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# ![@archaeologyart Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::765618069062422528.png) @archaeologyart Archaeology & Art

Archaeology & Art posts on X about art, collection, culture, new york the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Top Social Posts
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"Moai at Ranu Rararaku Easter Island circa 1934"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996714972550955459)  2025-12-04T22:55Z 729.2K followers, 25.2K engagements


"Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod. Japan early 19th century (Edo period). Carved wood. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1962855572484624401)  2025-09-02T12:30Z 729.1K followers, 2.4M engagements


"The world's first known vending machine was designed by the Greek engineer Heron (Hero) of Alexandria in 1stcentury AD Alexandria. it wasn't for snacks it dispensed holy water. Worshippers inserted a coin which hit a pan attached to a lever and opened a valve letting out a specific amount of water. when the coin slid off the valve shut. So this device was created to ensure people didn't take more holy water than they paid for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994937055428669518)  2025-11-30T01:10Z 729.1K followers, 25.1K engagements


"common perception assumes total freedom but ancient athletes often wore a specific restraint called a kynodesme. this was a leather string tied around the foreskin to secure the penis against the body. it prevented the genitals from flapping during the race and kept the athlete socially presentable even while technically nude"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995600782608269734)  2025-12-01T21:07Z 729.1K followers, 127.3K engagements


"Gold and stone inlaid Ba bird Egypt 3rd century BC from The Walters Art Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996013724008951830)  2025-12-03T00:28Z 729.1K followers, 45.7K engagements


"Costumed Figure (Figure with conical headdress and shield). Culture: Maya. Date: 7th8th century AD. Geography: Mexico Mesoamerica probably Jaina Island Campeche. Medium: Ceramic with pigment. Dimensions: H. XXXX cm W. XXX cm D. XXX cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Currently on display in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1989823261358555280)  2025-11-15T22:30Z 728K followers, 17.8K engagements


"Serpent ornament. Culture: Inca (probable). Date: 14501532 AD. Place of origin: South Coast of Peru. Medium: Cotton and camelid hair. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. This fabric serpent measures about XX inches long (86 cm) yet its barely an inch across"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1993409713359159386)  2025-11-25T20:01Z 728.2K followers, 10.6K engagements


"The Roman appetite for wild-beast shows helped drive the North African elephant to extinction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994034570866397616)  2025-11-27T13:24Z 728.1K followers, 37.6K engagements


"This obelisk which millions of tourists take selfies with today was the last thing Saint Peter saw as he was being crucified upside down. Brought from Egypt by Emperor Caligula it was erected in Neros Circus on the site where the Vatican now stands a place where the first Christians - including Saint Peter himself - were tortured crucified and burned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995979801883263047)  2025-12-02T22:14Z 728.1K followers, 23.8K engagements


"Early Christian silver ring with green glass intaglio Roman 4th-5th century AD from Bertolami Fine Antiques"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996013414171508839)  2025-12-03T00:27Z 728K followers, 48.9K engagements


"Look closely at the tiny muscle bulging on the forearm just below the elbow. That is the extensor digiti minimi a small muscle that helps extend the little finger. Anatomically this muscle becomes especially active and visible when the little finger is extended. Notice how Moses is lifting his pinky That is why Michelangelo sculpted that specific muscle in tension. This kind of insane biological accuracy came from his nights spent dissecting corpses at the hospital of Santo Spirito in Florence where he traded a wooden crucifix and other artwork for access to dead bodies to master the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1991069078690173270)  2025-11-19T09:00Z 729.2K followers, 1.7M engagements


"Clay magical figurine of a bound woman often called the Louvre Doll. Culture: Roman Egypt. Date: 3rd to 4th century AD. Medium: unbaked clay with copper alloy needles lead tablet and terracotta vase. Height: XXX cm. Collection: Muse du Louvre Department of Egyptian Antiquities Paris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1992579680281485750)  2025-11-23T13:03Z 729.2K followers, 75.7K engagements


"Fresco of a figure wearing an Anubis mask. Origin: The assembly hall (Ekklesiasterion) of the Temple of Isis Pompeii Italy. Date: 1st century AD. Medium: Fresco painting. Collection: Naples National Archaeological Museum Naples. Photo Credit: @carolemadge ** This striking fresco set against a vivid Pompeian red background offers a window into the secret rituals dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Her worship was immensely popular across the Roman Empire. The figure shown here is not the jackal headed god Anubis himself. Instead it is a priest or a participant wearing a mask impersonating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996595510870724657)  2025-12-04T15:00Z 729.2K followers, 43.5K engagements


"Book of Hours of Charles dAngoulme (Heures de Charles dAngoulme). Library & Location: Bibliothque nationale de France Paris Latin 1173. Page: Folio 3r May calendar page. Artist: Mostly attributed to Robinet Testard (Here the artist adapted a design by the printmaker Israhel van Meckenem). Date: c. AD 1485 Technique: Illumination (miniature) on parchment. It is not a monster or a mythological figure it is a costume. At first glance this image evokes a legendary forest spirit a creature risen from the swamp or the mythological Green Man (when I first saw it I thought it was a green man). The"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996927579303846125)  2025-12-05T13:00Z 729.2K followers, 28.1K engagements


"Set of five inscribed dog figurines. Culture: Neo-Assyrian. Place of origin: North Palace of Ashurbanipal Nineveh Iraq. Date: c. XXX BC. Medium: Fired clay with traces of pigment. Collection: The British Museum London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996980415240814680)  2025-12-05T16:30Z 729.2K followers, 17.6K engagements


"Cancer (The Crab). Artist: Johfra Bosschart. Series: The Zodiac. Date: 19741975 Medium: Oil on panel. Collection: Private Collection (Originals commissioned by Verkerke Reproductions)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997682570201292857)  2025-12-07T15:00Z 729.2K followers, 23.7K engagements


"It's like a real-life version of the Hall of Faces from Game of Thrones. Extraordinary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997767724496224550)  2025-12-07T20:38Z 729.2K followers, 94K engagements


"Found in a sealed tomb near Rome this ring was still resting on the finger of a noblewoman named Aebutia Quarta. The face trapped inside the rock crystal isn't her husband's--it's her son Titus Carvilius Gemellus who died at just XX. She had the ring made after his death commissioning the crystal to be carved as a lens so his face would look alive and seem to follow her gaze. She wore his presence on her hand until the very day archaeologists found her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998533925166072210)  2025-12-09T23:23Z 729.2K followers, 1.1M engagements


"Ritual mountaineering axe with heartshaped openwork. Japan. Nanbokucho to Muromachi period 14th century AD. Forged iron head; wooden shaft spiralwrapped with a bronze strip; H XXXXX cm blade XX x XXXX cm. Collection: Nara National Museum. Classified as an Important Cultural Property. Those two hearts are not about romance. In Japan they are inome the boars eye a very old apotropaic sign cut into weapons temple fittings and even windows to draw off misfortune and summon courage. The motif has been in use for well over a millennium and you can still see inome windows at temples like Shjuin in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1988698339966140779)  2025-11-12T20:00Z 729.1K followers, 5.8M engagements


"Kukeri ritual performers in towering fur costumes and animal masks Bulgaria. Photograph via Lelejskagora / Tumblr Blog; photographer unknown. Date: 1992. ()"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1992290178866782662)  2025-11-22T17:52Z 729.2K followers, 95.7K engagements


"Toy Mounted Knight. Culture: Medieval Europe. Date: 13th to 14th century AD. Medium: Cast bronze with a modern wooden jousting lance. Dimensions: H. XXX cm W. XXX cm D. XXX cm. Place of origin: Europe. Collection: The Walters Art Museum Baltimore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994405995888443847)  2025-11-28T14:00Z 729.1K followers, 54.3K engagements


"View of the main pyramid steps at Teopanzolco. Location: Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico. Culture: Tlahuica and Aztec. Date of structure: c. 11501521 AD. Date of photograph: c. 1875. Photographer: Teobert Maler. Collection: The Getty Museum Los Angeles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994806095102050683)  2025-11-29T16:30Z 729.2K followers, 36.4K engagements


"Tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog) netsuke. Artist: Wahei workshop (active c. 18801910). Culture: Japan. Date: late 19th century AD. Medium: Kyoto ware earthenware with red and brown glazes. Collection: Toledo Museum of Art"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994828775121383792)  2025-11-29T18:00Z 729.1K followers, 17K engagements


"This photograph takes us to Humla one of the most remote districts high in the Himalayas near the Tibetan border: Ritual Masked Dancers. Location: Limitang Village Humla Nepal. Date: 1985 AD. Medium: Selenium toned gelatin silver print. Photographer: Kevin Bubriski"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995115635748045025)  2025-11-30T13:00Z 729.1K followers, 33.3K engagements


"Cat in the Moonlight (Chat au clair de lune). Artist: Thophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss/French 18591923). Date: c. 1900. Medium: Charcoal heightened with white chalk on paper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996255644899316147)  2025-12-03T16:30Z 729.2K followers, 19.7K engagements


"Two Bats Flying. Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (17601849; sheet from a sketchbook associated with the Hokusai School). Date: c. 18301850. Period: Edo period. Medium: Ink wash and color on thin handmade paper. Collection: Library of Congress Washington D.C"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996308520820515085)  2025-12-03T20:00Z 729.2K followers, 23.9K engagements


"Delacroix was a known user of the pigment known as Mummy Brown in the 19th century; therefore it is safe to assume that the shadows and certain sections of this painting may contain this pigment. This paint was produced by grinding up actual ancient Egyptian mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh creating a rich transparent brown hue that 19th-century artists favored for shading and flesh tones. This practice continued until awareness of the pigment's true source spread and material scarcity increased; indeed some artists who discovered the origin belatedly buried their tubes of paint in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996523328438239339)  2025-12-04T10:13Z 729.2K followers, 41.4K engagements


"Standing Cat () Creator unknown. Today Id like to share a piece that Ive been trying to identify for a long time. Despite using reverse image search style analysis and various other methods I havent been able to find the artists name or the date. Perhaps you can help. If you have any information I would appreciate it if you could share a reference URL or the name of the work in the comments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996565297097044313)  2025-12-04T13:00Z 729.2K followers, 61.7K engagements


"Detail Pandemonium. Artist: John Martin (17891854). Date: 1841 AD. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: XXX x XXX cm. Collection: Muse du Louvre Paris. This dramatic canvas visualizes Pandemonium the capital of Hell as described in John Miltons epic poem Paradise Lost. We see Satan depicted in the foreground as a classical hero with spear and shield standing on a dark precipice. He gestures toward the immense infernal palace rising from the depths alongside a river of fire. The entire scene is characterized by a stark contrast between the shadowy foreground and the eerie brilliant illumination"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996640671386460543)  2025-12-04T18:00Z 729.2K followers, 20.4K engagements


"14000 year old bison sculptures Le Tuc dAudoubert cave Ariege France"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996715277137166491)  2025-12-04T22:56Z 729.2K followers, 60.4K engagements


"Temple of Jupiter Baalbek Syria circa 1870"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996715439510954491)  2025-12-04T22:57Z 729.2K followers, 34K engagements


"The Temple of Concord Valley of the Temples Agrigento Sicily Italy. Photographer: Konrad Helbig (1955). Colorized by archaeologyart"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997003133327753671)  2025-12-05T18:00Z 729.2K followers, 31.5K engagements


"Allegory of Greed (Ymago Cupiditatis). Work: Fulgentius metaforalis by John Ridewall. Place of origin: Bavaria Germany. Date: 1424 AD. Medium: Ink and pigments on paper. Collection: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican Library) Pal. lat. 1066 fol. 239r"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997063470227870180)  2025-12-05T22:00Z 729.2K followers, 42.1K engagements


"after marrying the american socialite linda lee thomas in paris in 1919 cole porter spent the 1920s travelling europe with her. on a honeymoon trip through italy they visited ravenna. when they stepped into the tiny mausoleum of galla placidia porter was struck by the dome: a deep blue vault with roughly nine hundred gold stars and a cross in the centre lit by pale alabaster windows. It is said that this starry ceiling and then stepping outside into the dazzling daylight gave him both the inspiration and the title for the song Night and Day. Lets start the day with this song good morning:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997210707075428565)  2025-12-06T07:45Z 729.2K followers, 243.6K engagements


"Depictions of Demons (Divs) from a Divination Book on Magic and Astrology. Culture: Iran (Late Qajar Period). Date: 1921. Medium: Ink and watercolor on paper. Collection: Princeton University Library Islamic Manuscripts Collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997290448621047958)  2025-12-06T13:02Z 729.2K followers, 40.6K engagements


"Isometric Plan of a Roman Urban House (Domus). Depicts the architectural standard of the Late Republic/Early Empire (c. 1st Century BC 1st Century AD). Pen and ink textbook illustration. Source: This specific diagram is a 1947 lithograph by Genevieve Foster widely used in textbooks on ancient Rome and based on standard reconstructions popularized in works like James Henry Breasteds classic textbook Ancient Times: A History of the Early World (first published 1916)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997342806784778729)  2025-12-06T16:30Z 729.2K followers, 36.4K engagements


"Mouse-Design Amulet Ring. Culture: Egypt New Kingdom. Period: 18th Dynasty Reign of Thutmose III. Date: ca. 14791425 B.C. Material: Gold and glazed steatite (soapstone). Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997395667874889917)  2025-12-06T20:00Z 729.1K followers, 17K engagements


"Human Figurines (Funerary Idols). Culture: Early Bronze Age I (Proto-Urban Period). Place of origin: Bab edh-Dhra Jordan. Date: c. 33003100 BC. Medium: Unfired clay. Collection: The British Museum London (related Bab edh-Dhra material is also held in Jordanian museums)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997433408247464059)  2025-12-06T22:30Z 729.2K followers, 24.2K engagements


"It is the 9th century. You are a member of the elite Varangian Guard protecting the Emperor in Constantinople. You are standing inside the Hagia Sophia the most magnificent building on Earth amidst golden mosaics and holy incense. And you are incredibly bored. So you take out your knife and carve runes into the marble balustrade. Not a prayer not a poem. Just "Halvdan made these runes." Essentially: "Halvdan was here." A millennium later empires have fallen religions have shifted but the universal human experience of being bored at work remains exactly the same"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997982062192611364)  2025-12-08T10:50Z 729.1K followers, 61.8K engagements


"Nude in the Waves (Nu dans les ondes) by Matisse. Period: Modernism Date: 1938 Medium: Linocut on paper Collection: Featured in various public and private collections including the Bibliothque nationale de France Paris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998045115705663609)  2025-12-08T15:00Z 729.2K followers, 14.5K engagements


"Silver Locket with Cupid Relief and Poetic Inscription. Inscription: 'Noe heart more trve then mine to yov' (original spelling of a phrase often modernised as 'Noe heart more true than mine to you'). Culture: England (Stuart Period) 16901700. Material: Die-struck silver. Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998210507556208696)  2025-12-09T01:58Z 729.2K followers, 13.4K engagements


"Think of this structure as the ultimate architectural lasagna. Instead of spending a fortune to demolish the outdated medieval bridge engineers in the 1700s took a more pragmatic look at the situation. They decided to simply use the old stonework as scaffolding for the new construction. So when 1901 rolled around they did the exact same thing again layering an iron bridge right on top. Its basically XXX years of "if it ain't broke don't fix itjust build on top of it" logic executed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998376969801547797)  2025-12-09T12:59Z 729.2K followers, 88.4K engagements


"Actually these could be serious security risks. Since the chute led straight outside invaders could sometimes climb up the toilet shaft to breach the castle. Its even said that King Edmund Ironside was assassinated this way in 1016-legend has it an assassin hid in the pit below and stabbed him while he was sitting down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998378497337708989)  2025-12-09T13:05Z 729.2K followers, 94.9K engagements


"Its the ultimate Roman flex because unlike gold which you could melt down and reuse rock crystal has zero intrinsic value if it breaks. Wealthy Romans wore these specifically in the summer because Pliny the Elder wrote that crystal was ice frozen so hard it could never melt so they thought wearing it kept their hands cool during heatwaves. Plus in this piece the face is carved in high relief but because the quartz refracts the light so clearly the expression changes and distorts when the wearer moves their hand. This wasn't just a piece of jewelry; it was a hologram moving on your finger."  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998422661492564112)  2025-12-09T16:01Z 729.2K followers, 867K engagements


"Neko (Cat). Artist: Kayama Matazo (Japanese 1927-2004). Medium: Ink color gold and silver on paper. Dimensions: XXXX x XXXX cm. Previously auctioned at Christie's sale Japanese Modern and Contemporary Paintings New York XX May 2000 lot XX where it realised XXXXXXX USD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998482841227653511)  2025-12-09T20:00Z 729.2K followers, 14.4K engagements


"Imagine an apprentice dropping a hammer and watching it fall for XX seconds. Founded by Greek monks in XXX AD and clinging to a sheer rock face at a height of 1200 meters its expanded over the centuries into a complex of roughly XX rooms--built without cranes. Just looking at it gives you vertigo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998665618296275146)  2025-12-10T08:06Z 729.2K followers, 60.9K engagements


"Gold wedding ring set with an emerald and a garnet Byzantine Empire 10th century AD. Collection: The State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1950662448844779903)  2025-07-30T20:59Z 729.1K followers, 51.9K engagements


"The Colossus of Rhodes by Aniwayalone a Digital Art Hobbyist from Spain. Whoever enters Rhodes by ship must pass beneath his gaze. In fact authors such as Strabo Pliny and Philo mainly discuss its height structure and destruction and we know very little about the details of its anatomy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994578612301730160)  2025-11-29T01:26Z 729.2K followers, 6.3M engagements


"Animals under a night sky. From: Antoine Vrard LArt de bien vivre et de bien mourir (The Art of Living Well and of Dying Well). Place of printing: Paris. Date: c. 14931494 AD Medium: woodcut printed in black ink with later hand colouring on paper. Collection: Rosenwald Collection Rare Book and Special Collections Division Library of Congress Washington DC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995643605822963874)  2025-12-01T23:58Z 729.1K followers, 24.1K engagements


"The Ming Tombs in Nanjing China circa 1869"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996715374893506722)  2025-12-04T22:56Z 729.2K followers, 207.1K engagements


"Archaeologists found this skull in a Venetian plague pit with a brick forced into its mouth. At the time survivors believed in "shroud-eaters"----vampires thought to spread the plague from the grave by chewing on their burial linens. I know it's a bit gross but forensics explains the truth behind the legend in a simple way: As a body decomposes bacteria in the stomach produce gas forcing dark "purge fluid" up the throat. this fluid dissolves the linen shroud around the mouthcreating a vacuum effect that actually makes the jaw move. So to medieval gravediggers reopening the pits it looked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997984022232748335)  2025-12-08T10:58Z 729.2K followers, 406K engagements


"Le Chat Blanc (The White Cat). Artist: Pierre Bonnard Date: AD 1894 Material: Oil on cardboard Collection: Muse d'Orsay Paris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998067592519389217)  2025-12-08T16:30Z 729.2K followers, 18.4K engagements


"Two female figures playing knucklebones (astragalos). Culture: Campanian Greek (South Italy). Findspot: Capua Campania Italy (said to be from). Date: 330300 BC. Material: Mould-made terracotta (baked clay) with remains of slip and paint. Dimensions: H. XXXX cm W. XX cm D. XXXX cm. Collection: The British Museum London (inv. 18670510.1)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998429965205869038)  2025-12-09T16:30Z 729.2K followers, 19.2K engagements


"Reading Moth by Candlelight. Artist: Fritz Schwimbeck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998769861715960196)  2025-12-10T15:00Z 729.2K followers, 8815 engagements


"Kimono (Kosode) mid-19th century Japan circa 1840-1860. Kyoto Living Craft House Mumeisha. Made from silk with hand-painted skeletal motifs. The kosode features a design inspired by traditional Japanese ghost stories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1843690340521230491)  2024-10-08T16:30Z 729.1K followers, 326.3K engagements


"A fabulous grotesque Burgonet for the armor of Guidobaldo della Rovvera Duke of Urbino attributed to Filippo Negroli Milan Italy ca. 1535. Collection: State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978933998597333432)  2025-10-16T21:20Z 729.1K followers, 35.6K engagements


"Skeleton Dance Costume. Culture: Tibet. Date: late 19th or early 20th century AD. Medium: Silk and flannel. Dimensions: overall XX x XX in. (177.8 x XXXXX cm). Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Gift of Mrs. Edward A. Nis 1934"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1992626910631756223)  2025-11-23T16:10Z 729.1K followers, 36.5K engagements


"Three-Thousand-Year-Old Two-Legged Vessel. Culture: Ancient Near Eastern Iran. Period: Iron Age II. Place of origin: Northwestern Iran southwest of the Caspian Sea. Date: circa. 1000 to XXX BC. Medium: Clay earthenware. Dimensions: H. XX cm. Max. diam. XXXX cm. Collection: Brooklyn Museum New York"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1993723003373293812)  2025-11-26T16:46Z 729.1K followers, 76.6K engagements


"Methane and hydrogen sulfide gases would accumulate in the sealed sewer channels below and occasionally ignite causing flames to burst up through the seat openings. since the romans didn't understand the chemistry they attributed these sudden blasts to demons living in the sewers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994190374143770808)  2025-11-27T23:43Z 729.1K followers, 3.4M engagements


"In his personal notebook and in contemporary accounts the condemned men were sometimes referred to not as criminals or victims but as his patients. even more surreal is his daily life outside the executions. when he was not carrying out the popes orders he worked as a souvenir merchant. he successfully sold painted umbrellas to tourists in rome many of whom probably never realised they were buying keepsakes from the vaticans official executioner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995599344058167557)  2025-12-01T21:02Z 729.2K followers, 4.5M engagements


"Bronze Statuette of a Sleeping Puppy. Culture: Greek or Roman (Hellenistic period). Place of discovery: Rome Italy. Date: c. 33230 BC. Medium: Bronze. Dimensions: H. XXX cm; W. X cm; D. XXX cm. Collection & Photo Credit: The Walters Art Museum Baltimore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995893260556832871)  2025-12-02T16:30Z 729.1K followers, 26.3K engagements


"Prize Pig Royal Agricultural Show Cardiff. Artist: Richard Whitford (18211890). Date: 1872. Medium: Oil on canvas. Collection: Museum of English Rural Life Reading. To the modern viewer this pig seems almost comical. Its body is a massive nearly perfect rectangle of flesh balanced precariously on legs that appear far too small. This style often categorized today as naive or folk art was entirely intentional and represents a peculiar yet serious genre in 19th century British culture: the livestock portrait. These paintings were the era's ultimate status symbol for wealthy landowners. During"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996670896463806843)  2025-12-04T20:00Z 729.1K followers, 36.2K engagements


"One of the oldest photographs of Rome showing the Colosseum. The picture was taken by Richard Jones and dates back to 1846. Colorized by me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996713327104610428)  2025-12-04T22:48Z 729.1K followers, 19.2K engagements


"Excavations at the Ishtar Gate Iraq circa 1933"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996716086897631543)  2025-12-04T22:59Z 729.1K followers, 20K engagements


"Seraphim I. Artist: Dan Hillier. Date: 2022. Medium: Screenprint (Victorian steel engraving collage) Collection: Private Collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997652408747294771)  2025-12-07T13:00Z 729.1K followers, 37.1K engagements


"Matriarch. Artists: Raven Skyriver and Preston Singletary. Culture: Tlingit / Contemporary Native American Art. Date: 2022. Material: Off-hand hot sculpted sandblast-patterned glass and metal stand. Collection: Stonington Gallery Seattle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997705205220081847)  2025-12-07T16:30Z 729.2K followers, 23.6K engagements


"Basically they trapped nuclear energy in a perfume bottle for aesthetic purposes. Glass manufacturers discovered that adding up to X% uranium dioxide to the melt was a way to achieve this transparency and color-changing ability. It looks like oily yellow Vaseline under normal light (hence the name Vaseline glass) but under ultraviolet light the uranium electrons react and emit a bright green fluorescence. While uranium is associated with nuclear power and danger today during the Art Deco era it was the ultimate luxury additive. Governments confiscated uranium supplies for nuclear projects"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997762488431997064)  2025-12-07T20:17Z 729.2K followers, 62.6K engagements


"look closely at the bottom tier of this thing. while the top shows guys peacefully sewing shirts and milking sheep the bottom is a straight up nightmare with griffins tearing horses apart and lions attacking wild beasts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1997769001137569857)  2025-12-07T20:43Z 729.1K followers, 45.8K engagements


"Cat at a Table. Artist: Ruskin Spear RA. (1911-1990) Medium: oil on board; XX x XX cm. Credit & Collection: Bonhams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1986289976233906347)  2025-11-06T04:30Z 729.1K followers, 85.2K engagements


"Detail Nero's Torches (Christian Candlesticks) by Henryk Siemiradzki 1876"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995971943405932957)  2025-12-02T21:42Z 729.1K followers, 115.3K engagements


"Two Kittens. Artist: Kawano Kaoru (19161965). Date: c. 1950s AD. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Credit & Collection: Bonhams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996233091266826410)  2025-12-03T15:00Z 729.1K followers, 25.3K engagements


"Saint Matthew Writing His Gospel. Culture: School of Landvennec Abbey Brittany. Date: Late 9th century early 10th century AD. Material: Ink and pigment on parchment. Collection: Bodleian Library Oxford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998407512752570642)  2025-12-09T15:00Z 729.2K followers, 27.3K engagements


"Libra Series: Zodiac Series Artist: Johfra Bosschart Date: AD 19741975 Material: Oil on panel Collection: Private Collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998452692809568416)  2025-12-09T18:00Z 729.2K followers, 12.2K engagements


"Restless Sleeper Eva Vlaskov 2002"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998845220033597656)  2025-12-10T20:00Z 729.2K followers, 10.9K engagements


"Perseus and Andromeda oil on canvas by David Teniers the Younger circa 17th century. Currently housed in the Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1896900970413486144)  2025-03-04T12:30Z 728.3K followers, 33.9K engagements


"Kulah Khud* helmet steel and gold with intricate decorative motifs Iran (Persia) 17th century AD. Collection: Hermitage Museum. *The Kulah Khud helmet is representative of the Safavid period (15011736) a significant era in Iranian history noted for advancements in metallurgy and weapon craftsmanship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1923483360753598811)  2025-05-16T20:59Z 728.2K followers, 26.3K engagements


"Gold perfume bottle decorated with garnets originating from the Black Sea Region Sarmatian culture 2nd century BC. Currently part of the collection at the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1933283205500514712)  2025-06-12T22:00Z 728.2K followers, 43.1K engagements


"Pair of gold earrings shaped as figures of Nike mid-4th century BC originating from the Pavlovsky Barrow near Kerch Crimea. Collection: Hermitage Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1940130809660186770)  2025-07-01T19:30Z 728.2K followers, 111.2K engagements


"Scarabeoid Intaglio depicting a Griffin and Astragal originating from Ionia dating to the 5th century BC. Medium: Rock crystal and gold. Currently in the collection of the Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1945543976129331236)  2025-07-16T18:00Z 728.2K followers, 68.3K engagements


"Scythian Tattoos from Kurgan II Pazyryk Altai. Depiction of animal and hybrid creature tattoos preserved on the upper right arm and various parts of the body of a Scythian male dating to the 5th century BC. Original skin fragment (left) detailed outline and general body placement drawing according to S.I. Rudenko (right). Photo courtesy of the Hermitage Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1946902959729656217)  2025-07-20T12:00Z 728.2K followers, 153.7K engagements


"Photo courtesy of the Hermitage Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1946902991983857882)  2025-07-20T12:00Z 728.2K followers, 6534 engagements


"Coiled snake pendant with chain by Ren Jules Lalique crafted from gold pearls and champlev enamel Paris 1898-1899. Collection: State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1949953047355879818)  2025-07-28T22:00Z 728.3K followers, 53.8K engagements


"Mans wooden headgear discovered in Burial Mound X at Pazyryk Altai Mountains southern Siberia dating to the late 4thearly 3rd century BC. Currently housed in The State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1951727225654354410)  2025-08-02T19:30Z 728.2K followers, 55.9K engagements


"Perfume bottle; Culture: Sarmatian; Place of origin: Black Sea region; Date: 2nd century BC; Medium: gold with garnet cabochons; Collection: The State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1957865238620971179)  2025-08-19T18:00Z 728.3K followers, 29.5K engagements


"Heart Music (aka Happy Heart). Artist: Agnes Pelton (American 18811961). Date: sketched 1944; completed 194849. Medium: Oil on canvas. Exhibited at the Hilbert Museum of California Art Chapman University on loan from a private lender in 202021"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977139679041310843)  2025-10-11T22:30Z 728.4K followers, 51K engagements


"Portable diptych sundial. Maker: Hans Trschel the Elder (German 15491612). Date: c. 1598 AD. Culture: German Nuremberg. Medium: ivory and brass. Dimensions: XXX X cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Pocket dial but really a 16thcentury travel computer. Nuremberg makers like Trschel packed these ivory diptychs with a compass a rehookable string to cast the shadow and even a mini gazetteer listing dozens of city latitudes so you could reset it on the road. many versions also carry a lunar disc and scales for Italian and Babylonian hours letting you turn moonlight into"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1987520590421328303)  2025-11-09T14:00Z 729.1K followers, 14.7K engagements


"Bowl with Human Feet. Culture: Predynastic Egypt Late Naqada INaqada II. Date: c. 37003450 BC. Medium: pottery redpolished Nile silt. Dimensions: diam. XXXX cm; W. XXXX cm; D. XXX cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Look closely at the photo: a smooth red bowl leans slightly forward as if midstep its underside formed by two compact human feet with stubby toes and scuffed heels. That stance is not a whim. The shape mirrors an Egyptian hieroglyph known as W25 the potwithlegs sign read jnj and used for the verb to bring or to get"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1988245403251184061)  2025-11-11T14:00Z 729K followers, 15.9K engagements


"The Death of Munrow. Culture: British Staffordshire. Date: c. 18201830 AD. Medium: leadglazed earthenware with enamel decoration. Dimensions: XX XX 3/8 X 3/4 in. XXXX XXXX XXXX cm. Now on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. A yellow tiger with rippling black stripes curls its tail and clamps a redcoated officers head between its jaws; the pair stand on a tablelike base dressed with floral swags and the title panels reading The Death of Munrow. The scene retells a widely reported incident in British India when young Hugh Munro was seized by a tiger on Saugor Island and died of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1988305801643962468)  2025-11-11T18:00Z 729.1K followers, 16.7K engagements


"For a long time people called this Hercules; a 1500 to 1520 engraving even drew in feet and a lion skin to make that claim clear. the Vatican Museums now favor ajax the hero at the moment before suicide the head once tilted to the right hand that gripped a sword. see: Michelangelo admired the fragment so much he reportedly refused a papal request to add arms and legs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1988463755496190146)  2025-11-12T04:27Z 729K followers, 31.2K engagements


"Roman glass vessels. Date: c. 1st century BC2nd century AD. Medium: sodalime glass blown freehand and in molds; forms include beakers with teardrop bosses bird and grape flasks amphoriskoi and headshaped flasks. Collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. The British Museum London. Corning Museum of Glass New York. J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1988668223877722411)  2025-11-12T18:00Z 729.1K followers, 67.1K engagements


"Figure of a Standing Dog. Period: Eastern Han dynasty 25220 AD. Culture: China. Medium: Earthenware with green glaze. Dimensions: H. XXXX cm W. XXXX cm L. XXXX cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. In Han dynasty burials figures like this belonged to a whole class of tomb models known as mingqi usually translated as spirit goods. Families filled graves with miniature farms towers servants and animals so the dead could carry on an ideal version of daily life. Dogs were among the most common of these companions placed in tombs to offer both protection and company in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1990147926652309603)  2025-11-16T20:00Z 729K followers, 16.3K engagements


"It was essentially the Google Earth of the 1500s created using mathematics astronomical observations and ground-based surveying tools. When these 16th-century maps are compared with modern geographic data they are often estimated to be over XX percent accurate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1991755249955271109)  2025-11-21T06:27Z 729K followers, 20.6K engagements


"Scene from the ballad The Dragon of Wantley by John June. Date: c. 17441775 AD. Medium: Etching on paper. Dimensions: XXXX X cm. Collection: The British Museum London. Currently not on display.  John June turns the famous Dragon of Wantley into a courtroom satire in disguise catching the exact instant when a spiky village champion humiliates a monster grown fat on other peoples wealth: ".A tiny armoured figure bristling with spikes leans back and drives his heel into the swollen hindquarters of a dragon. The creature arches round in pain wings spread wide flames curling from its mouth while"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1993029917072568541)  2025-11-24T18:52Z 728.5K followers, 12.6K engagements


"The impulse to leave 'toys' for deceased pets is prehistoric. archaeologists excavating near lake baikal in siberia discovered a dog burial from approximately 7000 years ago where the animal was interred with a smooth round pebble placed carefully at its mouth. see: unlike other grave goods which were usually food or weapons this item had no utilitarian function and was worn down suggesting it was the dog's favorite toy. I think this suggests that the idea of ensuring pets have something to play with in the afterlife predates recorded history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1993630909661159856)  2025-11-26T10:40Z 728.9K followers, 323.3K engagements


"This ancient Greek mosaic is not 2400 but about 1700 years olddating to roughly the 3rd century AD so the date in the tweet is wrong. It was found at the center of an elegant dining room. Do you think the memento mori here was meant to be a practical conversation starter Why was it chosen Who knows. Perhaps by looking at the cheerful skeleton holding a wine cup the guests were meant to be reminded that death is inevitable and that like the figure on the floor they should enjoy as much pleasure as possible before their own end comes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1993646855599628776)  2025-11-26T11:43Z 728.9K followers, 36K engagements


"Gold amulet with carnelian phallus. Culture: Bosporan Kingdom. Place of origin: Northern Black Sea region probably around the Cimmerian Bosporus. Date: 3rd century BC. Medium: Gold and carved carnelian. Now on display at the State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1993759872245170593)  2025-11-26T19:12Z 729K followers, 16.9K engagements


"Gold earring with glass head pendant. Culture: Phoenician or Carthaginian. Period: Hellenistic. Date: 3rd1st century BC. Medium: Gold and glass (rodformed head pendant); H. XXX cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York The Cesnola Collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1993881125056635335)  2025-11-27T03:14Z 728.2K followers, 19.5K engagements


"Angels Army. Artist: Guariento di Arpo. Date: c. 1360 AD. Medium: Tempera and gold on panel; XXX XXX cm. Collection: Musei Civici Eremitani Padua Italy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994095620856963433)  2025-11-27T17:26Z 728.2K followers, 19.7K engagements


"Female mummy with conical felt hat from the Necropolis of Subeshi III Grave M6 Turfan District Xinjiang China. Culture: Subeshi (Subeixi) culture eastern Tarim Basin. Date: 4th3rd century BC. Image via the University of Pennsylvania"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994443711581683989)  2025-11-28T16:30Z 728.6K followers, 42.2K engagements


"Stonehenge under Snow. Photographer: Bill Brandt. Date: 1947. Medium: Gelatin silver print. Collection: The Museum of Modern Art New York"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994858966640210045)  2025-11-29T20:00Z 728.3K followers, 20.9K engagements


"Brandt had Stonehenge in mind for years and waited specifically for snow. The chance came with the notorious Big Freeze of 1947 the harshest British winter in over a century when deep snow coal shortages and power cuts shut down large parts of the country.  Picture Post commissioned the image for a special issue on the national crisis and placed it on the cover under the headline "Where stands Britain" 2nd Image: Picture Post April XX 1947 cover. Stock Photo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1994859405871882496)  2025-11-29T20:01Z 729.1K followers, 13.1K engagements


"At Close of Day. Artist: Maxfield Parrish. Date: 1941 AD. Medium: Oil on board. Private Collection. The ethereal almost electric turquoise glow of this winter sky was not achieved through spontaneous brushwork or simple color mixing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995168476181176540)  2025-11-30T16:30Z 728.6K followers, 17.6K engagements


"Seated Puppy. Culture: Jalisco West Mexico. Date: c. XXX BCAD XXX (Late Pre-Classic Period). Medium: Ceramic buffware with ochre paint. Collection: The Walters Art Museum Baltimore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995532560039043392)  2025-12-01T16:36Z 728.6K followers, 9347 engagements


"Illustration of a demonic figure (Folio 70r). From the manuscript Bellicorum instrumentorum liber (Book of Warfare Devices). Artist: Johannes de Fontana. Date: c. 14201430 AD. Medium: Ink on parchment. Collection: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich (Cod. icon. 242)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995870644165046609)  2025-12-02T15:00Z 729.1K followers, 16.6K engagements


"The Wise and Foolish Virgins. Artist: Godfried Schalcken (Dutch 16431706). Date: 1700 AD. Medium: Oil on canvas. Collection: Bayerische Staatsgemldesammlungen Alte Pinakothek Munich"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995946096711901633)  2025-12-02T20:00Z 729.1K followers, 13K engagements


"The Flower Vendor by Victor Prouv (1882)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995948332712427574)  2025-12-02T20:09Z 728.2K followers, 19.6K engagements


"Pottery bowl containing paint once belonging to a fresco painter. Period: Roman. Date: A.D. 1st century. Place of origin: Egypt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996013244121759964)  2025-12-03T00:26Z 729.1K followers, 13.7K engagements


"Mantle with embroidered figures. Culture: Paracas-Nasca transition. Place of origin: South Coast Peru. Date: c. 0100 AD. Medium: Camelid fiber plain weave with stem-stitch embroidery. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996202853279453449)  2025-12-03T13:00Z 728.5K followers, 16K engagements


"Wedding Rock petroglyphs Washington circa 1955"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996715961911832989)  2025-12-04T22:59Z 729.1K followers, 14.1K engagements


"Three men masked as Diablos. Photographer: Ruth D. Lechuga 1960s. Collection: Ruth D. Lechuga Center for Folk Art Studies at the Franz Mayer Museum Mexico City"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996957778175229985)  2025-12-05T15:00Z 729.1K followers, 19.4K engagements


"In the intricate world of Mexican folk festivals Diablo is not a monster to be feared but a satirical representative of social justice. The specific masks you see here with their twisted horns and exaggerated leather tongues were often crafted by Indigenous artisans to caricature the Spanish colonizers.  The protruding tongue is not merely a grotesque detail; some anthropologists have suggested that it was historically used to mock foreign invaders symbolizing their 'strange' language and insatiable appetite for land resources. By donning these masks the poorest villagers could flip the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996960654687633838)  2025-12-05T15:11Z 729.1K followers, 14.3K engagements


"That orb is the oddest part of Salvator Mundi. Leonardo knew a solid sphere should flip and wildly distort the robe behind it he wrote about such refraction in his notebooks. Here he paints a rockcrystal sphere the kind Milanese princes collected and many believed was ancient ice from the Alps so the drapery stays almost calm. Only the palm shows a faint double edge a tiny lens effect he lets slip. The three pinpoints on the orb have been read as reflections from multiple lights in his studio others see a quiet nod to the Trinity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1982024856074920250)  2025-10-25T10:02Z 729.1K followers, 100.8K engagements


"Skull Mask (ritual dance mask). Origin: Bhutan. Date: c. 18501920. Medium: Carved and painted wood with metal eye fittings. Collection: Science Museum Group London (image via Wellcome Collection). ".These dancing skeletons are not merely theatrical performers but serve as a rehearsal for the moment of death specifically the intermediate state known as the bardo. the terrifying deities encountered during this transition are actually projections of the deceased person's own mind and if one recognizes these skeletal visions as reflections of their own intellect rather than external demons they"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995532781644820722)  2025-12-01T16:37Z 729.1K followers, 35.5K engagements


"Monks in a Monastery Courtyard Storm over a Lake in the Background. Artist: Franz Ludwig Catel (German 17781856). Date: 1856 AD. Medium: Oil on canvas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1995915935945805923)  2025-12-02T18:00Z 729.1K followers, 24.8K engagements


"Finger-ring. Culture/period: Late Medieval . Date: ca. 1400. Place of origin: Halkida Greece (vvoia (island) Medium: Sapphire gold . Collection: British Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1996012932820254935)  2025-12-03T00:25Z 729.1K followers, 15.2K engagements


"At a glance this piece looks like a nocturnal bat with its wings spread wide. But step a little closer and youll find a surprise: tucked away in the rough texture of the wings is a serene stylized human face. Thats where the title really clicks. While the peaceful mask suggests a deep slumber the creature itselfa symbol of the night and erratic flight--captures the wandering restless nature of the sleepers subconscious. Czech artist Eva Vlaskov didn't just rely on shape to tell this story; she wove the chemistry of the glass right into the narrative. That hypnotic neon green glow isn't a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1998845226245378180)  2025-12-10T20:00Z 729.1K followers, 5749 engagements