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RT @AlisonFisk: An amazing piece of ancient artistry washed up on a beach! Imagine beachcombing and finding this small amber animal carved some 13,000 years ago! 🤩 Found on the beach at Næsby Strand in Denmark. National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

It is usually referred to as an elk, but it’s not certain what animal it represents. The geometric pattern dates it to the Late Paleolithic to early Mesolithic period when zigzag lines in various combinations were used to decorate hunters' weapons, personal tools, amulets, and other items.

RT @AlisonFisk: Wow, the world’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey! “A time capsule at the bottom of the sea” 🌊 A trade ship heading for the ancient city of Troy or Minoan Crete sank with a cargo of storage jars 🏺 Residue tests will show what they contained c. 4,700 years ago! #Archaeology

Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Painted by the Athenian artist Douris about 480 BC

RT @AlisonFisk: This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

RT @chapps: I cannot even get my head around the #BritishMuseum closing and cancelling tickets people held for the Bayeux Tapestry for a damned politician’s dinner. ‘Just get another ticket’ is not the right answer, considering many have waited months and traveled far to attend. Grotesque.

Waited since I was 7 years old to see the Bayeux Tapestry. Got in an hour-long online queue to spend £50 on tickets. Got there ahead of time. Stood in a queue for 20 minutes. Then was told halfway through the queue that the gallery was closing. The @britishmuseum stinks 😭

Happy weekend! 🦔 ❤️ Here’s a lovely ancient Egyptian blue faience hedgehog made some 3,800 years ago! Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

RT @AlisonFisk: The timeless beauty of ancient glass! 💖 This Roman glass scent bottle is around 2,000 years old, yet its elegant design feels surprisingly modern! British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Here’s a link to the online museum record:

RT @AlisonFisk: A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

Here’s the back of the shell-shaped container. And here’s a link to the Altes Museum online record:

RT @AlisonFisk: A 5,000-year-old arrow emerges as Norway’s melting mountain ice reveals older archaeological finds #Archaeology

RT @AlisonFisk: ✨An ancient and magical amber bear✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology