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A small megalithic tomb consisting of upright stones, or orthostats, supporting capstones. Overlooking the sea with mountains in the distance in the landscape of West Cork

Altar Wedge Tomb • West Cork

This small wedge tomb on the coast of West Cork dates to c.2500 BC.

Thousands of years after it was first built, this ancient monument took on new spiritual meaning when it was used as a mass rock during the time of the Penal Laws, when Catholic worship was forbidden

A small, flat, circular bowl with a hare's head with a long neck attached on the rim, its long ears standing upright. Painted motifs, dots on the neck, stripes and zigzags on the bowl, enhance the buff clay surface, the hare's face showing eyes, nostrils, and a whimsical expression.

It has been quite a week! We all need a timeline cleanse 🐰

This whimsical shallow terracotta bowl with a lively hare's head modelled onto its rim was perfect for holding libations, grains, or small offerings during #Greek rituals.

While its exact findespot is unknown, comparable... 🧵1/2

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My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with its eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️

Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Roman arched walls along a walkway curving around to the right

#RomanSiteSaturday The upper levels of El Djem Amphitheatre in Tunisia, 3rd century AD

It was huge - I think this was floor 3 of 6!

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#archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

I'm lobbying for Toby the Trowel investigates Llyn Cerrig Bach or Toby the Trowel and the Lead Pigs.

I want both tbh! ❤️

#Archaeology 🏺

A fragment of the tombstone of a centurion of the Legio I Italica was uncovered during salvage excavations in the Western Necropolis of the Roman military camp of Novae near Svishtov in northern Bulgaria.

📷Marin Marinov, curator at the Historical Museum in Svishtov.
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Social media post: "How do we know that the great pyramids didn't create themselves?? After all, we don't know for certain how the pyramids were created. There are theories, but none of them are definitively 'proven,' and none of us were alive when they were constructed. Since we don't know exactly how they were built, isn't it fair to consider that they might have built themselves? Or that the Earth, as it was forming, just happened to include them already in place? Or that they somehow formed later on their own?"

Wake up babe, a hilarious new pyramidiot conspiracy theory just dropped

Pudding, I just ate. 🫠

Hopefully Shachi sees this!! > < 🫶
#shachimu

The Marks That Predate Writing by 35,000 Years A new study finds that Stone Age sign sequences carved into ivory figurines share a statistical fingerprint with the earliest known writing — and the implications are stranger than they sound.

New research finds that 40,000-year-old Aurignacian sign sequences share a statistical fingerprint with the earliest protocuneiform writing — despite a 35,000-year gap. Not writing. But not nothing either. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleolithic www.anthropology.net/p/the-marks-...

Circular pieces of glass from the Roman Netherlands, used as game pieces.

First documented in Europe during the Middle Ages, blocking games are board games where the goal is to block the opponent from moving #MedievalMonday
New evidence points to their play as early as the Roman period, indicating centuries of play not observed.

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I'm a very yearnful person. a lot contribute it to me being mexican, but its actually because im a wasp

Just a couple, to put the world to rights.

It's wild that Limoges has a museum of email

Just a quick notice to say that I’m truly sorry that I haven’t been reachable recently 🙇🏻‍♀️

To be honest I’ve been under immense stress, and haven’t felt too much time to breathe. I’m trying my best to handle it with grace! I assure you that I’m not ignoring anyone purposely 💦🙏🏻

#Spain: Evidence of Hannibal's Elephants

Archaeologists claim they’ve discovered proof of Carthaginian General Hannibal's war elephants with the discovery of a 2,200-year-old bone fragment unearthed in an Iron Age dig near Cordoba, Spain.

Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

Examples of barkcloth beaters (stone tools used to beat tree bark into fabric) with various groove patterns. The upper and middle rows contain beaters with fairly similar longitudinal groove patterns, whereas the lower row represents the evolution of groove motifs in the early twentieth century AD, showing multiple different patterns with variation in groove depth and criss-cross motifs.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and the same was true in the past! #InnovationDay
In Sulawesi 🇮🇩 barkcloth production remained relatively unchanged for ~3000 years, until the introduction of woven fabrics necessitated innovation to compete.

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#archaeobirds🏺#ornithology #zooarchaeology

Comm for @/jellydoughnut.live 💜✨

We are delighted that the Oued Beht Archaeological Project was awarded a 2025 Field Discovery Award at the Shanghai World Archaeology Forum!

www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/oued-be...

He is 1.5 large sodas tall

My job bought us adobe acrobat pro licenses and it's kinda neat to be able to right click and combine pdfs just like that.

Comm WIP 💜✨

ooo a ball pit
#Vtuber #ENVtuber #Vsky #REPO

As someone who has done that, I'd say do it, but go somewhere that you will appreciate and where you will be appreciated. This is easier said than done.

I have come to accept, understand, and appreciate my home, even with all the problems happening. But I highly recommend moving abroad, if you can.

A clay pot with a vaguely owl-like head with beak and eyes. It has a round body with handles which are positioned where the wings or arms would go and two domes positioned to resemble stylised breasts, which might suggest it’s not a bird or not just a bird.

Heinrich Schliemann, business man and excavator extraordinaire, translated Homer's description of the Trojan cult statue of Athena glaukopis as owl-faced. He identified these owl pots with the goddess and on this assumption concluded he had found the legendary city of Troy #SuperbOwl #AncientBluesky

Proton Drive seems good, but the free version gets you only 5 gb and 3.99 per month is 200gb. I refuse to trust Google after everything going on.

A good alternative is if you have an old computer lying around, I'd say convert it into a storage unit or server. This is probably the safest option imo.

That's me with the other site, I only permit myself a 5 minute doomscrolling session on my phone browser.

Granted, I still use my phone for shopping and other tasks, but I feel a lot more relieved not checking in every 10 minutes like I used to. Also journaling and photography has helped, too. 🤠