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Why 'Cousin Jack?' The origins of the nickname of the Cornish overseas — a new post by me :) https://t.co/AMC04J4wdw
Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England — a new brief post by me :) https://t.co/pCdt2iVotJ
Dickens's Ghost of Christmas Present, by John Leech, 1843, a version of Father Christmas & dressed in green: https://t.co/O7kaSZf4j3
9th-century Danes depicted as Saracens & attacking St Edmund of East Anglia, see https://t.co/Gpdaxr4VWX From the 15th-century BL MS Harley 2278, f. 61r: https://t.co/E9qoM9n33O :)
A 2nd-century Romano-British hare brooch, found in a 5th-/6th-century Anglo-Saxon grave on the Isle of Wight.
Glass goblet with people harvesting dates, made in 1st- to 2nd-century AD Roman Egypt and found at Begram, Afghanistan: https://t.co/M4o593c8SO
Christ's entry into Jerusalem on a 6th-century ivory pyxis, possibly made in Byzantine Ravenna: https://t.co/0pI8SUdYD6
A probably sixth-century Byzantine bronze lamp from Egypt, found at Pong Tuk, Thailand: https://t.co/Mu7BQDkZnG
Saharan and trans-Saharan contacts and trade in the Roman era — new post by me :) https://t.co/TgiJNkxF13
Late Bronze Age trade in glass beads between Egypt, Mesopotamia & Denmark, c.1400-1100 BC https://t.co/zUyRMtIV3y