Ulla Rajala
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Zoë Crossland gave an excellent McDonald lecture @cambridgearch.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Zoë Crossland gave an excellent McDonald lecture @cambridgearch.bsky.social
#OTD Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn opened #Tutankhamun's tomb on November 26, 1922. Howard Carter said he could see 'wonderful things'. Later he described it 'the most wonderful day of my life', 'everywhere the glint of gold'. #TutVember #Tutankhamun103 #Archaeology #Egyptology
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#OTD Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn opened #Tutankhamun's tomb on November 26, 1922. Howard Carter said he could see 'wonderful things'. Later he described it 'the most wonderful day of my life', 'everywhere the glint of gold'. #TutVember #Tutankhamun103 #Archaeology #Egyptology
Runsa hillfort lies high above the Lake Mälaren in Uppland in Sweden. During the early Iron Age there was a farm inside the walls. At Runsa are the largest boat setting graves in Sweden. In the photo the excavations in 2015. #HillfortsWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Runsa hillfort lies high above the Lake Mälaren in Uppland in Sweden. During the early Iron Age there was a farm inside the walls. At Runsa are the largest boat setting graves in Sweden. In the photo the excavations in 2015. #HillfortsWednesday
#Accordia Anniversary Lecture
‘Italy, Africa and the Central Mediterranean: changing perspectives on the 1st millennium BCE’ by David Mattingly, University of Leicester, on December 2 at 5.30pm in Room 264 in the Senate House, London. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
‘Italy, Africa and the Central Mediterranean: changing perspectives on the 1st millennium BCE’ by David Mattingly, University of Leicester, on December 2 at 5.30pm in Room 264 in the Senate House, London. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#Accordia Anniversary Lecture
‘Italy, Africa and the Central Mediterranean: changing perspectives on the 1st millennium BCE’ by David Mattingly, University of Leicester, on December 2 at 5.30pm in Room 264 in the Senate House, London. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
‘Italy, Africa and the Central Mediterranean: changing perspectives on the 1st millennium BCE’ by David Mattingly, University of Leicester, on December 2 at 5.30pm in Room 264 in the Senate House, London. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
The Nereid monument was shipped from Asia minor to the @britishmuseum.bsky.social The monument was probably built for Erbinna, ruler of Lycian Xanthos in modern-day south-west Turkey. It dates to 390-380 BC. It was influenced by the Ionic temples of the Acropolis of Athens #TombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Nereid monument was shipped from Asia minor to the @britishmuseum.bsky.social The monument was probably built for Erbinna, ruler of Lycian Xanthos in modern-day south-west Turkey. It dates to 390-380 BC. It was influenced by the Ionic temples of the Acropolis of Athens #TombTuesday
An Etruscan cippus from Vulci with Enrico Benelli as a scale. #EpigraphyTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
An Etruscan cippus from Vulci with Enrico Benelli as a scale. #EpigraphyTuesday
My review of the @jewrywallroman.bsky.social Experience in the latest @ancienthistory.bsky.social magazine #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
My review of the @jewrywallroman.bsky.social Experience in the latest @ancienthistory.bsky.social magazine #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
The workshop from Oxford. The take home was that more work is needed. #Classics #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The workshop from Oxford. The take home was that more work is needed. #Classics #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire has mainly 4th century mosaics. In 1864 the walls and mosaics were uncovered, in 2010 a mosaic floor running the length of the West Range and in 2014 a new mosaic floor in a reception hall were discovered. #MosaicMonday
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire has mainly 4th century mosaics. In 1864 the walls and mosaics were uncovered, in 2010 a mosaic floor running the length of the West Range and in 2014 a new mosaic floor in a reception hall were discovered. #MosaicMonday
You don't have standing stones in Britain and France. This menhir is in Qala on Gozo, Malta. It is roughly shaped, pyramidal and tapering upwards to a flattened top at a height of 3.9 m. Is it a real menhir or a sole remaining stone of a temple? #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
You don't have standing stones in Britain and France. This menhir is in Qala on Gozo, Malta. It is roughly shaped, pyramidal and tapering upwards to a flattened top at a height of 3.9 m. Is it a real menhir or a sole remaining stone of a temple? #StandingStoneSunday
Research at Olympia now in the International Mediterranean Survey Wirkshop #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Research at Olympia now in the International Mediterranean Survey Wirkshop #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Tom Rasmussen talking about the Tuscania Survey in the International Mediterranean Survey Workshop #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Tom Rasmussen talking about the Tuscania Survey in the International Mediterranean Survey Workshop #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Now in the International Mediterranean Survey Workshop #Archaeology
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Now in the International Mediterranean Survey Workshop #Archaeology
Falerii Novi in the International Mediterranean Survey Workshop #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Falerii Novi in the International Mediterranean Survey Workshop #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Volubilis is a partly excavated Berber-Roman city in Morocco, situated near the city of Meknes, that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania, at least from the time of King Juba II. It is a UNESCO Wold Heritage Site. #RomanSiteSaturday
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Volubilis is a partly excavated Berber-Roman city in Morocco, situated near the city of Meknes, that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania, at least from the time of King Juba II. It is a UNESCO Wold Heritage Site. #RomanSiteSaturday
Heard an excellent paper from St Andrews: hard soil data met classical ancient history! #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Heard an excellent paper from St Andrews: hard soil data met classical ancient history! #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Amphorae found in Leicester. Amphorae were used to store and import wine, olive oil, fish sauce and other foodstuffs to Britain and elsewhere in the Roman Empire. Now in the Jewry Wall Experience. #FindsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Amphorae found in Leicester. Amphorae were used to store and import wine, olive oil, fish sauce and other foodstuffs to Britain and elsewhere in the Roman Empire. Now in the Jewry Wall Experience. #FindsFriday
Today's Leicestershire Fieldworkers talk was on the Melton Mowbray bypass excavations #Archaeology
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Today's Leicestershire Fieldworkers talk was on the Melton Mowbray bypass excavations #Archaeology
@simelius.bsky.social giving a talk at Stockholm on the new methods in the study of inequality #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
@simelius.bsky.social giving a talk at Stockholm on the new methods in the study of inequality #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Volubilis in Morocco contains essentially a fortified Roman municipium. Covering an area of 42 hectares, it demonstrates urban development and Romanisation at the frontiers of the Roman Empire and is at the interface between the Roman and indigenous cultures. #RomanFortThursday
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Volubilis in Morocco contains essentially a fortified Roman municipium. Covering an area of 42 hectares, it demonstrates urban development and Romanisation at the frontiers of the Roman Empire and is at the interface between the Roman and indigenous cultures. #RomanFortThursday
Korpaberget is an Iron Age hillfort in Asarum, Karlshamn in Blekinge, Sweden. It is a hectare large with steep slopes elsewhere but in the north and northwest where there are two 30-metre-long low stone walls. #HillfortsWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Korpaberget is an Iron Age hillfort in Asarum, Karlshamn in Blekinge, Sweden. It is a hectare large with steep slopes elsewhere but in the north and northwest where there are two 30-metre-long low stone walls. #HillfortsWednesday
The second early career #Accordia talk look at the landscapes of practice. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The second early career #Accordia talk look at the landscapes of practice. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
The second session of #Accordia talks starts with a talk about architectural terracottas #Arxhaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The second session of #Accordia talks starts with a talk about architectural terracottas #Arxhaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Inscription at the base of Trajan's column:
SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS / IMP CAESARI DIVI NERVAE F NERVAE / TRAIANO AVG GERM DACICO PONTIF / MAXIMO TRIB POT XVII IMP VI COS VI PP / AD DECLARANDVM QVANTAE ALTITVDINIS / MONS ET LOCVS TAN[tis oper]IBVS SIT EGESTVS #EpigraphyTuesday
SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS / IMP CAESARI DIVI NERVAE F NERVAE / TRAIANO AVG GERM DACICO PONTIF / MAXIMO TRIB POT XVII IMP VI COS VI PP / AD DECLARANDVM QVANTAE ALTITVDINIS / MONS ET LOCVS TAN[tis oper]IBVS SIT EGESTVS #EpigraphyTuesday
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Inscription at the base of Trajan's column:
SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS / IMP CAESARI DIVI NERVAE F NERVAE / TRAIANO AVG GERM DACICO PONTIF / MAXIMO TRIB POT XVII IMP VI COS VI PP / AD DECLARANDVM QVANTAE ALTITVDINIS / MONS ET LOCVS TAN[tis oper]IBVS SIT EGESTVS #EpigraphyTuesday
SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS / IMP CAESARI DIVI NERVAE F NERVAE / TRAIANO AVG GERM DACICO PONTIF / MAXIMO TRIB POT XVII IMP VI COS VI PP / AD DECLARANDVM QVANTAE ALTITVDINIS / MONS ET LOCVS TAN[tis oper]IBVS SIT EGESTVS #EpigraphyTuesday
It is not only metal treasures that need to be bought to nation. In 2021 £150,000 was raised to buy a 1,600-year-old floor panel showing a leopard attacking an antelope that was unearthed in Dewlish, Dorset, in 1974. #MosaicMonday
November 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
It is not only metal treasures that need to be bought to nation. In 2021 £150,000 was raised to buy a 1,600-year-old floor panel showing a leopard attacking an antelope that was unearthed in Dewlish, Dorset, in 1974. #MosaicMonday