Currently reading: Ancestors by Alice Roberts 📚
Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: code — Not exactly code but the 3rd century BCE Brahmi script Edicts of Ashoka did need deciphering in the 19th century. British Museum, June 2015. 📷
Earliest frescoes in Venice found during mosaic restoration 🔗
They also offer a rare glimpse into the artistic development of the lagoon before it was completely dominated by Venice.
New Research Reveals Origin of Stonehenge Stones 🔗 — Excerpt: A new study has revealed the origins of Stonehenge’s sarsen stones, solving a mystery that has been speculated on for centuries.
Walking in London - Finding poetry, politics and more - a Flickr album 📷 🔗
Mary in St Pancras 🔗 — Excerpt: And then outside, to try to find Mary’s memorial. It is doubtful how much she would have recognised: some items (especially gravestones) have moved, and many (especially tombs) post-date her death, viz the Burdett-Coutts memorial sundial, the image to the left.
A visit to St Pancras Old Church: Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir John Soane and Edward Carpue 🔗 — Excerpt: Although I visit the British Library from time to time I always find myself too exhausted or too worried about getting stuck with rush hour crowds to spend an hour or so at St Pancras Old Church.
Mary in Somers Town 🔗 — Excerpt: A few days ago I went exploring, with Chihiro Umegaki, the Japanese historian mentioned earlier, and the Swedish performance designer Asa Norling. (Åsa had read the Scandinavian letters, and commented that Mary hadn’t much liked the Swedes.
Doh! How does Homer get on at the British Museum? ★★★★★ — link 🔗
Helen of Troy: the Greek epics are not just about war – they’re about women — link 🔗
🔖 Stunningly preserved fresco of Narcissus discovered in Pompeii
🔖 The fresco “Leda and the Swan” - Parco Archeologico di Pompei
Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece review ― Astonishing, ravishing, sublime – exhibition at the British Museum which I’d really like to try and get to see.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s remains rediscovered in wine cellar 📚
Wall tiles at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens.
Wall tiles painted with split-leaves revolving around a rosette, c. 1560 - at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens.
I was very impressed with the ancient cemetery site of Kerameikos in Athens today.
The small museum is excellent and I found the “handshake” reliefs from the cemetery particularly moving. They show the deceased, usually seated, bidding farewell to the living.
Hobbling around the Temple of Hephaestus.
Early morning view from Trajan’s Forum.
Grave of John Keats in the Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome
