Marvellous Minoan pottery created by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 my own #Archaeology

Cleaning up plastic in Bangkok's Chao Praya River theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Congratulations to #IACPAwards Finalists in the Literary or Historical Food Writing Cookbook category: @klancycooks, Jon Bonné, Fuchsia Dunlop, and @carolynnadeau.

In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic. To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, a thread on the remarkable story of Omar…

Gene edited foods do not need labelling in the UK, looks similar to the USA approach for GMO by lobby groups. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief… Centre for Food Policy Sustain Soil Association OxfordFoodSymp Elizabeth Westaway Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture inEastAfrica PAN-Ethiopia Jean Claude NIYOMUGABO Veg Power COOK! with the Vegetarian Society

#OnThisDay in 1797, Mary Shelley was born. She wrote 'Frankenstein', a landmark work of #ScienceFiction, at just 19. Here you can see the drafts from her notebooks, complete with corrections and amendments. You can almost feel her energy changing as her handwriting shifts.

The very foundation of Islam is literacy - to read & seek knowledge. The first word of the Qur’an revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was “Iqra” which means Read. To celebrate International Literacy Day, here are beautiful Qur’anic manuscripts in museums across the world…

Digitization tends to squash things. It’s easy to forget that the objects on your screen have depth and texture. These qualities are hard to interpret from an image. You can read about this #booksquashing in an old blog post that is still relevant today: medium.com/@bodleian/book…

The rivers of Europe. Rather magical to look at. Source: buff.ly/3a7J6Z6

Jack Smith's 165-page court filing details the worst crimes committed by any US President in history. Telling VP Pence: "You're too honest" is a jaw-dropping moment, showing he knows what he's doing is completely dishonest. Read it for yourself, here: rb.gy/ro1510

Utagawa Kunisada - A Crab on the Seashore, 19th c, Japan. The artist, Utagawa Kunisada, captures the crab with a remarkable precision that emphasizes both its physical form and the environment it inhabits. The soft tones and fluid lines demonstrate Kunisada's skill in rendering

Map shows the Roman Empire in 117 AD. The comment section in the link explains the difference between senatorial and imperial provinces. I heard the terms before but didn't know what they meant. Source: buff.ly/2yLTk47

Map shows the five European Great Powers and their population in 1815 after Congress of Vienna. Map Source: buff.ly/2ZOt04m Wikipedia on the Congress of Vienna: buff.ly/36Movc8

Etymological map shows the spread of the Proto-Indo-European word for 'brother' across Eurasia. Source: buff.ly/3eApG13

This vintage map shows what share of German cities was destroyed during WWII. War ain’t worth it.

The most German map I could possibly show you is obviously a sausage map. The Bavarian Weißwurst not scoring a five star rating is scandalous.

A page depicting phases of the moon from the manuscript titled "Phases of the Moon, Geomantie," part of the Codex Palatinus 833 Germanicus, dated late 15th century. Currently preserved in the collection of the Heidelberg University Library.

This map summarizes Europe (EU) pretty well. Source: buff.ly/3YmwK9M

The Hydrologic United States. Much more fun to look at this map than watching US election coverage…

The further south you live in Europe the longer you stay in your parents’ house. Source: buff.ly/3YpXFBA