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Long-lost royal tomb of King Thutmose II finally discovered in Luxor - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities A joint Egyptian-British archaeological team has uncovered the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II, the last missing royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty.

Huge news from Egypt, tomb of Thutmose II has finally been found! english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/...

London’s first Roman basilica found under office basement The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London.

Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement.
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People have been dumping corpses into the Thames since at least the Bronze Age, study finds A new study of human remains dredged from the Thames River reveals that people frequently deposited corpses there in the Bronze and Iron ages.

Don't worry...it's not just you.

A grassy green field with a brown earthen mound with multiple tall straight trees emerging from the mound itself. On the right is a path that leads to a gate

A lovely Bronze Age barrow smothered by beech trees on a walk near Aldbourne, Wiltshire, in Spring last year #TombTuesday

📸 My own #archaeology #photooftheday🏺

A Tiny Gladiator Uncovered in England Tells of the Reach of Roman Celebrity (Gift Article) A 2,000-year-old copper knife handle depicting a gladiator will go on display at Hadrian’s Wall, in the north of England, next year.

#RomanBritain #Archaeology

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/w...

Iron Age divination spoon discovered on the Isle of Man A 2000 year-old bronze spoon believed to have been used for ‘telling the future’ has been discovered on private land in Patrick, on the West Coast of the

Exciting news from the Isle of Man. Iron Age spoons are incredibly rare; this is only the 28th example that we know of & implies trading of these special ritual tools west from Britain.

Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏

manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...

11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

Extremely interesting site currently being investigated in the Sturgeon Lake First Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, suggests Indigenous people settled down there 11kya. 🏺🧪

This. Is. SO. COOL.

#langsky #linguistics

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

130,000-year-old Neanderthal-carved bear bone is symbolic art, study argues The carved bear bone is one of the earliest human-made artifacts with "symbolic culture" unearthed in Europe.

I don't know of a bear carving, but markings on a bear bone may be the earliest known example of Neanderthal art.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Crystal pendant
Anglo Saxon
7th Century AD

An amethyst sits in centre of a cruciform setting, with cloissonee garnet in small cells. The #jewellery show signs of much wear.

Found Stretham, Cambridgeshire.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology #Cambridge

#FindsFriday #Archaeology
#MedievalBluesky

Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this.

It's important to understand the historical track we are on.

The photo shows a Roman iron stylus pen used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The image shows the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ Excavated in London by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

Some things never change!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA

#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology

Over 400 gold and silver Roman-era coins unearthed in the Netherlands depict rulers from Rome, Britain and Africa
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/over-400-gold-and-silver-roman-era-coins-unearthed-in-the-netherlands-depict-rulers-from-rome-britain-and-africa

The parallels are there because it was the same project. Obliterating any and all evidence for non- Christian matrilineal societies, be it in prehistory or in Africa.

Mind blindness decoded: people who can’t see with their ‘mind’s eye’ still activate their visual cortex, study finds People with aphantasia still have a blueprint for mental imagery, even if they can’t consciously ‘see’ it.

www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

#aphantasia #academicsky

Neanderthals' blood type may help explain their demise, new study finds Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems.

Intriguing new study of red blood cell gene polymorphisms suggests incompatibilities among early humans, Denisovans, and Neanderthals. 🏺🧪

#ReliefWednesday - Delightful small-scale detail with this depiction of a Circus on a bone 'game counter'. The two conical projections being the metae ('turning posts'): ca. 1st Century AD. #Roman 🏺

Image: Princeton University Art Museum (1996-178), Link - artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...