Opening tomorrow: The Fenaille Museum's new temporary exhibition: "Faces, the art of Greek and Roman portrait in the collections of the Louvre Museum"

This problem does not only affect Pompeii. Many other well-known sites in Europe suffer from too many visitors. The Acropolis in Athens, for example, is now restricted to 20,000 people a day. theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/05/pom…

#MysteryMonday🧐 One of the most important aspects of being there is the fabulous surroundings: the monument is not only beautiful but is also one of the most important and best-preserved examples of a Neolithic passage tomb in Wales, dating to around 5,000 years old.

I love maps like this! Here is Roman London overlayed on top of the Modern city. Source: buff.ly/rciu2A5

Here’s a lovely and petite mid-17th-century embroidered picture from our archive. In its centre is a figure holding fruit and a cornucopia, likely representing Plenty. She stands in a lush landscape full of animals and fruiting trees. Check out that spotted leopard!

Summer solstice at Stonehenge in 2025 is on Saturday 21 June – the longest day of the year. Access to the Stonehenge monument field is at 19h00 on Friday 20 June 2025. Sunset is at 21h26, and sunrise is at 4h51. archaeology-travel.com/en-articles/vi…

#OnThisDay, 1836, Gosport-based diver Henry Abbinett, having been asked by local fishermen to find out what they'd been catching their nets on, discovered the exposed timbers of a shipwreck. He became the first person known to see the Mary Rose for almost two hundred years...

📢Our flagship #FortCumberland Labs reopen today! In our state-of-the-art facilities we continue scientific dating, like dendrochronology showing that Norfolk’s ‘Seahenge’ timbers were felled in 2,049 BCE. Happy 75th birthday to Scientific Dating Historic England! #archaeology

The recently restored Doom painting (circa 1470) in St Thomas's Church, Salisbury, is the largest and best preserved in the UK: archaeology-travel.com/england/doom-p…

Number 16 Freta Street in Warsaw: the birthplace of Maria Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867), who died on this day, 4 July, 1934. Today the house is home to the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum.

🏡 #Onthisday in 1809 Jane Austen moved to Chawton to live in this house. 📖 It was here, in this inspiring cottage, that Jane’s genius flourished and where she wrote, revised, and had published all six of her globally beloved novels.

The 12-sided hollow object will be on show at the University of Nottingham Museum at Lakeside Arts from Friday until 18 January 2026. bbc.com/news/articles/…

As just reported by Bloomberg, the formal opening of the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo will be held on 1 November 2025.

Musée Fenaille in #Rodez hosts one of the most complete collections of menhir standing stones in France #inAveyron