Brendan and Samantha are looking forward to their talk this evening for the “Housing Ambition Project”! Thanks to all our colleagues in the Department of Architecture (University of Nairobi) for all their kind support during their trip!

Archaeologists accidentally found a skeleton in Germany with a silver amulet containing a fragile folded inscription. Using CT scans, they read text invoking Christ, showing Christianity reached that region earlier than thought — rewriting part of early Christian history

Gender roles in Neolithic Hungary may have been more flexible than researchers previously expected. 🏺🧪

When archaeologists found the bodies of 77 women and children in an Iron Age grave, they pinned it on a prehistoric plague outbreak. A new analysis reveals it was actually a mass execution. Most bizarre? @mireniraorb.bsky.social's look at their genes shows the victims weren't related. @science.org

Really excited to share our new paper on the Early Iron Age mass grave at Gomolava (9th c. BCE), a study I had the pleasure to work on during my PhD with an amazing group of co-authors across multiple disciplines. Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

The Housing Ambition team thank Kenyan Ambassador to Ireland, George Morara Orina and his team for warmly receiving Brendan O'Neill, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and Samantha Martin, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy to discuss the richness of Kenya's archival history.

Our piece in The Conversation about the massacre and mass grave at Early Iron Age Gomolava, reflecting on aspects of its resonance today theconversation.com/a-2-850-year... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Archaeologists have to call out the destruction of cultural heritage wherever it’s done - e.g. 6th century Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza (extensive destruction of museums, archaeological sites, libraries) or here, a UNESCO world heritage site in Tehran

Explore the cultures of the Mediterranean from prehistory to late Antiquity, from Greece to North Africa to Iberia with us on our new Graduate Diploma and MSc programmes at #ucdmediterraneanarchaeology in @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and @ucdclassics.bsky.social at @ucddublin.bsky.social