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archéologie, rome, médieval, miniatures, indo-persan, delhi, asie du sud, himalaya, départements Calvados et Manche, 🐘🐘. Encore sur X @cmfap
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By the way, the boy from Hawara in the British Museum is a bit of a horror story. He had been in an advanced state of decay, literally falling apart, when he was mummified. For details on what was found via x-rays, see the link below. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 5/

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Mummy of an adolescent boy, with painted portrait
Mummy of an adolescent boy, name unknown. The body appears to have been wrapped when in an advanced state of decomposition: Skull - Upper incisors and canines missing. No obvious fractures. Body and...
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March 24, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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chapps.bsky.social
Another example of a ‘red shroud’ mummy is the famed Isadora, below. Her portrait is continued onto the surface of the shroud, and when intact her purple tunic with black clavi to extend down to her feet, possibly with gilded funerary figures. 🏺 4/

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Isidora wears a traditionally hued lavender mantle. Black clavi (woven stripes) with gilded trim extend vertically from the panel onto the linen of the shroud, expanding the portrait over the linen wrappings. In its original condition we would expect Isidora's red shroud with painted clavi to extend to her ankles and her forearms and hands to be depicted crossing her torso in a manner similar to other female red-shroud mummies. Like these women, Isidora was likely to have been depicted holding a rose-petal wreath in her upraised right hand: the tip of a gold-speckled rose wreath can be seen overlapping her proper left clavus. Isidora's tightly braided Trajanic hairstyle is wrapped into a plaited bun secured by a gilded pin to the top of her head. A silver hair ornament (painted in several shades of gray) can be seen to the left. Surmounting her brow is a large, impressive golden wreath with a central design perhaps having religious significance. Curls frame her face and corkscrew locks drop in front of her ears in accordance with a style popular during the latter years of the first century AD. Carbon 14 analysis of the linen at 43 BC – AD 122 accords with these stylistic traits. Isidora's impressive earrings are distinguished by their unique size and luxurious materials. They consist of a horizontal gold bar suspended from a single pearl; itself suspending four gold vertical bars and each terminating in a pearl. She wears three necklaces connected at the front by an amethyst set into an elaborate gold mount. The topmost necklace appears to be of emeralds, pearls and gold beads; the central necklace is composed of connected gold plaques and the lowermost, largest and most elaborate has quite wide emeralds interspersed with square gold beads similar to those of the center necklace. Encaustic on linden wood; gilt; linen. Attributed to the Isidora Master (Romano-Egyptian, active 100 - 125). Romano-Egyptian ca. 100 CE Getty Villa Museum (81.AP.42)
March 24, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Very excited about this news. I can’t wait to hear whether DNA research proves that the remains belong to D’Artagnan. Just like it helped identifying Richard III.
#genealogy #earlymodern
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church
D'Artagnan was killed during the Siege of Maastricht in 1673 and later immortalised in the stories of Alexandre Dumas.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 25, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
This is (I think) a Greater Blue-Eared Starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) & the amazing chrome job is their super-power.

They've evolved to manipulate light in VERY specific ways, attracting mates, intimidating rivals.

Let's look at the nanostructures that bring this bling into being.
March 25, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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agemoyen.bsky.social
Que peut apporter l'ADN à l'histoire ?

C'est à cette question que répond Patrick Geary dans ce bref ouvrage paru chez @cnrseditions.bsky.social.

Au menu : quelques renseignements, beaucoup de questions, une bonne dose de prudence. Un fil ⬇️ #medievalists #medievalsky
Couverture du livre de Patrick Geary, Comment la génétique réécrit l'histoire du Moyen Âge
December 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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The Nativity in Ethiopian style

The Morgan Library, MS M.828; Zir Ganela Gospels; 1400 CE-1401 CE; Ethiopia; f.7v
December 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Something for the season

BL Add MS 37472, f.1r
December 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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The animals in this nativity scene seemed to be more focused on the food than on the Christ child.
#Nativity
BL Egerton 3028; Wace, Roman de Brut, a verse epitome; England; 14th century; f.2r
December 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The Nativity
#Nativity
BL Or 510; The Four Gospels; 1664 CE-1665 CE; Gondar, Ethiopia; f.8v
December 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The Nativity and Shepherds
#Nativity
BnF MS Latin 9438; Missel de Limoges; 12th century; f.19v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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chapps.bsky.social
What’s #Christmas without the stunning Wilton Diptych? A rare surviving set of tempera panel paintings, a portable set made for the private use of Richard II, King of England from 1377 to 1399. The brilliant blue garments of the angels are painted with ultramarine, made from lapis lazuli. 🎄 1/

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On the left panel (the two panels are hinged together, and there are paintings on the exterior panels as well), the young King, sumptuously dressed, kneels in a barren landscape. He is accompanied by three saints: John the Baptist, carrying the Lamb of God; Edward the Confessor, holding a ring; and Edmund with the arrow of his martyrdom in his hand. The saints present the King to the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, shown on the right-hand panel. They stand in a flowery meadow surrounded by angels, one of whom carries a white standard with a red cross. The richness of the tempera paintwork, the meticulously stamped gilding and the refinement of detail is extraordinary. The infant Christ is wrapped in cloth of gold, and stippled within his halo is a crown of thorns and three nails – symbols of the Passion.
December 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Tintin magazine dated December 23, 1948. On the cover, Tintin, Captain Haddock, Snowy, Professor Calculus, Thomson, and Thompson are kneeling in prayer before a Nativity scene set. There is a Christmas tree in the background.
December 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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It's the last day of the Saturnalia festival. Io, io! 🌟🌟

December 23 was a day of gift-giving when candles and small clay or wax figurines (sigillariae) were exchanged.
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#Saturnalia 🪔
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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1e victoire obtenue en référé par l'association Blaise Pascal ce mardi (vente Christies mercredi) : suspension par la justice de l'autorisation de sortie du territoire de la #pascaline 🙌 paris.tribunal-administratif.fr/decisions-de...
Suspension de l’autorisation d’exporter une machine à calculer inventée par Blaise Pascal - Tribunal administratif de Paris
Saisi par plusieurs associations de défense du patrimoine et des particuliers, le juge des référés suspend l’exécution du certificat d’exportation délivré par la ministre de la culture à l'occasion de...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
Scribe at work wearing rather dainty red shoes

MS Ff.1.27; f.315 @camdiglib.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
What a desk!
#writingdesk
BnF MS Français 17211; Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, French translation by Claude de Seyssel, volume 1; early 16th century; f.1r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
A press release from the University of Bristol about an exciting new article by @benpohl.bsky.social and published by Historical Research: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
December: Bayeux Tapestry could have been originally designed as mealtime reading for medi | News and features | University of Bristol
New research by an historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history’s biggest mysteries – the original purpose of the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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#MosaicMonday - Detail of a Roman floor mosaic with a glass bottle protected by a sheath of straw, and a glass cup. From Thysdrus (El Jem), dated to the 3rd century AD.

National Museum of Bardo, Tunisia.
December 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Retrouvez ces deux bustes-reliquaires jusqu’au 11 janvier dans l’exposition "Le Moyen Âge du 19e siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux".
En savoir plus 👉 www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/ex...
Affiche de l'exposition "Le Moyen Âge du 19e siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux" du 7 octobre 2025 au 11 janvier 2026 au musée de Cluny - musée national du Moyen Âge à Paris
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Et l’œuvre originale ? Après avoir été vendue par le curé de Soudeilles au marchand londonien Henri James Duveen, elle est achetée par le collectionneur américain John Pierpont Morgan. Il la rend à la France et la donne au musée du Louvre en 1911. La copie quant à elle regagne l’église en 1913.
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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L’affaire de Soudeilles 🕵️‍♂️
Soudeilles, 1910. Le maire de la commune et le député de la Corrèze décident de vendre le buste-reliquaire de saint Martin. Mais l’œuvre originale a disparu et a été remplacée par une copie…
Que s’est-il passé ? Suivez-nous dans cette enquête. ⤵
Vitrine d'exposition présentant au premier plan le buste-reliquaire de saint Martin et à l'arrière sa copie
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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chapps.bsky.social
I love the identical maenads in both of the Dionysian frescoes below - the one on the left is from the Villa dei Misteri (my bad shot, since we couldn't see it at the right angle, and it was in the dark), the right from the House of the Thiasus. More evidence for ancient pattern books, I think. 🏺
December 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Jusqu’au 11/01, le @museecluny.bsky.social présente l’exposition «Moyen Âge du XIXe siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux». L’exposition propose des confrontations entre objets médiévaux et leurs réinterprétations du XIXᵉ siècle.
musee-moyenage.fr/activites/ex...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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During the #Saturnalia festival, all gambling laws were relaxed, and everyone could partake in games at their leisure and openly in public. Children used nuts as gambling tokens. 🎲
Dice players fresco from the Osteria della Via di Mercurio (VI 10,1.19, room b), in situ wall fresco, Pompeii.
December 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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On the first day of the #Saturnalia festival, a Princeps Saturnalia was appointed among the household by throwing the dice. The King of Saturnalia presided over and commanded people to do things such as preparing a banquet or singing a song. 🪔
Fresco showing guests at a banquet, from the House of the Triclinium in Pompeii, AD 40-79. This fresco shows men and women reclining together on couches, as slaves serve them. One guest says in Latin, “FACITIS VOBIS SUAVITER EGO CANTO” – “Get yourselves comfortable, I am going to sing”. Another replies “EST ITA VALEAS” – “Yes, you go for it!”. An ancient Roman dice.
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM