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Nikita Owens نــيكـيتـا
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Éireannach . Piano Teacher . Egyptology Certificate @UoMEgyptology 𓋹𓍑𓋴 . Music Degree @MaynoothUni . gender atheist . 🏳️‍🌈 🇮🇪
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April 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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For those who may not subscribe to @theees.bsky.social’s EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY magazine - and you really should! - here’s my brief but heartfelt tribute, reprinted with permission, to my dear friend Professor Kenneth Kitchen, published in the current, Spring 2025, edition. It was an honour.
April 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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How to cross thin ice, #polar #bear edition: spread out wide to distribute weight and reduce pressure. This clever move helps avoid breaking the fragile surface.
A survival tactic perfected in the Arctic
#physics
April 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Sound on 😽🤍 #cat #purr
April 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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The Berlin Green Head - a masterpiece dating to the Late or Ptolemaic period (350-30 BC), named after the colour of its stone. The head of a bald man made from greenschist is believed to be a representation of an #Egyptian priest

On display at Neues Museum, Berlin

📷 me

🏺 #AncientEgyptBluesky
April 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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‘Asterisk’ comes from a Geek word meaning “little star.”

*Greek
April 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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This is Ripley. He was nervous about taking the stairs. May have panicked a bit. 12/10
April 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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A beautiful #Roman necklace, made largely from gold twisted into a thick collar, with an emerald pendant at the front & a large clasp at the back shaped like a flower, stuffed with a garnet. It was made some 1700-1900 years ago, probably in Egypt (📷 Art Institute Chicago) AncientBlueSky #Archaeology
April 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 9,1946
April 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This figurine looks incredibly contemporary even though it was made in ancient Egypt. For me, it symbolises the universality of certain feelings.

Unknown provenance but possibly XI Dynasty, held in the Petrie Museum 🏺 AncientBluesky #Egyptology
April 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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In the interest of balance #news
April 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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I mean, did Simone Martini get the teenage contempt posture right or what? ‘Christ Discovered in the Temple [and returned to his anxious mother by his irked father]’. (Walker Art Gallery, in the fab ‘Siena’ exhibition at the National Gallery.)
April 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Refresh the page

If you like this cartoon, I can draw one for you. www.worldofmoose.com/products/ref...
April 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Very excited to be hosting these amazing scholars in Swansea on the 7th of June for an in-depth study day on Pre - and Early Dynastic Egypt. To participate online, scan the QR code or register at sites.swansea.ac.uk/egyptcentre/...
Attendance online and in-person is free.
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Part of the funerary trousseau of Queen Amanishakheto found in her pyramid in 1832 by the Italian explorer Giuseppe Ferlini in Meroe.

#Ancient #art #artwork
#jewellery #History #Archaeology #Egypt
April 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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New discovery: Venice lagoon reveals submerged #Roman oyster farm: In the heart of the Venetian lagoon, a submerged area has revealed a secret: a brick and wood tank containing about 300 oyster shells, dating back to the first century AD

www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...

🏺 #archaeology
April 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I was reminded by @johnjjohnston.bsky.social that today is the birthday of Alexandria. The guardian of this city was the friendly snake, Agathos Damon, who became associated with Serapis and joined with Isis. Here’s an image of the two from Naukratis.
Held in Ashmolean 🏺 AncientBluesky #Egyptology
April 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”

― William Trevor
April 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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According to Plutarch, on 7 April c.331 BC, Alexander the Great founded the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which, became the site of his own tomb, home to the Ptolemaic dynasty, the famed Library, and the Pharos lighthouse; a bustling metropolis of high culture and higher drama. #Egyptology
April 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM