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Tulsi Parikh
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Research fellow in archaeology @BSAthens. Greece, outreach, and migrant rights.
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#heraklionmuseum on Crete is full to the brim with incredible things! Here are some beautiful stone vases from the Neolithic period made by local craftspeople using colourful stone 😍 #archaeologybluesky #crete #greece #museums 🏺🪨
A museum display with 10s of small stone vases
September 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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A lovely day around the Attic coast. Here I am teaching our summer school undergraduate students at Sounion. Guess what I’m pointing at 😅 #archaeologybluesky #greekarchaeology
A group of students at Sounion with me in the background pointing to their left
August 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#mosaicmonday I saw so many beautiful mosaics during my recent trip to Ravenna! Here is John the Baptist baptising Jesus in the river Jordan personified as Zeus! Ceiling of the Neonian Baptistery, one of the oldest early-Christian monuments in Ravenna (5th century CE). #ancientbluesky #UNESCO
Ceiling mosaic with John the Baptist and Jesus in the centre and a procession of the apostles surrounding the central scene.
June 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Spring has sprung at Sounion! #archaeologybluesky #greece 🏺🏛️
March 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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⭐️ Call for applications! ⭐️
Are you passionate about making archaeology exciting/accessible? We’re looking for interactive workshops for this year's Athens Archaeology Festival, themed Myths & Mysteries, at the British School at Athens!⚡️🏺
More info: tinyurl.com/3a3wdmdr
Please share! #ancientbluesky
Logo with a teal background, ‘Athens Archaeology Festival’ written in white font with the image of a trowel Logo with a white background. ‘Myths and mysteries’ written in purple with the image of a hand holding a thunderbolt
March 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Incredible views at the theatre of Epidaurus, famed for its amazing acoustics - thanks to clever design, you can even hear a coin drop on stage from the top row #archaeologybluesky #ancientbluesky #greece 🏺🎭
A view of an ancient theatre with views of the mountains from the top row
March 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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I was somewhere between B and C too. According to the museum, choosing C partly makes you a deontologist…:
You are a deontologist: you make decisions on the basis of what would happen if everyone behaved the same way as you intend to.
February 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I went to Plato’s Academy for the first time today, where Plato founded his school in the 4th century BCE. Lovely, green space with a fun little interactive museum!
What would you do? ⬇️ #ancientbluesky #archaeologybluesky 🏺
Museum panel, which reads: You have four children and you lose your job. You need money as soon as possible. You know that your friend, who has no financial difficulties and no children, could lend you the money you need. Your friend would be more likely to lend you the money if you could return it within a month but you know this isn’t possible. What do you decide to do? A) You decided to deceive him, because in this way you will benefit the greatest number of people (yourself and your large family) B) You decide not to deceive him. Because virtuous people are not deceitful. C) You decide not to deceive him. If everyone deceived their potential lenders, no one would ever lend anyone money.
February 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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This #mosaicmonday, check out the work of Southbank Mosaics (now London School of Mosaic) a non for profit that combined working with vulnerable young people with transforming public space through art. I used to volunteer with them (10 years ago now!) and they’re amazing! www.lsomosaic.com/history
A photo showing part of a 30-metre timeline mosaic of London, created by Southbank Mosaics
February 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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A highlight at the Benaki is the new exhibition: ‘Africa amongst us*’, which presents objects mainly from Nigeria, Cameroon and Kenya through the experiences of the Afro Greek community in Athens. Important questions about Greekness, blackness and racism #archaeologybluesky #blackhistorymonth 🏺
A photo of a tailor in his shop, with an upholstered chair in front A statue head of a woman, described to have a hairstyle typical of certain African communities Different pots/cooking vessels
February 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The Benaki Museum in Athens has some great exhibitions on currently! ‘Ghika: a journey from west to east’ follows the artist’s travels through his artwork. There are also lots of references to his muse, travel partner and future wife, Barbara Warner!
One of Ghika’s artworks with the text: ‘wouldn’t that be an extraordinary experience? To go around the world with one’s love? Few people must have done it. Just think of it. But then what’s life for, if not for that?’
February 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Teaching on the Acropolis on an early winter morning - no crowds and gorgeous skies! #archaeologybluesky 🏺 🏛️
The Parthenon temple on the Acropolis just after sunrise
February 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A lovely partridge marching to the temple of Athena at Sounion, where archaeology and nature unite so beautifully 🏺🪶 #ancientbluesky #archaeologybluesky
A partridge in front of the ruins of the sanctuary of Athena at Sounion. A road, hills, and cloudy blue sky in the background
January 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I somehow made it into the winter issue of Greece Is, a supplement for @kathimerini.gr! Here I am working in the library of the British School at Athens! #archaeologybluesky
A spread in Greece Is magazine, with a photo of the BSA on the left and a photo of me in the library on the right! The title is ‘Building Bridges’ and the text reads ‘A nexus of Hellenic research, the British School at Athens has been connecting UK and Greek scholarship for nearly 140 years.’
January 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I recently went to the Museum of Modern Greek Culture and it is a lovely space! Beautiful, engaging displays on everyday Greek life, combined with traditional architecture and archaeology - Roman walls, Christian basilica, Ottoman houses. Worth a visit if you’re in the centre of Athens! #museums 🏺
A museum display showing several different types of vessels for cheese, milk, water, wine, olive oil etc. A wall with signs to the different exhibits in English and Greek, asking questions like ‘What did they cook? What do you cook?’ and ‘Where are you from? Where are we from?’ The stone archway and staircase of an 18th century (Late Ottoman) mansion
January 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Niki Evbuomwan spoke about curating a new exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Africa Amongst Us*, all about the Afro Greek experience, which opens in February 11th - go check it out!! And Angeliki Cosmopoulou about using storytelling for communication
Niki sat at a table with the students in front of the BSA collections
January 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Kostas Paschalidis spoke about his work at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and Ersin Hussein about her outreach work at @theegyptcentre.bsky.social in Swansea
Kostas Paschalidis standing in front of the ‘Unseen Museum’ exhibit with a group of students
January 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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For the past week, I’ve had the absolute pleasure of co-running a course on Communicating Archaeology at the BSA and teaching these wonderful students! Here we all are at Sounion on the last day!
Rebecca Sweetman, director of the BSA, and I standing with our students in front of the temple of Poseidon at Sounion
January 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Applications for the BSA summer school now open (for undergraduates at UK universities)! www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/unde... Join us for three fun weeks exploring Greece’s history and beautiful landscapes #ancientbluesky 🏺
A poster advertising the BSA Summer School: The Archaeology and Topography of Greece, with two photographs of students visiting sites - at Bassae on the left and the Acropolis Museum on the right
December 11, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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This was such a cool exhibition about Vrysaki - the neighbourhood expropriated for the Agora excavations - and its industry, architecture, people, and daily life. The exhibition has just finished but you can watch Sylvie Dumont, its curator, talking about it here: www.ascsa.edu.gr/events/detai...
A view of the exhibition space, with cardboard cutouts of the buildings and a map of the Vrysaki neighbourhood on the floor.
December 4, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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The Fitch Lab turns 50! 🥳 Congrats to the team running the event (celebrating half a century of archaeological science in Greece) and Shadreck Chirikure for his on point message…
Shadreck Chirikure giving his keynote lecture with a slide that reads: ‘unless archaeological science finds ways of addressing some of the world’s challenges, the world will find ways of doing without archaeological science’
November 29, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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The Archaeological Museum at Piraeus has an amazing gallery of some of the few surviving ancient Greek bronze (copper alloy) statues, found in Piraeus harbour in 1959. Here is an archaic-style Apollo - his identification, place of manufacture, and function remain up for interpretation…🏺
A bronze statue, probably Apollo, with outstretched arms
November 28, 2024 at 5:35 PM