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💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥

📰 Secrets of a Bronze Age Sword 🗡

📰 Feathery Fashions in Mesolithic Sweden 🪶

📰 Pre-Columbian Panamanian Elite Wealth Revealed 🏆

📰 Regensburg Roman Temple Unearthed 🐂🗡

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The unseasonable warmth in Alberta right now means I am able to appreciate both the Winter Olympics, and the fact that pitchers and catchers reported to Spring Training today.

Friday, 30th January Exceptional Roman Cult Sanctuary in Frankfurt | Highlands Pictish Cemetery | Cologne’s Roman River Wall | Regicide! The Execution of Charles I

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥

⚫️ Exceptional #Roman Cult Sanctuary in Frankfurt 🏛

⚫️ Highlands #Pictish Barrow Cemetery ☠️ 🪦

⚫️ Cologne’s Wooden Roman River Wall Foundations 🏞

⚫️ Regicide! The Execution of Charles I 🤴 🪓

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Monday, 26th January Return of Bayeux Tapestry Fragments Looted by the Nazis | Roman Faeces Medicine | Lost Al-Andalus Palace City Found in Spain?

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥

⚫️ Bayeux Tapestry fragments looted by Nazis returned 🪡🧵

⚫️ Roman faeces medicine found in Pergamon ⚕️💊💩

⚫️ Lost al-Andalus palace of Almanzor found in Spain? 🏰👑

⚫️ #OTD: John Logie Baird's first public TV demonstration 📺

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Friday, 2nd January 2026 Early Medieval Welsh Nunnery Discovered? | Ancient Greek Statue found in Etruscan Italy | Medieval Baltic ‘Super Ship’ Brought to Light

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⚫️ Etruscan Greek Bust 🏛🏺

⚫️ Early Medieval Welsh Nuns ☠️

⚫️ Medieval Container Ship 🚢

⚫️ WW2 Star Spangled Banner 🇺🇸

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Front cover of A Whole Lot of History, featuring plaster cast (c) Archaeological Park of Pompeii.

🏛 A Whole Lot of History: Roman Special

⚫️ Pompeii: Do woollen clothes suggest October eruption?

⚫️ The Bowels of the Earth: Gut Parasites in Britannia

⚫️ No ‘Pain’ 🥖 No Gain: Industrial Gallo-Roman bakery?

⚫️ Underground to Underworld: Necropolis Causes Delays 🚇

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In central Alberta we have a whole 6 minutes of light. I assume. The snow is pretty thick.

Leave them science computers alone, and just keep throwin' bomb-ass spirals to Gronk!

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💥 The latest A WHOLE LOT OF HISTORY is here! 📰

⚫️ Self-healing 'hot-mix' Roman concrete at Pompeii

⚫️ Compiling a Celtic Dictionary (with thanks to Roman curse tablets...)

⚫️ GOLD-inlaid Bronze-Age spearheads from Denmark

⚫️ Ancient Egyptian Cruise Ship

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I remember seeing a poster in McDonalds saying "more than just a McJob," and listing the starting manager's salary, and I thought "Well, if this archaeology lark doesn't work out..."

Had to look it up - McDonalds still thriving. Staples, not so much...

Macromedia Flash! How much thesis-writing time did I waste playing minigolf on my ol' Fujitsu-Semiens laptop? (Bought day 2 in Glasgow at the Staples in Finnieston - got there too early, and had to kill an hour in McDonalds). That's how much memory I have associated with the term 'Macromedia Flash'.

Lately, Forbert.

A gorgeous portrait of the White House entirely aflame, the smoke billowing and the flames lighting up the night sky. It sparks deep patriotic ferver. This is what democracy looks like. Also there's a white button with blue text below the portrait. The text reads "Learn more" and if clicked it takes you to the menu of a local brewhouse.

If you're wondering about the vibe in Canada right now, I just got served this ad for a brewhouse that is just a portrait of the White House being burned down. No text, just a bigass picture of the White House burning and a link directly to their menu lolol

It's like: we could go to the pub and each have a pint, or we could pool our money together, go to the Maryhill Tesco, and be set for the night!

Never go off rowing with a stranger in a cowl!

Winner, 2025 Loui Eriksson Award for most likely to score an own goal on his first shift.

‘The riddle of the past’: on Tolkien’s archaeological trail By Adrián Maldonado When I was a teenager reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time, a weird thing started happening. Whenever I had to walk any distance, I began to imagine I was embarking...

NEW POST: "The riddle of the past": on Tolkien's archaeological trail, by @archaeonado.bsky.social

Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

I think you have single handed-ly invented the black screen. Green screen, you're on notice.