Mediterranean archaeologist & museum education professional.
Director of the Paphos Theatre excavations, Paphos Cyprus & Education & Experience Manager at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney.
Cypriot archaeologist on Gadigal land.
Dr Craig Barker
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'How the invention of glassblowing changed everyday life in ancient Rome'
Lovely piece in the @aunz.theconversation.com today by Thomas J. Derrick about Roman glassblowing
theconversation.com/how-the-inve...
The pigeon fanciers of the Bronze Age. #Archaeology
theconversation.com/the-pigeon-f...
This silver coin is from Knossos and depicts the labyrinth of Greek myth. If you trace your finger from the entrance, like the puzzle books you used to do as a kid, you’ll find a path to the centre where you’ll meet…..a mini-Minotaur!
🕰️c270BC
🏛️📷 Ashmolean Museum
The lace-like marble of #Domitian’s #Alban theatre projected absolute majesty for a court of absolute terror. A late #ReliefWednesday look at the hyper-detailed "#Flavian #Baroque" gives us the architectural framework for the waking nightmare of proximity to the emperor. #AncientBluesky 🏺
Mosaic of a hunting dog from the House of Dionysos in Paphos, Cyprus.
It is chasing a mouflon (wild goat native to Cyprus).
Late 2nd or early 3rd century CE
#MosaicMonday
Today is UN’s International Day of Play - dedicated to the rights of children to play.
This fantastic Attic red figure chous in the Getty dates to 420BCE & shows 3 children playing a game of knucklebones (astragaloi). Just wait till they learn about the Nintendo Switch!
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
'Massive Roman Defensive Wall Unearthed at Ancient Amathous in Cyprus'
#archaeologynews 🏺
greekreporter.com/2026/06/06/a...
‘Ancient Cypriot vase repatriated from Canada’
#archaeologynews
cyprus-mail.com/2026/06/09/a...
‘Concerted push to save Nicosia’s modernist architecture’
This is a welcome development with the loss of some important 20th century buildings in recent years
cyprus-mail.com/2026/06/07/c...
Ancient furnace workers experimented with heating the ends of glass tubes to rework them. One day, someone blew into that tube and changed history.
A new exhibition entitled Modern Nicosia to celebrate the city’s often unappreciated modernist architecture is on display at Mayor Lellos Demetriadou Square (former Municipal Market agora) in the cent...
A Cypriot ceramic vase nearly 4,000 years old was returned to Cyprus from Canada on Tuesday, after it had been listed for sale at an online auction. The Department of Antiquities said the artefact, a ...
