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@romanpiso.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:22 AM

The 6 Major Assumptions of traditional ancient history studies. #Discover #EduSky🍎 #AncientHistory #AncientBlueSky #What'sHistory🗃️ @paulinsc.bsky.social

@drjeball.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 9:43 PM

A #Roman gold aureus minted in the reign of Hadrian. One side shows the emperor, while the other depicts the divine personification of Egypt, surrounded by things associated with her province - a lotus flower, an ibis, a snake, & a sistrum (a rattling musical instrument) #AncientBlueSky

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@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 8:47 PM

We are starting the week on the Oppian for #MosaicMonday. These late C1 CE wall #mosaics from beneath the #BathsofTrajan show Roman maritime villas. But they look like ghosts, because Trajan's engineers despoiled the glass tesseræ of the water. #AncientBluesky 🏺

MOSAIC OF A MARITIME VILLA, 64-98 CE. MUSEO DELLE TERME DI TRAIANO

This is part of the lower register of the Great Mosaic, one of a row depicting maritime villas, seemingly floating on a rough, blank mortar background. The structure features long colonnaded porticoes extending into the sea on two moles, terminating in tower like pavilions known as diaetae. This architectural pincer enclosed a private harbour, creating a protected mooring that displays the extreme luxury of the C1 rich. The villa appears to float in empty white space because the original background was destroyed. The ocean and sky were likely made of expensive glass paste tesseræ. These were picked out for recycling by Trajan's demolition crews, a state-sanctioned salvage operation also evident in the Polyphemus mosaic of the Domus Aurea. Only the less valuable stone and terracotta pieces forming the architecture were left behind before the hall was walled up to serve as foundations for the Baths of Trajan.

@romanpiso.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 3:17 PM

#Discover #Christianity @paulinsc.bsky.social #PlinyTheYounger #AncientHistory #What'sHistory🗃️ #EduSky🍎 #AncientBlueSky #Reads

Pliny The Younger's Involvement In The Creation Of Christianity
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@wittspat.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 10:34 AM

As problem floors are a bit of a theme in my life at the moment, here's a 'spot-the-delightful-bouncy animals' one from Ras al-Hillal in Cyrenaica (modern Libya). Byzantine, I think. Wonder whether this still survives? Context follows. 1/2
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A much-damaged square panel from an ancient mosaic. At lower left are the foreparts of an animal. At upper right is a striped animal chasing another at upper centre which turns its head back to look at its pursuer. The animals look as if they are playing but maybe not! On the right is part of a tree with dark leaves spreading towards the plain border.

@partialhistorians.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 9:04 AM

Do you feel like you’ve just been tossed unceremoniously into a chariot race? Welcome to the all new *empathetic* #MosaicMonday where your feelings about still having to engage in capitalism while tech billionaires ruin it for us all are validated by ancient mosaics.

#AncientBluesky🏺

Image description from World History Encyclopaedia: Mosaic representing four charioteers from different parts of a Roman circus and their horses, Roman work (end of the 3rd century CE) from the villa located near the Baccano wood, and exhibited at the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome (Italy). Photo credit to Jean-Pol Grandmont.

@sistoryhistory.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 8:25 AM

A scene of animals hunting at the #Roman villa in Desenzano del Garda.

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@romanpiso.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 7:28 AM

#Discover #Books #booksky #Read #Reads #Reading #AncientHistory #What'sHistory🗃️ #AncientBlueSky #CreatingChristianity #HenryDavis #PisoChrist #RomanPiso

@maskflowerprince.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 12:43 PM

For #stunday. Sunset on the cliff-top ruins of the 5th-century BCE Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece. (2023)
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #ruins #AncientBlueSky #travelphotography #AncientSiteSunday #SundayStonework #archaeology #Greece #Athens #EastCoastKin #ECK #WCK

This photograph captures the ancient Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Greece, dramatically backlit by a vivid sunset over the Aegean Sea.

The remaining ancient Doric columns of the temple stand prominently on a rocky hilltop, silhouetted against the bright evening sky. The sun sits low on the horizon just to the right of the temple, creating a strong lens flare, warm golden highlights, and deep shadows across the landscape.

@romanpiso.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 4:59 AM

#Discover #Books #AncientHistory #PlinyTheYounger #What'sHistory🗃️ @paulinsc.bsky.social #AncientBlueSky #RomanEmpire #Christianity #ChurchHistory #Bible #NewTestament #Paul'sEpistles #Pliny

Book: 'Pliny The Younger: His Words & Phrases' (Pliny As The NT Paul)
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@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 9:00 PM

Into the West. For a late #SarcophagusSaturday, this Roman marine thiasos in the #VaticanMuseums depicts a horizontal journey to the afterlife. Stretching from #Hesiod to #Tolkien, it is a vision of eternal #ataraxia, mastering the turbulent sea of life. #AncientBluesky 🏺

MARINE THIASOS SARCOPHAGUS, C. 140-150 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS

A rectangular marble sarcophagus on carved supports. The front features a high relief marine thiasos, with nude Nereids riding ichthyocentaurs and coiled sea monsters. Early modern scholars viewed these creatures literally as psychopomps carrying the dead across the river Oceanus to the western Isles of the Blessed. However, modern readings prefer a philosophical allegory, noting the conspicuous absence of any central figure representing a soul. Instead, the ocean represents the turbulent sea of life. The nymphs gracefully taming wild beasts symbolise the achievement of ataraxia, a state of profound inner peace and freedom from anxiety. This horizontal, westward journey to a maritime afterlife, entirely distinct from a skyward ascent or underworld descent, reflects a poetic continuity stretching from Hesiod in c. 700 BCE to Tolkien in the C20.

@simonbralee.com Sep 19, 2026, 5:07 PM

Scarab beetle with a human head. From New Kingdom Egypt. A symbol of the deceased after the successful judgment of the dead.
🏛️ State Museum of Egyptian Art Munich
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Soapstone sculpture of a scarab with a tiny human head wearing an ancient Egyptian style wig, similar to Nemes headdress.

@maskflowerprince.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 1:27 PM

For #BlueSkyArtShow #Golden. This pectoral created by the Mixtecs of ancient Mexico shows the skill of the ancient goldsmiths centuries before the Spaniards arrived (2011). #photography #Mixteca #ÑuuSavi #Oaxaca #Mexico #nativeart #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #Mixtec #gold #EastCoastKin #ECK #WCK

This photo shows a famous pre-Columbian artifact known as the Mixtec Gold Pectoral of Mictlantecuhtli. It is an incredibly detailed chest ornament (pectoral) crafted from pure gold. It dates back to the Late Postclassic period (c. 1300–1450 CE) and was discovered in 1932 by archaeologist Alfonso Caso inside Tomb 7 at Monte Albán, located in Oaxaca, Mexico.

@romanpiso.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 11:49 PM

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@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 9:21 PM

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@partialhistorians.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 9:11 PM

Andromeda is trapped and chained as a sacrifice to the sea monster Cetus. Turns out that some parents are not only willing to anger the gods but to also then offer up their child to get back in the gods’ good graces…

#AncientGreece #AncientBluesky🏺 #FrescoFriday

Description from The World History Encyclopaedia: “Fourth style fresco depicting Perseusfreeing Andromeda from her chains on the rock, from the House of the Dioscuri in Pompeii, National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Andromeda, chained helplessly on the rock, a prey to pacify a sea monster sent by Poseidon to punish Cassiopeia, Andromeda's mother, who had boasted of her daughter's beauty. Perseus comes face to face with the beautiful Andromeda, immediately falls in love with her and rushes off to kill the sea monster. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.”

@pierocastellano.com Sep 18, 2026, 6:16 AM

Last year, Brughmans and an international team of researchers created a digital, publicly accessible map of the Roman Empire’s nearly 190,000 miles of roads in 150 C.E.

#Archaeology #AncientBluesky 🏺

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@mihalyfy.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 2:58 AM

9/18-9/19 online symposium -

"Writing and Pseudo-Scripts: Architectural contexts and script-image phenomena."

#Egyptology #AncientBlueSky
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