Last January, I joined Alina Nowobilska🇵🇱 History Hack to talk about #papyri and #papyrology , the most important discoveries in the field, #Egypt after the #Pharaohs , and the history of European collections. The podcast is now available here: youtu.be/nFoJALBbFnI?si… Enjoy!

A Demotic reference to eclipses 🌚🌞:
nꜣ sẖ-nsw n Kšꜣ nty rḫ nꜣ šꜥ.w n pꜣ 5 sbꜣ ꜥnḫ ḥnꜥ gm wš n ı͗r ꜣb.t n pꜣ rꜥ ı͗ꜥḥ
'... the royal scribes of Kush, who know the risings of the 5 living stars (planets) and finding the time of being eclipsed of the Sun and Moon'

A wonderful bronze statue of the lion-headed deity Maahes ❤️ son of the goddess Bastet whose name means 'he who is true beside her'. It’s about 50 cm tall & missing a sun-disk so very big for a votive statue. The inscription calls upon Wadjet goddess of Lower Egypt #statuesunday

Statuette of the ibis, a bird sacred to Thoth, the god of wisdom, scribal functions, and learning #statuesunday

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

7 Lessons from my first series of #UniversityChallenge

The Series Final is tomorrow, Monday, at 20.30. It’s UCL vs Imperial College London and you have to watch it. You really do. It is incredible stuff

On BBC iPlayer/BBC Two

Thanks so much to the whole team

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Well would you look at that ☺️
Best country pubs in the UK you say…
We’re all delighted The White Horse Pub to be included here olive magazine thank you!

fragment of a sphinx statue of King Amenhotep III whose throne and personal names are inscribed in the cartouches. Even though the finest details have been finished, some traces of paint remain of the sculptor's preliminary sketch #statuesunday #wien Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Excellent digital tool for teaching Middle Kingdom hieratic, in English, French, and now in Arabic too! 📜🔍

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Fancy something a little different today?

Join me ONLINE and FREE at 13:00 (UK) for The Egypt Exploration Society Spotlight lecture. I'll be talking about 'Egypt's Forgotten Wonder: the lost city of Ibn Tulun'.
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Can't join live? Look out for the recording later 👀

Faience and wood coffin for a scarab beetle - quite a rare thing in museum collections!

More here - khm.at/en/objectdb/de…

No Easter eggs from me today just an egg-shaped bundle of linen wrapped snakes 🐍 at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Fierce fiery lioness goddess statues for #StatueSunday ! Two Sekhmet statues Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Vienna both carved with the name BELZONI an Italian excavator, collector & explorer, just like other examples World Museum 🌎 & Musée du Louvre

Bes seems shocked by the amulet to his right: a naked male with his hands resting on his exaggerated penis

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien #Vienna #PtolemaicPenis

Despite the absence of any text naming the king depicted in this smiling idealised likeness, he can be identified as Thutmose Ill because of its similarity to other securely dated statues of him.

18th Dynasty c 1504-1452 BC Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien #Vienna #Granodiorite #StatueSunday

I’ve seen this spectacular statue group of the falcon-headed god Horus and King Horemheb so many times in books so it was wonderful to see it with my own eyes Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Limestone. New Kingdom, 18* Dynasty, 1343 - 1315 BC

#StatueSunday

A masterpiece from 2nd century BC Egypt Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien #Vienna

Sarcophagus of the priest Panehemisis with scarcely any undecorated surface. Most of the hieroglyphic text concerns the sun’s nocturnal journey through the underworld. Work finished prematurely leaving a few areas blank