AlbaArts
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Love me some Scots history, landscape photography, archaeology, woodblock prints - and generally always learning
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Amazing new discovery: Oldest full human fingerprint discovered. A Neanderthal is believed to have dipped a finger in red pigment to paint a nose on a pebble around 43,000 years ago. The rock was discovered in the San Lázaro rock shelter in Segovia, Spain
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
May 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Amazing new discovery: Oldest full human fingerprint discovered. A Neanderthal is believed to have dipped a finger in red pigment to paint a nose on a pebble around 43,000 years ago. The rock was discovered in the San Lázaro rock shelter in Segovia, Spain
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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May 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Two baked clay spindlewhorls and a fossil sea urchin (echinoid) found together at the base of an Iron Age storage pit during #Durotriges24
📷 July 2024
What will we find at #Durotriges25?
Stay tuned..
#FindsFriday #FossilFriday #FridayFinds #Archaeology #Dorset
📷 July 2024
What will we find at #Durotriges25?
Stay tuned..
#FindsFriday #FossilFriday #FridayFinds #Archaeology #Dorset
May 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Two baked clay spindlewhorls and a fossil sea urchin (echinoid) found together at the base of an Iron Age storage pit during #Durotriges24
📷 July 2024
What will we find at #Durotriges25?
Stay tuned..
#FindsFriday #FossilFriday #FridayFinds #Archaeology #Dorset
📷 July 2024
What will we find at #Durotriges25?
Stay tuned..
#FindsFriday #FossilFriday #FridayFinds #Archaeology #Dorset
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If you’re doing an exciting dig, please get in touch - and we’re interested in post-ex stories too. This is a chance to showcase your work, your discoveries and your passion on BBC Two, sharing UK archaeology with wide audiences here and abroad. Contact us: digging@rare-tv.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If you’re doing an exciting dig, please get in touch - and we’re interested in post-ex stories too. This is a chance to showcase your work, your discoveries and your passion on BBC Two, sharing UK archaeology with wide audiences here and abroad. Contact us: digging@rare-tv.com
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A couple of my favourite Metallica posters that they asked me to do for their 40th anniversary show! Really enjoyed these, it was such an honour!
May 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A couple of my favourite Metallica posters that they asked me to do for their 40th anniversary show! Really enjoyed these, it was such an honour!
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Babe, wake up. New relief of Ashurbanipal just dropped! 🧪🏺
'Quite enigmatic': Rare stone carving of Assyrian king surrounded by gods discovered in Iraq
A massive stone carving featuring an Assyrian ruler and several deities has been found in Iraq.
www.livescience.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Babe, wake up. New relief of Ashurbanipal just dropped! 🧪🏺
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Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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View the Parthenon as it stood in 432 BCE. A historian recreated the awe-inspiring structure for VR.
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
www.popsci.com/science/part...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
www.popsci.com/science/part...
View the Parthenon as it stood in 432 BCE
A historian recreated the awe-inspiring structure for VR.
www.popsci.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
View the Parthenon as it stood in 432 BCE. A historian recreated the awe-inspiring structure for VR.
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
www.popsci.com/science/part...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
www.popsci.com/science/part...
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We want to be VERY CLEAR!!!!
#DND #TTRPG #DungeonMaster #MiniaturePainting #TableTopGames #warhammer #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k #gamesworkshop #tabletopgaming #Miniatures #wargaming #wargames #paintingminiatures #paintingmini #starfinder #pathfinder
#DND #TTRPG #DungeonMaster #MiniaturePainting #TableTopGames #warhammer #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k #gamesworkshop #tabletopgaming #Miniatures #wargaming #wargames #paintingminiatures #paintingmini #starfinder #pathfinder
May 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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The artistically worst thing they did was fire Matlock. At their best they had the same strength Nirvana had: tapping into a listener’s anger and cynicism via music with enough hooks to sell records.
May 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The artistically worst thing they did was fire Matlock. At their best they had the same strength Nirvana had: tapping into a listener’s anger and cynicism via music with enough hooks to sell records.
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May 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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AGE OF UMBRA is a new 8-episode #Daggerheart series coming May 29th to Beacon, Twitch, and YouTube!
GM and Age of Umbra designer Matthew Mercer leads the #CriticalRole founders through a dark, survival fantasy undertaking, in which small communities hold fast against the darkness of a dying world.
GM and Age of Umbra designer Matthew Mercer leads the #CriticalRole founders through a dark, survival fantasy undertaking, in which small communities hold fast against the darkness of a dying world.
May 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
AGE OF UMBRA is a new 8-episode #Daggerheart series coming May 29th to Beacon, Twitch, and YouTube!
GM and Age of Umbra designer Matthew Mercer leads the #CriticalRole founders through a dark, survival fantasy undertaking, in which small communities hold fast against the darkness of a dying world.
GM and Age of Umbra designer Matthew Mercer leads the #CriticalRole founders through a dark, survival fantasy undertaking, in which small communities hold fast against the darkness of a dying world.
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Sycamore Gap Tree Felling Verdict: GUILTY!
w/ @andybrockman.bsky.social and @mrsoup.bsky.social
youtu.be/X6f4dlp6aHE
#archaeologynews #archaeologyuk #watchingbrief #hadrianswall #sycamoregap
w/ @andybrockman.bsky.social and @mrsoup.bsky.social
youtu.be/X6f4dlp6aHE
#archaeologynews #archaeologyuk #watchingbrief #hadrianswall #sycamoregap
Sycamore Gap Tree Felling Verdict: GUILTY!
YouTube video by The Watching Brief
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May 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Sycamore Gap Tree Felling Verdict: GUILTY!
w/ @andybrockman.bsky.social and @mrsoup.bsky.social
youtu.be/X6f4dlp6aHE
#archaeologynews #archaeologyuk #watchingbrief #hadrianswall #sycamoregap
w/ @andybrockman.bsky.social and @mrsoup.bsky.social
youtu.be/X6f4dlp6aHE
#archaeologynews #archaeologyuk #watchingbrief #hadrianswall #sycamoregap
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This is Nugget. She only met these new friends today, but they have already made her their leader. 13/10
May 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is Nugget. She only met these new friends today, but they have already made her their leader. 13/10
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I do really like the idea that the conclave is already decided but they’re all just like, taking a break from the relentless firehose of bullshit for a bit
May 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I do really like the idea that the conclave is already decided but they’re all just like, taking a break from the relentless firehose of bullshit for a bit
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just gonna slide right past ya, cardinal
May 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
just gonna slide right past ya, cardinal
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Released today: The special issue stamp on #IceAge art from the caves in the Swabian Jura. The caves became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. Many of the approximately 40,000-year-old objects are on display at urmu Blaubeuren – one of our seven branch museums.
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#archaeology
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#archaeology
May 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I couldn’t see them, but the lake was full of birds resting for the night. You can hear the dying gull song of the red necked grebes. I’m pretty sure the other calls you hear in the background are red throated loons passing through on their way to the Arctic. 🌿🪶
May 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I couldn’t see them, but the lake was full of birds resting for the night. You can hear the dying gull song of the red necked grebes. I’m pretty sure the other calls you hear in the background are red throated loons passing through on their way to the Arctic. 🌿🪶
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A few people have expressed an interest in seeing the process of an old stained glass window restoration, so this thread is going to be a step=by-step walkthrough with descriptions, photos, and videos! Feel free to ask any questions!
I can't put it off any longer, I'm tackling this restoration this week. I tried to show here just how undulating the surface of the panel is with multiple areas totally concave. Once I take it out of the frame it is likely going to simply fall apart
May 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A few people have expressed an interest in seeing the process of an old stained glass window restoration, so this thread is going to be a step=by-step walkthrough with descriptions, photos, and videos! Feel free to ask any questions!
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Have you ever seen his BBC series Making Scotlands Landscape? It's 20 years old now but absolutely wonderful
May 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Have you ever seen his BBC series Making Scotlands Landscape? It's 20 years old now but absolutely wonderful
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Pretty wild willow arch 😮 🌴 at Cors Caron National Nature Reserve, Ceredigion, this afternoon
May 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Pretty wild willow arch 😮 🌴 at Cors Caron National Nature Reserve, Ceredigion, this afternoon
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#MosaicMonday - Primary emblema of the mosaic from the ancient basilica of Santa Reparata, ca. Late 5th Century AD. A peacock - symbol of immortality and resurrection - dominates this floor: a fine example of the work of North African mosaicists. #Archaeology #Art (1/2)
📸My Own
📸My Own
May 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
#MosaicMonday - Primary emblema of the mosaic from the ancient basilica of Santa Reparata, ca. Late 5th Century AD. A peacock - symbol of immortality and resurrection - dominates this floor: a fine example of the work of North African mosaicists. #Archaeology #Art (1/2)
📸My Own
📸My Own
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For #BoudicaFriday a break from tradition, paying tribute to the Queen of the North, Cartimandua. A divisive figure to this day, & contemporary in space & time of the new Melsonby hoard, she held a vast, factionalised territory safe from the horrors of Roman conquest for decades.
Ribchester Column.
Ribchester Column.
May 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
For #BoudicaFriday a break from tradition, paying tribute to the Queen of the North, Cartimandua. A divisive figure to this day, & contemporary in space & time of the new Melsonby hoard, she held a vast, factionalised territory safe from the horrors of Roman conquest for decades.
Ribchester Column.
Ribchester Column.