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Twenty sixth dynasty blue glazed shabti of Wahibramakhet, born of Sety, with a lappet wig and beard, crossed hands holding two hoes with the shabti spell inscribed on his legs. EA9122 British Museum #ShabtiSaturday #AncientEgypt

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"And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust." Philo opens the play tut tutting about Mark Antony. Antony & Cleopatra Act I sc.1 #ShakespeareSunday

Statuette of an unknown ruler, kneeling and wearing a nemes headdress and short kilt, perhaps #Tutankhamun. New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1332-1322 BC. From Thebes (uncertain). Now in the Penn Museum. E14295

The Roman macellum is a distant ancestor of the mall. An multi-storey marketplace and deli, usually the best place in town to get fresh fish. Emperors proudly commissioned them. Left, the remains of the macellum at Gerasa in Arabia Petraea province.

"Dolly. What are you talking about? What body?" The Body in the Library (1984) introduced Joan Hickson as the facto Miss Marple. BBCFour screened a cleaned up version last night, now on BBC iPlayer #MissMarpleMonday #MurderEveryMonday

Offering was quite literally a way of life and death in Ancient Egypt. From Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar. #MythologyMonday #AncientEgypt

Face of a guy thrown out of his final year at a mid-tier English private school for selling weed Marble, C2nd

THE WICKER MAN (1973) is just starting on BBC2. On a school night! No, no, dear God! #film #horrorfilm

Face from a coffin New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, c. 1400-1300 B.C. Musée du Louvre. E11647 ▫️This wooden face from a coffin is beautifully carved with fine features and a sense of serenity can be felt from the expression and realism of the craftsmanship. The eyes and brows

In a new achievement for the Egyptian state, represented by MOTA & SCA, the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has approved removing the Abu Mena site in Alexandria from the World Heritage in Danger List.

If you liked #TheSaltPath Rum: Truth is, I don’t know the way to the Cape of Good Hope anyway. Blackadder: Well, what were you going to do? Rum: Oh, what I usually do. Sail ’round and ’round the Isle of Wight ’til everyone gets dizzy. Then head for home. POTATO, Blackadder 2

- Daisy, will you tell us what it is, please, that the Maypole represents? - Really, Daisy. You've been told often enough. - Miss Rose, I know! I know! - All right, then, anybody. - Phallic symbol. - The phallic symbol. That is correct. PSRE on Summerisle. #PhallusThursday #film

Good morning my friends everywhere...from Egypt with all my love

You know you're really getting on a bit, when you find yourself set in an exam to be translated into Latin! tinyurl.com/45m643uk

The mummified body of king Amenhotep I, still remains within his coffin, adorned with floral garlands of funerary tribute wrapped around him. egypt-museum.com/mummy-of-amenh…

"What do you want of me?" Why, to solve the murder Miss Marple! The Moving Finger filmed 1985 BBC iPlayer #MissMarpleMonday #MurderEveryMonday

The dead, confidently expecting help not just from one god, but all nine boys (and girls) in the Ennead band. Formula from the Book of Coming Forth by Day, commonly referred to as the Book of the Dead, translated by Faulkner in 1972. #MythologyMonday #MorsMonday

Today, July 19th, is the anniversary of the Rosetta Stone’s discovery in 1799. Its inscriptions in three writings (Hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Ancient Greek), was the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian civilization by Jean-François Champollion in 1822. #AncientEgypt #History

Wooden shabti of Merenset: the body is painted white like a shroud. The crossed arms and hands protrude through the lower rows of the collar—a graphic peculiarity found on mummiform coffins in the 19th and 20th Dynasties. EA30804 British Museum #ShabtiSaturday #AncientEgypt