Mappa Dan
@mappadan.bsky.social
Home of my thoughts about archaic maps and mappae mundi, reconstructions and snaps people have taken of them, and my own redrawings.
Third party stuff is believed to be in public domain. Copyright applies to own work.
Third party stuff is believed to be in public domain. Copyright applies to own work.
Underdrawing of the geography and topography.
November 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Underdrawing of the geography and topography.
Underdrawing of the Hereford Mappa - first step.
November 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Underdrawing of the Hereford Mappa - first step.
Underdrawing of the Hereford Mappa... final step?
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Underdrawing of the Hereford Mappa... final step?
Middle Earth | Rivendell - Music & Ambience
YouTube video by Ambient Worlds
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November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Your 25 seconds of soothing waves from the beach down the road.
May the rest of your day be peaceful 🙏🏼
#oceandevotion #naturescure #youreswell #thesea #seastheday #WestBay #WestBeach
May the rest of your day be peaceful 🙏🏼
#oceandevotion #naturescure #youreswell #thesea #seastheday #WestBay #WestBeach
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Your 25 seconds of soothing waves from the beach down the road.
May the rest of your day be peaceful 🙏🏼
#oceandevotion #naturescure #youreswell #thesea #seastheday #WestBay #WestBeach
May the rest of your day be peaceful 🙏🏼
#oceandevotion #naturescure #youreswell #thesea #seastheday #WestBay #WestBeach
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#archaeology #history #ancientbluesky
A stone ‘distance slab’, from Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde, Scotland, marking the western end of the Antonine Wall.
A stone ‘distance slab’, from Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde, Scotland, marking the western end of the Antonine Wall.
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
#archaeology #history #ancientbluesky
A stone ‘distance slab’, from Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde, Scotland, marking the western end of the Antonine Wall.
A stone ‘distance slab’, from Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde, Scotland, marking the western end of the Antonine Wall.
Reposted by Mappa Dan
A simple scene from a remote black sand beach in Iceland.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
A simple scene from a remote black sand beach in Iceland.
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Forscher irrten jahrelang: "Himmelsscheibe" von Nebra ist offenbar ein Pizza-Rezept www.der-postillon.com/2019/11/pizz...
Forscher irrten jahrelang: "Himmelsscheibe" von Nebra ist offenbar ein Pizza-Rezept
Zwei Jahrzehnte lang galt die sogenannte Himmelsscheibe von Nebra als älteste bisher bekannte Himmelsdarstellung. Nun haben Wissenschaftler des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte in Halle festgestellt,…
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November 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Forscher irrten jahrelang: "Himmelsscheibe" von Nebra ist offenbar ein Pizza-Rezept www.der-postillon.com/2019/11/pizz...
I now realise it takes two or three days to cut your own hair.
Day one, you cut it.
Days two and three, bedhead first reveals uncut clumps that were mysteriously invisible previously and then individual hairs that wave around like reeds in a stream.
Day one, you cut it.
Days two and three, bedhead first reveals uncut clumps that were mysteriously invisible previously and then individual hairs that wave around like reeds in a stream.
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I now realise it takes two or three days to cut your own hair.
Day one, you cut it.
Days two and three, bedhead first reveals uncut clumps that were mysteriously invisible previously and then individual hairs that wave around like reeds in a stream.
Day one, you cut it.
Days two and three, bedhead first reveals uncut clumps that were mysteriously invisible previously and then individual hairs that wave around like reeds in a stream.
Monmouth was underwater yesterday. Town at the confluence of the Monnow and the Wye.
Happened around the time we had Sun Alphonse (maybe I slightly exaggerate but it wasn't especially rainy) on the other side of the mountains.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Happened around the time we had Sun Alphonse (maybe I slightly exaggerate but it wasn't especially rainy) on the other side of the mountains.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Storm Claudia: Disruption after flooding causes major incident
The fire and rescue service was called to more than 82 incidents after severe flooding in South Wales.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Monmouth was underwater yesterday. Town at the confluence of the Monnow and the Wye.
Happened around the time we had Sun Alphonse (maybe I slightly exaggerate but it wasn't especially rainy) on the other side of the mountains.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Happened around the time we had Sun Alphonse (maybe I slightly exaggerate but it wasn't especially rainy) on the other side of the mountains.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Some of the remarkable 12th century carved capitals from St. Peter’s Church in Northampton. The church is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #StPetersChurch #Northampton #ChurchesConservationTrust
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Some of the remarkable 12th century carved capitals from St. Peter’s Church in Northampton. The church is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #StPetersChurch #Northampton #ChurchesConservationTrust
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An #Egyptian glass inlay of a jackal. Jackals were linked with the dead, because they were present in the desert regions near to the cemeteries. The most popular jackal-shaped god was Anubis, the god of embalming. Dating 5th -1st c. BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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November 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
An #Egyptian glass inlay of a jackal. Jackals were linked with the dead, because they were present in the desert regions near to the cemeteries. The most popular jackal-shaped god was Anubis, the god of embalming. Dating 5th -1st c. BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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November 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Moon jellyfish at the Maryport aquarium, Cumbria.
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Moon jellyfish at the Maryport aquarium, Cumbria.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall
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I am so very fond of Salisbury Cathedral at night.
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I am so very fond of Salisbury Cathedral at night.
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niht-ēage, adj: able to see at night (lit. ‘night-eye’). (NI’HT-AY-ah-yuh / ˈnɪxt-ˌeːa-jə)
Image: Aberdeen Bestiary; England, c. 1200; @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social MS 24, f. 50r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Aberdeen Bestiary; England, c. 1200; @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social MS 24, f. 50r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
niht-ēage, adj: able to see at night (lit. ‘night-eye’). (NI’HT-AY-ah-yuh / ˈnɪxt-ˌeːa-jə)
Image: Aberdeen Bestiary; England, c. 1200; @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social MS 24, f. 50r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Aberdeen Bestiary; England, c. 1200; @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social MS 24, f. 50r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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The eyes (of the Alexander sarcophagus) have it 👁️ 👁️
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The eyes (of the Alexander sarcophagus) have it 👁️ 👁️
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2356 years ago, on the 14th of November 332 BCE, Alexander the Great was crowned pharaoh of Egypt. He had previously been pronounced the son of Amun on a visit tot the oracle at the Siwa Oasis. Due to this supposed lineage, Alexander was sometimes depicted with the Horns of Ammon. #otd #history 🗃️
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
We should have weather warnings here for when it's not wet and windy, not when it is.
Today you don't need your wellingtons and your waterproofs and your sou'wester and your inside-out brolly because - WARNING - it's going to be SUNNY today.
Today you don't need your wellingtons and your waterproofs and your sou'wester and your inside-out brolly because - WARNING - it's going to be SUNNY today.
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We should have weather warnings here for when it's not wet and windy, not when it is.
Today you don't need your wellingtons and your waterproofs and your sou'wester and your inside-out brolly because - WARNING - it's going to be SUNNY today.
Today you don't need your wellingtons and your waterproofs and your sou'wester and your inside-out brolly because - WARNING - it's going to be SUNNY today.
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Óláfr Guðrøðsson, Norse king of Dyflin (Dublin), raided Ard Macha (Armagh) #OTD in 933. He joined with Causantín II, king of Alba, and Owain of Strathclyde to fight Æthelstan, king of the English, at the Battle of Brunanburh in 937. Viking Dublin 📸National Museum of Ireland #medievalsky
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Óláfr Guðrøðsson, Norse king of Dyflin (Dublin), raided Ard Macha (Armagh) #OTD in 933. He joined with Causantín II, king of Alba, and Owain of Strathclyde to fight Æthelstan, king of the English, at the Battle of Brunanburh in 937. Viking Dublin 📸National Museum of Ireland #medievalsky
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'Mudlarks', 'Chop-backs' & 'Pork-bolters' are just some of the traditional nicknames given to fishermen along the Sussex coast, depending on where they came from. ⠀
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Can you guess where each one is said to come from?⠀⠀
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📷 Hannah Temple
📍 Beachy Head Lighthouse
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Can you guess where each one is said to come from?⠀⠀
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📷 Hannah Temple
📍 Beachy Head Lighthouse
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
'Mudlarks', 'Chop-backs' & 'Pork-bolters' are just some of the traditional nicknames given to fishermen along the Sussex coast, depending on where they came from. ⠀
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Can you guess where each one is said to come from?⠀⠀
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📷 Hannah Temple
📍 Beachy Head Lighthouse
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Can you guess where each one is said to come from?⠀⠀
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📷 Hannah Temple
📍 Beachy Head Lighthouse
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this is Rough Castle, feel like we're getting into #RomanFortThursday territory but this is a spectacular place, even more so in Autumn (click for full image)
#AncientSiteSunday
this is Rough Castle, feel like we're getting into #RomanFortThursday territory but this is a spectacular place, even more so in Autumn (click for full image)
#AncientSiteSunday
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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this is Rough Castle, feel like we're getting into #RomanFortThursday territory but this is a spectacular place, even more so in Autumn (click for full image)
#AncientSiteSunday
this is Rough Castle, feel like we're getting into #RomanFortThursday territory but this is a spectacular place, even more so in Autumn (click for full image)
#AncientSiteSunday