Lucy Fox

Archaeologist & MSc Forensic Anthropology student @ LJMU 🏺☠️ | RAI Student Fellow

[🍊 rowan @butchrandle]

Frodo getting ready to leave Rivendell

[Mütter Museum @MutterMuseum]

Hear us out though

[Angela O'Brien @GrecianGirly]

🏛"Behold! I am the ruler of Ephesus!" 🐈👑 #EphesusCat #ClassicalCats #Caturday

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Romulus, Remus, and their Nursemaid, by Jacques Laurent Agasse, 1805.

[Forensic Anthropology Journal @JForensicAnth]

Vol. 5, No. 2 Available Now! Special Issue: Diversity and Inclusion with an introduction by Drs. Allysha Powanda Winburn, Phoebe R. Stubblefield, and Susan C. Antón. https://t.co/bhfqsljdgZ

[Nina Willburger @DrNWillburger]

For #MosaicMonday a glimpse into Hisham’s palace in the West Bank city of Jericho with it's marvellous early islamic mosaics: 38 intricate panels depict geometric and floral patterns as well as a 'tree of life'. Dating 8th century AD.

Photo: https://t.co/UA8M5XzGVx

[Mütter Museum @MutterMuseum]

Today is #nationalrarediseaseday. Have you ever heard of #FOP? In the Museum, we have the skeletons of Harry Eastlack & Carol Orzel. They lived with FOP, a disease that caused their bodies to grow bone where it does not usually grow. #raredisease #muttermuseum #medicalhistory

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

The timeless beauty of ancient glass. A Roman glass scent bottle in the form of a shell. Mould-blown. AD 25-100.

#Archaeology

[Kim Iannucci 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @KimIannucci]

#hillfortswednesday Maiden Castle

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

The ‘Mysterious Garden’ miniature by an unknown artist in Guillaume de Machaut’s book of poems, 1355-1360.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Ancient Egyptian boardgame, hounds and Jackals, discovered in the tomb of 12th dynasty pharaoh Amenemhat IV (d.1806 BC) by Howard Carter.

#archaeohistories

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Paris, France :

At 29 Avenue Rapp in 7th arrondissement, very close to Eiffel Tower. Built in 1901, this Art Nouveau masterpiece by Jules Lavirotte is quite striking. Detailed door was designed by sculptor Jean-Baptiste Larrive and sculpted by a variety of others.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

A 2000-year-old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons found in the village of Karanovo, Bulgaria, in 2008.

#archaeohistories

[Nina Willburger @DrNWillburger]

For #AncientSiteSunday this fabulous aerial photo of the Acroplis at #Athens - a site I would love to be right now!

Photo: Christos Kapoulas

#Greece

[Nina Willburger @DrNWillburger]

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A marvellous #Roman vessel in the form of a #pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold oil or perfume. Found in burial in Cologne.
Photo: Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

#RomanArchaeology

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

A beautiful and ancient fragment of an Upper Paleolithic spear thrower carved from mammoth ivory around 17,000-12,000 years ago. The shaft of the thrower has broken off. The hook used to propel the spear is visible. Discovered in La Madeleine rock shelter in France.

#Archaeology

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Man looking for a book in “The old Cincinnati library”, built in 1874 and demolished in 1955.

© Historic Photographs

#archaeohistories

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The "Tollund man" is a 2400-year-old bog body and victim of human sacrifice from the Iron Age, found in Bjældskovdal in Denmark. His body was so well-preserved that even after 2400 years scientists were still able to take his fingerprints and determine what he had eaten last.