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· Dec 16
yesterday i participated in my first archaeological dig and i found pottery shards and animal bones and got to log that i found them and im really excited about it :)
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“Fragment of the face of a queen” carved from yellow jasper, from the reign of the Egyptian king Akhenaten, ca. 1353-1336 BCE — seen last month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
January 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
“Fragment of the face of a queen” carved from yellow jasper, from the reign of the Egyptian king Akhenaten, ca. 1353-1336 BCE — seen last month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
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Hydnellum peckii is such a crazy thing to see in the wild. Stumbling across this, especially if you don't know what you're looking at, could be a bit intimidating. I can only imagine the things this fungi has been mistaken for by the unsuspecting and uniformed observer 😱 🍄📷 📸🎞 🍄 📷 🌱🌿 🩸
January 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hydnellum peckii is such a crazy thing to see in the wild. Stumbling across this, especially if you don't know what you're looking at, could be a bit intimidating. I can only imagine the things this fungi has been mistaken for by the unsuspecting and uniformed observer 😱 🍄📷 📸🎞 🍄 📷 🌱🌿 🩸
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The Roman ruins of Leptis Magna in Libya. It was originally a Punic settlement, founded c. 5th century BC but expanded during the reign of Septimus Severus who had born there. #RomanSiteSaturday
January 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The Roman ruins of Leptis Magna in Libya. It was originally a Punic settlement, founded c. 5th century BC but expanded during the reign of Septimus Severus who had born there. #RomanSiteSaturday
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This is cool! A lovely new archaeology project from my Alma mater, the University of York
Newly uncovered sites reveal true power of great Viking army in Britain
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Newly uncovered sites reveal true power of great Viking army in Britain
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Newly uncovered sites reveal true power of great Viking army in Britain
Previously unseen artefacts show invading forces included communities of men, women, children, craftworkers and merchants
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
This is cool! A lovely new archaeology project from my Alma mater, the University of York
Newly uncovered sites reveal true power of great Viking army in Britain
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Newly uncovered sites reveal true power of great Viking army in Britain
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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Io Saturnalia!
December 17 was the day of celebrations in Ancient Rome.
December 17 was the day of celebrations in Ancient Rome.
December 17, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Io Saturnalia!
December 17 was the day of celebrations in Ancient Rome.
December 17 was the day of celebrations in Ancient Rome.
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New paper out today. It's always worth reading the original research, rather than the media spin...
#Archaeology #Prehistory
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#Archaeology #Prehistory
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK
www.cambridge.org
December 16, 2024 at 7:37 AM
New paper out today. It's always worth reading the original research, rather than the media spin...
#Archaeology #Prehistory
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#Archaeology #Prehistory
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Spectacular black and white marine mosaic in the women’s changing room (apodyterium) at the Central Baths, ancient Herculaneum. Triton with dolphins, cherub, octopus and cuttlefish. 1st century AD.
Modern changing rooms could do with a Roman style upgrade!
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Modern changing rooms could do with a Roman style upgrade!
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
December 16, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Spectacular black and white marine mosaic in the women’s changing room (apodyterium) at the Central Baths, ancient Herculaneum. Triton with dolphins, cherub, octopus and cuttlefish. 1st century AD.
Modern changing rooms could do with a Roman style upgrade!
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Modern changing rooms could do with a Roman style upgrade!
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
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The Classical Association will run a podcast series on Roman urban life featuring Prof. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill directed to the general public and A-level students. The first episodes are already online. See via classicalassociation.org/urban-living... #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Urban Living - The Classical Association
Prof. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (formerly University of Cambridge and Director of the British School at Rome) chats with James Renshaw in this bitesize mini-series on Urban Life in Ancient Rome. Andrew i...
classicalassociation.org
December 16, 2024 at 7:24 PM
The Classical Association will run a podcast series on Roman urban life featuring Prof. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill directed to the general public and A-level students. The first episodes are already online. See via classicalassociation.org/urban-living... #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
yesterday i participated in my first archaeological dig and i found pottery shards and animal bones and got to log that i found them and im really excited about it :)
December 16, 2024 at 2:02 AM
yesterday i participated in my first archaeological dig and i found pottery shards and animal bones and got to log that i found them and im really excited about it :)
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This #FindsFriday features an absolutely stunning Iron Age dagger handle (c.400-200 BC) found near Usk, Monmouthshire 🏴
Many of you will be familiar with my lifelike reconstructions. Here is my latest work of art demonstrating what the blade would have looked like 😌
Many of you will be familiar with my lifelike reconstructions. Here is my latest work of art demonstrating what the blade would have looked like 😌
December 13, 2024 at 8:54 PM
This #FindsFriday features an absolutely stunning Iron Age dagger handle (c.400-200 BC) found near Usk, Monmouthshire 🏴
Many of you will be familiar with my lifelike reconstructions. Here is my latest work of art demonstrating what the blade would have looked like 😌
Many of you will be familiar with my lifelike reconstructions. Here is my latest work of art demonstrating what the blade would have looked like 😌
knowledge drop: mayans had their own sport! sources vary on specifics or rules but it was generally played with a rubber ball and no hands. many mayan civilizations had their own court and they would even settle disputes by playing the game. descendants of mayans are bringing the game back today!
December 2, 2024 at 10:40 PM
knowledge drop: mayans had their own sport! sources vary on specifics or rules but it was generally played with a rubber ball and no hands. many mayan civilizations had their own court and they would even settle disputes by playing the game. descendants of mayans are bringing the game back today!
knowledge drop: caves were sacred places in mayan culture and served as sacrificial sites, but also places to perform rituals because caves were seen as a limbo between heaven and earth, called Xibalba. a place to meet the gods!
December 2, 2024 at 10:27 PM
knowledge drop: caves were sacred places in mayan culture and served as sacrificial sites, but also places to perform rituals because caves were seen as a limbo between heaven and earth, called Xibalba. a place to meet the gods!
the etruscans were a civilization in northern italy, active from about 900-500 BC. they were later
absorbed into the roman empire but were an advanced society known for metalworking, womens rights, trade, pottery vases, musical instruments, divinatory politics and had a great impact on roman culture
absorbed into the roman empire but were an advanced society known for metalworking, womens rights, trade, pottery vases, musical instruments, divinatory politics and had a great impact on roman culture
December 2, 2024 at 7:38 PM
the etruscans were a civilization in northern italy, active from about 900-500 BC. they were later
absorbed into the roman empire but were an advanced society known for metalworking, womens rights, trade, pottery vases, musical instruments, divinatory politics and had a great impact on roman culture
absorbed into the roman empire but were an advanced society known for metalworking, womens rights, trade, pottery vases, musical instruments, divinatory politics and had a great impact on roman culture
from here on, im going to start adding sources for every knowledge drop in the comments. i learn most of them from podcasts or university lectures i find on youtube :)
November 29, 2024 at 3:02 PM
from here on, im going to start adding sources for every knowledge drop in the comments. i learn most of them from podcasts or university lectures i find on youtube :)
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Wake up, babe! New fossil footprints just dropped! 🏺🧪
Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool!
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool!
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species
A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.
www.livescience.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Wake up, babe! New fossil footprints just dropped! 🏺🧪
Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool!
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool!
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
knowledge drop: in 356 BC, a man named Herostratus wanted to make history so he burned down the temple of Athena, one of the wonders of the ancent world. The people of Ephesus banned any mention of his name, so he would be forgotten, but one historian, Theopompus, wrote it in his archives.
November 28, 2024 at 1:14 AM
knowledge drop: in 356 BC, a man named Herostratus wanted to make history so he burned down the temple of Athena, one of the wonders of the ancent world. The people of Ephesus banned any mention of his name, so he would be forgotten, but one historian, Theopompus, wrote it in his archives.
knowledge drop: a new species of dinosaur has been discovered that predates the t-rex and would have been the apex predator around 85 million years ago!
November 27, 2024 at 5:44 PM
knowledge drop: a new species of dinosaur has been discovered that predates the t-rex and would have been the apex predator around 85 million years ago!
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Cool #Archaeology:
Hast thou considered how a fleet of Viking ships must have looked like moored up in harbour or ready for battle? This piece of bone was found during excavations at Bryggen in Bergen and depicts a row of ships. Dated to the 13th century.
Hast thou considered how a fleet of Viking ships must have looked like moored up in harbour or ready for battle? This piece of bone was found during excavations at Bryggen in Bergen and depicts a row of ships. Dated to the 13th century.
November 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Cool #Archaeology:
Hast thou considered how a fleet of Viking ships must have looked like moored up in harbour or ready for battle? This piece of bone was found during excavations at Bryggen in Bergen and depicts a row of ships. Dated to the 13th century.
Hast thou considered how a fleet of Viking ships must have looked like moored up in harbour or ready for battle? This piece of bone was found during excavations at Bryggen in Bergen and depicts a row of ships. Dated to the 13th century.
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If it weren’t for the use of shell by Indigenous communities, many of the marsh islands of the Georgia coast would be underwater or inundated during high tides. These isolated uplands are KEY refugia for plants and animals and are linked to 45% of salt marsh ecosystem processes #archaeology #ecology
November 26, 2024 at 8:05 PM
If it weren’t for the use of shell by Indigenous communities, many of the marsh islands of the Georgia coast would be underwater or inundated during high tides. These isolated uplands are KEY refugia for plants and animals and are linked to 45% of salt marsh ecosystem processes #archaeology #ecology
knowledge drop: Roman empire gladiators had an odd standing in the empire because they were often revered celebrities with their own merch, but were also enslaved men fighting for their freedom.
November 26, 2024 at 7:25 PM
knowledge drop: Roman empire gladiators had an odd standing in the empire because they were often revered celebrities with their own merch, but were also enslaved men fighting for their freedom.
knowledge drop: female gladiators did exist in the Roman Empire! but it was seen as disgusting for women to do this kind of male dominated sport and were often only put in tournaments with disabled or little people as a comedy act :(
November 26, 2024 at 7:21 PM
knowledge drop: female gladiators did exist in the Roman Empire! but it was seen as disgusting for women to do this kind of male dominated sport and were often only put in tournaments with disabled or little people as a comedy act :(
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A few more possible math mistakes from 4,000 years ago to remind us that we all struggled to learn stuff at one point or another.
Here, a student is multiplying numbers by themselves (squaring calculation) but put a 7 instead of a 5 in part of the answer cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/25...
Here, a student is multiplying numbers by themselves (squaring calculation) but put a 7 instead of a 5 in part of the answer cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/25...
November 24, 2024 at 7:30 PM
A few more possible math mistakes from 4,000 years ago to remind us that we all struggled to learn stuff at one point or another.
Here, a student is multiplying numbers by themselves (squaring calculation) but put a 7 instead of a 5 in part of the answer cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/25...
Here, a student is multiplying numbers by themselves (squaring calculation) but put a 7 instead of a 5 in part of the answer cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/25...