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#DrWho #darlek @petriemuseum UC15463. Part of ivory strip from a box inlay, showing two round topped huts; found in the Petrie-directed excavations at the Abydos First Dynasty tombs 1899-1901, at B17. #timelord #timetravel #notreallyaroundtoppedhut
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Too much fun for my #AncientKings not to get involved! #warriorking #JediKing #maythe4thbewithyou #starwarsday @britishmuseum
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Jedi knight #maythe4thbewithyou
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It's #StarWarsDay and even the objects at @mcrmuseum are unleashing their inner Jedi ... Japanese armour, made of horizontal plates of lacquered metal, laced with dark blue silk. #SamuraiSith #DarthVader #Jedi #maythefourthbewithyou
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"Ancient Egypt's Symbolic Landscape" #free talk @thestudymcr @mcrmuseum #Today! 1.30-2.00
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eek! So very exited to be getting this d-ware vessel out of the stores for Collection Bites on Monday! "Signs, symbols and the storage of memory: ancient Egypt's symbolic landscape" @McrMuseum Monday 24th April, 1.30-2.00 #free
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Common marmoset, Living Worlds @mcrmuseum
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Carved stone Edrichinga village, Chad Neolithic, 4th millennium BC (?) Sandstone 71.1996.47.1 D @quaibranly #Easter #ᴇᴀsᴛᴇʀᴇɢɢs
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Decorated #egg. #Easter
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Egg shaped box, Touareg / Hausa culture From Agadès, Niger, West Africa Early 20th Century Made from molded goat skin, with henna dye on the reserve Donated by François de Zeltner Used as container or for jewellery, cosmetics and pharmacopoeia, possibl
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How about this for your #EasterEggHunt ... This is a real dinosaur egg! It is from a Hadrosaur, and was found in France. Hypselosaurus priscus LL.12261 Upper Cretaceous #Easter #egg #Eastereggs #dinosaur #dinosauregg #animalstories @thestudymcr @mcrmu
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#birds #studyskins #whymuseumscollect #sparrowhawks #taxidermy #NaturesLibrary #deadzoo #deadark @mcrmuseum
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This.
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#lovetheseguys #ancientkings #tbt
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Blue 💙
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🏆⭐️💥🚀✨ @dynamo_trampoline at the #EnglishChampionships qualifier at Fenton Manor, Stoke on Trent, this weekend! #TeamDynamo #TeamAwesome #Trampoline #DMT #gold #gold #silver #proudcoach
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This! So, so much love for this! One of the objects for @chiara_ldl's #CollectionBites today in @thestudymcr at @mcrmuseum (No. 2558) #Cartouche #Akhenaten #hieroglyphs #Pharaoh #heretic #king #Amarna #artandartefact #ancientegypt #ancientworlds #faien
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"Bludgeons and Dragons: A Rainbow in Jars" A huge thank you to @chiara_ldl for a fascinating #CollectionBites at @mcrmuseum - a spectacular rollercoaster ride through the history of pigments, and the materiality of human/social interaction with colours.
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Happy #NationalSiblingsDay! Here are Manchester Museum's most famous siblings, Khnum-Nakht and Nakht-Ankh, "The Two Brothers", discovered in an intact tomb in Deir Rifa, Egypt in 1907. #nationalsiblingday #ancientegypt #mummies #petrie #archaeology #Egypt
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Nkisi Mangaka Power figure, Kongo (0.9321/1). Made out of carved wood with shell eyes and a cowrie shell (cypraea stercoraria) in the stomach that holds the figure's spiritual power. Nails and blades were driven to activate the spirit. Each would have be
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Under a watchful eye... Ancient figures from #Palmyra juxtaposed with the 'Nu' Shabtis, entwining ideas of crossing borders and blurring boundaries between old/new, here/there, life/death, real/imaginary, ancient/modern, museum/gallery, art/artefact, ensl
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An interdisciplinary collage... Our creative output at the "Cultural History of the Human Body" pgr workshop with artsmethods@manchester #creative #phdlife #teamwork #archaeologylife @officialuom @uomsalcstudents
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Crossing borders ... disrupting boundaries ... 'Shabtis: Suspended Truth' by Syrian-born artist Zahed Taj-Eddin @mcrmuseum #MMShabtis #migration #collectinglife
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A buzz of excitement for the opening of the 'Nu' exhibition at @mcrmuseum - 'Shabtis: Suspended Truth' by Zahed Taj-Eddin. #MMShabtis
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'Shabtis: Suspended Truth' by Zahed Taj-Eddin @mcrmuseum #MMShabtis
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... oh, just a couple of Shabtis of Seti I ... just a regular day at work ... #EgyptologyDreams #MMShabtis #omg #lovemyjob #museumlife
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One of the most spectacular collections of shabtis, for many this is the first time they have been displayed in public. #lovethis #MMShabtis @mcrmuseum
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#EgyptologyLife #MMShabtis @egyptmcr #norestforthewicked #behindthescenes
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Shabtis from a private collection, patiently waiting for installation in Zahed Taj-Eddin's 'Shabtis: Suspended Truth' @mcrmuseum ... This is the kind of collection that Egyptology dreams are made of, and most Egyptologists can only dream of being this clo
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An army of 'Nu' Shabtis ready for installation @mcrmuseum, part of Zahed Taj-Eddin's 'Shabtis: Suspended Truth'. #MMShabtis #soexciting #disruptingmuseumspace #migration #collectinglife #behindthescenes
