Luxor’s Karnak Temple is one of the most magnificent complexes from ancient Egypt, but its roots were mysterious. New research has found that the Nile once flooded there, making it uninhabitable at first.
archaeology.org/news/2025/10/08/investigating-the-history-of-egypts-karnak-temple/
Wednesday, Oct. 8 5:30pm New Haven Society AIA Thompson Lecture “Out of Anatolia:Hittites, Homer and the Trojan War,” by Professor Sarah Morris, UCLA aia.yale.edu @archaeological.org
Cartoon by Charles M Schulz showing the Peanuts gang reading - Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and Woodstock all with books - Woodstock weighed down by War And Peace!
Why read books? Because there's a book for EVERYONE out there. And once you find the right book - reading will change your life forever! #literacy
(Art: Charles M Schulz)
(© The Trustees of the British Museum)
Analysis of tablets used by scribes uncovered from the Assyrian capital of Nimrud after they were thrown down a well in 612 B.C. when the Babylonians sacked the city, suggests that they were made of beeswax or ivory or wood.
archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2025/digs-discoveries/wax-on-wax-off/
“Fall On Me,” the first single from the band’s fourth album, Lifes Rich Pageant, was released in the 🇬🇧 on July 14, 1986. The video was filmed and directed by Michael.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6v...
(Jakob Olling)
Two shipwrecks in the Caribbean Sea were revealed to be the Dutch slave ships Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, which went missing after the crew and enslaved people on board mutinied in 1710.
archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2025/world/?location=costa-rica
74 years ago, a Federal District Court ruled against desegregating schools in Clarendon County, S.C., in Briggs v. Elliott.
Harry and Eliza Briggs appealed, making theirs the first of five cases combined into the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, which ultimately struck down school segregation.
42 years ago
Minor Threat at 9.30 Club, Washington DC, June 1983.
Minor Threat - 9.30 Club -June 1983 - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #straightedge #minorthreat #IanMacKaye #history #punkrockhistory
SPIELBERG: When John Williams first played me his theme to “Jaws”, “I began to laugh .. He had a great sense of humor, I thought he was putting me on.”
(via Todd Spence)
@benstiller.redhour.com
On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.
I would rather LIVE in Peace than Rest in Peace
(Tarker/Bridgeman Images)
#OTD in 323 B.C., Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, died in Babylon. Read more about excavation of the locales where the ruler spent his young adulthood.
archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2024/features/alexander-the-greats-untold-story/
Trump removed Medgar Evers, a fearless veteran and civil rights leader, from an Arlington Cemetery website commemorating Black soldiers.
Now the Pentagon may strip his name from a naval vessel.
This isn’t about “military preparedness.” This is about erasing history.
(Durham University)
The Shatt al-Arab floodplain, an agricultural system outside of the Iraqi city of Basra, was likely dug by enslaved Africans exploited by the Abbasid Caliphate in the 9th century A.D.
archaeology.org/news/2025/06/05/enslaved-africans-built-ancient-agricultural-system-in-southern-iraq/
New issue of Near Eastern Archaeology Vol. 88, No. 2 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/nea/2025... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @asor-research.bsky.social Megiddo, the Mother of All Tells @digkabri.bsky.social
As the world watches #VaticanCity for white smoke after the #conclave and the election of a new #Pope.
Explore AUC Press titles on #Egypt's rich #Coptic papal #history :
📙1- tinyurl.com/Copticpapacy...
📙2- tinyurl.com/Copticpapacy
📙3- tinyurl.com/CopticPapacy...
#AUCPress #CopticBooks #Church
Lauryn Hill at the #metgala
This is soooo smooth. I love dancing to this.
youtu.be/j4jtIDaeaWI?...
Happy 77th birthday to Kate Pierson, one of the lead singer and founding member of the B-52s
The B52s - Planet Claire FULL HQ Restored
#punk #punkrock #newwave #katepierson #theb52s #history #otd
Anhinga atop the tree with a gator below on the bank. Tap for full pic.
#Charleston #anhinga #cawcaw
Hear no evil, hear all evil, hear some evil.
Most approaches to identity in antiquity fixate upon a binary constructed in modern scholarship. Yet individuals embrace multiple identities, whether social, ideological, or kin-related. How to approach complexity in antiquity? Read the newest ANE Today by Aaron Burke here: buff.ly/SYTDCzA
youtu.be/PevFV3qAvQw?...
OMG I need to have my students reenact the Battle of Kadesh! #prof #Egypt #egyptology #hittiteology #kadesh #bronzeage
I am so lucky to have seen them for the Kick tour. #INXS #spinningnext #kicktour #nevertearusapart
youtu.be/AIBv2GEnXlc?...
Mini-twisters on Mars anyone?
New footage from the #Perseverance rover shows a dust devil as wide as a large aeroplane! As the air is so thin up there, if you found yourself standing in the middle of it, it would feel no worse than a gust of dirty wind. 🤓 🧪🔭🛰️
🍿: youtu.be/YHKIZGKPZm4
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What did they write about? : An Intellectual History of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/what-did-t...
Beautiful walk this morning in the Lowcountry.
