Interesting takes on Neanderthal #religion. Of course, got to love the identification of anything we don't understand as "ritualistic"! www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

United Health wants its ‘swagger back’. How? By dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage Why? America's largest insurer wants to improve its profit margins, medical costs are skyrocketing because the GOP cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies.

Harsh, dry weather is increasing salinity in the soil and damaging the historical monuments in the ruins of cities such as #Ur, the birthplace of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Babylon, once-magnificent capital of empires. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

📢 New in "Studies of Biblical Interest" Chrissy M. Hansen argues that the James passage in Josephus Ant. 20.200 shows signs of Christian redaction and may have been interpolated by Eusebius. Open Access and available here: www.biblicaljournal.org#volumes #Josephus #James #BiblicalStudies

This is awesome! Not only showing the benefits of painstaking conservation work (10 years in this case!), but also...anyone have a bug for some experimental archaeology to reconstruct one of these fine vessels??? #Peterborough #Archaeology #History #HistoricEngland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The #Tutankhamun Archive at Oxford’s Griffith Institute is more than history. From Carter’s notes to Burton’s photos, every detail of the discovery is preserved and now reimagined in the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, now live in beta and bringing the tomb to life. tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk

Stability for life? (But not as we know it!) #PlanetaryScience #Astronomy #Space #Astrobiology @ox.ac.uk phys.org/news/2025-11...

A love a good dip in and out book! No matter how deep into a subject I get, these kinds of volumes always leave me learning something new. Awesome work @theees.bsky.social! #ancientegypt #archaeology #history #Egypt www.ees.ac.uk/resource/anc...

Coverage in The Times of our concerns about how languages will fare under the proposed changes to the national curriculum www.thetimes.com/article/9b0f... @britishacademy.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social

Thoughts on this??? New theory on the Pyramid’s construction: not ramps, but an internal pulley & counterweight system. Simon Scheuring says the passages and scrapes reveal a complex lifting mechanism that powered its rise from within. #Archaeology #Egypt #Pyramids www.nature.com/articles/s40...

Amazing how many people in universities have imbibed metrics as the only marker of value. It needs to change.

After 20 years of monumental work, the Grand Egyptian Museum opens today! 🎉 All of Tutankhamun's treasures, together at last. Can’t wait to visit in 2026! 🇪🇬🏛️ #GrandEgyptianMuseum #Tutankhamun #Egypt #History #Culture english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/...

It's a truism in archaeology that during a dig, your most spectacular finds will always come on the last day of the season. I guess that extends to arachnology too! And just in time for Halloween 🕷️ #FieldWork #Spiders @nationaltrust.org.uk @britishspiders.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These finds now seem a dime a dozen - but still amazingly fascinating! news.missouristate.edu/2025/09/09/d... #Amazon #LostCities #Archaeology

Just gorgeous! One of my biggest regrets is not having visited in more politically stable times. #Iran #Persia #OmarKhayyam #Monuments www.atlasobscura.com/places/omar-...

What we build is a statement of our character as a civilization. I'm hugely pleased to see social housing designed in such a beautiful and sensitive way. Indeed, this type of standard should be that which we aspire to all round. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #SocialHousing #Architecture #Beauty

Beyond the Frontier: Unearthing the Secrets of Scotland’s Silver Hoard www.historyhit.com/beyond-the-f...

Saddened by the responses to this.

What a person and life-story! I always remember watching wonderful Jane Goodall documentaries with my Grandfather, showing those often-dismissed bonds between humans and our animal kin. And may we all have that verve for discovery to continue our lifework at 91! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A sacred Mayan cave system in the Yucatán is under threat from projects like the Tren Maya, where concrete pillars are already polluting water that flows to the Caribbean. History, culture, and climate all on the line. #Yucatán #ClimateJustice #Maya www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p...

Ah, just wonderful! Yet another rights-trampling policy. I can't wait to see how they deal with the flurry of lawsuits because 4.5 MILLION people don't have smartphones in the UK - and that's for for many reasons (i.e. protected characteristics). #DigitalID #BrokenGov www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

That's a lot a lamassu! I'm interest to see what the "war spoils" finds from Egypt and the Levant turn out to be. #Archaeology #Iraq #Assyria www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/iraq...

Moved by @unesco.org's launch of the Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. Powerful way to push back against illicit trafficking. One day, may we also see a physical museum, where returned treasures can be honoured in the communities they belong to. #Museums www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

When I thought the universe couldn’t get any weirder… UChicago physicists suggest dark energy may be evolving. This could mean a new particle, a changing cosmic acceleration, and a Big Freeze billions of yrs from now. Not a physicist, but pretty awesome! #Cosmology news.uchicago.edu/story/dark-e...

That poor bear! #Serbia #Roman #Amphitheatre www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Basically, Farage is promoting fascism. I don’t see how anyone can deny it.

Mural in the museum at #Bewcastle, just north of Hadrian's Wall, showing the many phases of human activity there: from Roman (site of a six-sided fort!), through Anglian, Norman to modern (note the RAF on the horizon). It is a remote, captivating spot. #RomanFortThursday #Cumberland 📷 My own

This is a must-read. Survival is priority in Gaza, yet citizens race to save centuries of history. Gaza is more than violence: it’s culture, heritage, people. The horrors and destruction witnessed are so unnecessary and cruel - they damage the whole of us as humans. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

From sacred tree to symbol of power: the palmette motif in Iron Age Judah tells a story of divinity, empire, and shifting royal identity under Assyrian influence. #Archaeology #AncientHistory #IronAge www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Read about the damage to Lincoln’s Roman wall this morning. Dr Samantha Stein compared it to the Sycamore Gap felling, but harsher, because stone doesn’t grow back. Hard to see heritage chipped away like this. #Archaeology #History #Lincoln www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So this explains the use of data tapes in The Original Series... #DNA #DataStorage #StarTrek #Hardware techxplore.com/news/2025-09...

Menhir La Motte de Beurre: This menhir is broken in two, each part about 1.8m (6 ft) long. Only one is standing, it has a bird carved on it, shown in full flight, superposed over a white quartz vein.

When political violence takes a life, as it has done to Charlie Kirk, we all lose. No matter our beliefs - and how fundamentally we might disagree - murder is never justified. It fuels extremism and tears at the fabric of democracy. We need to break this cycle: now! #EndPoliticalViolence

If I could teleport anywhere right now, it’d be to The Golden Age of Archaeology exhibition. Ancient coins, shipwreck treasures, the Karahantepe discoveries… I’d be in awe for hours. #Archaeology #Türkiye mk.gov.tr/icerik/detay...

Very interesting France is considering this. It would seem to cover artefacts between 1815 to 1972 that were illegally removed. That time frame would definitely include the Dendera Zodiac. Anyone have a full text of the bill they could direct me to? #repatriation #antiquities #museums

Fondly remember working with Gabor at Bishopstone. Great to see his team’s Cookham discovery. This monastery may have been one of our first hospices, showing how caring for community health has always mattered. #Archaeology #Healthcare @uor-research.bsky.social www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Re...

Waking up to #HillfortsWednesday 🥳 The potentially early coastal promontory fort at Crickmail Down on the Castlemartin Range, #Pembrokeshire, was only identified in 2018 during aerial reconnaissance for the CHERISH Project Not excavated, but needs digging & dating 🤔 📷 My own, 2 weeks ago

19th century remains uncovered in Gravesend reveal a mix of low-status ‘slum’ yards contrasted with higher-status homes & a coach factory on Bank & Queen Streets. A little window into Victorian life. 🏚️🏭 #Archaeology #Gravesend intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...

Zahi Hawass writes on the quest for Queen Nefertiti’s mummy, from disputed 2003 claims to new DNA leads in KV21. The mystery endures, as Egypt still seeks both her remains and the return of her iconic bust from Berlin. #Egyptology #Nefertiti english.ahram.org.eg/News/550780....

Do you know what we hate? EMPTY HOMES! England alone has about 265k long-term empty homes, whilst a housing crisis destroys generations. EDMOs are one solution, or you could give us a call! #Housing #EmptyHomes #TimeforChange #Transformation #RenewalNow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump’s order to remove homeless people from US streets is horrifying, but it’s not just an American story. The same think tanks are shaping UK policy too. We must resist criminalisation with truth, solidarity and care. @ourmoh.bsky.social is doing just that museumofhomelessness.org/news/trumps-...

I adore human details such as this. You can literally reach out and touch the hand of the past. So looking forward to the exhibition! #AncientEgypt #Archaeology @cam.ac.uk ‬ www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Fitz...

Well worth a listen. As someone working in repatriation & heritage law, I’m glad to see this issue getting attention. Looting isn’t just a Tomb Raider trope. It’s real and funding terror. Also encouraged by the use of AI to track stolen artefacts. #Looting #Archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Read about MSU students uncovering one of Springfield’s first homes from the 1830s. It’s not just a cool bit of history, it’s about learning, preserving, and reconnecting with our roots. This is how we shape a better future. #SpringfieldMO #Archaeology news.missouristate.edu/2025/07/22/a...

#bloomscrolling #flowerphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography

We’re not fixing the old system. We’re building something better. From collapse → to coordination. From survival → to sufficiency. From borders → to belonging. This is Citizen State. #CitizenState #SystemChange #RadicalOptimism #PostScarcity

Well, you learn something new every day! Turns out OK isn’t just universally understood, it’s presidential. Martin Van Buren, aka “Old Kinderhook,” helped launch the world’s favourite two-letter word in 1840. The campaign? Not so OK. The word? Global domination. #WordNerd www.npr.org/2025/07/23/n...

Just got this in the post today; looking forward to diving in :)) thanks @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Even though we associate pneumonic #plague with the Black Death, it still poses a deadly threat and is nearly 100% fatal without early treatment. New research shows mRNA vaccines targeting key virulence factors can offer strong protection. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This isn’t easy. I believe in a secure Israel and a free Palestine. I understand Israeli fear after 7 Oct, but refusing statehood forever hands veto power to extremists. Recognition isn’t a reward for terror; it’s a path out of it. #TwoStates #Palestine #Israel #Peace www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...