#BritishMuseum

Aidan O'Sullivan

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1/ In 1939 at start of WW2, CW. Phillips posted hand-coloured copies of #SuttonHoo site plans & notes to Irish archaeologist Sean P. Ó Ríordáin explaining in a letter that

Dr Lizzie Swarbrick

LizzieSwarbrick

I’m very grateful to @rhona_ramsay for introducing me to this phenomenal c.1500 brooch made by a ceard (a Gypsy/Traveller craftsperson) in Lochbuie on the Isle of Mull.Now in the @britishmuseum

Bret Devereaux

BretDevereaux

Alright, I think it's time to get more ancient stuff on this twitter, so I'm going to start sharing some of my favorite ancient artifacts.Let's start with BM 2001,0501.1: The

Jen Turner

jen_e_turner

Many ancient Egyptian objects on display in museums today were created from quarried stone, but other materials were popular throughout pharaonic history & still survive in the archaeological record. For

Christopher W. Jones

cwjones89

Did you know that Assyrian queens used a scorpion to symbolize their office?A thread. In ancient Mesopotamia seals were used to leave impressions on clay. They could be applied to

Ìtàn / Tarihi.

ItanIbile

The Legacy of A Great Empire "This innovative project will investigate the archaeology of the Kingdom of Benin, including excavating historical remains of the capital buried below the proposed site

Jen Turner

jen_e_turner

Finally sat down to watch #SecretsOfTheSaqqaraTomb and it’s really interesting! Brilliant to see so many well preserved statues in one tomb too - & for #statuesunday why not have a

Andy Kesson

andykesson

I finally got to watch #TheDig tonight. An astonishingly beautiful film about the past then, the past now, the present then, and maybe even the present now. I can't hope

Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

OwsWills

In 1833, a group of workmen quarrying for stone at Bryn yr Ellyllon (Hill of the Elven Faeries) in north Wales, discovered something incredible. There, caked with mud, was a

Lubaaba 🖤💚

Lubaabanama

This is brilliant to see. Acknowledgement & provenance is first step to productive change to make our incredible public institutions truly world class. The resources that founded @britishlibrary, @britishmuseum @NHM_London

Alexandra Vukovich

AlexandraVukov1

The #HagiaSophiaMosque debate has sparked questions about other monuments. For example here is a famous Athenian mosque built after 1721 (the previous one was ruined in the 1687 explosion), in

Dr. Laura Humphreys

TweetingBogart

I normally try and do some Christmas shopping in museum shops, but that's all going to be online this year, and I want to #SupportMuseumShops as much as I can.

maxwell museums

maxwellmuseums

the @britishmuseum’s been closed to visitors for 4 and a half months due to coronavirusyet the museum’s work has continued tonight is definitely good time to look back at

Lauren Mallin

thatmuseumgirl_

Free home schooling resources from museums & heritage sites - A THREADThought this might help anyone facing the difficult task of home schoolingList isn’t exhaustive, feel free to add to

Jin Xu

xujnx

1900.6.22 A hidden “library” was found at Mogao Caves in Dunhuang. Sealed behind a wall ca. 1000 AD, it's packed with tens of thousands of manuscripts & paintings dating to

Jimbob Blinkhorn

palaeolicious

Our new paper on Shukbah in @SciRep describes the tooth of a ~9yr old Neanderthal, associated with Nubian Levallois technology which (tl;dr) marks the southernmost known Neanderthal fossil and indicates

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