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Today in 1628 the Vasa, the latest, most powerful and advanced ship in the Swedish navy set off on its maiden voyage.
After travelling about 1,300m it capsized and sank.
It was raised after 333 years on the seabed.
Today @thevasamuseum is one of my favourite places in the world.

In comes the perpendicular. Lovely partly 12th century Saint Winwaloe’s East Portsmouth, Devon. A 15th century reboot, adding windows, tower and beautiful painted reredos panels.

It shows a Victorian era woman wearing a "witch" costume, while holding a broom.

I’m thrilled to share my next project—Witchy Women of the Victorian Era: Real Women Who Refused to Behave.

This full-length nonfiction work will be a deep dive into the lives of Victorian women who defied the rules, rewrote expectations, and refused to fit in.

#Victorian #writing #history #women

Beyond the Binary? A Multi‐Method Approach to Sexing Children at the Viking Age Site of Ihre, Gotland The assessment of sex is fundamental in osteoarcheological analysis, yet traditional morphological methods are less reliable for children due to the incomplete development of sexually dimorphic trait....

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

5,000-year-old burials in Germany hold 3 women with bedazzled baby carriers — Live Science Copper Age burials holding the remains of elite women and elaborate pouches decorated with hundreds of animal teeth have been discovered in Germany.

5,000-year-old burials in Germany hold 3 women with bedazzled baby carriers apple.news/AAKX_BGpYSt-...

Scuba diver underwater, shining a torch onto a gravestone sat on the seabed, engraved with a cross.

Scuba #archaeology for #InternationalScubaDay 🤿
Underwater examination of England's only 13th century AD shipwreck uncovers a cargo of valuable Purbeck Stone, used in the construction of the nation's medieval cathedrals 🏺

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave

Paleolithic evidence for artificial cranial deformation in an Epigravettian individual from Arene Candide Cave (Italy), dating to ca. 12.4ky BP. This new study adds to a host of diverse ritual, mortuary and social behaviors documented at the site. 🦣🏺🧪

Reconstructions reveal faces of Neolithic sisters buried 6,000 years ago 3D reconstructions reveal the faces and harsh lives of two Neolithic sisters found in a Czech mining site, hinting at ancient social inequality.

#archaeologynews Two sisters, aged 30-40, who were buried in a mine shaft 6000 years ago, with a dog and new-born baby

They were likely "interred in the shaft in which they had laboured" say the archaeologists

Why? Was this some sort of sacred site? 🤔

#archaeology #news 🏺 tinyurl.com/32bju6wj

Hornelund Brooches: Viking age gold ornaments mysteriously buried in Denmark 1,000 years ago Two brooches from Denmark are unique examples of Viking Age goldwork that includes Christian and Norse designs.

This week's astonishing artifact is a set of Viking Age gold brooches. They were found over a century ago, but researchers are still trying to work out exactly where they were found so that they can do some more digging and get more info on them. 🧪🏺

Seizing the end of International Owl Awareness Day to share this lovely Red-Figure Kalpis, attributed to the 'Group of the Floral Nolans' at Athens, ca. 480-470 BC. #IOAD #AncientStuff 🏺

Truly, a cracking Owl. 😉

Image: J. Paul Getty Collection (86. AE.229). Link - getty.edu/art/collecti...

In this episode of Beyond the Knife we're joined by Thomas Elliott, Head of Surgeons' Hall Museums, as he takes us deep into the world of Edinburgh's Barber Surgeons. From bloodletting to trephination, uncover the early practices that laid the groundwork for modern surgery.... https://bit.ly/4fhtnJz

August from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry A medieval hawking scene with high status men and women on horseback, dogs and a servant carrying a hawk

What! Wait! What! August!?!

Already?...Bloody hell

Mysterious Neolithic rituals. Over 5,000-year-old sacrificial pits of the Salzmünde culture discovered near Gerstewitz, Saxony-Anhalt.

More information: idw-online.de/de/news856263

#archaeology

🏺🧪🦣 Also applies to Palaeolithic cave paintings. We're never going to 'crack the code' of their precise meanings (despite regular claims from people to have done so) but that doesn't mean we can't learn an awful lot through creative archaeological investigation and interpretation

#oldtown #blackandwhite #livinginwrongera #eastcoastkin #moosejaw #alcapone

A close-up photo of an intricately designed silver gilt brooch, that features a complex, interwoven design. The top has multiple small, rounded protrusions. The foot ends in a stylized animal head.

An early #medieval silver gilt bow fibula (brooch) found in a woman's grave in Lauchheim, dating around 600AD. Decorated with animal interlace, the foot ends in a stylized animal head.
Bow brooches were a common element of women’s dress in south-west Germany. 🧵1/2

🏺 #archaeology

Siberian Ice Mummies Podcast Episode · The Ancients · 07/30/2025 · 49m

Listen to the newest episode of The Ancients Podcast, with Antiquity author Gino Caspari 🏺
He discusses his newly-published Antiquity article, exploring the incredibly-preserved tattoos of Siberian ice mummies!

#WallsOnWednesday 🏺
Marks of projectiles in northern city wall evidence attacks by Romans on #Pompeii under Sulla in Social War in 89BC.
With other Italian territories, Pompeii sought equal rights with Romans. It lost war but later got rights and city was given colonia status in 80BC.

Aerial view of an excavated area containing several large stones. Dotted lines annotate a circle containing a rectangle. The circle designates a small, circular mound, whilst the rectangle a quadrangular dry-stone cist under the mound.

#Neolithic funerary monument from Le Plasker, at Carnac in southern Brittany 🇫🇷 #TombTuesday
New radiocarbon dates indicate it was built c. 4720 cal BC, suggesting it is one of Europe's oldest #megalithic landscapes 🏺 #Archaeology

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

The First Crusade: Sources and Studies Dive deep into one of the most significant events in medieval history. This self-paced course provides a thorough understanding of the First Crusade, perfect for history enthusiasts seeking a deeper…

Uncover the primary sources and scholarly studies that reveal insights into the First Crusade. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/firs... #crusades

Recreation Iron Age roundhouse with thatched conical roof

Interior ceiling of recreation Iron Age roundhouse showing ring beam and thatch

Imagined painted interior decor of a reconstruction Iron Age roundhouse

We dig roundhouses (both literally and spiritually)

This one at Cranborne Ancient Techonology Centre in #Dorset is particularly fine 😍

📷 Open Day July 2025

#IronAge #Archaeology

Today has been spent excavating an intact (if crushed) section of tiled floor in the east range of #CerneAbbey First laid down in c.1300, it’s survived remarkably well!🏺

Three textured balls of bright blue pigment rest on a solid red surface, creating a vivid color contrast.

Egyptian blue pigment found in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland. The pigments were used in wall paintings. In Roman times, Egyptian blue was distributed throughout the Empire in a more or less standardised form of small balls of 15-20 mm in diameter. 🧵 1/2

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🏺 #archaeology

TOWER IN THE LEONINE WALLS, 848-852 CE. BORGO The rapid construction of the walls in a big U going from the Tiber, around St Peter's, and back was in part undertaken by captive Saracens who had attempted a second sack of the extramural basilicas in 849. The materials for the construction were harvested from nearby tombs and ancient ruins, including a large number of tufo blocks from some vast now-vanished edifice. This tower in the surviving section of wall called the "Passetto" as it bore the pope's escape route from the Vatican palace to the Castel S. Angelo is notable for its reuse of ancient bricks, including entire chunks of multiple bricks (like to the right of the door). The walls were restored by Alexander VI Borgia in about 1498, hence his crest: he might be responsible for the upper storey of the wall in tufo.

For #SpoliaSunday the somewhat haphazard #LeonineWalls are our object of consideration. They surround the #Borgo and #StPeter's and are entirely made of local #spolia. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Detail of the cervical vertebra from a child aged between 2 and 5 years, with cut marks evidencing cannibalistic practices by other humans. Photo: Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA

A Child Decapitated 850,000 Years Ago:
New Evidence of Prehistoric Cannibalism at Atapuerca 🏺🧪
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“This case is particularly striking, not only because of the child’s age, but also due to the precision of the cut marks,” says @palmirasaladie.bsky.social

A rusty battleaxe head with a bit of wooden shaft, held on a museum stand in front of a drawing of a viking man

#FindsFriday A Viking battleaxe from the 9th-11th century found near Reading, UK, still with some of its wooden shaft surviving!

Vikings raided the city multiple times in the 11th century, once destroying its monastery

Now in the Reading #Museum

📸 Mine

🏺 #archaeology #museums #ancientbluesky

Iberian Neandertal fossils: Exploring funerary practices in a paleoclimatic context The Iberian Peninsula is essential to our understanding of Neandertal populations due to its rich Middle Paleolithic archaeological record, boasting o…

Funerary practices have important implications for emergence of cognitive capacities and behaviour

Comprehensive review of over 40 Iberian sites from the Neanderthal lineage

Iberian Neandertal fossils:
Exploring funerary practices in a paleoclimatic context 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Neanderthal genes may explain disorder where brain bulges out of the skull Neanderthal genes may explain why some people have Chiari malformation type I, a condition in which the brain bulges out of the back of the skull.

Neanderthal genes may explain disorder where brain bulges out of the skull www.livescience.com/archaeology/... by @cqchoi.com for @livescience.com