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Luthen and the Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025 (part 2)
By Adrián Maldonado
Among all the ways that Andor seemed to predict the events of 2025, shining a light on the trade in illicit antiquities was probably not on anyone’s bingo card.
In part one of...
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New post on #AlmostArchaeology! The thrilling conclusion of Luthen and The Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025, by @archaeonado.bsky.social on how the antiquities trade in the Star Wars galaxy predicted a year of museum heists in ours
January 11, 1897: After finding little, 70 Egyptian workers are sent by Grenfell & Hunt to excavate a trash heap near Oxyrhynchus. They immediately found a fragment of the Gospel of Thomas & 1000s more papyri, proving trash heaps are archaeological treasures. oxyrhynchus.web.ox.ac.uk/waste-paper-...
January 11, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Visiting my son Porter in Alabama, this morning we drove to Mobile, and stopped nearby to see Bamahenge, which Wikipedia describes as "a full-scale fiberglass replica of England's prehistoric Stonehenge monument, located on the grounds of Barber Marina near Josephine, Alabama."
January 11, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Visiting my son Porter in Alabama, this morning we drove to Mobile, and stopped nearby to see Bamahenge, which Wikipedia describes as "a full-scale fiberglass replica of England's prehistoric Stonehenge monument, located on the grounds of Barber Marina near Josephine, Alabama."
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Heritage pops up in all kinds of situations.
Theres a museum room of Dundalk train station in the statio itself and it is the sweetest , most ridiculously Irish thing.
Please visit it.
Theres a museum room of Dundalk train station in the statio itself and it is the sweetest , most ridiculously Irish thing.
Please visit it.
January 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Heritage pops up in all kinds of situations.
Theres a museum room of Dundalk train station in the statio itself and it is the sweetest , most ridiculously Irish thing.
Please visit it.
Theres a museum room of Dundalk train station in the statio itself and it is the sweetest , most ridiculously Irish thing.
Please visit it.
In light all of last year's attacks on museums (as delineated in our most recent post), this one is maybe the most harmful in the long term
A sobering read, showing examples both of resistance and self-censorship as well as an uncertain future 📜
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’
The long read: The president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White House is in his sights
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:36 AM
In light all of last year's attacks on museums (as delineated in our most recent post), this one is maybe the most harmful in the long term
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social, @tessmachling.bsky.social: we've got a new ring tone for you.
#Carnyx
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(1hr 47min 10sec - sound on)
#Carnyx
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(1hr 47min 10sec - sound on)
January 7, 2026 at 11:53 AM
New post on #AlmostArchaeology! The thrilling conclusion of Luthen and The Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025, by @archaeonado.bsky.social on how the antiquities trade in the Star Wars galaxy predicted a year of museum heists in ours
Luthen and the Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025 (part 2)
By Adrián Maldonado
Among all the ways that Andor seemed to predict the events of 2025, shining a light on the trade in illicit antiquities was probably not on anyone’s bingo card.
In part one of...
almostarchaeology.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:48 AM
New post on #AlmostArchaeology! The thrilling conclusion of Luthen and The Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025, by @archaeonado.bsky.social on how the antiquities trade in the Star Wars galaxy predicted a year of museum heists in ours
I spent the holiday break thinking about Andor, and so should you! The latest post on #AlmostArchaeology by @archaeonado.bsky.social, with a sequel to follow
Luthen and the Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025 (part 1)
By Adrián Maldonado
It is long ago, and we are far away. In the imperial capital of Coruscant, the gallery of Galactic Antiquities and Objects of Interest receives some visitors. One of them admires.....
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January 2, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I spent the holiday break thinking about Andor, and so should you! The latest post on #AlmostArchaeology by @archaeonado.bsky.social, with a sequel to follow
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Think someone at the Beeb has been at the New Year drinkies early... 🤣
#Archaeology 🏺 #Hic #HappyNewYear
#Archaeology 🏺 #Hic #HappyNewYear
December 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Think someone at the Beeb has been at the New Year drinkies early... 🤣
#Archaeology 🏺 #Hic #HappyNewYear
#Archaeology 🏺 #Hic #HappyNewYear
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The TMNT generation rises to power
As hundreds of thousands of people amass in Times Square for the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be sworn into office at the old City Hall subway station in downtown Manhattan.
Mamdani Will Be Sworn In at Abandoned Subway Station Beneath City Hall
Hours before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani holds an inauguration block party outside City Hall, he will be officially become mayor in a small private ceremony.
nyti.ms
December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The TMNT generation rises to power
"Denying the revisionism the Western underwent [in the sci-fi era] and instead sending it into the future in its most archaic, unnuanced form."
Avatar: Fire And Ash shows more clearly than ever before that this franchise exists as an aging white Boomer's mystical fantasy of the Western's Indigenous cultures.
James Cameron tried to bring the Western into the future, but only went backwards
Avatar: Fire And Ash shows how clearly James Cameron has regressed towards the worst tropes of the Western.
www.avclub.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"Denying the revisionism the Western underwent [in the sci-fi era] and instead sending it into the future in its most archaic, unnuanced form."
Got an ogham ('I thought it was runes') hat for Christmas
December 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#archaeobaking and also #archaeochristmas
Gingerbread wedge tomb! Nicely done.
December 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#archaeobaking and also #archaeochristmas
A Silmarillion cover band called Númenorvana
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Helm's Deep Purple.
A Lord of the Rings cover band called The Long Stryders.
December 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A Silmarillion cover band called Númenorvana
"Looting with a diploma": the archaeology of imperialism
From the archive. An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to retake it. Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama
An anthropologist investigates how the U.S. used archaeology to expand its influence in the Panama Canal Zone.
www.sapiens.org
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Looting with a diploma": the archaeology of imperialism
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We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆!
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
December 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆!
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Wasn't expecting this: Pope Leo, Amost Archaeologist www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Wasn't expecting this: Pope Leo, Amost Archaeologist www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
New hashtag #archaeospa
I mean, look, I am all in, but don’t tell Seneca about this. 🛀 In his letters, he complains about noise and even the sausage sellers hawking in baths. He is also a lesson never to rent an apartment over a bath (Letters, 56.1–2). www.narcity.com/toronto/aire... + www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?...
Toronto's new candlelit Roman-inspired spa just opened and it looks completely magical
Looking for a unique way to unwind? Toronto's brand-new Ancient Roman–inspired spa has officially opened its doors, and it will transport you to another era.
www.narcity.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
New hashtag #archaeospa
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Nuclear Pictish heritage! A glass paperweight commemorating the closure of the Dounreay, Caithness Prototype Fast Reactor in 1994, with early medieval Pictish symbols. National Museums Scotland X.2024.249.1 www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...
December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nuclear Pictish heritage! A glass paperweight commemorating the closure of the Dounreay, Caithness Prototype Fast Reactor in 1994, with early medieval Pictish symbols. National Museums Scotland X.2024.249.1 www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...
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Finally got my hands on the physical book for Carved in Stone by Heather Christie @archaeoplays.bsky.social and Brian Tyrrell @stoutstoat.co.uk. Really gives me hope that early medieval archaeology can inspire worlds that are hopeful, empathetic and overall, fun
www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...
www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...
December 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Finally got my hands on the physical book for Carved in Stone by Heather Christie @archaeoplays.bsky.social and Brian Tyrrell @stoutstoat.co.uk. Really gives me hope that early medieval archaeology can inspire worlds that are hopeful, empathetic and overall, fun
www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...
www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...
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I forgot that in 2019 I started a whole website about Ludovic Mann, #TheManntheMyth. I had plans to do a podcast & update this regularly. If this gets to 100 followers (from current total of 23!) I’ll revive it and start adding content! #LudovicMann
themannthemyth.home.blog
themannthemyth.home.blog
The Mann the Myth
A blog and website dedicated to Ludovic McLellan Mann (1869-1955), the eccentric Glaswegian archaeologist and insurance broker.
themannthemyth.home.blog
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I forgot that in 2019 I started a whole website about Ludovic Mann, #TheManntheMyth. I had plans to do a podcast & update this regularly. If this gets to 100 followers (from current total of 23!) I’ll revive it and start adding content! #LudovicMann
themannthemyth.home.blog
themannthemyth.home.blog
We did it! The world's nerdiest souvenir!
If you’re going to go down the fridge magnet route in the museum shop, I reckon a laser-etched copy of the Claudia Severa - Sulpicia Lepidina birthday invitation Vindolanda tablet is pretty hardcore, to be fair.
From the @vindolandatrust.bsky.social shop.
From the @vindolandatrust.bsky.social shop.
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
We did it! The world's nerdiest souvenir!
Important archaeology top tips
Thank you for the mention. And while we're on the topic at some point I would like to see someone address the tendency for people to make the lintels of trilithons extend well past the edges of the uprights. 🤦♂️ Are they making a trilithon or the symbol pi ?
December 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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