Rob McConnell Interviews - THOMAS RAZZETO - Did Extraterrestrials Create the Maya Calendar Could one of the most sophisticated ancient timekeeping systems have origins beyond Earth? In this fascinating episode, Thomas Razzeto explores the provocative question: did extraterrestrials play a role in the creation of the Maya calendar? Known for its remarkable precision and complexity, the calendar has long intrigued historians, astronomers, and researchers alike. Drawing from historical records, astronomical knowledge, and alternative theories, Razzeto examines whether the advanced understanding of celestial cycles demonstrated by the ancient Maya could have been influenced by outside intelligence. How did a civilization without modern technology achieve such accuracy—and what might they have known about time, space, and cosmic alignment? This episode delves into the intersection of archaeology, astronomy, and the unexplained, raising questions about the origins of knowledge and the possibility of contact between ancient cultures and extraterrestrial beings. Are these theories rooted in evidence, interpretation, or imagination? And what does it say about humanity’s desire to understand the unknown? Join us for a thought-provoking journey into ancient history and cosmic possibility—where the past may hold clues to mysteries that extend far beyond our world.

📣 New Podcast! "Rob McConnell Interviews - THOMAS RAZZETO - Did Extraterrestrials Create the Maya Calendar" on @Spreaker #alieninfluence #ancientaliens #ancientcivilizations #ancientknowledge #ancientmaya #archaeology #astronomy #calendarsystem #cosmiccycles #extraterrestrial #highstrangeness

🏺 Lecturer in Archaeology in Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology – University of Reading, UK

🏺 Lecturer in Archaeology in Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology – University of Reading, UK
🔬 Teaching + research role focused on Bronze Age–Roman studies, classical archaeology
🎓 Eligibility: PhD
📅 Deadline: 04 May 2026
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#Archaeology @uniofreading.bsky.social

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What's he got on his bookshelf today? Fresh off the printer, and with the lead piece by yours truly, CA can be bought in most reputable newsagents or downloaded from the Current Archaeology website - Read All About It! #Archaeology

NEW Archaeologists uncover one of Scandinavia's oldest ship burials at Herlaugshaugen, Norway, indicating cultural connections around the North Sea prior to the Viking Age.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

ON THE HYPAETHRON of GREEK TEMPLES 1861 FALKENER Archaeology DAEDALUS History

#books #antiquarian #19thcentury #history #Greece #temples #ancient #archaeology #bookauction
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Commentary: College of Charleston shouldn't build on cemetery site The Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists opposes the College of Charleston’s proposed plan to construct a dormitory building on the site of a historic cemetery at 106 Coming St.

www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...

#sc #archaeology #charlestonsc 🏺

For #FindsFriday - the bronze cover of a wonderful compact/folding mirror!
Incredible to imagine this in the hands (or handbag 😆) of an Ancient Greek person 2000 years ago!

325-275 B.C.E.

📸 Us, Allard Pierson Museum. Amsterdam.

#Archaeology #AncientBluesky #history #Classicsbluesky #AncientGreece

A fresco showing a man in a white toga standing behind a counter piled with round loaves of bread, reaching out to hand bread to two adult men and a child in front of him.

Campaigning in Roman times: For #FrescoFriday a painting from Pompeii that was long believed to show the sale of bread. It's thought now to be the free distribution of bread ahead of an election by a politician in a white toga.

Photo: MANN Inv. No. 9071

🏺 #archaeology #romanarchaeology

Roman fresco detail of Fresco depicting a Genius holding a patera and a cornucopia, now in the Narbo Via Museum, Narbonne; courtesy of Carole Raddato.
#FrescoFriday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

📄 New publication: "Stone Age archaeology of the Riet River dongas, Free State, South Africa" #OpenAccess

Recent research on the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa’s central interior underscores the pivotal role played by this re (...)

#Archaeology

https://doi.org/10.36615/safa.21.4345.2026

Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, Badajoz, España 🇪🇸 📷 A. M.

Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, Badajoz, España 🇪🇸 📷 A. M.

Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, Badajoz, España 🇪🇸 📷 A. M.

#FrescoFriday
Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, Badajoz, España 🇪🇸
#Hispania #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology #Art
#AncientBluesky

... alternatively you can have my sweets that look like artefacts! 🤣

#Archaeology

#FrescoFriday

Again from an old photo dump at #Herculaneum. Here some close up detail of the painting from a wall fresco.

📸 My own.
#Archaeology #History #art

Exhibition history1997 13 Oct-19985 Jan, India, New Delhi, National Museum, The Enduring Image 1998 9 Feb-3 May, India, Mumbai, Sir Caswasjee Jahangir Hall, The Enduring Image 2018 23 Feb- 22 Apr, Nashville, Frist Art Museum, 'Rome; City &Empire' 2018-2019 20 Sep-04 Feb, Canberra, National Museum of Australia, 'Rome; City &Empire' 2021 13 Feb-15 Aug, Belgium, Tongeren, Gallo-Romeins Museum, 'Rome; City & Empire' 2021-2022 25 Sep- 08 Oct, China, Suzhou Museum, 'Rome: City & Empire'

#FrescoFriday
Wall #painting: Apollo Citharoedus wearing a long green cloak.

Findspot: Casa dei Dioscuri (Pompeii) Campania: Naples. Height: 62.50 centimetres. British Museum number 1857,0415.1
#Archaeology #Art #History

Flint arrowheads from the ‘Rinaldone Culture’ that developed in central Italy between 3700 and 2100 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Civilisations in Rome. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Rome #Rinaldone

Map of Western Asia and the Mediterranean, showing the expansion of Islam out of Arabia over time, coloured based on the various periods of expansion.

#OnThisDay in AD 1633 the first bananas went on sale in London. They had in fact been introduced to Mediterranean Europe centuries earlier, through Islamic expansion, but did not become widely accessible further north until the advent of Empire.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Beautiful gold and enamel earrings from an 11th C AD tomb, Strada S. Lucia, #Taranto. The gold pyramid pendants are inlaid with red, blue and white enamels. Analysis of form, style, and decorative motifs suggest they were made in Constantinople workshops.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
📷 MArTA

5,000-year-old rock carving in the Sinai tells a brutal story that it is captivating archaeologists A stunning 5,000-year-old carving depicting a violent scene from ancient Egypt has been discovered in the Sinai.

www.earth.com/news/5000-ye...
#Archaeology

Rock-cut burial tombs were recently opened in Egypt, surprising archaeologists with their contents Rock-cut tombs newly opened in southern Egypt have yielded about 160 inscribed pottery vessels and a scatter of mirrors and ornaments.

www.earth.com/news/rock-cu...
#Archaeology

Archaeologists Unearth 16th-Century Coin That Confirms Doomed Spanish Colony’s Location Archaeologists have discovered a rare 16th-century coin that confirms the location of a long-lost Spanish colony in southern Chile, shedding new light on its doomed history.

indiandefencereview.com/16th-century...
#Archaeology

Mar Saba Monastery, Bethlehem, Palestine. A Greek Orthodox monastery completed in 483 CE, it is one of the oldest in the world and was built during Eastern Roman (Byzantine) period.

#WestAsia #Levant #Mediterranean #history #archaeology #ancient #architecture

Greece’s Must-See Archaeological Sites Before Climate Change Wins - GreekReporter.com Some of the incredible archaeological sites in Greece, might not actually make it through this century because of climate change.

Climate change threatens Greece’s ancient heritage. Rising seas and extreme heat pose existential risks to irreplaceable sites like the Acropolis and Delos.🏛️🌍

tinyurl.com/yckxcm3t #HistoricalSites #SeaLevelRise #Greece #History #Archaeology

When the Giants Left, the Handaxes Followed Linking the collapse of Levantine megafauna to the disappearance of a million-year-old stone tool tradition

New study finds that 200,000 years ago, as elephants and other megaherbivores vanished from the Levant, so did the handaxes and heavy stone tools used to process them. Prey size may have driven tool size all along. #Paleoanthropology #Acheulian #Paleolithic #Archaeology

Caseldine 2025. Development of Ancestral O’Odham irrigation along the lower Salt River through time. Period key: A – Pioneer Period, B – Colonial Period, C – Sedentary Period, D – early Classic Period, and E – late Classic Period.

Centuries before Phoenix, the Hohokam built vast canals in the Salt River Valley. New research by Christopher Caseldine sheds light on their history and scale. buff.ly/Fgnt7lY
#Archaeology #AncestralOOdham #SouthwestHistory #Hohokam #Arizona

#Archaeologists can date artifacts and structures in #Colchester, #London and #StAlbans based on their proximity to the “Boudican Destruction Horizon”, an ash layer left when she sacked these #Roman cities. #Archaeology #SPQR

Near Luxor, archaeologists uncovered Egypt’s “Golden City”—a vast 3,000-year-old settlement revealing life at the height of ancient civilization.

Watch the full Breakthrough episode “Egypt’s Lost City” on #CuriosityStream

🎙️ Narrated by Matt K. Baker
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#AncientEgypt #Luxor #Archaeology

📣 #JobAlert

Postdoc opportunity for a specialist in #Roman material culture to reanalyse finds from Housesteads and Corbridge as part of the Connective Frontiers project led by Dr Anna Walas. #archaeology #RomanBritain 🏺

More info here 👇

www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

NEW Excavation of a council house at the major Maya centre of Ucanal, Guatemala reveals how the public gained some influence over Maya politics over 1000 years ago, indicating divine kinship made way for more consensus-based governance.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Roman sanctuary unearthed beneath Frankfurt may have a dark past Complex remains largely undisturbed since early 2nd century AD

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
#Archaeology

The Melsonby Hoards: rerouting the evidence for vehicles in Iron Age Britain « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog Our article for Antiquity provides the first overview of the Melsonby Hoards, probably the largest deposit of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain. Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the hoar...

The #Melsonby Hoards - nearly 950 Iron Age objects buried c. 40 BC–AD 40 - reveal Britain’s first evidence for four‑wheeled wagons, as well as other types of vehicle. 🚗👀 Read the #blog and #openaccess article!

🔗 https://cup.org/4bf3b1F

#melsonbyhoards #ironage #archaeology @antiquity.ac.uk