This 1974 photo shows, with startling immediacy, a group of freshly-excavated 2,000 year-old Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an, China, with their original vibrant colours. Once exposed to air & sunlight during excavation, the colours started to disappear almost immediately

A valuable flute went missing yesterday from the owner's bike on the way to a lunchtime session in Cassidy's in Camden St. It has huge sentimental value and a reward has been offered. If anyone sees it, please send a DM. RTs appreciated.

Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️ Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Athens c. 475-465 BC. Photo Getty Museum: https://t.co/rcXkclC5Zt #Archaeology

A close-up view of an adult Grey Heron, in superb plumage, patiently searching for fish, viewed from the Bittern Hide at Minsmere this week - 16th December 2025. @RSPBMinsmere

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Walking into the pretty village of Butterton always feels like stepping into the pages of an old storybook, especially on early winter mornings when the only sounds are the the rooks in the trees and the trickle of the brook over the cobbles. I find that I always creep slowly and

Detail of the Saffron Gatherers fresco (Xeste 3). Culture: Minoan (Cycladic). Place of origin: Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini). Date: 17th century BC (c. 1650–1550 BC). Medium: Wall painting (fresco). Collection: National Archaeological Museum, Athens (fragments from Xeste 3,

Morning everyone I hope you are well. Buttermere, who doesn't love a beautiful reflection? Have a great day. #LakeDistrict

The Book Hunter Paradox The book hunter unceasingly seeks to find the rarest of books yet become oblivious of finding himself.

Good but cold session this morning as the starlings left the roost :) Used to cameras one on 15-35mm and the other on 300mm Sparrowhawk just misses its breakfast at the end of the video! Didn't see another person!

The starlings definitely put some shapes out there this afternoon Best murmuration I’ve seen at Fairburn so far this season Just taking my longest lens with me was not so useful tonight but at least I had my phone!

Time to repost this classic letter from T.S.Eliot’s wife. One imagines Russell starting “Well, first it depends of course on what you mean by ‘it all’…”

"It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between." -C.S. Lewis, "On the Reading of Old Books", 1946

The old heron’s busy feeding up at Gwydir’s breakfast bar this morning. A bird mindful in movement, stately, otherworldly; lunar in feel and mien.

Of Libraries, Self & Time A personal library is a mirror of the reader's inner self whose books' reflections mimic the fated movement of our beings in time.

Questioned yesterday by a Commons Select Committee over their ponderous handling of the Panorama/Trump edit, BBC executives were forced to expose the inner workings of the BBC's Rapid Response Department

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant. Culture: Greek, Attic. Date: c. 400–390 BC. Medium: Pentelic marble. H. 178 cm. Subject: Seated young woman with a jewellery box, attended by a maid, reflecting ideals of feminine beauty and status in classical Athens. Collection:

The Norton Disney dodecahedron, discovered in a pit at the site in 2023 - one of the most enigmatic artefact types to come out of the Roman world...

A decorative mount from Roman Norfolk that once formed part of a crown worn by priests during Roman religious ceremonies. Now part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #RomanReligion #NorwichCastle

A group of intertwined birds - one of the many Anglo-Saxon friezes from the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Breedon #SundayStonework