The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign In Taiwan they call @ "little mouse". It's "strudel" in Hebrew, "dog" in Russian and "monkey's tail" in Dutch. The @ sign is a mirror, and its story goes back thousands of years.

The ceramic origins of email.
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Screenshot of Facebook post by the official "Archaeology Magazine" account on 2 June 2025. Text reads: "#OTD in 1848, Confederate soldiers surrendered to Federal troops in Galveston Harbor in Texas, during the end of the American Civil War, just weeks prior to the occupation of Texas and freeing of the enslaved African American population in Texas on Juneteenth. Read about the Nautilus expedition from the city to find a 18th or 19th-century shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico."

Posted 3 days ago and STILL no correction from @archaeologymag.bsky.social .

Headshot of an older white man with a full white beard and mustache, smiling at a point just off camera. He is wearing a beige bucket hat pinned up on the sides, wire-framed glasses, and blue long-sleeved button-up shirt with a red t-shirt underneath. He is framed by thick, green tree-like vegetation in the background.

They say death occurs in threes, but I still wasn't prepared for this one. Another legend and mentor gone.

www.anthropology.pitt.edu/people/rober...

hand holding a sticker reading "well behaved copper ingot merchants rarely make history".

Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

Screenshot of a post by the official account for "Archaeology Magazine" on February 25, 2025. Text reads: "Recent osteoarchaeological analysis conducted has revealed that a mysterious ancient 17- to 22-year-old bog body uncovered by peat harvesters in 2023 in northern Ireland and dated to between the 4th and 1st century B.C. is not a man, as originally thought, but a woman who may have been the victim of a human sacrifice ritual that was popular in Iron Age northern Europe." Embedded link: archaeology.org/news/2025/02/24/bellaghy-bog-body-likely-female/ . Attached image the copyright of National Museums NI. Image of three individuals in high-viz winter garments walking along a peat bog.

"Mysterious" ancient bog body was a woman, not a man as originally thought.

At least the archaeologists weren't "baffled".

I'm not suggesting, advocating for, encouraging, or condoning violence in any way, but we all read this email the same way, right?

Grammar matters, kids.

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

NSF is still freezing grants and reviewing for potential clashes with trumps edicts: terms such as“broadening participation” language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energy” all flagged. This is insane, career wrecking and damaging for quality science 😡🧪

Nobody wants to work anymore.

Arbitrary pangs of anxiety wondering if anything on a dot gov page that I didn't realize I needed will disappear Monday

Egyptologists Unearth Depictions Of Simple Ramps, Levers Aliens Used To Build Pyramids

Egyptologists Unearth Depictions Of Simple Ramps, Levers Aliens Used To Build Pyramids
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Screenshot of completed NYT's online word search game, "Strands", for January 17, 2025. Theme: "The time of our lives". Spangram (highlighted in yellow): "Generation Gap". Words (highlighted in blue): "Greatest, Boomer, Millenial, Zoomer, Alpha". Note: There is no term included for Generation X.

*Stares in #GenX*

#ForgottenGeneration #InvisibleGeneration #LostGeneration

Weather map of southern United States with Texas in the center. Map shows shades of blue predicting freezing temperatures and possible snowfall throughout central and eastern Texas, stretching to the east. Post by James Caron. Text reads: "Might be a 5-day weekend for the kiddos here in Texas...maybe even Houston! Possible sbowfall Tuesday, January 21st and Wednesfay, January 22nd!!!"

In the late 19th century, convicts forced to work the local sugar plantations referred to Sugar Land, Texas as "Hell-hole on the Brazos".

This means Trump's inauguration will coincide with Hell actually freezing over.

Photo of 3 archaeologists (one white woman and two older white men) taken during a celebratory event for Sheffield Archaeology's 50th anniversary. From left to right, individuals increase in height. All are dressed in professional business attire. On the left, a white woman in her early 30s with long reddish-blond hair and black-rimmed glasses is smiling from ear-to ear. In the middle, a man with glasses in his 60s, shoulder-length white hair, white beard, and white mustache has a closed-mouth smile of amusement. On the right, a 70-year old man with glasses, bald on top, but with a crown of short white hair, tilts his head towards the other two, with a slightly upturned, closed-mouth expression and raised eyebrows.

I am absolutely heartbroken.💔

(Left to right: Me, John Barrett & Colin Renfrew in 2014)

The two of you as dinner companions? I'd love to know that conversation.

I've been trying to remember the details of that seminar since I heard the news. The email invite took _ages_ to write.