Alison Fisk

An ancient Greek silver coin depicting a bee! 🐝 😍 Minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC. Photo Getty Museum getty.edu/art/collection… #Archaeology

#ReliefWednesday - Votive relief depicting the Egyptian goddess Isis with syncretic features of Demeter, from the facade of the main temple of the Sanctuary of Isis in Dion (Greece). Dated to the second half of the 3rd–early 2nd century BC. Isis was an Egyptian goddess who became popular around the Mediterranean in the Ptolemaic period. Here she is depicted as Demeter. She holds a sheaf of wheat and a sceptre with a solar disk. The Greek inscription dedicates this relief to the triad of Serapis, Isis, and Anubis. Archaeological Museum, Dion.

Today I'll be mostly Sagger Maker's Bottom Knocking, albeit somewhat anachronistically! #Archaeology

#Tutankhamun tomb Gilded solar hawk Horus figure with a sun disc on its head, part of a chariot decoration

A stem with #Five gladiolus flowers. (Is it the plant or the flower that takes the singular “gladiolus”?) 🤷‍♂️ #PMJWeeklyChallenge

A Saxon doorway from the south side of the tower of All Saints’ Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire. Using recycled Roman tiles, the doorway was originally internal and led to a now demolished cell. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Brixworth #Northamptonshire

🐝 from Shropshire for #WorldBeeDay

Read more about Bees in Ancient Greece on this link: greekreporter.com/2026/01/15/anc…

Creativity, craftsmanship, and beauty, too.

Incredible indeed. This spear was more than likely created by our early ancestor, Homo heidelbergensis. Furthermore, England was not an island at this time. With lower sea levels, Britain was connected to the continent by ‘Doggerland.’ It was a very different world.

@painteyhands @IncroyableLies Perhaps, or maybe early Homo Neanderthalensis. No fossil evidence was found associated with the Clacton spear, nor the distinctive Clactonian stone tool industry, so it’s not clear which human species made them. More on this link: prehistoricsociety.org/sites/prehisto…

@IncroyableLies @AlisonFisk Thank you!

Sometimes the most unassuming artefacts are utterly incredible! Take this piece of wood … It is a spear point worked from yew about 420,000 years ago! 🤯 Known as the ‘Clacton Spear’ it is the world’s oldest known preserved wooden spear! Natural History Museum, London 📷 by me #Archaeology

The Late Anglo-Saxon Strickland Brooch, AD 800s. A fabulous example of creativity and craftsmanship! This large silver disc brooch is inlaid with gold and niello, and decorated in ‘Trewhiddle-style’ with an intricate pattern of puppy-like animals. 📷 British Museum britishmuseum.org/collection/obj… #Archaeology

@CanDoo2 @evie_ Yes, I’ve provided a link to the National Museum of Scotland’s website in the thread, with the story of how they were found etc.

@evie_ @AlisonFisk It tells you in the article.

Characterful Lewis Chessmen! 12th-century chess pieces with wonderfully expressive eyes!♟️👀 From a large gaming hoard found on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 📷 by me #MedievalMonday #Archaeology

Read about the Lewis Chess pieces on this link: nms.ac.uk/discover-catal…

Unfortunately the meaning of the ornamentation intended by the makers is lost to us. Many theories have been put forward by scholars over the years to interpret it. From purely decorative, to magical protection, to hunting magic, to shamanism, and cosmological associations. Mire recently, studies suggest it may have conveyed socially shared symbolic meanings

@AlisonFisk Wonderful. I wonder if there are any good theories about what and if the markings represent?

Ancient amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers during the Danish Mesolithic some 10,000 years ago! 📷 National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen en.natmus.dk/historical-kno… #Archaeology