A 4,500 year-old ancient Egyptian beadnet dress. The earliest surviving example of such a garment. Faience and gold. Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu, 2551–2528 BC. Excavated from a tomb at Giza in 1927. 📷: © Alison Fisk
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Alison Fisk
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Alison Fisk
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Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck @BirkbeckUoL Here to share my love of archaeology. No DMs
Joined January 2012
- Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,200 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘embalming brother’, brewing beer’ and ‘scorpion bit him’ 😳. From Deir el-Medina (Thebes). #Archaeology
- Wow! My follower count reached 40,000! It’s great to see so many of you interested in #Archaeology ❤️ Here’s one of my favourite artefacts: an ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement.
- An ancient amber bear. Carved about 10,000 years ago, this magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark. Photo: © Alison Fisk. #FindsFriday #Archaeology
- An ancient amber bear. Carved about 10,000 years ago, this magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 my own #Archaeology
- Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago. The maker appears to have deliberately flaked around the shell to preserve and place it in a central position. As a result this handaxe has
- Beautiful ancient glass. A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a little mouse. 📷: © Alison Fisk #Archaeology
- For New Year’s Day 2023, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. A symbol of life, fertility, abundance and good luck for the year ahead! Dated 2nd century BC - 1st century AD. Photo: Phoenix Ancient Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/he… #Archaeology
- First recorded labour strike in world history took place c. 3,177 years ago this month! The ‘Strike Papyrus’ records that tomb workers of Ramesses III at Deir el-Medina in Egypt, downed tools over pay and conditions, in November, c. 1155 BC. 📷: Museo Egizio, Turin. #Archaeology
- Marvellous Minoan pots with octopus decoration, c. 3,500 years old, from Bronze Age Crete. 🐙 ❤️ At Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Photos my own. #Archaeology
- As New Year approaches I wish you all a very Happy New Year! I’m signing off 2021 with one of my favourite artefacts this year; an ancient amber bear. Carved about 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement. #Archaeology
- Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷: The Met metmuseum.org/art/collection…
- Some things never change! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated c. 70 AD, the stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. The Roman inscription reads:
- A dog’s paw print on a Roman clay tile. About 2,000 years ago, a dog made its mark for posterity by wandering across a wet tile while it was lying out to dry before firing. From Richborough Roman fort. Photo: © Alison Fisk #TilesonTuesday #Archaeology
