WasNothingReal
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Amateur Archaeologist & photographer,local historian,artist,nature lover.
Mendips, Somerset, UK
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Mendips, Somerset, UK
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This is an excellent documentary about the prehistoric desert kites of Arabia if you haven't seen it. I do like presenter-less formats when the archaeologists and archaeology get to do most of the talking:
So excited to have found this on BBCiplayer. Watching now....fascinating! The Mystery of the Desert Kites: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… via @bbciplayer
https://bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
August 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This is an excellent documentary about the prehistoric desert kites of Arabia if you haven't seen it. I do like presenter-less formats when the archaeologists and archaeology get to do most of the talking:
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Hello from the revolving Corleck head exhibit at Cavan County Museum 🥰
August 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Hello from the revolving Corleck head exhibit at Cavan County Museum 🥰
So excited to have found this on BBCiplayer. Watching now....fascinating! The Mystery of the Desert Kites: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… via @bbciplayer
https://bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
August 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
So excited to have found this on BBCiplayer. Watching now....fascinating! The Mystery of the Desert Kites: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… via @bbciplayer
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Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments!
Looks similar to a modern-day set!
An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.
📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
#Archaeology
Looks similar to a modern-day set!
An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.
📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
#Archaeology
![Cleveland Museum photo showing an ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigments. From top to bottom the preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). Dimensions 2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm.
On the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope who was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreidtz22s6cb7oltnetxyjuy7noamae7b6uvybuihgjltazydpivwfe@jpeg)
August 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments!
Looks similar to a modern-day set!
An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.
📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
#Archaeology
Looks similar to a modern-day set!
An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.
📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
#Archaeology
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There are so many amazing finds from prehistoric pile dwellings settlements: 3,500-year-old wooden whisks found in settlements at the Lake Carera/Italy.
By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2
#archaeology 🏺
By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2
#archaeology 🏺
August 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
There are so many amazing finds from prehistoric pile dwellings settlements: 3,500-year-old wooden whisks found in settlements at the Lake Carera/Italy.
By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2
#archaeology 🏺
By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2
#archaeology 🏺
Some macro images, recent and from last year. A slow start this year...
June 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Some macro images, recent and from last year. A slow start this year...
This is outrageous. There is Mendip 'Champion species' Hazel Dormouse population literally on this spot! Tubes and boxes are surveyed right there! No joke 😡 1/2
What is going on!!😡 Watch this⬇️
@somersetcouncil.bsky.social
What is going on!!😡 Watch this⬇️
@somersetcouncil.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is outrageous. There is Mendip 'Champion species' Hazel Dormouse population literally on this spot! Tubes and boxes are surveyed right there! No joke 😡 1/2
What is going on!!😡 Watch this⬇️
@somersetcouncil.bsky.social
What is going on!!😡 Watch this⬇️
@somersetcouncil.bsky.social
Oakham, Rutland
Buttercross on Market place.
Buttercross on Market place.
March 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Oakham, Rutland
Buttercross on Market place.
Buttercross on Market place.
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Squeeze the peg to make the Dipper bird dip! The spring in the peg returns it to its upright position.
https://buff.ly/4gpSecQ
#clothespin #clothespeg #automata #dipper #bird #maker #fromTheArchives
https://buff.ly/4gpSecQ
#clothespin #clothespeg #automata #dipper #bird #maker #fromTheArchives
February 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Squeeze the peg to make the Dipper bird dip! The spring in the peg returns it to its upright position.
https://buff.ly/4gpSecQ
#clothespin #clothespeg #automata #dipper #bird #maker #fromTheArchives
https://buff.ly/4gpSecQ
#clothespin #clothespeg #automata #dipper #bird #maker #fromTheArchives
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A new step forward in protecting lunar heritage. The nomination was made by the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Aerospace Heritage. 🧪🏺🔭 #PlanetSci
Moon selected as historical preservation site to protect lunar heritage
"The inclusion of the moon underscores the universal need for proactive and cooperative strategies to protect heritage — whether on Earth or beyond — that reflect and safeguard our collective narrativ...
www.space.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A new step forward in protecting lunar heritage. The nomination was made by the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Aerospace Heritage. 🧪🏺🔭 #PlanetSci
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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
January 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
BBC News - 'I hired Banksy for £50 then painted over his mural'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'I hired Banksy for £50 then painted over his mural'
The world-famous street artist taught art lessons with local children in the 1990s.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
BBC News - 'I hired Banksy for £50 then painted over his mural'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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BRISTOL FREE talk - 7.45pm 27 Jan 2025 "Lifting the lid on ancient diet: organic residue analysis of lipids from pottery" by Dr Lucy Cramp, Dept of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Bristol bgas.org.uk/events/event...
Tracing Ancient Diet in Britain through Preserved Molecules in Pottery
Speaker: Dr Lucy Cramp, University of Bristol Organic residue analysis involves extraction of preserved biomolecules absorbed into the fabric of pots, ...
bgas.org.uk
January 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
BRISTOL FREE talk - 7.45pm 27 Jan 2025 "Lifting the lid on ancient diet: organic residue analysis of lipids from pottery" by Dr Lucy Cramp, Dept of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Bristol bgas.org.uk/events/event...
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Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
January 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Digging for Britain all episodes on iplayer. I have to binge watch - can't help myself. Digging for Britain, Series 12: 1. Saxon Gold and Buried Coins: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… via @bbciplayer
https://bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
January 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Digging for Britain all episodes on iplayer. I have to binge watch - can't help myself. Digging for Britain, Series 12: 1. Saxon Gold and Buried Coins: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… via @bbciplayer
Bronze age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren Mendip, Somerset.
Original article behind todays headlines.....
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Original article behind todays headlines.....
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK
www.cambridge.org
December 16, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Bronze age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren Mendip, Somerset.
Original article behind todays headlines.....
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Original article behind todays headlines.....
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Pony on Mendip, Somerset
Blackdown, Beacon Batch
#Monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography
#Reflection #Moorland
Blackdown, Beacon Batch
#Monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography
#Reflection #Moorland
December 8, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Pony on Mendip, Somerset
Blackdown, Beacon Batch
#Monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography
#Reflection #Moorland
Blackdown, Beacon Batch
#Monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography
#Reflection #Moorland
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This annoys me - hoard shouldn't need to be 'saved', no reason it should be 'lost forever'...
...only reason this (& so many other 'treasure' finds) is in precarious position is because we - the public & museum - have to find £100k to pay finder!!
Talk about being held to ransom...
#Archaeology
...only reason this (& so many other 'treasure' finds) is in precarious position is because we - the public & museum - have to find £100k to pay finder!!
Talk about being held to ransom...
#Archaeology
December 3, 2024 at 10:38 PM
This annoys me - hoard shouldn't need to be 'saved', no reason it should be 'lost forever'...
...only reason this (& so many other 'treasure' finds) is in precarious position is because we - the public & museum - have to find £100k to pay finder!!
Talk about being held to ransom...
#Archaeology
...only reason this (& so many other 'treasure' finds) is in precarious position is because we - the public & museum - have to find £100k to pay finder!!
Talk about being held to ransom...
#Archaeology
The Caves of Lascaux are a UNESCO listed network of caves in the Dordogne region of Southwestern France. Described as the “Prehistoric Sistine Chapel”, the walls of the caves are covered in cave paintings, depicting many drawings of animals, human figures & abstract signs 1/4 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 9:16 PM
The Caves of Lascaux are a UNESCO listed network of caves in the Dordogne region of Southwestern France. Described as the “Prehistoric Sistine Chapel”, the walls of the caves are covered in cave paintings, depicting many drawings of animals, human figures & abstract signs 1/4 🧵
Whoa! Two worlds collide - my macro and archaeo worlds in one. Watch this....CRAZY. Silk henge youtu.be/Unc-g9AHl2Y?fe…
First Ever Video of Silkhenge Spider Birth
YouTube video by The Jungle Diaries
https://youtu.be/Unc-g9AHl2Y?fe…
November 20, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Whoa! Two worlds collide - my macro and archaeo worlds in one. Watch this....CRAZY. Silk henge youtu.be/Unc-g9AHl2Y?fe…
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If you like visiting & exploring churches here is a Starter Pack to help link with other #ChurchCrawlers
go.bsky.app/AjDNEQ8
go.bsky.app/AjDNEQ8
November 15, 2024 at 9:03 PM
If you like visiting & exploring churches here is a Starter Pack to help link with other #ChurchCrawlers
go.bsky.app/AjDNEQ8
go.bsky.app/AjDNEQ8
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Starter pack for everything Portable Antiquities Scheme / PAS related, Archaeology, FLOs, Finds and Friends!
Very much under construction, let me know if there's accounts to add, but in meantime please share!
go.bsky.app/JHaYpNe
Very much under construction, let me know if there's accounts to add, but in meantime please share!
go.bsky.app/JHaYpNe
November 15, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Starter pack for everything Portable Antiquities Scheme / PAS related, Archaeology, FLOs, Finds and Friends!
Very much under construction, let me know if there's accounts to add, but in meantime please share!
go.bsky.app/JHaYpNe
Very much under construction, let me know if there's accounts to add, but in meantime please share!
go.bsky.app/JHaYpNe
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First time I've found one these today! I'll be seeing them everywhere from now on.
November 16, 2024 at 2:25 AM
First time I've found one these today! I'll be seeing them everywhere from now on.
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NEED SOME GOOD NEWS?
The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.
Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.
The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.
Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.
November 15, 2024 at 1:59 PM
NEED SOME GOOD NEWS?
The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.
Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.
The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.
Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.