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@nickysfacts.bsky.social

👩🏻‍🏫Hello!🏳️‍⚧️ 24 ♋️🇧🇷 she/her 🎀 History Degreed Educator 🏺 Little Baby Smilodon 🧸 Lover of all History, Ancient Egypt, Art, Animals, Gaming! 🦖 I post new history facts daily!🗽🇵🇸🇺🇦

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c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm 82% sure that Nigersaurus taqueti is a prank a group of paleontologists played on a new employee on their first day, then ended up having to roll with it when the boss started asking questions.

Model head of a Nigersaurus, from the Royal Sydney Museum of Natural History. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigersaurus#/media/File:Nigersaurus_model_aus.jpgSkull cast, Royal Ontario Museum "Cast Skull of a Nigersaurus taqueti on Display at the Royal Ontario Museum (Cast of MNN GAD512)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigersaurus#/media/File:August_1,_2012_-_Cast_Skull_of_a_Nigersaurus_taqueti_on_Display_at_the_Royal_Ontario_Museum_(Cast_of_MNN_GAD512).jpg
Nickys Facts@nickysfacts.bsky.social · yesterday

Sorry for the lack of new history posts the last 4 days I have been sadly very sick and today, in happier news, I got to substitute for a wonderful group of kindergarteners!💜 I promise to post a very interesting one tomorrow that is both prehistoric and historic!💜

The Fake History Hunter@fakehistoryhunter.net · yesterday

There's no evidence that this is what they were used for, they also don't work, it's been tried. It's also only found in only one street. As a archaeologist currently working in Pompeii said: "It’s such complete nonsense".

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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly@greciangirl.bsky.social · 5d ago

'Ram in the Thicket' from the Royal Cemetery (Grave PG 1237, the Great Death Pit) Ur, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Dated c. 2600 BCE. The artefact actually depicts a goat rather than a ram. It is made of gold, silver, copper, lapis lazuli, shell and red limestone. British Museum (1929,1017.1). 📷 me

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Chapps@chapps.bsky.social · 6d ago

I was surprised to come across this (Graeco-)Romano-Egyptian tempera mummy portrait at #LACMA recently. The portrait depicts a young man with dark curly hair, a goatee, and large brown eyes. His white tunic is edged in red and decorated with dark pink clavi (vertical stripes). 🏺 1/ 📸 me

The tradition of painted naturalistic portraits of deceased elite individuals developed in the first to third centuries CE of the Roman Period in the Faiyum area of Egypt. Portraits on wood panels were placed over the heads of mummified bodies and anchored with linen wrappings or layers of plaster cartonnage. The Austrian archaeologist and dealer Theodor Graf uncovered several hundred portraits in the er-Rubayat cemetery in 1887. Graf’s inventory stamp on the back of the LACMA panel, as well as the stylistic similarities between this panel and others from the area, indicate that it was part of this group. A young, curly-haired, bearded youth is shown frontally, his body turned slightly to the left. He wears a white tunic with decorative vertical pink stripes (clavi) and a white mantle over his left shoulder. As seen in other portraits, a dotted line indicates the tunic’s seam on his right shoulder. The gray background is also similar to many of the portraits believed to have originated in the Faiyum area. The portrait has been substantially cleaned, as an early photograph reveals a thin layer of a black substance, possibly a resinous burial material, covering the upper portion of the panel down to the sitter’s mouth. Romano-Egyptian, probably from Faiyum, Egypt, late 3rd-4th c. CE. Tempera on wood. 12 × 6 × 1/4 in. (30.48 × 15.24 × 0.64 cm) LACMA, Geffen Gallieries (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.71.73.62)
SFDB@sfdb.bsky.social · 7d ago

"Staff and marine biologists at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center have officially documented 1,077 loggerhead sea turtle nests north of Fort Lauderdale, across Boca Raton, Florida's five-mile stretch of beach, surpassing a record that stood untouched for 36 years." This is great news. 🐢💪

Sea turtle nesting surges in Florida, breaking a 36-year record

Gumbo Limbo researchers report 1,077 loggerhead nests along Boca Raton, Florida, breaking a 36-year record during a landmark nesting season.

usatoday.com

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.

Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · last wk.

I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.