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Huge news from Egypt, tomb of Thutmose II has finally been found! english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/...
Long-lost royal tomb of King Thutmose II finally discovered in Luxor - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities
A joint Egyptian-British archaeological team has uncovered the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II, the last missing royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty.
english.ahram.org.eg
February 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Huge news from Egypt, tomb of Thutmose II has finally been found! english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/...
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Don't worry...it's not just you.
People have been dumping corpses into the Thames since at least the Bronze Age, study finds
A new study of human remains dredged from the Thames River reveals that people frequently deposited corpses there in the Bronze and Iron ages.
www.livescience.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Don't worry...it's not just you.
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A lovely Bronze Age barrow smothered by beech trees on a walk near Aldbourne, Wiltshire, in Spring last year #TombTuesday
📸 My own #archaeology #photooftheday🏺
📸 My own #archaeology #photooftheday🏺
February 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A lovely Bronze Age barrow smothered by beech trees on a walk near Aldbourne, Wiltshire, in Spring last year #TombTuesday
📸 My own #archaeology #photooftheday🏺
📸 My own #archaeology #photooftheday🏺
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Exciting news from the Isle of Man. Iron Age spoons are incredibly rare; this is only the 28th example that we know of & implies trading of these special ritual tools west from Britain.
Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏
manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...
Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏
manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...
Iron Age divination spoon discovered on the Isle of Man
A 2000 year-old bronze spoon believed to have been used for ‘telling the future’ has been discovered on private land in Patrick, on the West Coast of the
manxnationalheritage.im
February 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Exciting news from the Isle of Man. Iron Age spoons are incredibly rare; this is only the 28th example that we know of & implies trading of these special ritual tools west from Britain.
Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏
manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...
Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏
manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...
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Extremely interesting site currently being investigated in the Sturgeon Lake First Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, suggests Indigenous people settled down there 11kya. 🏺🧪
11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America
The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.
www.livescience.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Extremely interesting site currently being investigated in the Sturgeon Lake First Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, suggests Indigenous people settled down there 11kya. 🏺🧪
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Thrilling that many lost literary treasures may be discovered this way! #news #archaeology #classics www.bbc.com/news/article...
First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI.
www.bbc.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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I don't know of a bear carving, but markings on a bear bone may be the earliest known example of Neanderthal art.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
130,000-year-old Neanderthal-carved bear bone is symbolic art, study argues
The carved bear bone is one of the earliest human-made artifacts with "symbolic culture" unearthed in Europe.
www.livescience.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I don't know of a bear carving, but markings on a bear bone may be the earliest known example of Neanderthal art.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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Crystal pendant
Anglo Saxon
7th Century AD
An amethyst sits in centre of a cruciform setting, with cloissonee garnet in small cells. The #jewellery show signs of much wear.
Found Stretham, Cambridgeshire.
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology #Cambridge
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
#MedievalBluesky
Anglo Saxon
7th Century AD
An amethyst sits in centre of a cruciform setting, with cloissonee garnet in small cells. The #jewellery show signs of much wear.
Found Stretham, Cambridgeshire.
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology #Cambridge
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
#MedievalBluesky
January 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Crystal pendant
Anglo Saxon
7th Century AD
An amethyst sits in centre of a cruciform setting, with cloissonee garnet in small cells. The #jewellery show signs of much wear.
Found Stretham, Cambridgeshire.
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology #Cambridge
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
#MedievalBluesky
Anglo Saxon
7th Century AD
An amethyst sits in centre of a cruciform setting, with cloissonee garnet in small cells. The #jewellery show signs of much wear.
Found Stretham, Cambridgeshire.
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology #Cambridge
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
#MedievalBluesky
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Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
January 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
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Some things never change!
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
![The photo shows a Roman iron stylus pen used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The image shows the four lines of inscribed text which read:
‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi
gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’
‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’
Excavated in London by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreidl4tnhxi3qbq6bveq65le2cbfbjty36jsqyncoquqvvgqk42e7ze@jpeg)
January 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Some things never change!
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
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Over 400 gold and silver Roman-era coins unearthed in the Netherlands depict rulers from Rome, Britain and Africa
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/over-400-gold-and-silver-roman-era-coins-unearthed-in-the-netherlands-depict-rulers-from-rome-britain-and-africa
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/over-400-gold-and-silver-roman-era-coins-unearthed-in-the-netherlands-depict-rulers-from-rome-britain-and-africa
January 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Over 400 gold and silver Roman-era coins unearthed in the Netherlands depict rulers from Rome, Britain and Africa
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/over-400-gold-and-silver-roman-era-coins-unearthed-in-the-netherlands-depict-rulers-from-rome-britain-and-africa
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/over-400-gold-and-silver-roman-era-coins-unearthed-in-the-netherlands-depict-rulers-from-rome-britain-and-africa
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The parallels are there because it was the same project. Obliterating any and all evidence for non- Christian matrilineal societies, be it in prehistory or in Africa.
V good from @prehistorian.bsky.social
Later 20th-century dismissal of Classical texts (regarding female status & roles) echoes today's treatment of C18 Pacific records, also said to "“barbarianise” and exoticise" rather than offer the useful documentation they do
theconversation.com/ancient-dna-...
Later 20th-century dismissal of Classical texts (regarding female status & roles) echoes today's treatment of C18 Pacific records, also said to "“barbarianise” and exoticise" rather than offer the useful documentation they do
theconversation.com/ancient-dna-...
Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology
Genetics shows that women stayed put in Late Iron Age Dorset, while men moved to other groups.
theconversation.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The parallels are there because it was the same project. Obliterating any and all evidence for non- Christian matrilineal societies, be it in prehistory or in Africa.
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Intriguing new study of red blood cell gene polymorphisms suggests incompatibilities among early humans, Denisovans, and Neanderthals. 🏺🧪
Neanderthals' blood type may help explain their demise, new study finds
Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems.
www.livescience.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Intriguing new study of red blood cell gene polymorphisms suggests incompatibilities among early humans, Denisovans, and Neanderthals. 🏺🧪
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#ReliefWednesday - Delightful small-scale detail with this depiction of a Circus on a bone 'game counter'. The two conical projections being the metae ('turning posts'): ca. 1st Century AD. #Roman 🏺
Image: Princeton University Art Museum (1996-178), Link - artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...
Image: Princeton University Art Museum (1996-178), Link - artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...
January 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
#ReliefWednesday - Delightful small-scale detail with this depiction of a Circus on a bone 'game counter'. The two conical projections being the metae ('turning posts'): ca. 1st Century AD. #Roman 🏺
Image: Princeton University Art Museum (1996-178), Link - artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...
Image: Princeton University Art Museum (1996-178), Link - artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...