Dr Charles Mount

The grid goes down. The Wi-Fi dies. Somewhere in a field, an experimental archaeologist calmly lights a fire with horse dung and flint.

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Imagine being by the side of Duke William

A bakery near me needs to make this

Classic

It was like that for older people too but when they said they were mentally ill they were stigmatized so they kept quiet.

Our worldview is shaped by how we compare what we know to recorded history. But history has unknown unknowns we don’t even realize exist, making our worldview provisional.

She look like a staff member Hogwarts.

No your fine, didn’t come across that way

It’s Wikipedia Creative Commons commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ag... (I should have credited it). I really like it.

I read this in a biography of Christie when I was in college. I didn’t realise it was now unattributed.

Agatha Christie was married to Max Mallowan for 46 years. She once said, "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."

Why was this Irish house abandoned? Modernity trumps tradition, city jobs outshine rural life. Kids left this generational farm for cities—maybe the US or Australia. Parents gone, no one stayed to tend it. A grand two-storey stone house, abandoned but ripe for restoration, if anyone cared.

Achill, Co. Mayo, Ireland, overlooking Purteen Harbour and the Atlantic.

I was trying to help him with French and taking him through the word tables in Jim Mallory’s book on the Indo-Europeans. Trying to point out he could do the word predictions like you said.

I’m blue in the face showing him identical words across all the languages but he says he just doesn’t see it!?

My son won’t acknowledge the relationships between Indo-European languages. I feel like I’ve failed as a parent😞

Ireland faces a seemingly unsolvable housing crisis, yet thousands of abandoned homes sit empty. Peering inside feels like glimpsing another world.

How your email reaches me.

I said I’d write the report, but I didn’t say when I’d finish it.

New drone arrived DJI Mini 4 Pro🤩. It feels like Christmas. Every boy should have their own drone.

The universal belief in the supernatural has been a defining aspect of all human cultures and societies. Like language and tools it is one of the defining characteristics of humanity.

Ireland has so many abandoned churches, falling into decay and ruin. This is St. Schiria’s Church, Crossakeel, Co. Meath, built with a loan of £466 given by the Board of First Fruits in 1822.

I think one of the problems is that Grimes is on Twitter X and so many archaeologists have left the platform that it’s now dominated by pseudoarchaeology.

Ireland stands apart with its abundance of abandoned and ruined churches, a poignant testament to a complex history.

Pretty sure I’ve got age dysphoria—I don’t identify with my birth-assigned age. So I’m coming out as 25.

It would be good if the County Council helped with that.

I can’t believe Winston Churchill didn’t wear a suit while he was fighting WWII.

Who doesn’t love mills? This is the corn mill at Foulkesmill, on the River Corach, Co Wexford. Built in 1851 it still has its water wheel and mill race.

Did Barry Cunniffe have those samples collected?

Forget freaking out over AI outsmarting us—let’s just dumb it down. Swap the training data for astrology charts, TikTok dances, and Love Island. Problem solved.