Jonathan Urquhart
@jonathanurquhart.bsky.social
Book lover | film fan | nap enjoyer | feeling older
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Toward the end of the Cretaceous, a stretch of shoreline in what is now Bolivia was a magnet for theropod dinosaurs (3-toed & bipedal meat-eaters). My latest for @cnn.com is about the first scientific survey of this site, where paleontologists recently counted more than 16,000 theropod tracks 🧪
More than 16,000 tracks found at a ‘dinosaur freeway’ in Bolivia | CNN
Theropods once trekked along a “dinosaur freeway” that stretched across a shoreline in what is now Bolivia, according to a new study.
www.cnn.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Toward the end of the Cretaceous, a stretch of shoreline in what is now Bolivia was a magnet for theropod dinosaurs (3-toed & bipedal meat-eaters). My latest for @cnn.com is about the first scientific survey of this site, where paleontologists recently counted more than 16,000 theropod tracks 🧪
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Figurine of a Lady https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.240
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Figurine of a Lady https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.240
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Hot off the presses! Thrilled to be a part of this important new initiative at National Museums Scotland:
People of the past: Building a future for Scotland’s archaeological human remains, in the latest @currentarchaeology.bsky.social magazine or with subscription at the-past.com/feature/peop...
People of the past: Building a future for Scotland’s archaeological human remains, in the latest @currentarchaeology.bsky.social magazine or with subscription at the-past.com/feature/peop...
People of the past: Building a future for Scotland’s archaeological human remains | The Past
National Museums Scotland holds one of the largest collections of archaeological human remains from Scotland. Following the creation of cutting-edge facilit ...
the-past.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Hot off the presses! Thrilled to be a part of this important new initiative at National Museums Scotland:
People of the past: Building a future for Scotland’s archaeological human remains, in the latest @currentarchaeology.bsky.social magazine or with subscription at the-past.com/feature/peop...
People of the past: Building a future for Scotland’s archaeological human remains, in the latest @currentarchaeology.bsky.social magazine or with subscription at the-past.com/feature/peop...
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A beautiful hairpin that belonged to Prince Alemayehu's mother - Empress Tiruwork - is going back to Ethiopia c. 160 years after it was taken by the British military doctor who treated her last illness. Congrats to all involved @alulapankhurst.bsky.social royalethiopiantrust.org/the-return-o...
December 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A beautiful hairpin that belonged to Prince Alemayehu's mother - Empress Tiruwork - is going back to Ethiopia c. 160 years after it was taken by the British military doctor who treated her last illness. Congrats to all involved @alulapankhurst.bsky.social royalethiopiantrust.org/the-return-o...
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Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language
Watch: TCD debuts world's first film in ancient Sumerian
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language.
www.rte.ie
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language
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Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman purple glass bottle, probably used for perfume.
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman purple glass bottle, probably used for perfume.
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
The Nightmare Before, During and After Christmas.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Nightmare Before, During and After Christmas.
Started the day searching for how many times Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were married and ended five minutes later with how to make a grilled cheese sandwich in an airfryer. Brain is broken, it was two times, and I'm now dusting off my airfryer.
October 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Started the day searching for how many times Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were married and ended five minutes later with how to make a grilled cheese sandwich in an airfryer. Brain is broken, it was two times, and I'm now dusting off my airfryer.
What Futurama ass shit is this?
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What Futurama ass shit is this?
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Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman emerald-green glass boat. From Pompeii.
#Archaeology
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman emerald-green glass boat. From Pompeii.
#Archaeology
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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Wow. The documentation of women working at a coal refinery here is really incredible.
October 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Wow. The documentation of women working at a coal refinery here is really incredible.
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Living for this Lupin ass story!!!
Louvre closed after robbery, French culture minister says
Louvre closed after robbery, French culture minister says
Rachida Dati announces robbery had taken place at world’s most-visited museum
The Louvre in Paris, the world’s most-visited museum, has suddenly closed for the day after the French culture minister said there had a been a robbery.
“A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum,” Rachida Dati wrote on social media. She used the French word braquage, which can mean robbery or hold-up. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Living for this Lupin ass story!!!
Protein foam? Why, Starbucks, for the love of God why?
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Protein foam? Why, Starbucks, for the love of God why?
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Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published OTD in 1953.
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”
#booksky 🐡
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”
#booksky 🐡
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published OTD in 1953.
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”
#booksky 🐡
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”
#booksky 🐡
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“While a modern ghost might materialise, drift gently towards a door and disperse, in the medieval period it was more likely to break the door down and beat you to death with the broken planks.” —Susan Owens, author of “The Ghost: A Cultural History”
How Ghosts Became Transparent, and Other Spectral Evolutions
'The Ghost: A Cultural History' by Susan Owens explores the evolution of the ghost in British art and literature, from Hamlet's father to Marley's ghost.
hyperallergic.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“While a modern ghost might materialise, drift gently towards a door and disperse, in the medieval period it was more likely to break the door down and beat you to death with the broken planks.” —Susan Owens, author of “The Ghost: A Cultural History”
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It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com
Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.
www.thefarside.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
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Russell Hoban's masterpiece *Riddley Walker* is 45 years old today!
“In fear and tremmering only not running a way. In emtyness and ready to be fult. Not to lern no body nothing I cant even lern my oan self all I can do is try not to get in front of whats coming.”
@russellhoban.bsky.social
“In fear and tremmering only not running a way. In emtyness and ready to be fult. Not to lern no body nothing I cant even lern my oan self all I can do is try not to get in front of whats coming.”
@russellhoban.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Russell Hoban's masterpiece *Riddley Walker* is 45 years old today!
“In fear and tremmering only not running a way. In emtyness and ready to be fult. Not to lern no body nothing I cant even lern my oan self all I can do is try not to get in front of whats coming.”
@russellhoban.bsky.social
“In fear and tremmering only not running a way. In emtyness and ready to be fult. Not to lern no body nothing I cant even lern my oan self all I can do is try not to get in front of whats coming.”
@russellhoban.bsky.social
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Ancient DNA from Neolithic chewing gum reveals how Europe’s first farmers lived, worked, and ate. Birch tar preserves the intimacy of their daily lives in astonishing molecular detail. #Archaeology #Neolithic #AncientDNA #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-resin-...
The Resin That Remembered: How Ancient Birch Tar Is Rewriting the Story of Neolithic Life
New biomolecular evidence from prehistoric chewing gum reveals the intimate daily habits, diets, and toolmaking ingenuity of Europe’s first farmers.
www.anthropology.net
October 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Ancient DNA from Neolithic chewing gum reveals how Europe’s first farmers lived, worked, and ate. Birch tar preserves the intimacy of their daily lives in astonishing molecular detail. #Archaeology #Neolithic #AncientDNA #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-resin-...
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Delighted to welcome Assoc. Prof Roy Flechner’s 3rd year class on “History from below: Rural life in the middle ages (HIS32800)”, to our Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, where we explored daily life and work in an early medieval Irish rath
October 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Delighted to welcome Assoc. Prof Roy Flechner’s 3rd year class on “History from below: Rural life in the middle ages (HIS32800)”, to our Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, where we explored daily life and work in an early medieval Irish rath
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My dad trying to remember the band in Oh Brother Where Art Thou
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
My dad trying to remember the band in Oh Brother Where Art Thou
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Paddington was introduced #OTD in 1958 in A BEAR CALLED PADDINGTON by Michael Bond.
"I felt it would say a lot about the Brown family that they were prepared to take in a refugee like Paddington," Bond said of the beloved bear from Peru, who was inspired by the displaced children of WW II. #BookSky
"I felt it would say a lot about the Brown family that they were prepared to take in a refugee like Paddington," Bond said of the beloved bear from Peru, who was inspired by the displaced children of WW II. #BookSky
October 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I could not put this book down. It was covered in glue.
October 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I could not put this book down. It was covered in glue.
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The 10.7ha univallate Iron Age glory of Segsbury Camp (aka Letcombe Castle) Oxfordshire
Here looking south in an aerial picture © James Pratt from the OA citizen science project #Airchaeology 😍
www.airchaeology.org/2018/09/28/s...
Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳
Here looking south in an aerial picture © James Pratt from the OA citizen science project #Airchaeology 😍
www.airchaeology.org/2018/09/28/s...
Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳
October 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The 10.7ha univallate Iron Age glory of Segsbury Camp (aka Letcombe Castle) Oxfordshire
Here looking south in an aerial picture © James Pratt from the OA citizen science project #Airchaeology 😍
www.airchaeology.org/2018/09/28/s...
Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳
Here looking south in an aerial picture © James Pratt from the OA citizen science project #Airchaeology 😍
www.airchaeology.org/2018/09/28/s...
Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳