There's a new Trump-Epstein statue on the National Mall.
It's an enormous statue, spray-painted gold, of Trump embracing Epstein in a reenactment of that famous scene from "Titanic."
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Tomorrow. Join me, @clareshawpoet.bsky.social, @draflint.bsky.social, Harriet Tarlo and Melanie Giles for the Sheffield launch of THE BOOK OF BOGS. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Hvis du bor på Vesterbro/Sydhavnen, så hjælp lige Theresa.
Spred ordet 👇
Do I know anyone in Istanbul who can do me a huge favour in the next few days? It relates to my mother.
From my family in #Tehran— “It felt like night at 9 a.m. because of the smoke. The air is poisoned. I’m so angry.”
There is also fear the smoke will be used as cover for more attacks on civilians. #Iran
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
Characteristically excellent interview with @sasanianshah.bsky.social on the Sasanians and Iranian history. It manages the fine balance between introductory and detailed, it's interdisciplinary, it's fun, it's def worth your time.
Norouz, the Iranian New Year, is on March 20th. Looks like it will be the worst Norouz of my life.
USA er en joke, der ikke er sjov længere.
Remember this?
“If you take out Saddam, I guarantee you it will have enormously positive impact in the region"
A million people died, an entire society was destroyed in a War based on a complete lie.
Reports now that this has been revised up to 85 dead, with even more injured
A new Viking grave field opened up at Lisbjerg near Aarhus by archaeologists from Moesgaard museum. High quality finds include a remarkable chest. It’s thought the site is connected to a nearby high status farm. In 🇩🇰
www.moesgaardmuseum.dk/nyheder/viki...
Stone Lands Book by Fiona Robertson
An essential new addition to the #StandingStoneSunday library here.
Herslev metal goad with a figure of a horse attached, an x-ray showing the goad’s construction, and a reconstruction of the zoomorphic spur it was once part of . Photos by Museum Vestsjælland. Figure by Leszek Gardeła
The ‘visual grammar’ of the Western Slavic animal style in Poland, with horses, cattle and snake figures on jewelry and horse equipment. Image design Leszek Gardeła.
#OpenAccess
Gardeła, L., & Borake, T. L. (2025). "The Spur Goad from Herslev: tracing the Legacy of a Western Slavic Rider in Viking Age Denmark."
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On #VikingAge zoomorphic spurs and #Slavic iconography from Poland.
#IronAge #Medieval #Archaeology
A paperback copy of Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities sits in front of a stack of books
New book out now! 🏺Available to order or read online (for free!): Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia: Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews
www.sidestone.com/books/tracin...
🏺 Recent research suggests that thousands of earthen ridges and canals in the Shatt al-Arab floodplain outside Basra in Iraq, part of an ancient agricultural system, were constructed with slave labour during the early Islamic period associated with the 'Zanj rebellion'.
#Archaeology
#Iraq
“Fragment av föremål, platser, kroppar och ord - en vänbok tillägnad Torun Zachrisson”. Occasional papers in archaeology 89, 2025. Edited by Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Anna Kjellström, Cecilia Ljung & Linda Qviström. Photo: Linda Wåhlander
Last week the long in the making Festschrift for Dr Torun Zachrisson was finally presented to her. 84 short but sharp papers in her extremely wide sphere of interest.
My contribution cover stylistic influences in jewellery between Anglo-Saxon England and Gotland in the Viking Period.
Stunning Viking treasure discovered on the Isle of Man
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I believe you can look at this even if you’re not on Facebook- discovery of a Viking age boat grave at Senja in the far north of Norway
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Cover of the book The Vikings in the Hebrides by Niall Sharples (Windgather, 2025), featuring the Kildonnan, Eigg sword hilt NMS X.IL 157
Just landed on my desk! Fairly excited for this one!
Researchers have recently concluded that clay artefacts unearthed in the city of Hama in Syria are not musical instruments as initially thought, but instead they are baby rattles
#Archaeology
#Childhood
#BronzeAge
New Viking coin hoard found in the Netherlands.
After the Wieringen hoard of 1996, this is the second found in the province of Noord-Holland. Remarkable, 8 coins are Viking 'homemade' Frankish coins.
#vikings #hoard #coins #counterfeit
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There’s not much left of the Varangian guard pre 1080’s CE to sweep up when Roland Scheel took it through some deconstruction… (2023)
New Special Volume of the journal Viking available open access - Telling Different Stories. Combining perspectives on the Viking Age: journals.uio.no/vikingspecia...
Spending the afternoon with @grimfrost.bsky.social, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson and some handcraft 🪡
#vikings #history
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For anyone who is interested, the open-access version of this is now available: www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
