Alberto B. Foglia
@abfoglia.bsky.social
He/him. Archaeologist and 3D artist. Also into urbanism and video games! 🇮🇹/🇧🇷 living in 🇺🇸
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Hello there! I’m an archaeologist and 3D artist, and when I can I’ll post about my art, archaeology, or my other interests. #PortfolioDay
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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This short course run by the Institute of Classical Studies, from 13 to 17 Apr 2026 in London, looks like a great intro to 3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage. 👇
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage
ics.sas.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This short course run by the Institute of Classical Studies, from 13 to 17 Apr 2026 in London, looks like a great intro to 3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage. 👇
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Very cool! First ‘Good Shepherd’ type fresco found outside of Rome. Always interesting to see how depictions of Jesus have changed over time. Also interesting how modern biblical illustrations create a false view of the period - Jesus probably wore a tunic with clavii, not a flowing white robe!
Turkey unveils rare Christian artefact during the pope’s visit - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-unveils-rare-christian-artefact-during-popes-visit
Turkey unveils rare and ancient Christian fresco during the pope’s visit
Erdogan presents a replica of Jesus 'Good Shepherd' painting to Pope Leo, the first discovery of its kind outside of Italy
www.middleeasteye.net
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Very cool! First ‘Good Shepherd’ type fresco found outside of Rome. Always interesting to see how depictions of Jesus have changed over time. Also interesting how modern biblical illustrations create a false view of the period - Jesus probably wore a tunic with clavii, not a flowing white robe!
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We're used to seeing ancient Greek funerary stelae with gorgeous carved reliefs. However, during the Hellenistic era - particularly in Cyprus - steles were painted with the images of the deceased instead of carved. This pedimented stele shows a painted image of a youth holding a bird. 🏺 1/
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November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
We're used to seeing ancient Greek funerary stelae with gorgeous carved reliefs. However, during the Hellenistic era - particularly in Cyprus - steles were painted with the images of the deceased instead of carved. This pedimented stele shows a painted image of a youth holding a bird. 🏺 1/
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🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
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one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
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You go to one wild crazy party and do a few silly things, wake up relieved that photo cameras and social media don't exist yet and that soon everyone will have forgotten... but someone made a drawing...
Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands
Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
You go to one wild crazy party and do a few silly things, wake up relieved that photo cameras and social media don't exist yet and that soon everyone will have forgotten... but someone made a drawing...
Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands
Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands
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The idea of the closet as a dedicated space for clothes etc is relatively modern architecture. Most in antiquity had cupboards & what we would call an armoire. At Herculaneum, the have now fully restored wooden cabinet carbonized in the eruption 🌋 of 79 CE. ercolano.cultura.gov.it/il-ritorno-d...
Il ritorno della credenza di Ercolano: un viaggio nel tempo tra legno e memoria
ercolano.cultura.gov.it
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The idea of the closet as a dedicated space for clothes etc is relatively modern architecture. Most in antiquity had cupboards & what we would call an armoire. At Herculaneum, the have now fully restored wooden cabinet carbonized in the eruption 🌋 of 79 CE. ercolano.cultura.gov.it/il-ritorno-d...
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Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman merchant vessel shipwreck from around ca. 320 CE near Mallorca. It was carrying olive oil, wine, and garum, “two leather shoes, a carpenter’s drill likely used for onboard repairs, and an oil lamp … Some amphorae, however, bear early Christian monograms.”
A 1,700-Year-Old Roman Merchant Ship Lies Just Two Meters Below the Surface off Mallorca’s Playa de Palma - Arkeonews
Conservation team examining amphorae recovered from the Ses Fontanelles Roman shipwreck near Playa de Palma, Mallorca
arkeonews.net
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman merchant vessel shipwreck from around ca. 320 CE near Mallorca. It was carrying olive oil, wine, and garum, “two leather shoes, a carpenter’s drill likely used for onboard repairs, and an oil lamp … Some amphorae, however, bear early Christian monograms.”
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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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i think in a free society people are not afraid to answer their phone
increasingly toying with the idea that this is the root of all "rule of law" issues. A democratic theory of the rule of law should begin with the idea that the rule of law emerges from the average citizen's lived experience. And that experience today is being ruthlessly ripped off at all times.
I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
i think in a free society people are not afraid to answer their phone
Giving Beherit vibes
You might think a Rowntree's Easter catalogue could have nothing to do with #Halloween, but that's because you haven't seen the two-sided chocolate twin face egg of 1932. A bargain at 1 shilling.
November 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Giving Beherit vibes
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for the record this is not what a mid 19-century American bathroom would look like. At all
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
for the record this is not what a mid 19-century American bathroom would look like. At all
Happy Halloween! Our son is really in to sharks so the Jack-o-lantern has a sharky flair this year 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy Halloween! Our son is really in to sharks so the Jack-o-lantern has a sharky flair this year 🎃
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Based Trad guys don’t know history obviously but even the idea of national languages is relatively recent - in France at the revolution only half the population spoke French. The HRE had many languages. In Ancient Rome at the bare minimum an aristocrat had to be bilingual
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Based Trad guys don’t know history obviously but even the idea of national languages is relatively recent - in France at the revolution only half the population spoke French. The HRE had many languages. In Ancient Rome at the bare minimum an aristocrat had to be bilingual
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does
www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...
www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...
News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America
Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.
www.404media.co
October 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does
www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...
www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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And the scan itself!
It's huge. This male aurochs had over 80cm horn span!
It's huge. This male aurochs had over 80cm horn span!
October 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
And the scan itself!
It's huge. This male aurochs had over 80cm horn span!
It's huge. This male aurochs had over 80cm horn span!
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Nobody can know everything, let alone everything by their own research. We always rely on experts to navigate our complex world. The question is whether we pick credentialed and experienced people or internet demagogues and grifters.
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Nobody can know everything, let alone everything by their own research. We always rely on experts to navigate our complex world. The question is whether we pick credentialed and experienced people or internet demagogues and grifters.
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On this World Bread 🍞 Day, some bread loaves from the tomb of the architect, Kha, from the Egyptian artisan village at Deir el-Medina (image via CARAA). www.jstor.org/stable/10.75...
October 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
On this World Bread 🍞 Day, some bread loaves from the tomb of the architect, Kha, from the Egyptian artisan village at Deir el-Medina (image via CARAA). www.jstor.org/stable/10.75...
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I was asked recently what the “big debates” are in ancient naval studies, the maritime equivalent of the hoplite debate. Three stand out clearly. Here is a short summary of some!
October 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I was asked recently what the “big debates” are in ancient naval studies, the maritime equivalent of the hoplite debate. Three stand out clearly. Here is a short summary of some!
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Israeli ceasefire means it will massacre the emaciated maimed shell of a body they left you in for entering your own home, then claim Israeli terrorists were feeling unsafe near your house while they were destroying what was left of your life and family.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire
Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.
www.aljazeera.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Israeli ceasefire means it will massacre the emaciated maimed shell of a body they left you in for entering your own home, then claim Israeli terrorists were feeling unsafe near your house while they were destroying what was left of your life and family.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.