Ian Andrew Oswald Trumble. Archaeologist. Curator #BoltonsEgypt @BoltonLMS. LocalAmb @TheEES. Chair @BoltonAES. Leader @GM_YAC. PhD @UniOfYork
Wigan, Greater Manchester
Joined May 2009
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Day 214 of #photoaday
A signed portrait by Cleopatra herself, well Elizabeth Taylor as Cleo in the 1963 movie!
Now on display at Barnsley Museum in the “Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt” exhibition
#365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge
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🤩The legendary Liz playing the legendary Cleopatra, this signed photo so generously loaned by @EgyptomaniaMuse one of the key pieces in our #Cleoandthequeens exhibition @BarnsleyMuseums
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💎 What an absolute gem of a hairpin!
On loan from @britishmuseum to our #cleoandthequeens exhibition @BarnsleyMuseums, these pearl-topped gold pins formed part of Cleopatra's story as we explain at: immortalegypt.co.uk/post/hid… & at: intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue4…
#FestivalofArchaeology
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🍷💖 Imagine earrings incorporating red wine motifs... as in this superb blending of garnets & gold from C.2nd BC, currently on loan from @britishmuseum to our #CleoandtheQueens exhibition @BarnsleyMuseums
(image: British Museum)
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#FestivalofArchaeology
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🥰 A powerful image of Cleopatra’s famous husband Mark Antony carved into red jasper set into a gold ring 40-30 BC, currently on loan from @britishmuseum as part of our #Cleoandthequeens exhibition in #Barnsley
(image: British Museum)
#Cleoandthequeens
#FestivalofArchaeology
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❤️ Celebrating #YorkshireDay & the start of August with #Barnsley-born Harold Jones' 1908 facsimile of Egypt’s goddess Isis. Worshipped at her festival each August & later ‘Isis Augusta’, Jones' image is part of our exhibition #Cleoandthequeens @BarnsleyMuseums
#EgyptinYorks
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Day 212 of #photoaday
A piece of piano sheet music that was so quick to capitalise on the discovery of Tutankhamun that it was too early to understand the truth of the boy king
#365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge
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🌞💋 New blog 'The Sun-kissed Icons of Amarna (& Barnsley)' at: immortalegypt.co.uk/post/the…
....with HUGE HUGE thanks to the fabulous @millyjohnson & @davidgrantartist2026
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Celebrating #WorldCrocodileDay🐊 with this mummified crocodile!
Sacred to Sobek, god of royal might after whom female pharaoh Sobeknefru was named, it's part of our #CleoandtheQueens exhibition @BarnsleyMuseums & loaned by @BoltonLMS
Find out more at:
immortalegypt.co.uk/post/the…
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🍷 Celebrating #NationalWineDay with this superb ancient #Egyptian wine chalice c.1300 BC, now on display @BarnsleyMuseums as part of our #CleoandtheQueens exhibition on loan from the world class collection @BoltonLMS
(image: Yorkshire Post)
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The boss is back!🐈
Following our animal-themed sell-out study day @BoltonLMS on Saturday, fab shot by #BoltonsEgypt curator @trumerz at #Philae last week, with our own trip to Feline HQ Bubastis later this year with @CultExp
For same study day repeated: eventbrite.co.uk/e/boltons-e…
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🥛🥰One of our fave objects in our #Cleoandthequeens exhibition!
Milk bottle rhyme:
'Cleopatra should have had her bath in best Clyde Higgs, 400 pintas every day and extra for the wigs', inspired by her reputed moisturising milk baths & use of wigs...
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Day 107 of #photoaday
A mid-century milk bottle that uses a specific ancient Egypt link for advertisement
Now on display at @BarnsleyMuseums for “Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt”
#365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge
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🥰Honoured to have curated this exhibition about #Barnsley-born Egyptologist Harold Jones in his family's home town #Carmarthen
Having been extended until 26 April there's only 3 weeks left to see it at @CarmsMuseums although he is permanently part of our display wall @EBMuseum
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🤩As the Queens arrive in Barnsley, Hatshepsut takes the lift in our new blog 'The Arrival of the Queens of Egypt' at: immortalegypt.co.uk/post/que…
#CleoandtheQueens
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😍 Huge thanks to @yorkshirepost for today’s front page & review of #CleoandtheQueens @EBMuseum during @VisitEngland's @EnglishTourismWeek!
Huge thanks too to @BoltonLMS, @TheEES, @TheBritishMuseum, @ScarbsMuseums, @WiganMuseum, @EgyptomaniaMuse, World of Glass & @BarnsleyMHT
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Bringing Cleopatra 'Home'!
From Egyptian queens to Hollywood royalty Barnsley's @ImmortalEgypt TV star Prof Joann Fletcher reigns with her new FREE entry exhibition Cleopatra And The Queens Of Egypt now open at @EBMuseum - go visit! See @GW1962's special report in today's @yorkshirepost
and more at yorkshirepost.co.uk/sponsore…
@BarnsleyMuseums
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Reflecting on #Egypt's goddess Isis in our new exhibition @EBMuseum, this case with loans from @BoltonLMS, @ScarbsMuseums/@northyorksc & Barnsley's own collections also reflecting Howard Carter's largest watercolour, loaned by @TheEES🥰
#CleoandtheQueens
(image: I.Trumble)
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#Throwback to last week when i was honoured to witness the launch of ‘Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt’ by @ImmortalEgypt @EBMuseum featuring loans from @TheEES and @BoltonLMS 🤩
Don’t miss it! #tbt
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📢Tickets now on sale for this year's 'Big Ideas by the Sea' #BIBTS, the North’s leading environmental & creative festival held each May in beautiful #Scarborough - including our study day at:
ticketsource.co.uk/bibts/peo…
