Lorenzo de Lellis

Archaeologist.

[Artur Obluski @arturobluski]

Seems that gods of excavations favoured us in the very last season of @ERC_Research #Umma grant . We found not only the stone blocks from walls and floor of a #Napatan temple of #Amun of #GemAton #Kawa but also enigmatic complex of chambers covered with wall paintings

[Artur Obluski @arturobluski]

@PCMA_UW The team deserves the big shout out: Dorota Dzierzbicka, Maciej Wyżgoł, Agata Deptuła and @polytropos are the core of digging. Fakhri Hassan was our #NCAM inspector, Zaki ed-Din and Tohamy el-Tohamy community engagement, Mohamed Nasr archaeobotanist, 1/2

[Legonium @tutubuslatinus]

My second favourite Latin joke...

[Artur Obluski @arturobluski]

@rhaplord @SGOKIdehistorie @SudaneseCulture @africaupdates @JAJafri @ColorsAndStones @hofrench @alykhansatchu @Amesemi This year we have found probably the cathedral of #OldDongola which was a seat of the head of the #Church of entire #Makuria.This is the largest known church in #Nubia in the middle of the city with a tomb-like structure to the east.Exactly the same like it looked like in #Faras.

[Incunabula @incunabula]

The arrow of time.

[Incunabula @incunabula]

This is an extremely rare book, with only 8 or 9 copies known. You can see a full digital scan of the Princeton copy here:
https://t.co/dfMSgq77p6

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

1) In the 2nd century a young Egyptian named Apion, from Philadelphia, enlisted in the Roman navy. He sailed across a stormy Mediterranean to the naval base at Misenum. When he arrived safely he wrote this letter to his father back in Egypt:

"Dear Epimachus, my father and lord..

[David Wengrow @davidwengrow]

Archaeologists, remember this: lots of people don't want you to be an intellectual. Not the geneticists, nor the evolutionary psychologists, nor the political scientists. Cos you command the data for most of human history. Don't just be a passive supplier: DIG AND THINK BIG!

[Zotero @zotero]

PDF behind a paywall? Zotero now uses data from @unpaywall to automatically find and download open-access PDFs for items you add to your library. https://t.co/Rp6t6o805x

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

Roman grave monument of a horse, with a moving epitaph: "..you, who outran the wandering birds and beat the winds, graze no longer in the Tuscan or Siculan woods, but in this tomb." From Brescia, 2nd century AD, Verona Maffeiano Museum

[LAV @LAV_Italia]

Per tutto il giorno invadiamo le nostre bacheche con il nostro appello
Presidente @PaoloGentiloni #cacciaunNO
➡ RT TUTTI SALVIAMO I LUPI 🐺🐺🐺

[Guardian Universities @GdnUniversities]

Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities http://t.co/ch9nTuGxt6

[Lorenzo de Lellis @polytropos]

"A Natale dobbiamo essere un milione contro la vergogna dei vitalizi ai politici condannati per mafia e corruzione": https://t.co/BoGJt8McbR

[Lorenzo de Lellis @polytropos]

What would an adult from an ancient civilization type into Google?

http://t.co/2BrIC11MyK

[Lorenzo de Lellis @polytropos]

Clay Bennett: Creation of Adam - Clay Bennett - Truthdig: http://t.co/8ihVerfTlP via @truthdig

[Lorenzo de Lellis @polytropos]

BBC News - Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing
http://t.co/zwFLgV3BWv

[Lorenzo de Lellis @polytropos]

RAI: non mandare in onda il reality “Mission”. #nomission http://t.co/g0eUlOW4uO via @change

[Lorenzo de Lellis @polytropos]

genius...
http://t.co/6ujbxt7zbp

[Alexis Kauffmann @framaka]

"Steve Jobs et Bill Gates ont bâti des empires. Mon but est de libérer les gens de ces empires." Richard Stallman http://t.co/atpr3jya