History
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Feb 12, 2022:
Neolithic chalk drum hailed as most important prehistoric art found in 100 years 🔗
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Feb 4, 2022:
More than 18,000 pot sherds document life in ancient Egypt 🔗
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Feb 3, 2022:
Three ladies dancing, two couples cuddling, one piper piping in ancient feast mosaic 🔗
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Jan 6, 2022:
A visit to King’s Quoit, the Neolithic burial chamber overlooking Manorbier beach, Pembrokeshire. …
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Jun 14, 2021:
Currently reading: Ancestors by Alice Roberts 📚
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Feb 25, 2021:
Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: code — Not exactly code but the 3rd century BCE …
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Oct 7, 2020:
Earliest frescoes in Venice found during mosaic restoration 🔗 They also offer a rare glimpse into …
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Jul 29, 2020:
New Research Reveals Origin of Stonehenge Stones 🔗 — Excerpt: A new study has revealed the origins …
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Feb 4, 2020:
Walking in London - Finding poetry, politics and more - a Flickr album 📷 🔗
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Jan 29, 2020:
A visit to St Pancras Old Church: Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir John Soane and Edward Carpue 🔗 — Excerpt: …
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Jan 29, 2020:
Mary in St Pancras 🔗 — Excerpt: And then outside, to try to find Mary’s memorial. It is …
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Jan 29, 2020:
Mary in Somers Town 🔗 — Excerpt: A few days ago I went exploring, with Chihiro Umegaki, the Japanese …
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Nov 23, 2019:
Doh! How does Homer get on at the British Museum? ★★★★★ — link 🔗
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Nov 17, 2019:
Helen of Troy: the Greek epics are not just about war – they’re about women — link 🔗
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Feb 15, 2019:
🔖 Stunningly preserved fresco of Narcissus discovered in Pompeii
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Nov 19, 2018:
🔖 The fresco “Leda and the Swan” - Parco Archeologico di Pompei
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Nov 14, 2018:
🔖 A gallon of 2,000-year-old wine found in tomb
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Oct 26, 2018:
🔖 Enchanted garden of frescoes unearthed at Pompeii
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Oct 21, 2018:
🔖 Peterloo: The man who ordered a massacre
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Apr 24, 2018:
Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece review ― Astonishing, ravishing, sublime – exhibition at the …
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Apr 13, 2018:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s remains rediscovered in wine cellar 📚
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St. Fagans Museum of Welsh Life Apr 7, 2018
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Mar 4, 2018:
Wall tiles at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens.
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Mar 4, 2018:
Wall tiles painted with split-leaves revolving around a rosette, c. 1560 - at the Benaki Museum of …
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Kerameikos Cemetery Reliefs Feb 21, 2018
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Feb 21, 2018:
I was very impressed with the ancient cemetery site of Kerameikos in Athens today.
The small museum …
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Feb 20, 2018:
Hobbling around the Temple of Hephaestus.
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Jan 4, 2018:
Early morning view from Trajan’s Forum.
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Jan 4, 2018:
Grave of John Keats in the Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome
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Jan 4, 2018:
The Colosseum
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Jan 4, 2018:
Circus Maximus
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Jan 2, 2018:
Colosseum
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Sep 17, 2017:
Photographing the rather bleak Carlisle Castle on a rather bleak day.
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Skeleton mosaic found in Turkey - "Be cheerful and live your life" Apr 29, 2016
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Aug 6, 2014:
In Herculaneum http://t.co/xFmPtqH6vu
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Bronze herm of a homeowner, Herculaneum Aug 6, 2014
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Herculaneum Aug 6, 2014
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Memorial Arch, Pompeii Aug 5, 2014
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Aug 5, 2014:
Navigating Pompeii http://t.co/3dvbfpjDlp
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Aug 5, 2011:
Stonehenge - thee days in Wiltshire/Dorset instead of two weeks in Cyprus! http://twitpic.com/61aesu