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Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncov...
A celebration of the extraordinary depth and beauty of Iranian history & culture ✨💙
“Ancient Iran in the ISAC Museum: From Prehistory to the Achaemenid Period” by Abbas Alizadeh, Research Assoc Prof of Iranian Archaeology.
Download & purchase:
isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/ISACMP/isacmp3
Yes; five days, many different transport options, and a brief spell in Saudi, and we are all home safely.
#Nippur 2026 is over. We squeezed out ten days of excavation, but global events took over. Now on the fourth day of our extended trip back home and we are actually further from Chicago than we were on site. 🏺
We’re fine. Concerned about team members stuck in Doha. Plus they have a lot of our kit, forcing us to go analogue.
There are no answers.
Another effect of climate change is the increase in small sand dunes on the site (even since last year), created in part from windblown topsoil. A dune field covered the site through the 1990s but had dispersed recently. Maybe they’re coming back.
#Nippur day off means a walk round the site, including inspection of the ziggurat of Enlil. Erosion is worsening with climate change and we hope to gain funding to restore and conserve it soon. 🏺
T.Rex
Back to work at #Nippur #Mesopotamia. We are continuing research on the southern urban edge, examining variations in occupation density and diversity from 3rd to 1st mill BCE. @ISAC_UChicago 🏺
#Nippur 2026 at last. #Mesopotamia 🏺
🧑🏫 Visiting Ass. Professor in Anthropology (Archaeology)
📍 Hamilton College, USA
🔬 Teach undergrad archaeology courses, methods & theory, mentor students
🎓 Eligibility: ABD/PhD in Anthropology/Archaeology
⏳ Deadline: 15 Mar 2026
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#FacultyJobs #Archaeology#AcademicJobs
💰 Fully Funded | Egyptology Postdoc 2026 | University of Vienna, Austria
🔬 Egyptian Archaeology research, excavation, GIS & digital heritage methods
🎓 Eligibility: PhD in Egyptology
⏳ Deadline: 14 Mar 2026
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#PostdocJobs #EgyptologyResearch #AcademicJobs @univie.ac.at
Inscribed clay cylinders reveal Nebuchadnezzar II’s restoration of the Kish Ziggurat
A new study presents two inscribed clay cylinders that bear direct textual evidence of King Nebuchadnezzar II’s restoration work at the ziggurat of Kish...
More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/01/clay...
Board of Peace - Season 1
Cow tools comic by Gary Larson. Upright cow with bench of ‘tools’ sort of like a saw, crowbar and random blobs.
Gary Larson 1982. Well ahead of his time.
I have eaten shark in Yemen (which sounds like a possible title for my memoirs), and it is delicious. It makes total sense that the Neolithic population of the region were onto it.
“It's disappointing to see universities fold under pressure to terminate faculty for expressing themselves online, as if the First Amendment is an expediency to be discarded at a whim.”
Am I a bad person for laughing at this?
Hello!
A little Sunday evening survey... 📝
We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures...
Pls repost!
No no, do all this but stop in Mesopotamia. 😀
I feel seen
At minimum, she needs a decent carving knife and some spices. This ‘feast’ explains a lot.
Can’t believe all these people are running a marathon through "war torn" Chicago today
AAUP President Todd Wolfson unpacks the dangerous consequences of the Trump administration’s compact, which aims to exert ideological control over universities and colleges. As Wolfson makes clear, this partisan incursion into higher education affects ALL sectors.
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Maybe twice in 30 years as reviewer, once as editor.
Clay tablet engraved with cuneiform writing and what may be the world's first map: a geometric design made up of circles and triangles representing cities, territories, kingdoms, rivers and an ocean.
Illustrated map depicting a large river with several islands. On its banks are several walled defensive structures and palm trees.
Babylonian map of the world (© The Trustees of the British Museum) and c. AD 1620 Portuguese map of Basra, Iraq (© Hugo Refachinho / CC BY-SA 4.0). Despite both depicting the Shaṭṭ al-ʿArab river, they are completely different, showcasing maps' subjectivity
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
