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In 2012, French beekeepers encountered an unusual phenomenon when they discovered blue and green #honey in their hives. This strange coloration immediately aroused the interest and curiosity of beekeepers, and they went in search of the cause. In their investigations, they found that the bees were collecting colored sugar from a nearby M&M factory.

The factory had left remnants of colored sugar in the candy manufacturing process, and the bees had used this sugar as a food source.

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Santa's been reading your posts ๐Ÿคฃ

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The world's only intact Roman legionary shield was discovered in the 1930s at the site of the ancient Roman city of Dura-Europos in modern-day Syria.
This extraordinary artifact, dating from early 3rd Century AD, provides invaluable insight into the daily life and military equipment of #Roman soldiers.

The shield, made of wood and iron with a detailed boss and bronze fittings, was remarkably preserved in the anaerobic conditions of the city's soil.

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A hugely exciting discovery!

An enormous hoard of 1,400 #Roman silver coins, and a single #Celtic gold coin of the Dobunni tribe, have been unearthed by builders working on a site near #Worcester. Already nicknamed 'The Worcester Conquest Hoard', it contains coins dating from the Roman Republic all the way up to the reign of Nero, 55 AD, and would have been buried around this time at the outset of the teenage emperor's reign.

@OptimoPrincipi

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Cutlery designed by Salvador Dali in 1957.

The Museum of Curiosities
@CuriosMuseum #museums #Dali #cutlery #art #surrealism

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A 3,400 year-old ancient #Egyptian beauty box with original containers with traces of makeup and beauty products!

The wooden (sycamore) box is divided into compartments, holding alabaster, faience, and coloured glass jars, inside which are traces of unguents and fat-based creams. Found in the intact Theban tomb (TT8) of Kha and his wife Merit in 1906.
๐Ÿ“ท Museo Egizio, Turin

#Archaeology #beauty #makeup @AlisonFisk

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SHE DID IT AGAIN!

Wisdom, the worldโ€™s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg.

At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male.

@USFWSPacific #birds #Midway #wildlife

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They always come across as a bit clumsy at the start and seem so ponderous. I think they know they can take more time for a lot of things. ๐Ÿฅฐ

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Beautiful and ancient #IceAge art!

Small figurine of a horse, realistically sculpted from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago.

Known as โ€˜The Little Horse of Lourdesโ€™ it was found in 1886 in a rock fissure in the Espรฉlugues cave, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrรฉnรฉes, France.

Measuring (L) 7.3 cm x (H) 3.5 cm, the horse is masterfully sculpted with accurate details.

Musรฉe d'Archรฉologie Nationale, Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye musee-archeologienationale.fr/โ€ฆ ๐Ÿ“ท @AlisonFisk #horse #museum

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Restoring Courbetโ€™s โ€˜A Burial at Ornansโ€™โ€“The Musรฉe dโ€™Orsay unlocks secrets of the once-scandalous masterpiece and reveals its grandeur

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@TheArtNewspaper #art #museums #Ornans

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Phoenician or Carthaginian glass pendants from 5th Century BC. Rod-formed, trailed and tooled glass, around 6cm in height, they were gifted to the Metropolitan Museum in 1881.

#archaeohistories #history #Phoenician #museums

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A Scorpius Sky Spectacular
Credits: St๏ฟฝphane Guisard, TWAN
#nature #space #astrophotography

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Influencers: is it time for museums to go all in? As agencies pay Instagram influencers to promote museums, is the investment worth the publicity?

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The Art Newspaper @TheArtNewspaper #museums #advertising #Influencers

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Have you ever stood in front of the Giant Sequoia Tree exhibit at the Museum?

When this tree sprouted around CE 550, the English language didnโ€™t even exist! This slice came from a 300 ft (91.4 m) tall tree felled by loggers in 1891. Today, it's illegal to cut down giant sequoias.

American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #Museums #trees #Sequoia

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This looks really great, kudos to the architects!

Looks a bit like a Federation ship as well as a Battlestar from the Twelve Colonies. Except for the hotel at the back, which looks exactly as we all expect hotels to look.

@globalmuseum


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On Dec 3rd 995, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) launched. A joint project between NASA and ESA, SOHO was only designed to last two years, but a quarter-century later, it's still revolutionizing how we see our Sun.

More from NASA: s.si.edu/49gw22Y #Slar #Sun #Space #Science

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Morning in Motoyoshiwara, from Selection of Views of the Tokaido, by Kawase Hasui, 1940, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

@JapanTraCul #museums #JapaneseArt

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The 2024 Tesla is now on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum.

Petersen Automotive Museum is located in LA and is one of the best visits in town. #museums #cars #Automobiles #Tesla

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