@mancent
Archaeologist and historian. Author. Course Director and lecturer of Independent Adult Education Provider MANCENT. Director Roman Gask Project. Loves all things Roman and Silkroad, and lots and lots of ancient glass.
#PressRelease🗞️ A page long believed to have been lost from the Archimedes Palimpsest, one of the most important surviving manuscripts of antiquity, has been identified at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, central France, by a CNRS researcher. 📜🔎
👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/los...
Here is hoping that there is better news soon for you. These are hard times and I wish you and yours a lot of strength and hope and all the luck you need.
The Forsyth Building was full of businesses, who all have been destroyed including one of the best Chippies in Glasgow (yes, I am a Blue Lagoon addict). Luckily it was Sunday, but my heart goes out to all of those, who have lost their livelihood tonight. Let's hope Central station will reopen soon.
All the treasures of Egypt and somehow I think I know where the next big queue is going to be in the Grand Egyptian Museum. Also are there replicas? Asking for a friend. :-)
But that look also says, "it was so worth it."
Mutilated grave of Bishop Wishart in the Lower church of Glasgow Cathedral.
Visiting the grave of Bishop Wishart of Glasgow today. Ally of Robert the Bruce he is one of those examples where the power of the #papacy in the 12/13th c severely interfered in the running of medieval kingdoms. And no that is not how we tell the story usually in Scotland, but.. #skystorians.
Your cat is so much more than what could be kept in a box. A lot of strength to both of you until you both realise that the cat is always inside and outside the box and Schroedinger was wrong. (Somebody with five cats in and outside their box and two who don't like boxes.)
A lead ingot in sharp light
#FindsFriday Sharp sunlight strikes across the Ceredigion lead pig during safekeeping in @rcahmwales.bsky.social offices 🌞😮
The lettering makes no doubt about ownership..🧐
IMP DOMIT CAES AVG XIII COS (Property) of the Emperor Domitian Caesar Augustus, consul for the thirteenth time
📷 My own
Greek inscription found in #Syria ’s Great Mosque of Homs may reveal lost Temple of the Sun in ancient Emesa
#archaeology
archaeologymag.com/2026/02/gree...
I had a great time today teaching the students at the European Gateway of #NotreDame University about Roman Scotland. Many thanks to Dr Tony Keen for the invitation.
This is personally depressing on a weird level in that at the age of 8 I told my family I would be moving to Berlin because I wanted to be an archeologist and that is where all the important people studied. At the time, I didn't realize that the Kaiserreich no longer existed.
Happy birthday!
Ah the collegial exchanges of the 1970s. Having read a lot of letters of Robin Birley, Annie Robertson, RBK Stevenson, R.Bellhouse and George Boon there are subtle hints that they preferred the free & frank exchange style of diplomacy. Some make x look benign, though with superior spelling.
Immer diese #Falschparker. :-)
The results of a magnetometry survey of the interior of an Iron Age hillfort, the outer ramparts of which are shaded in red and grey, showing hundreds of prehistoric roundhouses, post structures, ditches and pits
A magnetometry survey of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort Hod Hill #Dorset
Zoom in (you know you want to)
If you do you'll see 100s of 10-15m diameter roundhouses clustered along a road system branching out from the NE gate
© Dave Stewart 2014 / Bournemouth University
Happy #HillfortsWednesday
British gardening enthusiasts have a reputation in European gardens, for not just enjoying the views, but wanting to know 'how'. They ask questions about the type of soil used, pruning techniques, fertilizers, varieties. It leaves Continental gardeners harassed, bemused and appreciated all at once.
2/ so every ten years or so you 'ruin' your plant so that you can start again with a healthy bush 18 month later. It also helps with trimming back diseased plants.
It took me 10 years to realize that the English Maritime Climate means I don't have to do that anymore, because it is never that hot.
It's what you have to do with French topiary, but it's very different to how most English speaking gardeners do it.
With Continental weather surface pruning creates an umbrella, but a lot of the inside dies off, because of the heat build up in summer.
So you prune deep and get growth. 1/
I can't wait to see this, when I am next in Cologne. The area between the Cathedral and the Heumarkt is just on fantastic discovery after the other.
New discovery: During excavations in Cologne, archaeologists have unearthed a lararium, a household shrine, dating back to the 2nd century. This discovery is considered unique north of the Alps. Similar examples were found in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
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Age verification. I loaded my first computer games with a tape recorder. And 5 years later thought orange writing on black was very cool on my new Commodore. And yes, I won the fight for the Oregon trail and 'Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?' as well. I might spend my old age play games still.
I still maintain this is competition level housework...but it's fun...
Fun day exploring the Staffordshire Moorlands, including the church of St.Oswalds #church in #Ashbourne. Somebody tried very hard to copy Lichfield Cathedral at quarter scale. The grave effigies of the Cockayne family, which span 250 years are something very special
Timeline cleanser. I was very blessed today to meet #Hodge, the furry dean of #SouthwarkCathedral.
This Cat celebrity has everything (T-shirts, mugs, coasters, postcards), but what he really wants is attention, scritches behind the ear, and belly rubs - and he is such a good listener. Thanks, mog.
That's still before the fall of France and the U boat war, things got bad quickly after that. Try 1943.
Tom Baker is 92 today
Eher 1800/1820 (die Hose schließt modern und nicht in der Zugbrückentechnik) und wahrscheinlich Nordliches Deutschland mit der gestickten Kappe
*schleifen
Der arme, schon Hosen, aber immer noch Schleichen....#Iblametheparents
Um Carolina und Herr Acton gab es spaeter Gerüchte, aber die Motivation war dass sie erst im Kronrat sitzen durfte, nachdem sie einen männlichen Thronerben produziert hatte.
Und viele der Kinder waren ganz der Papa, was kein Kompliment ist.