The Exhausted Historian 💎

Caffiene fuelled Ancient Historian🏺Illustrator | Detectorist | Welsh | Veggie | Explorer 🌎
MSc Archaeological Sciences + BA Hons Egyptology & Classics 🏛

[Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 @FlintDibble]

I have not heard from @joerogan or his team, nor have I confirmed my availability for this date

I still expect to have a conversation with @Graham__Hancock in this venue, but until details like expenses, scheduling, and setup are discussed etc. I cannot confirm this announcement

[The Exhausted Historian 💎 @Exhausted_Issy]

It was awesome to meet @joelhoekstra13 after his gig in Edinburgh! He was brilliant in Cardiff with Whitesnake last year, and I can't believe we got to see him in such a cool, intimate environment 😎🍺 Thanks again Joel, you rock 🤘🏼

[The Exhausted Historian 💎 @Exhausted_Issy]

Hey look, it's me!

[The Searcher @TheSearcherMag]

NEW issue available NOW from https://t.co/zEbP8oXqsE or from newsagents from Friday 3 March.

[Roman Britain News @Roman_Britain]

Bones discovered beneath kitchen floor in the Scottish #highlands confirmed to be 2,000-year-old #IronAge burial site.

https://t.co/oGq5FQm75n

#Archaeology #Scotland

[The Renaissance Man ©⚡️ @RenaissanceVir]

Hercules borrowing Cerberus, the three-headed dog from Hades.

[The Searcher @TheSearcherMag]

NEW issue available now from https://t.co/zEbP8oXYic and includes exclusive Henry VIII & Katherine of Aragon pendant and chain!

[North London Hunt Saboteurs @NLhuntsabs]

Wherever we go, whatever hunt we hit, one thing is always true:
Hounds prefer sabs 🥰🐕

[Nina Willburger @DrNWillburger]

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a charming Phoenician pendant shaped as a bearded head with large eyes and a curly hairstyle (4th/3rd c. BC).

Pendants in the shape of human and demonic heads were presumably designed to ward off evil.

📸 Badisches Landesmuseum/Peter Gaul

[History Hit💥 @HistoryHit]

#OnThisDay in 49 BC, Roman general Julius Caesar led his army across the river Rubicon in northern Italy, defying the Senate's order to disband his force and return to Rome.⁠

[Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 @FlintDibble]

Calling all Zooarchaeologists! Please share the message below with colleagues about the Zooarch listserv

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If you're interested in zooarch, I highly recommend joining!

[Nat Geo Travel @NatGeoTravel]

A person at the foot of the Great Buddha of Leshan in Sichuan Province, China.

[The Exhausted Historian 💎 @Exhausted_Issy]

THIS is why #potterythrowdown is one of the best things on British TV.

No matter how rubbish of a day you've had, it will always make you smile and is worth watching just for @KBJWhitstable's touching encouragement 🥰

Just beautiful 💛
@PotteryThrow @siobhni @richmillerpots

[The Great Pottery Throw Down @PotteryThrow]

❤️❤️❤️ #potterythrowdown

[The Great Pottery Throw Down @PotteryThrow]

Me describing my January so far. #potterythrowdown

[The Exhausted Historian 💎 @Exhausted_Issy]

🦶🏽

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

About 5,500 years ago, a potter in Predynastic period Egypt, made this clay bowl with human feet. Late Naqada I-early Naqada Il. The Met. Photo my own.

#Archaeology

[Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer]

A Roman fibula (brooch), stunningly detailed, in the shape of a bee.

At Museo de Cádiz in Spain/ Photo Google Arts & Culture https://t.co/qA22QnIWQE

[The Exhausted Historian 💎 @Exhausted_Issy]

I always love seeing fellow academics/historians/scientists utilising art to explore their fields. It's such an invaluable skill 🧡

@theAliceRoberts always does it so well!

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

It’s coming on. Will I get it finished by the end of tonight’s #DiggingForBritain? #ArthursStone

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

I have another store of archaeological mysteries to unpack for you tonight at 8pm @BBCTwo: a long lost priory in Haverfordwest, the new discovery of a mine on Alderley Edge, and new insights into the epic Arthur's Stone. Join me and the team this evening! #DiggingForBritain

[The Exhausted Historian 💎 @Exhausted_Issy]

#CaffinatedClassics
C.16th Salamander Pendant🦎

Baroque pearls gave the jeweller an opportunity to demonstrate their skill at adapting an irregular stone to Renaissance fashion.

Salamanders' resistance to fire made them a symbol of fiery lovers ❤️‍🔥
#History #AcademicTwitter

[The Exhausted Historian 💎 @Exhausted_Issy]

#CaffinatedClassics
Illuminated manuscripts are hand-written books with painted decoration that generally include precious metals such as gold or silver and animal skin paper⚜️

They were produced between 1100-1600AD, with monasteries as their earliest creators⛪️

#History