A woman staring at the sea in front of Cliff House, San Francisco. Photographed in 1900.

🌞 🌚 Such a beautiful scene! Joseph dreaming with the sun and the moon in the Vienna Genesis, a 6th century manuscript written in Greek that contains the earliest surviving illustrated biblical cycle in codex form. #bibliophile #manuscripts

The Swan Lake 🦢🦢

The hedgehogs rolling on grapes so that they can feed them to their young. BL Royal MS 12 F XIII; 'the Rochester Bestiary; 13th century; f.45r Medieval Manuscripts

A 6th-century miniature illustration from the so-called 'Vienna Dioscurides' Greek manuscript. A coral, and what is believed to be a female personification of Thalassa (Sea), along with a sea creature. The manuscript, contains Dioskourides' Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς (De materia

🚨 TOMORROW! Liverpool Egyptology Seminar Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology at Liv Uni ! The ostraca from Hut-Repit/Athribis in Upper Egypt – glimpses into everyday life in the Graeco-Roman Period Sandra Lippert (CNRS) ⌛️ 6th Feb, 5pm (UK) 📍 Rendall SR10 and online ✍️ REGISTER HERE! forms.office.com/e/mJBHg4JrzR

I kinda want to print this and put it as decoration in my bathroom… ⚗️

Lost works of ancient mathematician Apollonius of Anatolia found in rare Arabic manuscript: turkiyetoday.com/culture/lost-w… #ClassicsTwitter

This book is an astonishing piece of work by Dan Machiela at Notre Dame. More than a "Handbook," it's a seminal reference work, researched with meticulous precision. I am enjoying quite an education from Dr. Machiela. And, its OpenAccess. brill.com/display/title/…

🚨 In less than a month I will be giving this lecture at Norton Priory! "Horus the Red": Perceptions of the Planet Mars in Ancient Egypt 📅 6th March 2025, 7:30pm 🎟️ Tickets: …-museum-and-gardens.arttickets.org.uk/norton-priory-… A repost would be greatly appreciated! 🙏 #egyptology #ancientastronomy

Can you spot your star sign? ⭐ The HSM's copy of Andreas Cellarius's beautiful 'Harmonia Macrocosmica' is currently on display in the @bodleianlibraries Oracles, Omens & Answers exhibition at the Weston Library. #Astrology #ZodiacSigns #WestonLibrary #Oxford

Este martes he tenido el honor de ser invitada a participar en este coloquio sobre la mujer en Egiptología con motivo del día de la mujer y la niña en la ciencia. ¡Formato híbrido! #egiptologia #egiptologiaespañola #diadelamujerylaniñaenlaciencia

Because every proper bibliophile should own a Gutenberg Bible in some form. 🤓📖

Recently cleaned Dendera celestial ceilings never fail to impress 🩵🇪🇬🤩

A strong book curse from ca. 600 years ago in a Greek manuscript Bodleian Libraries "...if anyone dares to steal this book... let him have the curse of all 7 ecumenical councils and of myself the sinful monk Gerasimos of Cyprus" #TuesdayFeeling #tuesdayvibe

Love is in the air... #OTD in 1895, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest premiered at St James' Theatre. From our collections, here's an illustration to Wilde's The Sphinx, 1894. Twenty years in the making, The Sphinx is considered one of Wilde's finest Decadent poems.

normalize re-visiting your favorite books from when you were young. C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter, “I don’t know any greater pleasure than returning to a world of the imagination which one has long forsaken and feeling, ‘after all this is my own.’”

“Somewhere out there lies Alexandria, maintaining its tenuous grasp on one’s affections through memories... of friends, of incidents long past.” – Lawrence Durrell, born #OTD 1912 [The Corniche, Alexandria, 1940s]

Unlike certain other countries, we know how to welcome and be hospitable to guests.

I don’t intend to keep posting in this social network. You can still find me on Instagram (instagram.com/hypatiaheuresis) and Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/hypati…).