#Museumsunlocked

How did funerary reliefs and other ancient artifacts from Palmyra make their way around the world? And what, if anything, should be done about it today?A thread for #MuseumsUnlocked Left:
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I know I posted a Greek monument for yesterday’s #MuseumsUnlocked on the Romans, so today I’ll try to right my wrongs by posting a Roman masterpiece in #Greece! Who wants
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Ancient #Messene - a city founded after the liberation of Messenia in 370-369 BCE. The site is impressive with remains of a very large market-place … here is one of
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Come with me on a guided tour of the central stone circle at Stonehenge! This is an abridged version of the tour that I usually give to members and special
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today's #MuseumsUnlocked falls outside of my classical comfort zone, but I would be remiss to not share the remarkable megalithic masonry of Sacsayhuaman, just northwest of #Cuzco in #Peru. This
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Roman #Greece is fascinating & today’s #MuseumsUnlocked is a great opportunity to shed some light on the archaeology of this period! Let’s head to the Acropolis to explore its most
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For today's #MuseumsUnlocked on "Loot and Restitution" I want to share the story of one of the biggest museum heists in history, which took place on Christmas Eve 1985 when
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A #MuseumsUnlocked on bone & ivory wouldn’t be complete without the masterpiece Palaikastro Kouros! Not only does it highlight the pinnacle of Minoan realism—look at that hand!—its excavation paints a
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Really excited that it's medicine & health day for #MuseumsUnlocked We'll be sharing #PharmHist museums & collections throughout the day- & would love to see your favourites! We have to
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#MuseumsUnlocked is full of fascinating yet frozen in time & place #EgyptThis #Egypt is exclusive & imagined. One you only see behind #Museums' glass display cases or digital screensNot the
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They say the best preserved Greek temples are in Italy, but the Hephaisteion in #Athens can hang with any of them! It’s in amazing shape & visited by millions, &
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If you like the archaeology, museums, & landscapes of Greece, Jordan & beyond, take a look at this thread of threads highlighting my posts on their monuments, artifacts & sites!
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A geographically-themed thread in response to @profdanhicks brilliant #MuseumsUnlocked idea, today is Neolithic and Bronze sites of the UK. Starting in the far southwest, this is Bant's Carn on St
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I’ve been looking forward to this #museumsunlocked. I worked for @HornimanMuseum for four years, most recently on their World Gallery, and I’m going to do a thread on an installation
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AFTER THE UNIVERSAL MUSEUM (Thread)My op-ed for @artnet published today #MuseumsUnlocked 1/ In the early evening of Wednesday Feb 26 the crowd thronged the opening of “Young Rembrandt” at Oxford’s
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#PrehistoryOfPenwith: A ThreadThe end of #Cornwall where I live, #Penwith, is incredibly rich in prehistory.I know very little about our standing stones/circles and fogous so this thread's here for me
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