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The next level of videogame museums: OXO Madrid
By Adrián Maldonado
I recently happened upon a brand new videogame museum on a recent holiday to Spain. Like a glint of gold in river gravel, it popped up in the corner of my map app as I searched for...
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NEW POST! The next level of videogame museums: OXO Madrid, by @archaeonado.bsky.social
The new OXO Madrid Museo del Videojuego provides historical context while sacrificing none of the fun, and invites into the display what had previously been a missing part of the puzzle: the players themselves
The new OXO Madrid Museo del Videojuego provides historical context while sacrificing none of the fun, and invites into the display what had previously been a missing part of the puzzle: the players themselves
Give us your best #archaeofragrance
Eg: The Celts by Wales Perfumery: 'An olfactory journey through the ancient Celtic world, celebrating the tribes who shaped the identity of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, and Brittany' walesperfumery.com/product-cate...
Hat tip @justrena.bsky.social
Eg: The Celts by Wales Perfumery: 'An olfactory journey through the ancient Celtic world, celebrating the tribes who shaped the identity of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, and Brittany' walesperfumery.com/product-cate...
Hat tip @justrena.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Give us your best #archaeofragrance
Eg: The Celts by Wales Perfumery: 'An olfactory journey through the ancient Celtic world, celebrating the tribes who shaped the identity of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, and Brittany' walesperfumery.com/product-cate...
Hat tip @justrena.bsky.social
Eg: The Celts by Wales Perfumery: 'An olfactory journey through the ancient Celtic world, celebrating the tribes who shaped the identity of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, and Brittany' walesperfumery.com/product-cate...
Hat tip @justrena.bsky.social
Just dropping in with a PSA that @greekmythcomix.bsky.social new sweater designs absolutely SLAP and you’ve got until next weekend to order them for Christmas arrival.
Just LOOK at them!! God my pals are cool.
greekmythcomix-1-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp
Also I can’t stand still in photos I guess.
Just LOOK at them!! God my pals are cool.
greekmythcomix-1-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp
Also I can’t stand still in photos I guess.
November 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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This thing is a work of fantastic archaeological imagination and skill. Not to be missed!
Carved in Stone is officially out!
In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This thing is a work of fantastic archaeological imagination and skill. Not to be missed!
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I've turned another social media thread into a proper article, here's my review of the 2010 film 'Black Death' with Sean Bean!
You can read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie...
Or here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/13/f...
You can read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie...
Or here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/13/f...
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I've turned another social media thread into a proper article, here's my review of the 2010 film 'Black Death' with Sean Bean!
You can read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie...
Or here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/13/f...
You can read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie...
Or here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/13/f...
Late capitalism generates misplaced nostalgia
Dying Shopping Malls Are the Roman Ruins of Our Civilization
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Late capitalism generates misplaced nostalgia
Ah, but now when you find some pennies under your couch cushions: archaeologist
I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Ah, but now when you find some pennies under your couch cushions: archaeologist
#archaeogaming with the legendary @archaeoplays.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#archaeogaming with the legendary @archaeoplays.bsky.social
New NPixts Furnace of the Damned Band T-shirt just landed in the NPixts store. Touring Northern Pictland in 2026 including Forres, Lossie, Burghead, Findhorn and Johnny Foxes Inverness 🤣🤣🤣
Free UK post till midnight Sunday!
npixts.teemill.com/product/furn...
npixts.teemill.com/product/furn...
Free UK post till midnight Sunday!
npixts.teemill.com/product/furn...
npixts.teemill.com/product/furn...
Furnace of the Damned! (Women\/Slimmer fit)
Rock on with Northern Pictland's finest!
npixts.teemill.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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With huge thanks to my friend Patrick for spotting this.
The new MGM Robin Hood series.
Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham...
...wearing a horse-bit as a cloak fastener!!!!
Crying!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
#Archaeology 🏺
The new MGM Robin Hood series.
Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham...
...wearing a horse-bit as a cloak fastener!!!!
Crying!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
#Archaeology 🏺
October 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
With huge thanks to my friend Patrick for spotting this.
The new MGM Robin Hood series.
Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham...
...wearing a horse-bit as a cloak fastener!!!!
Crying!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
#Archaeology 🏺
The new MGM Robin Hood series.
Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham...
...wearing a horse-bit as a cloak fastener!!!!
Crying!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
#Archaeology 🏺
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And just because it's that time of year, I held my nose and dived back into the bad place myself to rescue one of my favourite threads: the original Pictish Vision of Hell: A Halloween Thread twitter-thread.com/t/1057601508...
The Pictish vision of Hell: a Halloween thread by @amaldon(Adrián Maldonado) | Twitter Thread Reader
The Pictish vision of Hell: a Halloween thread
twitter-thread.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
And just because it's that time of year, I held my nose and dived back into the bad place myself to rescue one of my favourite threads: the original Pictish Vision of Hell: A Halloween Thread twitter-thread.com/t/1057601508...
New hashtag #medievalsplaining
Friendly reminder, if you see someone this Halloween wearing the plague doctor with the bird beak mask costume, you have to ask them what they are supposed to be and if they then say they're a medieval plague doctor... it's your duty to correct them ;)
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
New hashtag #medievalsplaining
The future in the past
And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The future in the past
Vultures: almost archaeologists
Let's have a little séance so we can thank the dead vultures who saved all these historical artefacts by nicking them for their nests!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
October 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Vultures: almost archaeologists
Future archaeologists: fertility cult
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Future archaeologists: fertility cult
Telephonic archaeology
After 34 years, AOL is ending its dial-up internet service this September.
AOL's Dial-Up Internet Service Is Ending in September
nerdist.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Telephonic archaeology
Cool colleagues doing cool stuff again - that's Dr Blackwell @earlymedieval.bsky.social nearly blurred out back there in this story of cool medieval finds from excavations at Eliean Donan Castle www.thenational.scot/news/2550068...
Rare medieval hair-styling tool found during Highland castle excavation
A RARE 13th-century tool for styling hair has been acquired by a museum after it was discovered in an excavation ...
www.thenational.scot
September 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A while back Historic England asked for my opinion on which was the oldest pub in London. The result is a new online article that outlines the variables, busts some myths, and points to a couple of genuinely ancient pubs in and around the city...
heritagecalling.com/2025/09/25/w...
heritagecalling.com/2025/09/25/w...
September 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Patella regalia!
September 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Patella regalia!
Cool stuff by colleagues part 2: Bronze Age hoard from Carnoustie will go on display for the first time in the upcoming exhibition Scotland’s First Warriors (27 Jun 2026 – 17 May 2027) at NMS, on the origins and impact of conflict and warfare in prehistoric Scotland media.nms.ac.uk/news/rare-br...
September 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
Archaeology as Worldbuilding | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Archaeology as Worldbuilding
doi.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
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I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of
In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist (and gamer) on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real life
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
Ben Affleck: almost archaeologist
If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
Ben Affleck visits Butser Ancient Farm (Archive Clip)
YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Ben Affleck: almost archaeologist
Archaeology of the Plastic Age (Plastocene? Plastozoic?)
Our new open access paper: how do we understand plastics as a contemporary archaeological record, and what does this mean for how we mitigate their environmental impacts? 🧪 🏺
Archaeological and systemic context for the plastic age: Theorising the formation of contemporary and future archaeological records | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core
Archaeological and systemic context for the plastic age: Theorising the formation of contemporary and future archaeological records - Volume 3
www.cambridge.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Archaeology of the Plastic Age (Plastocene? Plastozoic?)
Revolutionary heritage
A plaque commemorating the re-naming of Montgomery Terrace in the Mount Florida in Glasgow as Bolivar Terrace in 1933 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar.
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#glasgow #simonbolivar #bolivarterrace #mountflorida #plaque
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#glasgow #simonbolivar #bolivarterrace #mountflorida #plaque
September 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Revolutionary heritage
Stumbled on this incredible bit of colonial archaeology wandering through Melbourne. It's a piece of European bottle glass flaked into a scraper by Kulin Nation First Peoples, excavated from the 1855-70 settlement at Wesley Place, now displayed at 130 Lonsdale www.wesleyplace.com.au/content/news...
September 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Stumbled on this incredible bit of colonial archaeology wandering through Melbourne. It's a piece of European bottle glass flaked into a scraper by Kulin Nation First Peoples, excavated from the 1855-70 settlement at Wesley Place, now displayed at 130 Lonsdale www.wesleyplace.com.au/content/news...