Sophie Ploeg
@sploeg.bsky.social
Art Historian. Ancient Rome. Early Modern. Ex artist. Also spaniels, tech and books. 🇬🇧🇳🇱
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11 November 1904 | Dutch Jew, Marcus Koster, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork and registered in the camp. He perished there on 22 September 1942.
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Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork and registered in the camp. He perished there on 22 September 1942.
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Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
11 November 1904 | Dutch Jew, Marcus Koster, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork and registered in the camp. He perished there on 22 September 1942.
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Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork and registered in the camp. He perished there on 22 September 1942.
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Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
This is just fascist evil. Hope the Dutch can do something about this. Utterly disgusting. 🧵
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is just fascist evil. Hope the Dutch can do something about this. Utterly disgusting. 🧵
Is it creepy if male ancient historians start to describe the sensuality of ancient female sculpture a little too suggestively? 🤣🤣😂🤨
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Is it creepy if male ancient historians start to describe the sensuality of ancient female sculpture a little too suggestively? 🤣🤣😂🤨
The BBC says COP30 is now a joke
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The BBC says COP30 is now a joke
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Interesting look at the social, economical, and environmental factors affecting the "decline" of the baguette.
"86% of French people admit to eating industrial, sliced white supermarket bread."
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
"86% of French people admit to eating industrial, sliced white supermarket bread."
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
The baguette faces an uncertain future. How France is rethinking its iconic loaves | CNN
With the French cutting back on bread and experimenting with longer-lasting loaves, the beloved baguette is under threat.
edition.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study.
theconversation.com/the-roman-em...
theconversation.com/the-roman-em...
The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study
A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.
theconversation.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study.
theconversation.com/the-roman-em...
theconversation.com/the-roman-em...
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'A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads. The findings nearly double the known length of Roman roads.'
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
'A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads. The findings nearly double the known length of Roman roads.'
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Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3
📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3
📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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Oooh brilliant Alan!! 👻👻😁🤓 #TheTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Oooh brilliant Alan!! 👻👻😁🤓 #TheTraitors
Just what we need, right? 👿😱💀"The plant, called Project One, is designed to turbocharge European plastic production." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Just what we need, right? 👿😱💀"The plant, called Project One, is designed to turbocharge European plastic production." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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No one did resting emperor face quite like Caracalla (photo is my own from the Baths of Diocletian).
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
No one did resting emperor face quite like Caracalla (photo is my own from the Baths of Diocletian).
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Fragment of 4th century mosaic from the #Roman bathhouse of Lydney #Gloucestershire
Beautifully captured in watercolour by the great archaeologist, Tessa Verney Wheeler in 1929 🤩
Original painting held by @antiquaries.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
Beautifully captured in watercolour by the great archaeologist, Tessa Verney Wheeler in 1929 🤩
Original painting held by @antiquaries.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Fragment of 4th century mosaic from the #Roman bathhouse of Lydney #Gloucestershire
Beautifully captured in watercolour by the great archaeologist, Tessa Verney Wheeler in 1929 🤩
Original painting held by @antiquaries.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
Beautifully captured in watercolour by the great archaeologist, Tessa Verney Wheeler in 1929 🤩
Original painting held by @antiquaries.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
Very interesting thread about 'that car park dig' and the film (haven't seen it yet) made, books written etc.
Updated thread on The Lost King film:
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
November 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Very interesting thread about 'that car park dig' and the film (haven't seen it yet) made, books written etc.
Never been to Egypt.... giant museum set to open soon: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Egypt’s vast $1bn museum to open in Cairo after two-decade build
Grand Egyptian Museum near Giza pyramids billed as world’s largest archaeological facility for single civilisation
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Never been to Egypt.... giant museum set to open soon: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Our Persian Ironwood looking gloriously autumnal
October 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Our Persian Ironwood looking gloriously autumnal
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Just a reposting of the most impactful Finnish archaeological article ever. #TombTuesday
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland | European Journal of Archaeology | Cambridge Core
A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland - Volume 25 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just a reposting of the most impactful Finnish archaeological article ever. #TombTuesday
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The trees are on fire.
October 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The trees are on fire.
Enjoyed the conference The Ideal and The Ugly at Warwick uni. My talk went well (I think 🤔). Great variety of speakers! #phdlife #universityofWarwick #conference #ancientBlueSky
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Enjoyed the conference The Ideal and The Ugly at Warwick uni. My talk went well (I think 🤔). Great variety of speakers! #phdlife #universityofWarwick #conference #ancientBlueSky
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Finally looked up how to get rid of Google‘s automatic AI answers (and the attached waste of resources) and it‘s so easy! What relief. 😅
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
zensnapple's comment on "Is there a real way to shut off the Google AI overview for searches, or am i switching browsers and search engines?"
Explore this conversation and more from the techsupport community
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October 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Finally looked up how to get rid of Google‘s automatic AI answers (and the attached waste of resources) and it‘s so easy! What relief. 😅
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
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I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...
Elon Musk donates $1 million for archaeological sites in Rome
Through the Musk Foundation, the foundation established in 2021 to support international humanitarian and scientific projects, Elon Musk, has chosen to fund a program dedicated to Rome's archaeologica...
www.finestresullarte.info
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...
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#ReliefWednesday shows us the rich #relief work of the #cinerary #urn of one C. Iulius Saecularis, from c. 90 CE. The nude youth, a bit chubby, holds a #butterfly in his right hand, symbol of the #spirit. He doesn't want to let go of his earthly life. #Dionysiac symbols abound. #AncientBluesky 🏺
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#ReliefWednesday shows us the rich #relief work of the #cinerary #urn of one C. Iulius Saecularis, from c. 90 CE. The nude youth, a bit chubby, holds a #butterfly in his right hand, symbol of the #spirit. He doesn't want to let go of his earthly life. #Dionysiac symbols abound. #AncientBluesky 🏺