So they're fine with stealing the livelihoods of artists. Who cares if it kills them - think of the companies and their AI computers they want to train, they couldn't possibly pay!

Shared for #EgyptologyWednesday

#AncientEgypt #Archaeology

🆕 This blog for journal #AncientMesoamerica explores how #MayaBlue bridges #archaeology, chemistry, and indigenous knowledge. Read it alongside the new research - out now #openaccess: ➡️ https://cup.org/460W8an

#archaeologicalscience #mesoamerica #culturalheritage

A couple of present and former ANU Archaeology students have been working to develop a board game inspired by the Deep Past called Cultivaria. They've (quite literally) just launched their kickstarter and I know a few of you love games so... #archaeogaming 🏺

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

Researchers found basically two mtDNA haplogroups - one in each cemetery group on site! 🧪🏺

Excellent new paper @profjaneevans.bsky.social
on cattle from Stonehenge

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A #FindsFriday from Welsh prehistory which should be far more famous than it is..

The remarkable Caergwrle 'bowl', a unique shale representation of a Bronze Age ship unearthed in 1823, with gold waves, oars & shields applied. Just incredible 🤩

📷 1939 Amgueddfa Cymru catalogue
📷 My own, St Fagans

Happy Pride Month! We’re grateful for the strong community of queer folks working at the Burke and we welcome visitors of all genders and sexual identities to this space. This month we have new window displays celebrating queerness in nature and in human culture.

Your astonishing artifact this week is a teeny gold Valkyrie. 🧪🏺

Stunning 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic cast glass bowl.

A wonderful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers!

📷 Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Wishing you all a wonderful Calan Mai 🌷

Here's a snippet of Calan Mai folklore 🔮

On Calan Mai, branches of whitethorn were hung outside houses to ward off witches 🧹

#MayDay #Wales

This is awesome! A newly studied #Neanderthal hunting weapon, beautifully preserved, has been found in Eastern Europe. A rare glimpse into bone-tipped hunting projectiles!
🏺🦣

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ignore the bog of hands reaching out to pull you down into this feeling of worthlessness, they are fake. they are an illusion. the only truth is that we are ALL the greatest, and the real journey is simply an internal one where we finally arrive at knowing this

You can survive this. Outlast your enemies and thrive.

(Plan for a two part linocut. I think I'm just going to have to suck it up and buy some new lino; I have rubber blocks and a couple small pieces of lino but it seems I just can't do without detail.)

#art #wolf #linocut planning #printmaking

"Stop procrastinating" in cuneiform:

"Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is *this* the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"

I will need a new phone soon but I cannot find a smart phone that doesn't come without any AI features. I don't understand why people want to rely on it so much. It's everywhere now

The interpretation of many ancient texts is uncertain and databases should present that uncertainty. While the first two lines of the famous #Taymanitic #Nabonidus text are clear, the last has resisted interpretation.

See why on the updated #OCIANA card: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...

The child in me that was obsessed with ancient Egypt is screaming, and the adult me that loves burials is screaming - despite nothing working out like I wanted, it's nice to know that thus love I have for archaeology hasn't left me

Dr. Jones illustrating the most important and rewarding part of being an archaeologist.

A quick thing I wrote at the weekend in between being very physically sick, but also sick of racists on the internet.

As @drfernriddell.bsky.social kindly shared the other day, I would love to talk to culture journos writing on #AThousandBlows & interested:

grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/01/20/a...

As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.

But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

You know what colour and flower I really like? Lavender. If I ever get married, I would love for there to be lavender. I'm also Australian btw. If anyone overseas really likes lavender, you should consider a marriage with lavender. Lavender for luck