✨ 3 must-watch titles are landing on #Heritage this Wednesday, April 15! Get ready to dive into the new lineup!

🎥Titles: “Empires of Silver, Ep 2: The China Trade,” “Whispering in Our Hearts: the Mowla Bluff massacre,” and “Strata: Portraits of Humanity Season 12, Ep 7.”

#documentary #archaeology

I had Glendalough to myself this morning. All the history & beauty in one location still blows me away after all the years visiting this site ♡

#speirghorm #ireland #history #archaeology #wicklow

58 women were buried in this pre-Inca tomb. Who were they? After an earthquake and tomb raiders, archaeologists weren’t sure they would find anything untouched at El Castillo de Huarmey in Peru – but in 2012, they uncovered a vast mausoleum.

58 women were buried in this pre-Inca tomb. Who were they?

www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

#News #WorldNews #History #Culture #Peru #ElCastillodeHuarmey #Archaeology #Wari #AndeanEmpire #Inca #Tombs #Burial

Diagram of a human head from the side and front, showing examples of the ornaments found and indicating how they may have been worn in piercings in the ears and lower lip.

Was body perforation a prehistoric coming-of-age ritual?
Evidence for a rich tradition of body ornamentation in adult burials from Neolithic Southwest Asia suggests piercing was performed as an indication of maturity and social status.

🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Today, the buildings have been adapted to serve various purposes, many of them related to health & family care, as well as affordable & senior housing. 6/6

#digBoston #digMattapan #boston #archaeology

A brown and beige oval shaped rock that looks somewhat like a papal tiara. There are several designs in relief on the body of the navel.

The Omphalos,or “navel of the world.” #Myth has it that Zeus wanted to know the location of the earth’s center.So he released two eagles at opposite ends of the earth.They met in Delphi.Hence,the placement of a stone to mark their meeting place. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld #archaeology #ECK

rectangular mosaic in the style of Pompeii's. A nude angel with wings beholds an Amazon delivery box

Mihi braccas pervenerunt
(My pants have arrived)

marble and glass mosaic
by Jim Bachor, c.2023 CE

www.bachor.com/product-page/Mihi-bracca...

#art #mosaic #MosaicMonday #archaeology #satire

Norse Bells! I have been making a new batch, so if you need more vikings AND jingle in your life, look no further! #vikings #archaeology

Scotland's First Peoples: Discovering Their Stories at Kelvingrove Scotland's first peoples: Through images, artifacts, & more Kelvingrove in Glasgow has an area which opens imagination to connect with ancient times

Image, space, sound, silence, & real items from #archaeology: learn about #Scotland's first peoples at Kelvingrove Museum #creativity #museums #travel @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #Glasgow perceptivetravel.com/blog/2024/03...

The McKellar Hypothesis, put forward by Judith McKellar, states that small items are more likely to become primary refuse. #archaeology

Cheyenne Olander photographs Late Bronze Age shafthole axes at the Swedish History Museum.

#photography #archaeology #art

youtu.be/qKngcBS8w8E?... #ancientrelics #archaeology #history #archaeologyfinds

When #archaeology REALLY means something...

Archaeologists Found a 440-Year-Old Coin that Marked the Lost Site of a Doomed Colony The Spanish colony Rey Don Felipe, located at the southern tip of Chile, lasted less than three years due to harsh conditions.

The coin was placed at the colony of Rey Don Felipe, Chile, in 1584.

Researchers discovered it right where it was recorded as placed, which will now serve as a point of reference for mapping out the settlement lost to time.

#goodnews #archaeology

Revived Nubian royal robes shed light on prestige and authority in a lost Christian kingdom A recent archaeological project has physically reconstructed the ceremonial dress of medieval Nubian royalty and clergy, offering a rare glimpse into how clothing shaped and communicated authority in ...

Revived Nubian royal robes shed light on prestige and authority in a lost Christian kingdom. #Archaeology
phys.org/news/2026-04...

While out trekking near the Turkish-Syrian border, one may end up stumbling upon an aqueduct from Late Antiquity/the Early Byzantine period in the middle of nowhere.
This is not called the cradle of civilisation for nothing.
#LateAntiquity #ByzantineStudies #Archaeology #AncientBluesky #MedievalSky

Archaeologists Didn’t Expect to Find Anything at This Site in England. Then, They Stumbled Upon a Roman Villa and a Bronze Artifact Dubbed 'Norfolk Nessie' Ahead of wind farm development on Britain's eastern coast, excavations along an underground cable route uncovered the ruins of an ancient farming estate that boasted its own bathhouse

"We'd like to find nothing while developing this land."

"Best I can do is ancient Roman villa and prehistoric burial mound."

"Th- wait, what?"

These are both cool finds, with plenty of artifacts. Silver ring, bronze lion head, pottery, tools.

#goodnews #england #archaeology

"For Raphael #architecture wasn’t so much a separate activity in itself, but simply a natural component of producing the most coherent and integrated work of art imaginable."

🗃️ #arthistory #art #academia 🏺 #skystorians #archaeology

youtu.be/zSHtGz4cqMg

Λέγουσιν They say
ἃ θέλουσιν What they like
λεγέτωσαν Let them say it
οὐ μέλι μοι I don’t care
σὺ φίλι με Go on, love me
συνφέρι σοι It does you good

#Aquincum, province of Pannonia
@twhittermarsh.bsky.social #Archaeology #Poetry

Introduced the Norwegian FLO-system to a Bulgarian detectorist today. Made me realize one of the main strenghts of public #archaeology is and always will be accesibility. Both to public databases, information and guidelines....

....and the removal of monetary value to artefacts.

Ancient Council Houses in Guatemala Reveal Shift in Maya Governance - GreekReporter.com Excavations at Ucanal uncover ancient council houses in Guatemala, offering earliest evidence of collective Maya political decision-making.

Raises the question of why the U.S. can't move away from #autocratic rule and even #liberals are #defeatist while refusing to utter the word #impeachment
#democracy #maya #archaeology #trump #fascism #guatemala
#usa #gop #fascists

👉 Vote 'em Out!

Drombeg Stone Circle under a clear sky. The circle is made up of a series of large stones set upright on a grassy knoll overlooking fields and the distant Atlantic

In today's edition of our Monument Monday newsletter, we take a trip to the stunning coast of West Cork to visit one of Ireland's most famous prehistoric monuments – Drombeg Stone Circle.

#Ireland #DiscoverIreland #WestCork #WildAtlanticWay #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm

Ancient Council Houses in Guatemala Reveal Shift in Maya Governance - GreekReporter.com Excavations at Ucanal uncover ancient council houses in Guatemala, offering earliest evidence of collective Maya political decision-making.

Raises the question of why the U.S. can't move away from #autocratic rule and even #liberals are #defeatist while refusing to utter the word #impeachment
greekreporter.com/2026/04/11/a... #democracy #maya #archaeology #trump #fascism #guatemala

Ancient Korean DNA reveals marriages between closely related individuals DNA studies of 1,500-year-old skeletons have revealed that ancient Koreans lived in tightly knit family networks where marrying close relatives was common in some cases, from powerful elites to indivi...

#Archaeology #Anthropology

Snacks included chocolate brownies and flapjack.
Now that all of the work has been filled back in we'll have to start all over again. DM to get involved!
#archaeology #rockyclump #brighton

A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from the British Isles and Iberian peninsula in the northwest to Sri Lanka in the southeast.

Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (6-13 April 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 153 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady […]

[Original post on hcommons.social]

Illustration of elephant hunting using spears by Dana Ackerfeld

Human ancestors butchered and ate elephants 1.8 million years ago, helping to fuel their large brains

A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive.

#archaeology #human-evolution […]

[Original post on faithcollapsing.com]

Graphic showing a workflow to quantitively assess variability in vessel shape, using a 3D model of a ceramic bowl to examine variation in wall thickness, circularity and roundness.

NEW Can we observe the traces of individual potters within their ceramics?

Researchers devise a new method to quantitively assess variability in vessel shape using 3D models, revealing the idiosyncratic motor habits of potters in pre-Hispanic Colombia.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Four microscopic images of pollen.

It's #PlantAppreciationDay, so we want to show some love for the uses of plants in #archaeology! 🏺

Preserved plant remains can teach us a lot about life in the past, and we explore a few examples in this mini #AntiquityThread 1/7 🧵

Under 27 and interested in #archaeology 🏺?
You would like to dig?

We still have a place left on our volunteer programme. Join us for a gap year and work on our excavations. Internationals welcome!

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