#Antiquities

Christopher W. Jones

cwjones89

Last week I wrote a tweet. A great many of you responded by 'liking' this tweet without comment. I will assume that all of you agreed with it completely.(j/k, why

Will

willehelmwonka

Sentiments like this is exactly why we need to deconstruct the conversation around what it means to be “civilized” or to have good social skills/manners/creativity. We must stop defining our

mesopotamian speech and debate club

bellahadith

Although I understand the intention, I think uncritically posting photos of Agatha Christie and her imperial / orientalist "travels" through Iraq is irresponsible. For many, Iraqis in particular, this isn't

BatuuBitch✌🪐

OakSims

SoFor anyone who doesn't know Star Wars, and is very confused by the new items in the pack, here are my photos from my trip in January.The Sims team did

Sarah DEMOCRACY IS BACK Parcak

indyfromspace

OK HERE WE GO: A virtual tour of Egypt's extraordinary archaeological and heritage sites, in 3D, courtesy of @TourismandAntiq as promised. Lets start with the sites of Cairo and Saqqara,

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

The Art Institute of Chicago refused to name the Alsdorf Collection as the source of the stolen sacred artwork the museum "helped" return to Nepal. Did they want to avoid

Trimontium Trust

TrimontiumTrust

For #GoodFriday, the Pilate stone, a damaged limestone block and which mentions Pontus Pilate, the #Roman Prefect of Judea from AD26-36. This stone, found at the archaeological site of Caesarea

Unheard Voice 🦋 🦋

unheardvoice07

All this debate about Vedas and the supposedly "aryans" is because of Max Muller and his dating of Vedas to 1200 BCE. He did it on a very ad hoc

Roberto Reitenbach

BetoReitenbach

Orlando di Lasso, Septem psalmi poenitentiales, München 1565 French translation of Flavius Josephus’ “Antiquities of the Jews”, Paris c. 1410-1420“Hours of Étienne Chevalier”, Tours c. 1452-1460 Destruction of SodomBible Historiée,

Dan Hicks

profdanhicks

This year's teaching kicks off tomorrow with a lecture for our first years on the beginnings of Archaeology. First slide: this 1618 painting of the Earl of Arundel gesturing with

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PratikTells

Antonia Maino Smuggled Antiques Out of India.Sonia’s mother, Paola Maino, and sister Anushka Winci owned the shops, Etinica in Rivolta and Ganpaty in Orbassano, the Mainos’ hometown in Italy.Thread..#AntoniaMaino@Swamy39 #AntoniaMainoHatesHindusHindu

George Vardas

VardasGeorge

The @BritishMuseum has launched a “collecting and empire trail” within the museum to relive its inglorious colonial and imperialist pasthttps://www.britishmuseum.org/visit/object-trails/collecting-and-empire-trail But the colonial trail

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

Ancient mikveh uncovered near kibbutz Hannaton in the Galilee in salvage excavation preparing for a new highway intersection.Hannaton residents trying to raise money to transport the mikveh to the kibbutz.https://www.jpost.com/health-scienc

Ethan Fleischer

EthanFleischer

Kobolds in Magic: the Gathering. Let's thread this! 1/9 In 1994, Wizards released Legends, the first "large" expansion to the game. The designers based the set heavily on Dungeons &

Dr Effrosyni Nomikou

f_nomikou

#MuseumsUnlocked Day 53 Museums, Sites & Monuments of GreeceLet's go... 1/ There are about 220 archaeological #museums in Greece, outnumbering by far all other types of museums. Most are -directly

TheMeghdoot

MeghdootDiaries

1/ Maraguda, Orissa: A lost civilization, many of its glorious antiquities submerged in an early 90s Jonk irrigation project- the site of possibly the oldest Hindu temple monastery complex(Shiva &