Chapps

The most popular restoration I've done is the one showing an ordinary man's business in Ancient Rome. twitter.com/chapps/status/…

@ancientorigins That’s completely ridiculous? Where did you learn your history - social media? Castles had toilets, some over running water (big tourist draw these days), everyone bathed in one form or another (they were obsessed with cleanliness). Pick up a history book sometime.

No toilets. Rats everywhere. Almost no bathing. Medieval castles weren’t royal luxury—they were survival zones. Could you last even one night inside? #MedievalLife #DarkHistory #CastleSecrets #HistoryFacts #HiddenHistory #DidYouKnow Read more: ancient-origins.net/history/mediev…

@JacquiDeevoy1 @Mr__S_______ How about we send you into a ward of people with meningitis and have you stay there for a while, without a mask? Let 'em cough on you, just for good measure. No? Grifter.

@Mr__S_______ Hope you refused.

Meningitis is NOT contagious, so what’s with all the nonsense? As my friend Kat Watkins says on FB today: “Meningitis is an infection in the brain caused by toxins passing the blood brain barrier. You cannot 'catch' it, it's not contagious 🙄🙄 So all this closing of schools is just theatre. It's to scare you into making sure you jab yourselves and your kids up. How many of those who have presented with meningitis, had the covid vax? Since its a side effect? As well as a side effect of many other jabs 🤷🤷”

@Megalithic12000 @adancingferret He worked in HR. He's laughably using a right angle - whereas modern archaeologists use laser tools that can measure everything down to the tiniest mm.

Dunn spent 40 years in precision manufacturing, working with CNC machinery, lathes, and metrology equipment. He measures machined surfaces for a living. That's exactly the background you'd want when evaluating whether ancient stonework shows evidence of advanced tooling. The relevance is direct.

🚨 Christopher Dunn spent 40 years in precision manufacturing. Then he measured the Serapeum boxes in Egypt. His results continue to shock engineers around the world. 🔹Squared to 0.00005 inches 🔹That's 1/20th of a human hair 🔹Flat to 0.0001" across 10 foot faces 🔹Repeated across multiple 100 ton boxes His conclusion: this required either tools so advanced they couldn't produce anything less than perfection, or a civilisation far beyond what we accept. We're told these were bull coffins made with copper chisels. Does that sound right to you?

@Noodles_Crusher @Ernsthaftposter @euronationalizt I've actually spent a lot of time in Renaissance era apartments, carved out from larger palazzos. But in every case, the kitchen was nowhere near older artwork. Fine for the living room, bedrooms, et al ... not anywhere where greasy smoke can damage the paintings.

@chapps @Ernsthaftposter @euronationalizt I had friends in high school living in houses with ceilings like that, obviously hundreds years old. It's not as uncommon as you would think. You guys simply don't know what you're talking about.

genuinely unreal that this is someone’s home

@Noodles_Crusher @Ernsthaftposter @euronationalizt Definitely a chance. You *do* know that 19th century would be considered modern, right? We have no way of knowing when these frescoes were painted. But if they're over 200 years, it's stupid to put a stove under them. If they're modern ... meh.

@chapps @Ernsthaftposter @euronationalizt Also, "may be a modern painting" No, not a chance.

@JohnnyBruce1970 @JebraFaushay

@chapps @JebraFaushay Phyllis Diller, lol

It’s ok to retire. You don’t have to perform anymore. Here is Rod Stewart strutting around with his tight little flare jeans and teased hair.

@antmoose @euronationalizt @ArchDigest Sure. What could go wrong?

@chapps @euronationalizt @ArchDigest You can just hose the whole thing down

@RealBlackIrish Well, that’s poorly done AI …

Tonight’s atrocity

@Sarah404BC @TheAncientWorld Page not found error. Try this one: turkisharchaeonews.net/article/goddes…

The Goddess of Many Faces — Unravelling the Mystery of Ephesian Artemis turkisharchaeonews.net/article/goddes…—-unravelling-mystery-ephesian-artemis

@Noodles_Crusher @Ernsthaftposter @euronationalizt That ceiling may be a modern painting, and if so, will be protected with a coating. If it were hundreds of years old, it would be insane to cook under it.

@Ernsthaftposter @euronationalizt Buddy, that ceiling has been there longer than your country. Sit down.

@euronationalizt OK, it’s in Mantua. The photo credit goes to @ArchDigest. The frescoes may be modern and protected with a layer of something like MuralShield.

@euronationalizt Cooking under a fresco ceiling?? No. Grease will help destroy the artwork. We sure this isn’t AI? If not, give us the deets - where did these photos appear, who was the photographer?

@Wisdom_HQ Ahahahahaha … you want to run a car with expensive hydrogen? Better hope you don’t get rear-ended, since that car would be a bomb on wheels.

hydrogen Powered Car, 1,500 km range with a 5-second refill… sounds illegal.

@London_W4 It’s depressing that this wonderful arcade has become … this. Bleh.

I only shop in arcades now, that have immaculately presented doormen. Burlington Arcade, Mayfair, London

@antmoose @Musei_Vaticani @caputmundiHeidi @ChezCirce @deborah_witalis @rogueclassicist @Livia_en_Roma @NCDrusus38 @arakhnos @HawkeJon Oh, I should have added … #PhallusThursday.

@antmoose @Musei_Vaticani @caputmundiHeidi @ChezCirce @deborah_witalis @rogueclassicist @Livia_en_Roma @NCDrusus38 @arakhnos @HawkeJon Of course I knew you’d understand the reference. #MANN 📸 me

A real banger for #ReliefWednesday from the #VaticanMuseums: a C4 CE #ivory #pyx from #Egypt, with a #Dionysiac #relief on it, reused as a #reliquary in the Middle Ages in the huge locked altar of the #SanctaSanctorum at the #Lateran, the private chapel of the medieval popes.

@AraceliRego @KPW1453 Artist credit?

Pompei - Casa della fontana grande

@ClassicalMyths And since I was at the Getty all that week for a conference, I was able to take a *lot* of photos. Only a couple really worked out well. Some great closeups, though. It was such a privilege to get to study it up close for a whole week!

@ClassicalMyths The reflection from the windows in the corridor behind me were intense (this was at the Getty Villa, when it visited in late 2024), so I asked the guard if we could close the shutters on the windows. He was happy to comply. The remaining small reflections were eliminated in PS.

Thracian Bronze Head of Seuthes III, Late 4th-Early 3rd Century BC Found in the Golyamata Kosmatka mound, a little over a half a mile south of the town of Shipka, Bulgaria.

@antmoose @TheFrameBlogX @BMImages_com @arakhnos @NCDrusus38 @rogueclassicist @Livia_en_Roma @caputmundiHeidi @HawkeJon @ChezCirce @DrJEBall Someone should just have thrown him off a cliff.

@TheFrameBlogX @BMImages_com @arakhnos @NCDrusus38 @rogueclassicist @Livia_en_Roma @caputmundiHeidi @HawkeJon @ChezCirce @chapps @DrJEBall Theseus was a bad boyfriend, a bad husband, and a bad father.

For #FrescoFriday we're looking at a #fresco from #Herculaneum now at the #BritishMuseum. This shows a scene of #Ariadne on #Naxos, seduced and abandoned by #Theseus, in a rare depiction of her fear and confusion, rather than of her discovery by #Dionysus.