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Flint Dibble
@flintdibble.bsky.social
⛏️ Archaeologist at Cardiff University.
Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment
Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛

2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism
Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos
It's my real name | he/him

www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
Why does fake shit like this go more viral than reality?

I love fiction, but the actual evidence for our real history is pretty cool too. Don't you think?
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The Dark Mystery of the Agora Bone Well from Athens. Filled with the tiny, fragile skeletons of hundreds of newborn infants, and 150 dogs. Is this evidence of a gruesome ritual or or a plague, famine, or war? Or something else?

Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBy1...
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
At the midway point, I asked my students to anonymously give feedback to see what's working & improve on what's not

I'm very grateful to see that my students enjoy listening to my lectures as much as I enjoy giving them

I dig archaeology and so do they
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Is this AI? How do you know?
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yup. A cult
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
As someone fighting stage 4 cancer, I can assure you that this is stupid advice

The new drugs available have turned what used to be terminal illnesses into chronic illnesses with real hope for health and life

This advice can kill people
October 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Every person we turn towards real archaeology, grounded in evidence and a respect for humanity, is a win for the human race
October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The part that made me laugh out loud in dismay, as I realized how deeply unserious the government is towards its slowly tarnishing jewel of a higher ed system
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Lovely comment on my latest YouTube video (a tour through the Villa San Marco outside of Pompeii)

The truth will always win out in the end
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Had a great time presenting on Fighting Fake Archaeology at New Scientist Live @newscientist.com!

Recorded a podcast with them too, so I'm sure that'll be out at some point
October 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Oh look. You can pay thousands of dollars to listen to people who have never done any archaeology tell lies about archaeology. Such prices show who the real gatekeepers are

Grifting 101 with Graham Hancock and friends
October 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
According to some on Reddit, my Joe Rogan saga where he has repeatedly and viciously slandered me without cause, has contributed to a decline in listeners to the Joe Rogan Experience

I'll keep fighting back against this slander, and keep picking off members of the cult of fake archaeology
September 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The amount of propaganda today is disgusting

Right wing political violence targeted many Democrat politicians in recent years. Two assassinated in Minnesota, one attempted in Arizona, assault on Pelosi's husband

I'm opposed to ALL political violence, not one sided propaganda
September 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Joe Rogan's shameful treatment of me has revealed to countless people who he really is

Joe's not open minded nor interested in truth. He's just an entertainer captured by the toxic conspiracist wing of his audience. When we go high, he goes low
August 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Had a great time catching @profaliceroberts.bsky.social presenting on the transition from Rome to Christianity for her Domination book tour
August 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I colorized this ancient water spout, likely from Cyprus and now at the Met Museum
/End
August 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
OK, OK, now this is a fierce lion
/9

From Vulci, pic by Bibi Saint-Pol
August 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Herakles: Did you just shave?

Lion: Can you tell?

Herakles: wow, like your whole face even

Lion: is that your dick?

Herakles: how do you even shave your whole face?

Lion: Aaaahhhhhh

/8
From Musee Louvre pic by Bibi Saint-Pol
August 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Herakles: Are you a lion or a hippo?

Lion: Aaaahhhhh

/7
From the Archaeological Museum in Thebes, pic by Zde
August 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Scholars: Herakles and the lion were just friends. They did like to dance together though

Herakles: You lead this time

/6

From the Martin von Wagner Museum, pic by Daderot
August 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Heracles: Say, "Aaaahhhhh"

Lion: Aaaahhhhh

/5

From an exhibit at Middlebury College Museum of Art, pic by Daderot:
August 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This one from @metmuseum.org has two scenes with the Nemean Lion (the first one is Hera sending the Nemean lion out with Iris)

Extra points for the big white, blunt teeth
/4
August 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
What even is going on with this lion!
/3
In the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, pic by Marcus Cyron
August 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This one is hilarious

An artist first scratched out a weird lionish head whose weirdness is emphasized by the incised lines that didn't trace the paint

at least he's got a bright red tongue!
/2

Pic by Marie-Lan Nguyen in the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon
August 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Ancient Athenian ceramic painters loved to paint Heracles and the Nemean Lion. But it's clear that some of the artists had never seen a lion...

This one looks like the lion in the Wizard of Oz!
1/10
my pic from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
August 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM