Michael Fradley

Today: Settlers invade the West Bank village of Qaryut, shoot dead two Palestinians in their home, injure several others www.timesofisrael.com/two-men-shot...

Has anybody done any work calculating the height of burial mounds from ring ditch dimensions where a mound no longer exists? #archaeology #burialmounds

Charterhouse, Somerset: The Development of a Romano-British Mining Settlement and Associated Landscape| Historic England Charterhouse, Somerset: The Development of a Romano-British Mining Settlement and Associated Landscape

At Charterhouse-on-Mendip we suggested a small IA promontory fort may have preceded the small Roman fort, so continuity makes sense. The scale of the mining settlement is also amazing (and there may have been at least one more at Priddy): historicengland.org.uk/research/res...

Updated PlanetScope imagery from @planet.com shows the berm shown below continues to expand. February 16 imagery shows an additional 500m of berm construction since last week.

Additional berm construction and clearing activity along the Yellow Line visible north of Rafah and south of Gaza city.

Looking at PlanetScope imagery from today, the Netzarim corridor berm I noted in the post below has already reached Wadi Gaza. The Wadi As-Salqa one has also continued to grow and extends 300m further north.

A brief note on my fieldwork out in Jordan last Autumn, looking at a series of Roman camps while possible following in the footsteps of a military campaign in the early 2nd century AD.

RAF Habbaniya - image shows a man walking down a path at the RAF station with Palm Trees in the background.

Half Term isn’t just for the kids ✈️

This Thursday (19 Feb) we’re hosting the Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Coventry Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

“RAF Habbaniya – The RAF Garden of Eden”
🚪 6.15pm | 📍 National Cold War Exhibition

Free for Members. Guests welcome: bit.ly/4aQlGcy

A PlanetScope satellite image from Planet Labs showing south central Gaza on January 12, 2026. Two roads are labeled — Salah al-Deen Road going north and south and Kisufim Road, which runs from Salah al-Deen to the Gaza-Israel border. The Yellow Line is also indicated running north and south through the image. There is a large amount of destruction visible in the image, especially in the two visible towns — Wadi al-Salqa and Al-Qarara. An IDF outpost is visible as is a paved aid staging area.

A PlanetScope satellite image from Planet Labs showing south central Gaza on February 11, 2026. Two roads are labeled — Salah al-Deen Road going north and south and Kisufim Road, which runs from Salah al-Deen to the Gaza-Israel border. The Yellow Line is also indicated running north and south through the image. There is a large amount of destruction visible in the image, especially in the two visible towns — Wadi al-Salqa and Al-Qarara. An IDF outpost is visible as is a paved aid staging area. A long dirt berm is now visible, bisecting Kisufim Road and running toward the north. It's 2.6km long and follows closely with the Yellow Line.

Recent PlanetScope imagery from @planet.com shows a new 2.6km-long berm that's been built by the IDF in south central Gaza near Kisufim Road. The berm roughly follows the "Yellow Line" that divides IDF-occupied areas and the rest of Gaza. Similar berms are visible elsewhere in the north and south.

Archaeology of #Persian #Garden complex discovered by our @eamena.bsky.social team. 🪷🍒🍎🌴🛰️#RemoteSensing #aerialphotos

Black-and-white aerial photograph of the garden site, annotated with coloured lines representing features such as walls and water channels.

NEW Utilising Second World War aerial photography, researchers have identified a monumental Persian garden complex on the outskirts of Tabriz, Iran.

One of the largest examples identified, it is also unique in comparison to its contemporaries.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Our monitoring work over #Gaza has shown that destruction of the historic environment by the IDF has continued despite the ceasefire, most notably in the widespread demolition of parts of Gaza City's E suburbs (including W of the Yellow Line) in the first weeks of December 2025.

My new paper with @bijanrouhani.bsky.social and @kristen-hopper.bsky.social explores a probable Persian Garden complex identified on a set of 1941 RAF aerial photographs taken over #Tabriz #Iran. This vast complex had not been previously documented and was built over by urban sprawl in the 1990s.

So quick? Surely 10 hours is an eternity in reacting to a post? All fine at this end. I misread your 'eagerly' as 'early' which perhaps reflects my own retirement hopes!

I'm touched that this is in your private collection, but a bit worried for the poor soul who saved this post...

Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’ Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’

Hey, do you all know that there are people in prison in the UK, arrested for connection to Palestine Action, who have been on hunger strike for 45 days. David Lammy refuses to even engage with MPs to discuss the issue.

David Lammy has taken over £30k from pro-Israel lobby groups.

Israel wants to steal the archaeological site of Sebastia: Here’s what you can do about it cover picture: IOF reservist and Ariel U graduate Yair Almakyes posing with riffle-and-booze-clad Zionists in front of ancient remains of a vandalized wall in Sebastia, West Bank (close up from a p…

🚨Israel wants to steal the archaeological site of Sebastia: Here’s what you can do about it by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/i...

Civil war + flooding have endangered cultural heritage 🏺 in #Sudan. Heritage for Peace published a series of 3 reports to 2024. Now UNOSAT published a report covering damage to heritage from 2023-now using satellite imagery. It is not comprehensive. More work is required. unosat.org/products/4225

Legalising UK cannabis would generate over £1 billion a year in tax 💰🍃

With the budget approaching, it’s time for evidence-led public spending. Legalising UK cannabis offers the possibility of vast revenue and significant public savings
Full report: transformdrugs.org/publications...

Yes, that is a possibility, and there are debates on the earliest Yemeni mariner communities in South Shields, Cardiff etc... Although would it be quicker to take sail around the coast rather than travel inland (and cheaper if you could work on board)?

This is really interesting- I am just up the road from Charlton Kings. Was there any details of what the payment was for? Links to Yemen must have grown with the rise of the coffee trade from the 1650s, and would be interested to hear the details of this payment.

Dr. Hamouda Al-Dahdar, supervisor of the restoration of the historic Pasha Palace said the Israeli occupation stole approximately 17,000 artifacts from the Pasha Palace Museum in Gaza City, which it deliberately destroyed during the war, and only 20 artifacts were found in the rubble of the palace. #Gaza

More Israeli theft of archaeological artefacts from Gaza #🏺

Dr Frankenstein/Oscar Isaac = Lovejoy/Ian McShane

Appears journalists who were allowed into Gaza under IDF supervision were taken to the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar and shown the massive destruction in Shujaiyah.

Video from BBC (h/t @easybakeovensz.bsky.social) shows the schools at around 31.4959,34.4744:
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Our new open access paper on the rapid remote sensing survey of the western Nafud region, building on our early publications on the eastern Nafud and the Neom development zone.

Thanks Huw. It's a very broad assessment, but hopefully a springboard for others to undertake more detailed fieldwork in this region on a par with your own.

After conducting extensive earthworks on top of the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar, it appears in more recent @planet.com SkySat imagery from October 7 that the IDF has since paved the top of the mound.

The visible black area is similar to what we've seen when pavement has been used elsewhere.

Not quite a #RomanFortThursday. Ground photographs from a recent survey of three temporary Roman army camps ESE of Bayir #Jordan @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social See the original report paper: doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @antiquity.ac.uk

Our team are just back from fieldwork in SE #Jordan! They were east of Bayir looking at a series of #Roman camps we first identified on satellite imagery in 2022. Look out for news of this survey in our future posts.

@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
@cbrl.bsky.social
@robertbewley.bsky.social

Our work at @eamena.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social on these sites will continue with sites visits to the camps in the near future. They also featured on a recent documentary on the Nabataean kingdom #Jordan #RomanFortThursday www.channel4.com/programmes/b...

A rushed rescue saves Gaza archeological items before an Israeli strike on a warehouse Aid workers saved thousands of priceless archaeological artifacts in Gaza from destruction last week after Israel targeted the warehouse building in a strike.

“It’s not just about Palestinian heritage or Christian heritage, it’s something important to the world heritage here, protected by UNESCO,” explained Kevin Charbel, the emergency field coordinator for @premiereurgenceint.bsky.social via @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/isra...
#Gaza #Palestine