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

NEW How did ancient cities adapt to changes and overcome crises? By applying resilience theory to Northern Mesopotamian urban centres, researchers empirically analyse how settlement networks and connectivity changed over time. A resilient #AntiquityThread 🧵 1/9 🏺 #Archaeology

Our innovative and impactful research transforms lives and makes a difference, globally and locally. Discover more in our Global Research Newsletter 👉 mailchi.mp/96a54d0bd591... #DUresearch

📣 📣 Our new paper on the discovery of a 'lost' Persian Garden in #Tabriz #Iran using aerial photographs taken during the Second World War has just been published #OpenAccess in @antiquity.ac.uk. Read it here👇🏻 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social

New paper out 🥳 In "#Urban #resilience in Ancient #Mesopotamia: insights into the socioeconomic system of the Bronze and Iron Age Khabur Valley", we are mapping network metrics of urban dynamics onto #Holling's adaptive cycle. Full open-access paper here: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

The project and discovery of the whetstones has been led by Gary Bankhead and the Vedra Hylton Community Association, with support from @arcdurham.bsky.social staff and students. We’re looking forward to seeing where they taking things next! @durham.ac.uk

Cast your vote to make the Melsonby Hoard @currentarchaeology.bsky.social's Rescue Project of the Year 2026! Unearthed by our archaeologists, the hoard is one of the UK’s largest and most important Iron Age finds 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @proftommoore.bsky.social

New #Antiquity blog post co-authored by our Dept's Prof Dan Lawrence @dl-arch.bsky.social! 👇

📣 New senior academic job opening 📣 We are looking for an outstanding candidate to join us as Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage! Learn more and apply: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... 📅 Closes 31 Jan 2026, 11:59pm GMT

The international investigation was led by Dr Viktor Merz and Dr Ilya Merz from Toraighyrov University (Kazakhstan), Dr Miljana Radivojević from @uclarchaeology.bsky.social and Professor Dan Lawrence (@dl-arch.bsky.social) from @arcdurham.bsky.social 7/14

NEW In the heart of the Eurasian steppe, a #BronzeAge metropolis has been unearthed, showing that the settlements of nomadic steppe societies were just as sophisticated as contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations. #AntiquityThread 1/14 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

New paper out! 🥳 We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways. Read the full open access paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Archaeology #NetworkScience

Fascinating new #research by @nikulinaav.bsky.social, who has recently joined @arcdurham.bsky.social. She used an innovative #AI approach to reveal how #Neanderthals shaped Europe's #landscapes. Read her @plosone.org paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #archaeology @unileiden.bsky.social

Our team @arcdurham.bsky.social in Erbil with colleagues from the General Directorate of Heritage & Museums, developing a national heritage database to support the protection & sustainable management of the KRI's rich cultural heritage -they also tested the Amal in Heritage app for site assessment.

To celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth, we're shining a spotlight on our wonderful range of curated resources. From eBooks to films, there’s plenty to explore 📚💜 Through our Liberate My Library reading list, you can access a selection of books and eBooks suggested by staff and students 🌈

🔔🧠 New research alert! 🧠🔔 Our Dr Eva Fernandez-Dominguez (senior author), Dr Kelly Blevins and Prof Janet Montgomery are part of a worldwide team that analysed patterns of mobility of the first farmer societies of Southwest Asia. Learn more below! 👇 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #Archaeology

We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉 Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q

Bronze and Iron Age farmers in the Middle East prioritised wine production over olive growing in times of climatic change. Researchers in our Department of Archaeology and @durhamearthsci.bsky.social analysed charred seeds and wood samples 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Three early medieval namestones in one morning in the @digventures.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social excavations at #Lindisfarne

📣📣 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...

Delighted to announce that our own Dr Rob Witcher forms part of the #REF2029 #Archaeology sub-panel! Learn more in the news story linked in the post below 👇

Hi! We’re Poppy & Izzy from Archaeology. Over 3 weeks on placement at the #DUMuseumofArchaeology, we explored collections care & curation. We repacked & updated records for the Greek collection and helped design a coin map showing ancient city-states through mythology & trade #DUCollections

Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean... durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

In this article, our Honorary Fellow in Archaeology @peterjbrown.bsky.social sheds new light on the story of the Zanj rebellion – a slave revolt that took place in the late 9th century in southern Iraq. Peter and his team have unearthed the timelines. Read more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...

Congratulations to Dr Riley Snyder, awarded Best Article of the Year by 'Studies in Late Antiquity'! Titled: 'Beyond Urban Planning: Challenges of Resource Management in the Construction of Late Antique Capital Cities' Learn more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #archaeology #research #DurhamUni

I still can’t get over how good this photo of Roman lead bullets taken by @arcdurham.bsky.social students Rowan Colley and Isla Mustin is 🥰. They did amazing work on the trail I describe in this thread - please do check it out! www.armittdigitaltrail.co.uk/roman-ambles... #RomanFortThursday

You can read The Armitt’s Roman Ambleside digital trail entry on the sling bullets and our knowledge of the so-called Battle of Ambleside here, researched and written by @arcdurham.bsky.social student Isla Mustin #RomanFortThursday www.armittdigitaltrail.co.uk/lead-bullets

Isla and Rowan spent two weeks in Ambleside with me and the Armitt curator, Faye Morissey, researching the objects, designing the trail route, and writing the trail text, as part of their @arcdurham.bsky.social Advanced Professional Training module #RomanFortThursday

So delighted to announce the official launch of The Armitt’s new digital trail through Roman Ambleside! The trail was developed by our fabulous @arcdurham.bsky.social 2nd-years Rowan Colley and Isla Mustin, with initial work by LU student Bastien Hamilton… 🧵 #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain 🏺

On Friday night #TheGefrinTrust, along with our partners #AdGefrin and @arcdurham.bsky.social, lit up the contours of Edwin's palace and grandstand. For the first time in over a millennium, the structures' footprints could be seen against the dramatic backdrop of Yeavering Bell. (Image: A. Jansen)

📸🦣 Snapshots from our recent return to Moldova - hard at work at a 25,000-year old Upper #Palaeolithic campsite! We were also delighted to receive a visit last week from Samantha Smith, the British Deputy Ambassador to Moldova. Learn more about what we've found: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

We're delighted to announce that our Professor Sarah Semple has been made a Fellow of The British Academy 👏 Congratulations Sarah on her well-deserved achievement! Learn more about this honour in the article below! www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @britishacademy.bsky.social #DurhamUni #DUresearch

Meet PhD candidate and Egyptologist Ariadne Agryos. When asked what is research like, she replied, "This is what research looks like—slow, sacred, and filled with discovery." #ArchaeologyInAction #PhDLife #Egyptology

Fieldwork is never boring, look at these finds.

Great find!

Hot off the press! #NewResearch undertaken in part at our DARC lab (Durham Archaeomaterials Research Centre) 🛠️Ancient Innovation at Tell el-Burak 🍇🏺 New research has revealed what may be the earliest known use of the cocciopesto technique to produce hydraulic mortar in #IronAge Phoenicia. (1/4)

🎓 Studied with us in #Archaeology? 🎓 Your voice matters. Have your say in the Global Alumni Survey 2025. 💡 Check your inbox for your personalised link ⏳ Closes Monday 30 June at 11:59pm (BST)! #DUAlumniSurvey25 #DurhamAlumni #HaveYourSay #MakeYourMark #Archaeology #DurhamUni

Day 5 - We have walls! We have finds! We have a tower? 1) uncovering a large stone surface which has the trench playing the game “Tower or Buttress?”, 2) chasing the curtain wall in the top trench, & 3) finding amazing things (such as a base of a small cauldron). @arcdurham.bsky.social

#FindsFriday - the 2018 discovery of a #prehistoric decorated stela at Las Capellanías, S. Spain, sparked a series of exciting fieldwork initiatives, co-directed by our Dr Marta Díaz-Guardamino. Our own #archaeology students joined in the excavations, making extraordinary further discoveries!💡(1/2)

Day 4 - A day of recording, finds, and fashion! From recording the well from Day 3, to medieval pottery, a bishop’s roasted pig, to site fashion…It’s been a full day of #archaeology with the @arcdurham.bsky.social students!

Day 3 - Well, well, well…we have a well/spring! Just in time too as it may help keep us all cool as we enter some warmer days on site…meanwhile, some interesting mortar-material has appeared in the #archarology of Trench D. 📸 Photo 1- Jamie Armstrong Photos 2, 3- Intern Tom @arcdurham.bsky.social

Day 2 - We have a couple of trenches open this year w/ plenty to get through to reach the #archaeology. May that be turf or the backfill of previous years, the team has taken it on in stride! (The Auckland Project is running trench tours Wed-Sun, 13.00!) 📸 - Jamie Armstrong @arcdurham.bsky.social

Day 1- our final season of #archaeology excavations in Bishop Auckland! @arcdurham.bsky.social students received their site briefing and off they went chasing walls and drains! Follow along for the next three weeks to see what we find…

Day 1 - We’re back for our final year of #archaeology at Bishop Auckland! Follow along or come visit us on site! @arcdurham.bsky.social

📰 Discovery of over 7000 earthworks in southern Iraq offers fresh insight into slavery during the early Islamic Period #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @arcdurham.bsky.social‬ www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

We can't wait to see what the final year at Auckland Castle will bring! Check out this thread below for a fascinating trip through the past 7 years 👇⛏️ #Archaeology #History #DurhamArchaeology #ArchaeologyStudents

Starting Monday, we welcome the 2025 (& final) cohort of @arcdurham.bsky.social / @durham-university.bsky.social 1st years to their 1st field training in #archaeology @aucklandproject! 🧵- An overview of last seasons (2018-2024). Visit/follow for daily updates!

NEW Research Article in #TRAJ Vol 8 - 'Command & Control on Hadrian's Wall: Exploring the Use of Analogy in Roman Frontier Archaeology' by Paul Kitching @arcdurham.bsky.social doi.org/10.16995/tra... #HadriansWall #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

Scroll through for our latest update on #heritage places and link to our #EAMENA #Database!! 👇🏻👇🏻 database.eamena.org @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social