Niklas Kärrman
@niklaskarrman.bsky.social
Postgraduate student in classical archaeology and ancient history at the University of Gothenburg. Archivist.
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Landslide win for pro-EU Turkish Cypriot candidate raises hopes for peace
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Landslide win for pro-EU Turkish Cypriot candidate raises hopes for peace
Veteran leftwinger Tufan Erhürman wins after campaign on reviving stalled talks to reunify island
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Landslide win for pro-EU Turkish Cypriot candidate raises hopes for peace
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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A magnificent gold wreath, found in tomb in Armento, southern Italy, dating 4th century BC.
The wreath features a winged goddess at its center, and an inscription at the base of the deity reads: "Kreithonios gave the gold for this wreath."
The donor's intention...🧵1/2
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
The wreath features a winged goddess at its center, and an inscription at the base of the deity reads: "Kreithonios gave the gold for this wreath."
The donor's intention...🧵1/2
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
July 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A magnificent gold wreath, found in tomb in Armento, southern Italy, dating 4th century BC.
The wreath features a winged goddess at its center, and an inscription at the base of the deity reads: "Kreithonios gave the gold for this wreath."
The donor's intention...🧵1/2
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
The wreath features a winged goddess at its center, and an inscription at the base of the deity reads: "Kreithonios gave the gold for this wreath."
The donor's intention...🧵1/2
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
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Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park was the envy of Africa. Wildlife drew tourists from around the world. But, beginning in the 1960s, a manmade catastrophe slaughtered the animals until, it was said, there was nothing left but mosquitos and landmines. https://cbsn.ws/4jcHC2A
Restoring Gorongosa National Park after decades of war
Gorongosa was devastated by years of war, but now the park, and the people around it, are getting new opportunities thanks to philanthropist Greg Carr's nonprofit foundation.
cbsn.ws
May 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park was the envy of Africa. Wildlife drew tourists from around the world. But, beginning in the 1960s, a manmade catastrophe slaughtered the animals until, it was said, there was nothing left but mosquitos and landmines. https://cbsn.ws/4jcHC2A
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#RomanSiteSaturday: The architectural perfection of Timgad, Algeria, is consistently striking in photographs.
The Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi was founded in 100 AD. Its plan, laid out with great precision, is Roman urban planning at its best.
📷 Georg Steinmetz
🏺 #archaeology
The Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi was founded in 100 AD. Its plan, laid out with great precision, is Roman urban planning at its best.
📷 Georg Steinmetz
🏺 #archaeology
May 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
#RomanSiteSaturday: The architectural perfection of Timgad, Algeria, is consistently striking in photographs.
The Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi was founded in 100 AD. Its plan, laid out with great precision, is Roman urban planning at its best.
📷 Georg Steinmetz
🏺 #archaeology
The Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi was founded in 100 AD. Its plan, laid out with great precision, is Roman urban planning at its best.
📷 Georg Steinmetz
🏺 #archaeology
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Looking back to this anonymous (grrr!) loan to the #GettyVilla, now gone. It’s a gilded silver rhyton (drinking horn) with a galloping horse protome. The horse is full of movement, its muscular neck turned to the side. The bridle is decorated with garnets. 🏺
Greek, 200-200 BCE.
📸 me
Greek, 200-200 BCE.
📸 me
April 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Looking back to this anonymous (grrr!) loan to the #GettyVilla, now gone. It’s a gilded silver rhyton (drinking horn) with a galloping horse protome. The horse is full of movement, its muscular neck turned to the side. The bridle is decorated with garnets. 🏺
Greek, 200-200 BCE.
📸 me
Greek, 200-200 BCE.
📸 me
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More than 2,000 looted Italic, Etruscan, Greek and Magna Graecia artefacts recovered by the Achei Operation, led by the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Command, were entrusted today to the National Archaeological Museum of Umbria . www.journalchc.com/2025/03/25/o...
March 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
More than 2,000 looted Italic, Etruscan, Greek and Magna Graecia artefacts recovered by the Achei Operation, led by the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Command, were entrusted today to the National Archaeological Museum of Umbria . www.journalchc.com/2025/03/25/o...
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Okay, this is big. Really.
New finds from SE Anatolia suggest that at Gre Fılla, #Diyarbakir, Neolithic hunter-gatherers experimented with copper #metallurgy ... 9,000 years ago!
Yes, that's the Pre-Poettery Neolithic we're talking about:
🏺 www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-...
New finds from SE Anatolia suggest that at Gre Fılla, #Diyarbakir, Neolithic hunter-gatherers experimented with copper #metallurgy ... 9,000 years ago!
Yes, that's the Pre-Poettery Neolithic we're talking about:
🏺 www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-...
How Anatolia’s last hunter-gatherers pioneered copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago - Türkiye Today
New findings in Anatolia show that hunter-gatherers were experimenting with copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early technology.
www.turkiyetoday.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Okay, this is big. Really.
New finds from SE Anatolia suggest that at Gre Fılla, #Diyarbakir, Neolithic hunter-gatherers experimented with copper #metallurgy ... 9,000 years ago!
Yes, that's the Pre-Poettery Neolithic we're talking about:
🏺 www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-...
New finds from SE Anatolia suggest that at Gre Fılla, #Diyarbakir, Neolithic hunter-gatherers experimented with copper #metallurgy ... 9,000 years ago!
Yes, that's the Pre-Poettery Neolithic we're talking about:
🏺 www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-...
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In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature
The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...
www.nature.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Fire-damaged head from a Chryselphantine (ivory & gold) statue thought to represent Apollo. Dated to 6th century BCE. Found buried next to the Sacred Way, Delphi, Greece. Sacred items could not be destroyed so were therefore buried. Archaeological Museum of Delphi. 📷 Helen Simonsson
January 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Fire-damaged head from a Chryselphantine (ivory & gold) statue thought to represent Apollo. Dated to 6th century BCE. Found buried next to the Sacred Way, Delphi, Greece. Sacred items could not be destroyed so were therefore buried. Archaeological Museum of Delphi. 📷 Helen Simonsson