Today: Settlers invade the West Bank village of Qaryut, shoot dead two Palestinians in their home, injure several others www.timesofisrael.com/two-men-shot...

Has anybody done any work calculating the height of burial mounds from ring ditch dimensions where a mound no longer exists? #archaeology #burialmounds

Updated PlanetScope imagery from @planet.com shows the berm shown below continues to expand. February 16 imagery shows an additional 500m of berm construction since last week. Additional berm construction and clearing activity along the Yellow Line visible north of Rafah and south of Gaza city.

Looking at PlanetScope imagery from today, the Netzarim corridor berm I noted in the post below has already reached Wadi Gaza. The Wadi As-Salqa one has also continued to grow and extends 300m further north.

A brief note on my fieldwork out in Jordan last Autumn, looking at a series of Roman camps while possible following in the footsteps of a military campaign in the early 2nd century AD.

Half Term isn’t just for the kids ✈️ This Thursday (19 Feb) we’re hosting the Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Coventry Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society. “RAF Habbaniya – The RAF Garden of Eden” 🚪 6.15pm | 📍 National Cold War Exhibition Free for Members. Guests welcome: bit.ly/4aQlGcy

Recent PlanetScope imagery from @planet.com shows a new 2.6km-long berm that's been built by the IDF in south central Gaza near Kisufim Road. The berm roughly follows the "Yellow Line" that divides IDF-occupied areas and the rest of Gaza. Similar berms are visible elsewhere in the north and south.

Archaeology of #Persian #Garden complex discovered by our @eamena.bsky.social team. 🪷🍒🍎🌴🛰️#RemoteSensing #aerialphotos

NEW Utilising Second World War aerial photography, researchers have identified a monumental Persian garden complex on the outskirts of Tabriz, Iran. One of the largest examples identified, it is also unique in comparison to its contemporaries. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Our monitoring work over #Gaza has shown that destruction of the historic environment by the IDF has continued despite the ceasefire, most notably in the widespread demolition of parts of Gaza City's E suburbs (including W of the Yellow Line) in the first weeks of December 2025.

My new paper with @bijanrouhani.bsky.social and @kristen-hopper.bsky.social explores a probable Persian Garden complex identified on a set of 1941 RAF aerial photographs taken over #Tabriz #Iran. This vast complex had not been previously documented and was built over by urban sprawl in the 1990s.

Hey, do you all know that there are people in prison in the UK, arrested for connection to Palestine Action, who have been on hunger strike for 45 days. David Lammy refuses to even engage with MPs to discuss the issue. David Lammy has taken over £30k from pro-Israel lobby groups.

🚨Israel wants to steal the archaeological site of Sebastia: Here’s what you can do about it by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/i...

Civil war + flooding have endangered cultural heritage 🏺 in #Sudan. Heritage for Peace published a series of 3 reports to 2024. Now UNOSAT published a report covering damage to heritage from 2023-now using satellite imagery. It is not comprehensive. More work is required. unosat.org/products/4225

Legalising UK cannabis would generate over £1 billion a year in tax 💰🍃 With the budget approaching, it’s time for evidence-led public spending. Legalising UK cannabis offers the possibility of vast revenue and significant public savings Full report: transformdrugs.org/publications...

More Israeli theft of archaeological artefacts from Gaza #🏺

Dr Frankenstein/Oscar Isaac = Lovejoy/Ian McShane

Appears journalists who were allowed into Gaza under IDF supervision were taken to the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar and shown the massive destruction in Shujaiyah. Video from BBC (h/t @easybakeovensz.bsky.social) shows the schools at around 31.4959,34.4744: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Our new open access paper on the rapid remote sensing survey of the western Nafud region, building on our early publications on the eastern Nafud and the Neom development zone.

After conducting extensive earthworks on top of the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar, it appears in more recent @planet.com SkySat imagery from October 7 that the IDF has since paved the top of the mound. The visible black area is similar to what we've seen when pavement has been used elsewhere.

Not quite a #RomanFortThursday. Ground photographs from a recent survey of three temporary Roman army camps ESE of Bayir #Jordan @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social See the original report paper: doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @antiquity.ac.uk

Our team are just back from fieldwork in SE #Jordan! They were east of Bayir looking at a series of #Roman camps we first identified on satellite imagery in 2022. Look out for news of this survey in our future posts. @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @cbrl.bsky.social @robertbewley.bsky.social

Our work at @eamena.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social on these sites will continue with sites visits to the camps in the near future. They also featured on a recent documentary on the Nabataean kingdom #Jordan #RomanFortThursday www.channel4.com/programmes/b...

“It’s not just about Palestinian heritage or Christian heritage, it’s something important to the world heritage here, protected by UNESCO,” explained Kevin Charbel, the emergency field coordinator for @premiereurgenceint.bsky.social via @apnews.com apnews.com/article/isra... #Gaza #Palestine

Final episode on Saturday. #apaame #eamena123 Thanks to Dr Michael Fradley’s discoveries #robertbewley Seen 'Bettany Hughes' Lost Worlds: The Nabataeans'? Watch it here on Channel 4: www.channel4.com/programmes/b...

1/1 The site of Newhall Tower #Cheshire on a new Airbus satellite image from 17 August 2025 via Google Earth Pro. The circular site of a mound- presumably the site of the tower first documented C13 belonging to the de Audley family- is visible as a cropmark.

📣📣 This Saturday 6th September EAMENA features on Bettany Hughes show on Channel 4 about the Nabataeans, which features flights with our Bob Bewley over the Roman camps we identified in SE Jordan. www.channel4.com/programmes/b... For our original research paper:👇🏻 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣📣 Our Bill Finlayson & fellow archaeologists help to uncover the mystery of the hundreds of 'desert kites' stretching across the Arabian desert. Find out who built these megastructures, the purpose they served & the ingenious discovery that was unearthed...👇🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻 Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today's Pod Save the World podcast E486 @podsaveamerica.crooked.com covers how #archaeology is used for the annexation of the #WestBank #Palestine by the #Israeli settler campaign. Discussion starting about 1.42 hours in- important intro to a non-specialist audience: www.crooked.com/podcast-seri...

It appears the IDF are conducting more earthworks on top of Tell Ali Muntar, potentially further damaging a Bronze Age-era archeological hill in what little remains of Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood. Michael Press shared some of the history of the site here: bsky.app/profile/mich...

Thanks for sharing Dominic. Really important updates in that video from Fadel. There's been even more damage to the Byzantine church site since the early 2025 photo was taken: bsky.app/profile/godi...

And this is destruction of a 5th - 7th C CE Byzantine basilica and chapel. Right hand picture was taken in early 2025. youtu.be/alb0mGJNJ9o?...

Entire towns being reduced to rubble in Gaza www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Really important updates from @godin.bsky.social @bellingcat.com. While there has been little effort by the Israeli military to protect cultural heritage in #Gaza #Palestine, it now looks like even if the best known and protected/preserved #archaeological sites are open to needless destruction.

One of a number of Bronze Age ring ditch cropmarks at University Parks @ox.ac.uk visible on the ground in parched conditions today. Many of these features can be seen on recent aerial + satellite imagery (eg Apple Maps) as weather extremes become more common #climate @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

A member of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society's Facebook page shared these images of a tile that her son found at the bottom of the River Derwent near Hathersage. Any tile experts on here fancy shining some light on what it might be? #archaeology #floortile #Derbyshire

“Looting is a global issue, often fueled by armed conflicts, civil unrest, and weak governmental control,” 🏺

🚨 An important day for evidence-based drug policy reform. London Mayor Sadiq Khan backs partial decriminalisation of cannabis possession, following findings from the London Drugs Commission that current policies are causing disproportionate harm to society. theguardian.com/soci...

Owing to a withdrawal, I have a slot available at this year’s IMC in session #134. Anyone interested in sharing new research on castles, please get in touch! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/pre...

🚨 @gmandreou.bsky.social launched a fundraiser to help 12 Gazan students who worked on the GAZAMAP project pay their tuition fees. We at EO are fully behind this initiative, so we invited her to share it on the platform. Please donate!👇 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/h...

We are fundraising to support #archaeology #students in #Gaza to settle their tuition fees & complete their degrees. We've worked with them at the #GAZAMAP project monitoring vulnerable #culturalheritage. Please donate and share: gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...

New @planet.com SkySat imagery from May 13 gives us an updated look at the archeological site highlighted below. In the newer imagery, we can see Tell Ali Muntar has been further damaged and turned into a military position, with new roads, gravel, and military infrastructure set up on the hill.

Our Australian followers can currently watch a documentary on the Nabataeans (hopefully broadcasting in the UK soon) that includes flights over the Roman camps we identified in SE #Jordan back in 2023: www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... For our original research paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How many ways can you lie in a headline? There's an interesting archaeology story here, but not the one that's being promoted 🧵

A survey of Tell Ali Muntar in 2000 revealed the site had evidence of Late Roman/Byzantine and Ottoman date and may have been occupied as early as ancient Gaza. @oldpete45.bsky.social and I spoke with Louise Steel — pictured below — about her work there. Link: www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/06...

April 15 SkySat imagery from @planet.com shows Tell Ali Muntar, an archeological site already damaged last year, has been further damaged/turned into an IDF staging area with berms. A nearby cemetery has also been damaged. This is part of the IDF's expansion of the buffer zone into Shejaiya.

In the 13 days since its Gaza operations resumed, the IDF has now ordered Gazans to evacuate 55 percent of the strip's total area—now including all of (what’s left of) the city of Rafah as ground forces push back in there.

Sections of a Roman road system in W #Iraq. A c75km section of this road linking #Hit to #Damascus, in part lined by clearance cairns, still survives with some damage from recent dirt tracks. The region was surveyed by Aurel Stein & #RAF in 1939: www.flickr.com/photos/apaam... #APAAME Source: Google

1/ Satellite imagery covering #Gaza has recently been updated on Google Earth, with imagery as recent as 1 Dec '24 for the NE part of the Strip- thanks @godin.bsky.social @bellingcat.com for flagging the update.