#Museum

Chantelle Marcelle

ccmarce_writes

We're about halfway through Black History Month, so I'd like to celebrate by sharing 10 individuals you might not know about - but who achieved great things.Here we go Selma

Omer Sayadi

MENAsymbolism

The cosmic movements of the heavenly bodies has always intrigued mankind all throughout history. To depict this "moving of the gods", the earliest civilizations used feathered wings to symbolize the

Kim Tommy

KimTommy92

Celebrating Dr Gaokgatlhe Mirriam Tawane- the FIRST Black Woman to receive her PhD in #palaeoanthropology in South Africa in 2012! She is currently the Curator of Plio-Pleistocene palaeontology at @DitsongMuseumSA#DiversityInFieldWork

𝐌𝐀𝐕𝐑𝐎𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐎𝐔𝐃𝐀

MavrosArkouda

~Aachen Cathedral - Germany - 805 AD (place of coronation of the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation) ~Bronze doors of the Hagia Sophia. Made between

גלעד בצלאל יפה, ארכיאולוגיה אונליין Gilad B. Jaffe

TheOnionGod

1/ Today on #Archaeology_Online, a story that you dont hear every day, combining archeology of the Ancient Near East and modern history in a way that doesn't happen much. This

madeline odent

oldenoughtosay

SO YOU ACCIDENTALLY FELL IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY: a thread on planning multiple weddings without remortgaging your house. First things first: how many weddings/blessing/parties do you need?

Rachael H Funnell

The_RHF

What do you get when a fish eats a frog that ate a fish? Thanks @mjbernt and the CT scanner at the @AMNH we now know. Thread, sources via @IFLScience:https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ct-shows-its-a-fisheatfrog-frogeatfish-world

tikkun olam means antifascist action

afrodesiaq

sorry white jews are still pretending it's antisemitism to state the plain fact that jewish people can AND DO work to uphold white supremacy? STILL? it's 5781 this is tired.

Dr mira ʿassaf kafantaris ميرا عسّاف

MiraAssafK

1/ I too watched #TheDig last nite. While I loved the superb acting (C.Mulligan wrecks me time & again), beautiful cinematography, & tender humanization of the archeological dig, I felt

Dr Rob Cromarty

DocCrom

Ancient Coin of the Day: One of my favourites today - the fantastic aureus of Septimius Severus from AD 202-210, showing the Stadium of Domitian. #ACOTD #SeptimiusSeverusImage: RIC IV Septimius

Greg Jenner

greg_jenner

These audio interviews were conducted by the BBC in the 60s and 70s. The images are from the Imperial War Museum film archive.The focus is narrow, a very British story;

N.A. Mansour

NAMansour26

There’s a new digitized open-access collection of photos of Egypt by an Italian photographer Facchinelli taken 1875-1895. It’s mostly pictures of Cairo architecture.I wanted to dissect it a bitBut first,

Will Magee

W_F_Magee

Charlton fan protest outside The Valley, good turnout with several hundred supporters here. One line from the speeches stands out: “Demonstrating is not something we enjoy. It’s something we have

rachel syme

rachsyme

ok the talk about bad places in new york is over, let's only talk about what we desperately miss, specifics only here are some of mine:- cold extra dirty martini

Jeannette Ng 吳志麗

jeannette_ng

This started with my being aesthetically offended by these tiles and their maker's "not your grandma's mahjong" attitude.But what's more interesting is the rabbit hole I fell down about mahjong's

Durotriges Project

Durotrigesdig

The Pevensey *Roman* tile hoaxA short thread for #MuseumsUnlocked day 126: FORGERIES (1/7) Fragments of stamped tile were found In 1906 during excavations by Louis Salzman for the @sussex_society inside

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