Folklore needs to be told, needs to be transmitted. It desires to jump from pub to pub, playground to post office. It has an intrinsic dislike of being trapped in the ink cages of books. Folklore wants to be in our conversations and in our shivers. - #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday

Something lovely for your timeline! Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age. Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago. 📷 National Museum of

A simple google search gives a better answer

I think that @grok has a little way to go with English vernacular architecture. The request was to draw me a diagram of a traditional cruck structure.chatgpt was no better

A fine thread on a handsome church

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A super write up of want and why things go wrong with rehangs of much loved collections (thankfully it appears the National Gallery has got it right)

Arabs, Romans, and Persians, oh my! Some 2k years ago an Arab commander named Wahballāh son of Ẓann-ʾEl led a troop with an Arab soldier called "Scorpion," a Roman called "Big Mark," and Persian called "held by Ahura Mazda." Here are their inscriptions in #Greek and #Safaitic

There are so many unfounded rumours about which is the oldest pub in the country. However  after extensive research, and on present evidence, the oldest purpose-built pub seems to be the George Inn at Norton St Philip, Somerset. Here's a thread on how it was dated... 🧵

Alexander Ross was and remains the #Highlands’ greatest architect. His work can be seen in almost every Highland town, and many villages. May 2025 sees the Centenary of his death. So we are holding a symposium to celebrate the man and his work at #Ardtornish.

Les reliefs de Persepolis reprennent vie! Cette capitale des Perses achemenides fut fondée par Darius Ier à la fin du VIe siècle avant JC et sera détruite par Alexandre le grand. Les reliefs ci dessous représentent des délégations venues de tout l'empire apporter des tributs au

This is part of one of the Funerary Avenues of Saudi Arabia. Tens of thousands of tombs built along ancient pathways leading to oases, water sources, and pastoral lands. These tombs are from c2700-2000 BCE. I have excavated lots! Read about them here https://t.co/YoJbVtqfSZ

The stones are spines through time. As lithic palimpsests they outlast any who try to carve their faith upon them. Outlast our projections. Their constancy is in our need to have a relationship with them. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStones

To test the nation’s excitement at the re-release of Back to Bedlam, I went to Coventry… https://t.co/ldiZD9P2um

Must we rewrite #Stonehenge's history? No! But news that the Altar Stone came from NE Scotland is sensational. It widens horizons & suggests the monument was very much part of a Neolithic world spanning the UK. My key takeaways in thread below... 1/6

I found this classic from @brianjaffa while rootling through a pile of old papers. I might have to get it framed. I can't recall for the life of me what led to the headline but am grateful to the newsagent that let me take this. Perhaps I didn't take Brian's call one afternoon?

This is just the best

Ooops sorry for the typo Steven!

Stven showing how Twitter can be great for architectural historians. We need more of this!

Researching Leith’s Shore for article on an ill-fated Jacobite. Everyone knows about the round windmill, designed in the 1680s by Robert Mylne of Balfargie, last Master Mason to the Crown of Scotland. But there were also three big C17th tenements, shown in this 1682 print. 1/7