Minimus sum, mus sum. (I am Minimus, I am a mouse.) I live at Vindolanda with my Roman family, and in Suffolk with Dr Helen Forte. We like to make Latin fun!
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How fantastic is this drawing of our Iron Age enclosure? 😍
One of our Experimentalists has drawn the roundhouse village with exceptional detail. We love seeing how our beautiful ancient farm captures the imagination of creative observers.
Hand-drawn by a very talented human - magnificent! ✨
Butser Ancient Farm
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Silvius consobrinis occurrit (Silvius meets his cousins). eos internoscit a focalibus (He knows them by their scarves). in manu musculorum Pollex, Index, Impudica, Annularis et Auricularis continet (In the handful of little mice are Thumb, Index, Cheeky, Ring and Ear)
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When is an owl, that's not an owl, probably still an owl? It all happens when you start to recreate the pottery of the ancient past. 🏺 And you really should watch through to the end. youtu.be/nT_n4pxxM1M
How to party at Pompeii! Charlotte Higgins and I are doing a special recording of Instant Classics at the British Library on evening of 22 June, part of heir Food Season. Come along events.bl.uk/events/how-t...
YouTube video by PottedHistory
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From elegant dinners in glamorous outdoor dining rooms (stuffed dormice optional) to down-and-dirty street food in back alley bars, the archaeology of Pomp
The chair of US Commission of Fine Arts, in approving the proposed triumphal arch in DC, claimed that opposition to it was "due to a lack of understand<ing> about the history of such triumphal arches" Bit of an insult to those of us who really do know about triumphal arches!
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diēs aestuosus est, et mures in horto apricabantur. (It's a hot day, and the mice have been sunbathing in the garden). Silvius in labro aquae intepescit (Silvius is cooling off in a tub of water). Minima sudarium tenet (Minima is holding his towel).
