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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.

Arches-related #job: @maeasamproject.bsky.social supported by the Arcadia Fund, is seeking a Research Assistant to gather data from remote sensing & grey literature and input data into MAEASaM’s growing open access site database (powered by Arches). Apply by March 24: bit.ly/MAEASaM_2025#job:

The playing card shape is even clearer in deserts. This example in southern Jordan was found during remote sensing survey and suggests an undocumented Roman military campaign into what is today Saudi Arabia, linked to the AD 106 Roman annexation of the Nabataean kingdom. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Policy makers from across the political spectrum gathered in Westminster for the launch of Transform's new *High Returns* report this week Public finance is a language they all understand; legal cannabis tax would bring in over £1bn a year for the Treasury (currently accruing to organised crime)👇

Another update to this the site of the Bureij mosaic in Gaza: Recent @planet.com SkySat imagery shows what appears to be digging activity or clearing activity at the site — though it's not clear by who. The site is on @unesco.org's preliminary damage assessment list: www.unesco.org/en/gaza/asse...

📣 Learn how to protect endangered archaeology with remote sensing! Join our free online course & master satellite imagery techniques to identify & safeguard heritage sites. Enroll now! Available in 4 languages: 👇🏻 #English & #Arabic ENGLISH: tinyurl.com/2s4zyycp ARABIC: tinyurl.com/4ybf9p5e

Our @bijanrouhani.bsky.social & his late colleague Farad Nazari look at how dam construction has damaged #Iran's archaeological sites & suggest cultural heritage policies that could lead to more sustainable development that preserve Iran’s rich cultural heritage. www.apicelibri.it/HandlerObjec...

📣 Our @mfradley.bsky.social is researching a large collection of photos taken by the @royalairforce.bsky.social on the #Palestine Front in 1918, held at the Australian War Memorial, to understand heritage loss & landscape change in the Jordan Valley. Read about it here👇🏻: eamena.org/article/unde...

Read our @mfradley.bsky.social recent article in the Commonwealth Heritage Forum newsletter which looks at the potential of the UK's global collection of aerial photography for understanding how landscapes have changed. Scroll down to the 3rd article: www.commonwealthheritage.org/december-new...

Really important update by @godin.bsky.social at @bellingcat.com on the site of #Anthedon #Gaza using @planetlabs.bsky.social imagery and building on the earlier work of @forensicarchi.bsky.social

For the #osint community. Does anybody know what this facility is in NW Saudi Arabia? Lat/Long 26.450112 37.204609

Castle Ring #hillfort on the Stiperstones #Shropshire, with the hillfort at Earl's Hill visible (to the right) in the 1st image. Our rapid survey in 2003-4 identified hut platforms at the S end of Castle Ring at an intervisible point with Earl's Hill doi.org/10.5284/1011... #HillfortsWednesday

My first trip to the #Stiperstone Hills #Shropshire since my first job as an archaeologist working on a survey there 21 years ago. Fantastic day in spite of the Storm Éowyn winds, although did not quite make to the possible stone row we found north of the Paddocks. Report: doi.org/10.5284/1011...

First hunting kite remotely documented in 2024 @eamena.bsky.social Source: #GoogleEarth #Airbus

Pollution from the oil industry in #Iraq keeps threatening water security of the #Tigris river. An oil spill reportedly coming from a pipeline towards the Baiji refinery caused at least a ~65km long spill all the way to Tikrit. Here's what we found www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/809...

'We can confidently estimate that around 50% of heritage sites in the Gaza Strip have been damaged, with many structures near-demolished.' Dr Michael Fradley & Dr Bill Finlayson explain how archaeologists are documenting the damage to Gaza's cultural heritage ⬇️ theconversation.com/gazas-cultur...

Recent satellite imagery updates on Google Earth provide coverage for #Gaza for various dates in October 2023. While this imagery provides a glimpse of the damage that had occurred in the early stages of the #Israel military campaign, it minimises the level of devastation over the past 12 months.