Judith Herrin

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2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life”

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Decades pass, great people pass, the campaign to reunite the #ParthenonMarbles continues. Celebrate Melina Mercouri Day, today 06 March 2026.

📷credit for photos 2 & 3, #BCRPM

#reunitetheparthenonmarbles #timeisnow #TellTheStory

Golden Gate and the moat of the Theodosian Walls, now
a Yedikule bostan ("garden")

Walls of Blachernai (modern Ayvansaray), once in the northwestern corner of the City

Ask your MP to meet with ‘Dirty Business’ activists! #DirtyBusiness exposed the human cost of profit before public health. Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership. I’ve asked my MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March...

'Dirty Business' exposed the human cost of profit before public health.

Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership.

Ask your MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March & hear that message directly from sewage campaigners: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

37 million years old whale spine found in the hot dunes of Egypt. This is a complete skeleton, the first-ever find for Basilosaurus, a large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale uncovered in Wadi El Hitan, preserved with the remains of its prey.

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Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

A friend has asked me to share this petition to defend the Classical Languages major at Iowa, which is slated for closure despite having 18 majors. If ancient languages aren't supported at universities, where will they be? www.change.org/p/keep-the-c...

four brightly coloured european bee-eaters on a branch, one with its wings and tail flared

Good morning. My contribution to the @robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme of #FourOrMore and for the alt theme of #Blue - These European Bee-Eaters #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #bee-eater

Geology specimen photo

Super perfect Quartz Cluster grown on pink kunzite from dara pech kunar Afghanistan.

📷 mine_to_market

#minerals #geology

Mosaic of a Wild Boar on the Northern Aisle Floor of the Byzantine Church of Petra

Mosaic of a Wild Boar on the Northern Aisle Floor of the Byzantine Church of Petra https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mosaic-of-a-wild-boar-on-the-northern-aisle-floor-of-the-byzantine-church-of-petra-550

Fool’s spring. Good enough. There’s a shy Jay in the fourth picture

Statuettes depicting the four sons of Horus (Late Period (664-332 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Statuettes depicting the four sons of Horus (Late Period (664-332 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

The Sphendone consists of a series of massive vaults of the Hippodrome of Constantinople that were built into the slope. Just to the south is the former Sergius and Bacchus church, now Küçük Ayasofya Camii (“Little Hagia Sophia Mosque”).
Historic photo by David Talbot-Rice (1927)

There is strength in a collegium.

Oldest indigo-dyed textiles and nålbinding technique found in Bronze Age Anatolia Excavations at Beycesultan Höyük reveal Bronze Age indigo-dyed textiles and the earliest use of nålbinding in Anatolia.

As someone who has written on the ancient history of indigo for awhile now? This is exciting. archaeologymag.com/2026/02/olde...

Gül Camii (“Rose Mosque”), possibly the former the Church of St. Theodosia
Photos taken today

Weathering the storm The millennial empire of Byzantium, centred on its capital, Constantinople, generated influence throughout the medieval world. Edward Gibbon, who considered it as part of his Decline and Fall of the R...

@universitypress.cambridge.org
@thetls.bsky.social
My review of Fyodor Uspensky, James Howard-Johnston and Elizabeth Bolman et al. Worlds of Byzantium
www.the-tls.com/history/medi...

#FrescoFriday so let's celebrate the end of the week! Here we have a Pompeii fresco showing guests at a banquet.

One guests says in Latin "FACITIS VOBIS SVAVITER EGO CANTO" - "Get yourselves comfortable, I'm going to sing". Another replies "EST ITA VALEAS" - "Yes you go for it!".

#AncientBlueSky🏺

Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii) and the Marmara Sea at sunset

1204 and other aspects of Byzantium

Theodore Metokhites Presenting a Model of the Chora Church to Jesus Christ

Theodore Metokhites Presenting a Model of the Chora Church to Jesus Christ https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/theodore-metokhites-presenting-a-model-of-the-chora-church-to-jesus-christ-1320

The Alt theme for today’s #BirdOfTheDay is #cute. I can do #cute too. ☺️

Japanese carved brown wood image of a mermaid with sleeked back hair streaming behind her and a hand on her scaly tail.

#FolkloreThursday In Japanese folklore, eating the flesh of a ningyo, or mermaid, grants eternal life and youth. It was also said that Ningyo blood will cure any wound.

Boxwood ningyo netsuke, Tadayoshi, 19th century
collections.mfa.org/objects/19902

Walled Galata from miniature of Ottoman Kostantiniyye by Matrakçı Nasuh (1537)

Square glass bead featuring a checkerboard mosaic border in tan, white, black, and reddish tones, surrounding a female face with prominent white eyes and a subtle smile on a black background

A #Roman face bead: the miniature human face was made either through the cold bundling of rods or the hot working of pre-made parts to form the visage, which was then stretched to make a cane that was cut into sections with identical faces. This facial design had a relatively short production...🧵1/2

smiling woman dressed in black coat(?) leaning on metal stair railing with folded hands, apartments, stairway, city street just after a rainfall, bright sun

Portrait of
Toni Morrison

Jill Krementz
photographer

February 13
1974, NYC

Palermo, Italy 2024 #UrbanGaze #Photography #Architecture #Palermo #Italy 📷

This extraordinary vase of a bird-man, of high technical quality, is unique among the examples of Attic black-glazed pottery known today. It almost certainly relates to Aristophanes' well-known comedy The Birds (first produced in 415/414 B.C.) and may represent the costume that would have been worn by members of the chorus in the fifth century B.C. The body of the bird-man is upright, with human legs tucked under, and human arms wrapped around the bird body's overstuffed stomach. The head is a bird, except for somewhat human ears. The flared spout almost looks like a hat on top of the head of the bird-man, with a handle on either side, attached to the spout and to the feathered shoulders of the bird body. A little tiered circular stand is at the bottom.

This weird and wonderful Greek amphoriskos (flask) depicts a bird-man, but the explanation is astonishing. It almost certainly relates to Aristophanes' famous comedy 'The Birds' (first produced 415/414 BCE) and may represent a costume worn by members of the chorus. 🏺 #ancientbluesky

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