Alison Fisk
@AlisonFisk
MA in Archaeological Practice @BirkbeckUoL Volunteer @PCAarchaeology and @HamHouseNT Here to share my ❤️ of archaeology
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Archaeologist | Department Head Landesmuseum Württemberg | Adjunct Lecturer University Stuttgart and State Academy of Arts | Private account, views are my own🖖
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Avid book collector / Geek / Masters Student Classics/Ancient History/Archaeology 🏺🏛 (Half-English / Half-Greek) Expect typos and photos of sheep 😊🐑
Ghost of Hellas
Greek art and culture through the ages.
Gareth Harney
Celebrating the endless wonders of the Roman world. “For these Romans I set no bounds in space or time; but have given empire without end.”
Arys🏺🪶
History&Archaeology 🏛 lover of the arts 🗿photography, architecture and of coffee☕ •Cycladic/Minoan/Mycenaean, Classical Greece, Hellenistic period, Byzantium•
A wide-eyed, shield-biting ‘berserker’. One of the famous Lewis chess pieces from a large 12th-century gaming hoard found on the Isle of Lewis in 1831. Carved from walrus ivory. National Museum of Scotland. 📷 my own taken yesterday!nms.ac.uk/explore-our-co…
#Archaeology
Some of the royal burial mounds at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, including the site of the famous 7th century ship burial in the foreground - one of 18 burial mounds, and the likely grave of King Rædwald of East Anglia. #TombTuesday #AngloSaxon #SuttonHoo 📸 My own.
If you're planning on watching #SecretsOfTheNeanderthals on Netflix tomorrow, have a read of this - reflections on the tensions between wanting to understand or 'know' #Neanderthals scientifically, and how we imagine them in other ways
What a gorgeous thing this is - whatever its use!! The British Museum label says: “Irish Disc. An artefact of unknown function and iconography unique to Ireland”. (More in alt text) 300BC-AD100 📸 own. #archaeology #celticart
Have you heard our fascinating mythbusting conversation about ancient Egyptian mummification? I learned loads doing this with Dr Campbell Price
An Iron Age hillfort reimagined
The mighty trivallate Castle-an-Dinas #Kernow / #Cornwall , looked after by Cornwall Heritage Trust 〓〓, lives again in this sumptuous recreation by the supremely talented Phoebe Herring for Penwith Landscape Partnership
See penwithlandscape.com/trails-and-anc…
#HillfortsWednesday
A masterpiece of Minoan art.
This small rock crystal vessel is a work of technical and artistic perfection created by a skilled artisan some 3,500 years ago!
Zakros Sanctuary, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 2022
#Archaeology
Talking Trolld, echoes and cliffside caves - the second in our two-part look at the Dwarfie Stane in #Hoy .
nessofbrodgar.co.uk/dwarfie-stane-…
#Orkney #Prehistory #Archaeology #Neolithic #ChamberedCairn #ChamberedTomb
My favourite image from this mornings’s observations at #Stonehenge . Doesn’t show what we were looking at/for but I like it! #archaeology 📸 own.
