Something lovely for the weekend! 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

For the first time, researchers have identified exactly what Roman builders were adding to their concrete to make it last for centuries.... At an unfinished building site in Pompeii, abandoned during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, archaeologists uncovered something

Happy Boxing Day! Please watch my special Holiday Pod with @michaelfielding9. It's a guaranteed banger. Here is a clip of Mike talking about his fans. #comedypodcast #naboo #mikefielding #mightyboosh #mightybooshfans

Europe needs to wake up.

Love Niels his drawings:

In 2009, George W. Bush invited President-elect Obama and all former living presidents for lunch... This was two weeks before the country’s transfer of power from Bush to Obama. Bush, a Republican, and Obama, a Democrat, met privately for about 30 minutes ahead of the wider

A few years ago...Australia’s oldest man knitted tiny sweaters for penguins injured in oil spills..... ( Just ths once.... #MensArt ;) )

In Ukraine, when you meet carolers on the street, you can ask them to sing — and hear a traditional Christmas carol. It is a living, heartfelt tradition that fills the streets with the light of Christmas✨ 🎥 vitalik_keleberda

A rare glimpse of history on Tramore beach this today. #Waterford #Ireland @WaterfordNS @WaterfordCounci

Medieval humor at the Abbey of Saint Foy, Conques, France, c. 1050.

The Dream Window in the Old Liselund Castle, 1903 by Georg Nicolaj Achen (Danish, 1860 - 1912). Oil on canvas | 71.5 x 49.3 cm.

Santa's 'sled' is now airborne! A Royal Danish Air Force F-100 is tonight's chosen airframe apparently.

Happy Christmas, by Danish painter Viggo Johansen (1891). Hirschsprung Collection.

Governor Jeff Landry, do not spend your time running smear campaigns directed at the people of Greenland. Stay focused on your own state, Louisiana. The Greenlandic people are not naive and will not be manipulated. Greenland’s future is determined by the Greenlandic people

Carl Sagan wrote "The Demon-Haunted World" in 1995. We should have paid attention.

If this got more views on YouTube than the actual show, it would make my year. https://t.co/Sg2fzzaNLC

Get dressed, ye merry gentlemen, let nothing ye dismay! For it is Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. Christmas, Christmas Day! It’s Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Day… It is Chri-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-histmas day, Chrissymas Day, it is Chriiiiiiiistmas Day!

I’m Dr Ahmed, a Muslim consultant psychiatrist. For more than 10 years, I’ve worked over Xmas so colleagues who celebrate can be with their loved ones. I’m on call again this year in emergency psychiatry. Thanks to all frontline staff working over the festive period. Merry Xmas.

If Christmas is hard, If you’ve lost someone dear. Just look in your heart, And you’ll know they’re still here. The star in the sky, The light falling snow. The robin outside, It seems like they know. If this is a time, When you’re struggling through. Just do what you can, For

Animals love to joke too. 😂