From today, I will be moving my main social media home over to Ⓑⓛⓤⓔⓢⓚⓨ. If anyone wants to get in contact, I will no longer be available here, but you can find me over there: https://t.co/Yncbyl74pa

All the best everyone - I had a lot of fun here.

This is a tale of two very different gravestones, both at Kilmuir on Skye. Most visitors to this graveyard are distracted by the monumental cross dedicated to Flora MacDonald but these two deserve closer inspection.

Come and listen to @PaulMMCooper, the author of "Fall of Civilisations" on Thursday 14th November at 7pm in #Teddington Library! Based on the popular podcast, this book explores ancient societies, their rise to power and the eventual collapse. More info: https://t.co/RCPa4VILzc

Rivers have ghosts, and they lie all around us in the land… This is one of the famous Fisk maps of the 1940s, showing the ghost-meanders of the Lower Mississippi. Alongside it are images of the beautiful recent re-meandering of a stretch of the River Stiffkey; exceptional work

Palestinians are writing the names of slain family members on the ruins of their Gaza homes, to mark their final resting place under the rubble. Israeli bombardment has made it impossible for people to recover all the victims.

Final event at St Mary's yesterday. Thought-provoking talk from acclaimed podcaster, Paul Cooper on the collapse of great civilisations. Signed copies of Fall of Civilizations @GuildfordBooks @GfordBookFest @PaulMMCooper @Duckbooks

The east coast of Naxo is a rugged, windswept place, but at its very southern point, there is a sheltered bay, with an idyllic beach. Now it attracts swimmers; in the distant past, it must have been a busy port. Close to it, there’s a small hill with scattered ruins… 1/9

Exploring ruins in the painting of Hubert Robert (1733-1808) :

Sitting down to record today for Fall of Civilizations 19... 🎙️🐎

Also a fan of Armando Iannucci's current favourite podcast 'Fall of Civilizations?' You're in luck. @PaulMMCooper will be paying a visit to Teddington Library to discuss his new book, based on his hit podcast! Book here:

The Kalyazin RT-64, a ghostly colossus built to speak to long-dead spacecraft on Soviet Martian and Venusian missions.

The beauty of the city of Uruk🤍.

In Rodanthe, North Carolina, a third house since Friday has collapsed, marking the 10th house to fall in the last four years... https://t.co/WD0pdnZRuj

New painting: ‘EMPIRE’ (Oil and acrylic on canvas - 1.1M x 1.1M)

...40 metres. This photo was taken in 1956, when debris was still being brought up the hill. 2/2

On the Birkenkopf in #Stuttgart today, also known as “Rubble Hill” because its summit is covered with debris from World War II. 45 % of the city had been destroyed. 1.5 million cubic meters of rubble were moved to the hill, which resulted in an increase in height of... 1/2

🏛 Visited the ancient site of Termessos today. Spectacular! Here is a video of the theatre. The original Hellenistic theatre was built in the early 2nd century BCE. Renovations were made during the time of Augustus, (ca 62 BCE – 14 CE), with further modifications being made in

Starting an internship programme