Amazing #Roman science: vitrified Herculaneum brain tissue has preserved individual neurons. Unique processes " 'congealed' cellular structures of the central nervous system [...], preserving them intact until today" ~ Pier Paolo Petrone, in @repubblica
napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/1… 1️⃣ 🏛 @HorneSupremacy translation of @repubblica article on the glass-ified #Roman brain: 'Perfectly preserved human neurons have been identified in a victim of the eruption that in AD 79 buried Herculaneum, Pompeii and the entire Vesuvian area up to 20km from the volcano...'

Mini thread 🧵 on the news that 'Glasgow dock that featured in film 1917 to be restored', we imagine as stage one of the planned commercial and heritage development of the site news.stv.tv/west-central/g… Possibly the most effective scene in '1917' - that really brought home the dangers in a multi-theatre context - was filmed at Govan Graving (= dry) Docks in Glasgow, with the No.1 Dock that is to be restored featuring as a canal 🎬 #WW1

The ogham inscription on Rodney's Stone, a #Pictish Class II monument now situated in the grounds of Brodie Castle in Moray, #Scotland. Includes the personal name 'Ethernan'. This inscription may or may not be contemporary with the Pictish symbols and cross (cont.)... Refs. Prof. Katherine Forsyth (@morantango) in canmore.org.uk/site/15529/bro…

Images by @HorneSupremacy

#StayHome THREAD 🧵

Love #Archaeology is on Instagram and we're going to share some of the best images, starting with the wonderful @NT_SuttonHoo helmet at the @britishmuseum, which was buried in the early 7th century.

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All 📷 by @HorneSupremacy We move from Germanic East Anglia to eastern Germany now. This is part of the Zwinger, a baroque palace garden complex in Dresden for the rulers of Saxony. Stunningly beautiful.

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Online museum archives thread 🧵 for self isolation.

AMAZING MUSEUMS all around the world 🌍🌎🌏 have web resources you can access 24 hours for FREE: #archaeology, #history, & #museum Twitter, let's find and share as many as we can!

@MuseumofLondon

➡️ museumoflondon.org.uk/collections Thanks to @northbird_ellen, we also know about the FREE, online website for all Norwegian university museums. It's UNBELIEVABLY GOOD. You'll need a wee bit of Norwegian, but Ellen has that covered! 🎩tip: @slewisimpson

SO. MUCH. AMBER.

➡️ unimus.no

Podcast thread 🧵 for self isolation. We'll start it off, but please feel free to suggest #archaeology and #history pods and we'll add them if we can! Let's start with:

Battle of Teutoberg Forest - #Romans (@BBCInOurTime)

🏛 aca.st/6ed68a 'Simon de Montfort's medieval revolution' ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊ is fantastic for #MedievalTwitter:

🏰 aca.st/c9369b (@HistoryExtra) #history