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Lord Clarence Macdonald
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🦖🪐🕌 🌋 Aspiring World Traveller and Cultural Studies Enthusiast always awaiting to see all of the wonders that the world has to offer!
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At Pommerœul, Belgium, archaeologists uncovered an inhumation burial, assumed to be Gallo-Roman. Radiocarbon dating revealed the individual was in fact from the Late Neolithic, with a Roman-period cranium added 2500 years later! 🏺

🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
The cranium (top of a human skull) without the left os temporalis, which was removed for DNA and radiocarbon analyses.
April 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Today on the podcast, the recent discovery of Lokiceratops, a large-horned dinosaur, and what it reveals about dinosaur evolution.

Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi...
“ We’ve found less than 0.01% of the dinosaurs that ever lived, for sure. So when I say we know nothing, we really know nothing about the world of the dinosaurs. We’re just trying to reconstruct it.” —Dr. Mark Loewen
April 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Two small ornithischians: the super long-tailed (probably) Leaellynasaura amicagraphica from Eatly Cretaceous Australia and the well known Hypsilophodon foxii from Early Cretaceous Europe

#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs
Reconstructions of Leaellynasaura (top) and Hypsilophodon (bottom)
April 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Tomb of Prince Useref Ra Discovered in Saqqara, Featuring the Largest False Door in Pink Granite Found to Date

A joint Egyptian archaeological mission between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Dr. Zahi Hawass Foundation for Heritage has revealed an exceptional discovery in the Saqqara…
Tomb of Prince Useref Ra Discovered in Saqqara, Featuring the Largest False Door in Pink Granite Found to Date
A joint Egyptian archaeological mission between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Dr. Zahi Hawass Foundation for Heritage has revealed an exceptional discovery in the Saqqara necropolis: the tomb of Prince Useref Ra, son of Pharaoh Userkaf, the first monarch of the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom (around 2500 BCE). The find includes an imposing false door made of pink granite, statues of Pharaoh Djoser and his family, and ritual offerings.
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April 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Clowns are supposed to make people laugh, and this clown certainly does. It's a Clown Triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum). It's very difficult to get a good shot of one, as they are very shy.
#MarineLife #fish #triggerfish
Clown Triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum)
April 21, 2025 at 3:14 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

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🏺 #AncientEgyptBluesky
A sculpted head carved from dark stone, portraying a bald male figure with detailed facial, rather realistic features. Despite damage to the nose, ear, and base, the sculpture's lifelike quality remains evident. It is displayed on a light stone pedestal in a museum, with other artifacts visible in the background.
April 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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The extraordinary Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Paris
#art #museums #photography #France
April 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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A spectacularly preserved soft-shelled turtle and fish fossil - frozen in time 50 million years ago From Green River

Photo by: Field Museum /Chicago

#fossils
April 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Fossils in the sidewalks in Amsterdam. #fossils #geology #geoetc #amsterdam
April 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Flashback to this rack of ribs brought into the ANSP fossil prep lab back in 2018! They were coated in a good layer of gypsum, which required a long and tedious process of removal.

But when you clean them up, the story is in the details…

Theropod teeth marks were found on the ribs! Good eatin’!
Dinosaur rib fossils coated in a white mineral. Dinosaur rib fragment Dinosaur rib close up of teeth marks in the side of the rib.
November 20, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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I can’t believe that my followers tripled in the last 14 days, with old and new friends.

So here’s another photo from the Thrace exhibit at the #GettyVilla. Closeup of a silver and gold greave with the image of a woman with possible face tattoos. More next week! 🏺 #AncientBluesky

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Forged from a single sheet of silver, this leg armor is decorated with gilt animals and other motifs in relief. The part protecting the knee depicts a female head, perhaps a goddess, wearing an ivy wreath. Gilded parallel lines on the right side of her face may represent tattoos, for which the Thracians were famous. The figural imagery exemplifies a distinctive style in Thracian metalwork that reached its climax in the late 300s BCE. Silver with gilding. From the Mogilanskata burial mound, which covered three tombs that were constructed successively over the 300s BCE. The second tomb contained exquisite gold jewelry, weapons, ceremonial armor, and vessels, including two offering dishes inscribed in Greek with the name of the Odrysian king Kotys I (ruled 384/383-360 BCE). The finds suggest that a local tribal ruler was buried here, together with his wife, and that they maintained diplomatic relations with the Odrysian court. Found in Vratsa, Bulgaria. Vratsa Regional Historical Museum.
November 20, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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On a cold and rather dull day, what could be better to cheer one up than this rather chipper fellow! One of my favourite floor tiles that we've excavated at #CerneAbbey! 🏺
#TilesOnTuesday
November 19, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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#GreekVaseOfTheDay Apulian Volute Krater, 330-320 BC.
On each side, people bringing offerings to a tomb, either a stele with a big vase or a naiskos with the dead. The loutrophoros (vase in black) may signify that the dead never got maried
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
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Detail of the red-figured vase: 2 men and 2 women bring offering to a stele. In the foreground, in front of the stele, is a large black vase (loutrophore). The whole face B of the vase, with the scene described before. On side A, a man is seating in a naiskos (like a small temple) with his arms. Around him, 4 people bring offerings. The dead is depicted in white, which could mean it's a statue.
November 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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Ancient Egyptian blue faience bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙

Middle Kingdom, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

#Archaeology
A blue spherical bead in the form of a hedgehog curled up in a defensive ball. Made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material with a shiny blue glaze. The hedgehog’s face, ears, feet and tail are shown in relief, and the quills are shown by black dots painted over the surface. A hole for threading runs through the sphere
November 19, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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Printseller’s stall from the Venetian carnival set commissioned by the Duke of Württemberg (Höchst, c1760-70). Recently sold (for some astronomical price) by E&H Manners, London #18thc
February 10, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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The interactions of Neanderthals with birds are fascinating. Around 41,000 years ago, a raven's radius was left in the site of Zaskalnaya VI, Crimea, Ukraine. Seven regularly spaced notches line one side, and the site's Micoquian context suggests a Neanderthal made them.
Raven radius closeup showing notches incised into the bone. Photo: Mana Majkić and coworkers 2017
November 18, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
November 16, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead:

A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday

Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
Photo of a Bronze Age socketed axe head with a zoomed in thumbnail of a finger print on one of the faces towards the blade edge. The axe is dark green with oxidation and the surface of the blade edge has been lost.
November 15, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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This is the most incredible Bronze Age axehead I know - and I have seen a lot of Bronze Age axes: a jumping cat.
From the palace of Malia, Crete, ca. 1800-1700 BC. Museum Heraklion. #Archaeology
November 15, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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Illustrations of shell-tempered Pensacola Incised variety unspecified (prob. var. Pensacola) sherds from the same vessel recovered from the ca. AD 1450 (middle Plaquemine culture) Discovery Site (16LF66), Lafourche Parish, LA (Miller et al. 2000). #archaeology #ceramics
5 sherds: 2 rim & 3 body. They have parallel incised lines & a single row of punctations
November 14, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Costa Rican Orangemouth Tarantula (Psalmopoeus reduncus)

Belated #arachtober

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#spiders 🌿
A large, hairy spider with intricate patterns on its legs and body rests on a rough tree bark. Its legs are spread out, revealing subtle color variations and fine details in its furry texture. The earthy tones of the spider blend naturally with the mossy, textured surface of the bark, creating a harmonious yet striking scene in the forest environment.
November 11, 2024 at 5:13 AM
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Juvenile Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) inflating its neck as a warning display. Dangerously venomous.

#herps #reptiles #snakes #southafrica
October 29, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Chinese Crocodile Lizard

(Chester Zoo, Chester, September 2024)

#photography #animalphotography #zoophotography #zoo #animals #conservation #herpetology #herping #reptiles #lizards #CrocodileLizard #ChineseCrocodileLizard #ChesterZoo #Chester
November 7, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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A handsome tegu lizard I saw in Brazil. Tegus are S. Am. analogs to monitors (and are now invasive in Florida, of course). They'll eat almost anything - fruit, rodents, eggs, unwary chihuahuas. Here's an essay about my pet tegu back in the 70s: www.tomastlephotography.com/Stories-Essa... #reptiles
A profile photo of the front two-thirds of a tegu lizard, its long, pink, forked tongue curved downward, tasting the air. The lizard is covered in fine black-and-white scales, in a speckled and banded pattern. The background is green grass.
November 10, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Who doesn't like the complete skull of a basal #hadrosauroid? Here's Xuwulong, from the Early Cretaceous of China #fossilfriday #ornithischia source: Nimrf.net.cn
November 15, 2024 at 6:43 PM