NEW Excavation at Benin City's historic palace, looted and destroyed by the British in 1897, provides an unprecedented glimpse into pre-colonial West African urban development and artisanal crafts, including the famous Benin Bronzes. #AntiquityThread 1/16 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

I would LOVE to recreate the smell of a Pictish byre-house! Yes, animals might make it a bit stinky, but there were SO many places to hang herbs and such from, and the Picts cared quite a bit about hygiene. And the FOOD!! I feel like a Pictish house would smell rather nice, even with the animals!

I gave a presentation on exactly this at the Canadian Archaeological Association this Spring and another at the BC Archaeology Forum two Saturdays ago. When the overwhelming majority of archaeological reporting in Canada is dry, data-heavy technical reporting, accessibility through film is crucial.

BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫 A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩 Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?... #archaeology #history #Roman

Excellent talk this morning by @rubiconarchaeology.bsky.social about social media in archaeology. Honestly, I've been meaning to work more on creating shorts from my longer videos, I just need to find the time! 😅

The reimagined manuscript pages created by Thomas for our #NLHF funded #StoriesOnSkins project are amazing pieces or art, using techniques as close as possible to how manuscript pages would have been made at Portmahomack.

Archaeologists investigating the seafloor off the southern coast of Belize found the earliest evidence of ancient #Maya salt production, dating from AD 250–550. It was likely produced on a household level, suggesting long-distance salt trade came later 🏺 #Archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🚨 Just a few days left to submit for #NordicTAG2026! Submissions are welcome that critically examine the environmental impact of archaeological practices: both digital and physical 🏺 🔜 Deadline: 22 October 🔸 More: atrium-research.eu/news/call-fo...

NEW How advanced were the resource networks of ancient China? Analysis of timber from the mausoleum of the first emperor indicates sophisticated logistical planning and resource mobilisation even at the beginning of the Qin Dynasty. 🧵 #AntiquityThread 1/12 🏺 #Archaeology

This #medieval illuminated manuscript has been digitized and is now available online #openaccess ! 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky 🏺 www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-...

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Adding 🏺 and #archaeologysky just in case they haven't made the rounds in those circles, yet!

Reposting with the correct link :) archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/writing...

Morning! If you enjoy my Minecraft content, I've got a question for you over on YouTube! www.youtube.com/@ArchaeoPlay...

I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany. 📷 me 🏺

Had the pleasure of chatting to the archaeoViz folks for our session at WAC-10 - definitely worth attending if you're able!

Rock Art Discovery Reveals Unknown Arabian Nomads from 12,000 Years Ago www.scientificamerican.com/article/rock...

~5000-year-old copper cymbals from Bronze Age Arabia for #InternationalMusicDay They share parallels with Mesopotamian and Indus Valley examples, indicating music connected these three ancient civilisations. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵 Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

I wrote a massive TTRPG setting guide encyclopaedia about the ancient Scotland and the Picts who lived in it. It covers everything scholars currently know about life in the 7th century, from landscapes to kingdoms to faith, magic, settlements, and so much more. Check it out! carvedinstone.scot

Morning! There was a TON of interest in textile magic when I mentioned it as a possibility for wizard ‘spellbooks’ in late 7th century Scotland, so let’s do a deeper dive into Pictish textiles & possible textile magic… #rpg #ttrpg #indiettrpg #dnd #pathfinder 🏺 #archaeologysky #fiberarts #textiles

Distraction from Today's News. Let me infodump about my favourite Pictish stone carving, called "Old Scatness 3" after where it was found. He is one of my favourite drawings, and he has a very important lesson to teach us. I tear up just thinking him because he's so wonderful. (1)

🎉 We've hit 10,000 Facebook followers! 💲 Please help us raise £10,000 of crucial funding - Just £1 per follower would get us to our goal. Thank you all so much for following, and for any donation you can make! tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

How would your TTRPG wizards learn spells if they lived in a society that didn't usually write things down? I said I'd answer this question on Monday, but then Chronic Illness Happened & here we are. If you played a wizard in a TTRPG set in late 7th century Pictland, what would your spellbook be?

For anyone wanting to NOT agree to the new Academia.edu Terms of Service, which includes using your work for AI purposes, you don't need to accept the terms to delete your account. Instead, click on the Terms of Service link in the pop-up... 🏺 #AcademicSky

Pre-orders for Carved in Stone are open!! This book is gorgeous, and I am so grateful to use it (and the artwork!) in my videos. You can pre-order from @stoutstoat.co.uk here: www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone Thanks to @archaeonado.bsky.social for the endorsement! 🏺 #archaeology #ArchaeologySky

Help! My Minecraft's gone early medieval! No, seriously, I'm gonna be building early medieval Scotland block by block, using our new book, Carved in Stone, as a guide! Do you think the Picts made charcoal out of lava? No? Are you sure? 🏺 #archaeology #ArchaeologySky youtu.be/iAyh4PJYXQ0

🏆 Nominations are open for the @ArchaeologyUK #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards! Do you know an archaeologist, team, or project that deserves recognition? Find out more about the awards and how to nominate here 👉 shorturl.at/bC8AT

I could be wrong, but unless this was found in significantly earlier layers, this may be the first triskele bead found in a securely Pictish context! Mostly, when archaeologists find triskele beads in Scotland, they often assume they're Iron Age due to a typology created in the 1970s. But...

One of my favourites, a wooden cat with a movable mouth! www.jigidi.com/jigsaw-puzzl...

Goodness, chronic illness is awful this year, but I'm finally making videos again, and I just have to say: Humans are ridiculous. In good ways, in bad ways, in all the ways. Case in point: This tiny hedgehog on a wagon, from 1500 - 1100 BCE Iran (photo © Louvre) 🏺 #archaeology #ArchaeologySky

10,000-Year-Old Rock Art Identified in Libya’s Al-Hasawna Mountains #archaeology #news #libya #africa www.archaeologs.com/n/10000-year...

I also highly recommend checking your images for readability with various types of colourblindness! I tend to use this site to make sure the graphics in my videos are still visible: www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color...

I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: [email protected]

Cultivaria is a board game designed by archaeologists using real archaeological knowledge, and is lovingly illustrated by hand. Check us out on Kickstarter and back us to help bring archaeology to the table! #archaeogaming #archaeology www.kickstarter.com/projects/cul...

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles

I'm at @cymerafestival.co.uk this weekend! In the gaming hall on Saturday and the main marketplace on Sunday 📖📚 Come buy the new scurry hardback so I can pay rent, and look at a draft of Carved in Stone so you'll be enticed to buy it later (so I can pay rent in the future, ooo time travel)

The UHI Archaeology Institute’s Martin Carruthers and Amanda Brend will be in Holm on June 7, outlining the results of geophysical surveys at the Loch of Ayre Iron Age broch. #archaeology #Orkney #Holm #IronAge #broch

It's here!! Cold Case Reopened: A Guide to Whithorn's Early Medieval Archaeology Honoured to have written the first guide to the excavations for the Whithorn Trust since 1991. Featuring new C14 dates, and new light on the early days of Whithorn. Currently ONLY available at The Whithorn Story

I spoke to @goingmedieval.bsky.social for a HistoryHit podcast about my new book 'Silence of the Gods' and the question of Europe's last pagans - this one was a particular joy to record, as Eleanor shares my enthusiasm for medieval East-Central Europe! shows.acast.com/gone-medieva...

Fragments of a 6th Century Byzantine bucket found at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, have been pieced back together. Archaeologists revealed that cremated human and animal bones were found within the base of the bucket. It is believed to have been a cremation vessel

Today is #WorldBeeDay so we made a bee out of books and now we're buzzing. 🐝

So this week in the world of farm/environment/land management/ mapping has been “interesting” And by “interesting” I mean “verging on the utterly bonkers” Why? Well this week started with Natural England launching a new map naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/a...

Reconstruction of early medieval cashel at Cahercommaun near Kilnaboy, the Burren, Co Clare (by Conor McDermott, based on photo by National Monuments Service and other photoshopped images of houses, cattle, crops and landscape) This is what we think one early medieval ringfort might have looked like

We have a new video on the forgotten colors of famous sculptures. Check it out: youtu.be/YL8ycjKHGcQ 🏺🧪

They. Need. To. Go. Home.

It's the final day of our Call for Papers for this year's Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference! Send in your abstracts to midagesmodgames<at>gmail.com to join us in June!

I've almost finished the hillfort, but this is just a small part of the Battle of Nakło, which I'm drawing for my comic about Bolesław Krzywousty's struggle with the Pomeranian pagans. But it fits well with today's #HillfortsWednesday.

A proshetic hand, made of iron around 1520. The movable fingers were locked into different positions through an internal spring-driven mechanisms. The spring mechanism, which interfaces with the cogwheel, was readily disengaged to release the fingers. The hand has lifelike...🧵1/2 📷 me