maeve as a 3100-2900 BCE silver sculpture of "kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel"
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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love when the museum catalogue title has ebay listing clarifying text
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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I promise it's almost done, I just have to invent all sorts of dumb jokes like this that only me will find fun
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The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the entire
area between Phoenicia and Egypt was in 5th century BCE
ancient Greece, when Herodotus wrote in The Histories
of a "district of Syria, called Palaistínē"
The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the entire
area between Phoenicia and Egypt was in 5th century BCE
ancient Greece, when Herodotus wrote in The Histories
of a "district of Syria, called Palaistínē"
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Bronze hand-held mirror decorated with an image of Medusa, probably created in one of the Greek colonies in Southern Italy around the late 6th century bce
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Bronze hand-held mirror decorated with an image of Medusa, probably created in one of the Greek colonies in Southern Italy around the late 6th century bce
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October 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop, c. 620-564 BCE
Turkish cellist Jamal Aliyev performs Franz Schubert, Ellens dritter Gesang (Ave Maria), composed in 1825.
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― Aesop, c. 620-564 BCE
Turkish cellist Jamal Aliyev performs Franz Schubert, Ellens dritter Gesang (Ave Maria), composed in 1825.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I keep getting mistaken by a man bce of my content 😭 i have the penis curse
October 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I saw an old friend of Lucretius today at the Carlsberg Glypotek in Copenhagen! @adapalmer.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Naqad I culture (Egypt), c. 3,800 BCE
bone & lapis lazuli
bone & lapis lazuli
October 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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One of the great surprises at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale a Napoli (MANN): a wonderful scene with street musicians from a floor mosaic in the opus vermiculatum technique. #Naples
October 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Gold earring - 3rd Century BCE
Such beautiful workmanship in creating a tiny object nearly 2,300 years ago!
This Etrurian example was found in Volterra & is 1.85 cm high.
It has an amber head & has a cap covered in granulations.
Now in Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra.
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Such beautiful workmanship in creating a tiny object nearly 2,300 years ago!
This Etrurian example was found in Volterra & is 1.85 cm high.
It has an amber head & has a cap covered in granulations.
Now in Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra.
#FindsFriday
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Talatat: Portrait of Nefertiti
c. 1353–1347 BCE
📸: Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1353–1347 BCE
📸: Cleveland Museum of Art
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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"Around 59 BCE, when Caesar became consul in Rome, he established a garrison for Veterans Arno, calling it Florentia, the 'flourishing.'"
Such an enchanting, beautiful city. Florence, capital of Italy’s Tuscany region, home to masterpieces of Renaissance art and architecture. ✨
Such an enchanting, beautiful city. Florence, capital of Italy’s Tuscany region, home to masterpieces of Renaissance art and architecture. ✨
October 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The Heron in ancient Egypt. Respected.
1,2. Papyrii of Book of the Dead (Spell 17)
3. Vignette of Spell 83, BM
4. Golden heart amulet with inlaid polycrome glass depiction of Bennu, Annexe of Burial Chamber of Tut’Ankh’Amen, 1323 BCE, Valley ofthe Kings, Thebes ⚱️
Thx as ever Heroneer Hermes1861
1,2. Papyrii of Book of the Dead (Spell 17)
3. Vignette of Spell 83, BM
4. Golden heart amulet with inlaid polycrome glass depiction of Bennu, Annexe of Burial Chamber of Tut’Ankh’Amen, 1323 BCE, Valley ofthe Kings, Thebes ⚱️
Thx as ever Heroneer Hermes1861
October 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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To elaborate, 750BCE was the reign of Jeroboam II in Israel and Uzziah in Judah.
The Babylonian Captivty (there was only 1) was ~597-538 BCE
The Babylonian Captivty (there was only 1) was ~597-538 BCE
October 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Next week I will be a guest at the University of Mainz 🇩🇪 giving a lecture on military developments of the fourth century BCE as well as a workshop on approaches to public engagement in ancient history
Save the date! Late October @roelkonijn.bsky.social is giving a lecture and a workshop. #AncientHistory #MilitaryHistory
October 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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junip should be fine though because the first known mention of priapus was only in the 4th century BCE
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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All right well I think I’m probably not going to see anything better today than this sarcophagus for a pet snake in the Met’s ancient Egypt exhibit
October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene (7th–6th century BCE)
Creator: unknown
🏛️ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (object 322204)
#MuseumObjects #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt ##TheMet
Creator: unknown
🏛️ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (object 322204)
#MuseumObjects #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt ##TheMet
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Looking at the Egadi rams, I can’t help but feel they reveal how strained the Carthaginian fleet had become by 241 BCE. Some appear unfinished, with beeswax seams still visible and tool marks left in place, as if they were rushed straight from the foundry to the ships.
October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Davti Blur Hill Fortress: 6th-Century BCE houses and earthquake evidence discovered in Davti Blur, a Urartian fortress city in Armenia #HillfortsWednesday. Part of the ancient settlement of Argisztihinili, established in 774 BCE.
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The well-known Homerist Jenny Strauss Clay has a new, open access article in Greece & Rome on hero cults and the Iliad. She’s arguing that the actions taken for the funeral for Patroklos mirrors the establishment of a hero cult for Achilles. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Lord Yun (雲中君), the Cloud Sovereign, drifts through Qu Yuan’s Nine Songs from the Warring States period (475–221 BCE) as a spirit of change, neither fixed nor fully knowable. This Chinese deity, born of mist and motion, reflects the fleeting beauty of clouds: ever-shifting, 1/2
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October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Happy 6029th birthday, cosmos! According to James Ussher, today, October 23, is the anniversary of the first day of the world (in 4004 BCE). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_... ⚒️
Ussher chronology - Wikipedia
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October 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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