in the ancient city of Cyzicus (Kyzikos), on the Kapidag Peninsula in northwestern Türkiye, are coming back into view as excavations continue and reveal new clues about Roman art and religious life.
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/colu...
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/colu...
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18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)
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November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM