📣 The International Journal of Cultural Property is seeking proposals for a Special Issue (Volume 34, 2027). 🔎 Themes of interest include: #CulturalProperty and: #HumanRights; #Identity; #InternationalCriminalLaw; #SustainableDevelopment; #Trafficking. Find out more. 🔗 https://cup.org/4bwn8jp

Mexico has denounced the planned sale on eBay of 195 archaeological pieces and demanded that the auction by an eBay user in Orlando, Florida, identified as “Coins Artifacts,” return the objects to Mexico. mexiconewsdaily.com/news/culture...

In a sign of growing international cooperation in the restitution of looted artifacts, Portugal has returned three pre-Columbian objects to Mexico. This will be the first time Portugal has repatriated unlawfully acquired antiquities to that country. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

New Case: Mayan Jaguar Head, contributed by Lisa Duffy-Zeballos In 1999, on a tip, New York City police raided a Brooklyn garage where they made a surprising discovery. Inside a wooden crate packed with newspaper was a four-foot-long 500-lb stone sculpture of a jaguar head with a man in its jaws.

The FBI has returned to Peru 48 cultural objects -- ranging from colonial-era paintings and textiles to ancient ceramics and silver ornaments -- after investigations in Santa Fe and Las Vegas. www.fbi.gov/news/stories...

WOW, I just hit 19k followers! When I joined Bluesky in July 2023, I never imagined things would take off like this. The exodus from X was clearly waiting to happen, I’m so glad it did. It’s great to see such a large community of archaeology enthusiasts here! Thank you all! This figurine...🧵1/2 📷me

La #arqueología de #Teotihuacán en el diario La Jornada de hoy, 1 de abril. Investigaciones en el túnel de la pirámide de la serpiente emplumada.

Alfonso Caso e Ignacio Bernal, en su libro Urnas de Oaxaca, muestran que para los mayas y los zapotecas el murciélago era una deidad muy importante y que con frecuencia se le representaba con características humanas y nunca en una forma natural. 📌Conoce más arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antig...

Thinking you might be interested in this, @rajoyce.bsky.social www.oupress.com/978080619609...

NYT: Smithsonian Returns Three Khmer Artifacts Thought Looted to Cambodia The objects were the first returned under a 2022 policy requiring the institution to weigh a wider range of factors, like plunder under colonial rule, when deciding to repatriate items. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/a...

Participando en el simposio “Monte Albán y sus interacciones regionales” organizando por la zona arqueológica de Monte Albán. Un trabajo sobre las vasijas efigies cerámicas con representaciones de ancianos.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Tamales & Teotihuacan! 🏺🫔🔬

Felicidades a mis amigas y colegas de la @CNCPC_INAH por el premio otorgado a este importante libro sobre Palenque y sus monumentos grabados! youtube.com/shorts/uHzDt...

Latin American Antiquity 14:221-228. Smith, ME (2005) "Did the Maya Build Architectural Cosmograms?" Latin American Antiquity 16:217-224. I would have thought that scholars who disagreed with me would use my critique to develop better methods of identifying 5/6

🧵The cosmogram crowd are at it again. Sigh. Cool new site, Aguada Fenix, is interpreted by Takeshi Inomata et al as a big cosmogram. The article is here: science.org/doi/10.1126/..., with a journalism article in LiveScience here: livescience.com/archaeology/.... What's wrong with that? 1/6

Hoy en Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, hablaremos sobre la repatriación de bienes culturales.

Au Mexique, un peuple préhispanique exige de la France la restitution d’un manuscrit ancestral : «Pourquoi une œuvre réalisée par mes ancêtres et qui parle de mon peuple se trouve-t-elle à l’autre bout du monde ?»

Egypt’s Grand Museum Is Finally Open. Now, ‘We Need Our Stuff Back.’ For many Egyptians, the state-of-the art museum is a stage from which to renew demands that Egypt’s most iconic antiquities belong in their homeland — not the marble halls of European museums. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...

Capturing a 3D Scene in Blender, step-by-step, for the Portrait of Tenochtitlan 3D viewer. The presentation is up on youtube! #tenochtitlan #threejs

Mexique: la restitution de deux codex préhispaniques au cœur de la visite d'Emmanuel Macron

How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/ Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me

NEW Atop El Castillo, Chichen Itza's largest pyramid, stand two ruined columns that once portrayed the feathered serpent deity K’uk’ulkan. 3D-imaging technologies have identified scattered fragments of these columns, allowing a digital reconstruction. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology #Maya

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Felicidades Alex !

New Case: The Aubin Tonalamatl, contributed by Damien Huffer In June 1982, Mexican attorney and journalist José Luis Castañeda del Valle entered the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris using a false student ID and permits. He convinced curators that he was a student there to study the ancient text.

New case: The Dallas Bhairava Mask This is one of two sacred masks stolen in 1994 from Dolakha, Nepal. The masks date to c. 16th century CE and are effigies of Shiva—one of Hinduism’s most important deities.

“He has not only provided the political climate and resources for the University to turn into the empty shell that it now is, but has…given so many in our leadership the inspiration to crack down on civil and constitutional rights, attack academic freedom and turn their back on common human decency”

I had a great time releasing this at the Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City yesterday. Thank you all that could attend!

It's live! My Interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan is available online. Please give it a try and let me know what you think! retratodetenochtitlan.mx #tenochtitlan #cdmx #b3d #threejs

En la conferencia del Dr. Nikolai Grube, en la UNAM, sobre la escritura maya más allá de los espacios palaciegos. Muy interesante y con datos sobre la importancia de las mujeres mayas como escribas. Grato encontrar a amigos y colegas, como Christophe Helmke.

Thank you to all our journal, book and Cambridge Elements reviewers! 👏 Your time, expertise, and dedication help ensure the quality and integrity of our research. Explore our peer review resources 🔗 https://cup.org/4gBOerI #PeerReviewWeek

For #RomanFortThursday a carved pedestal from the headquarters building of the legionary fortress at Mogontiacium, present-day Mainz, depicting two #Roman legionaries. Dating 2nd half of the 1st century AD. On display at Landesmuseum Mainz. 🏺 📷 me

Manhattan DA returns 9 antiquities to Costa Rica seized during ongoing investigations of trafficking networks targeting South and Central America. They were smuggled into the US and laundered by through false provenances, exhibitions, and museum donations. manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-an...

Escena del periodo Cuaternario Paleolítico Inferior https://www.wikiart.org/en/jose-maria-velasco/escena-del-periodo-cuaternario-paleol-tico-inferior

How can heritage professionals communicate Indigenous #archaeology whilst ensuring authentic objects remain with the descendant communities? #SmithsonianDay Digital museums allow for data sharing whilst placing sovereignty in the hands of the community. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺

The FBI has tracked down and returned another manuscript signed by Hernan Cortez, one of 15 pages stolen from Mexico's National Archives before 1993. No criminal charges filed because it "changed hands several times over" in the decades since its disappearance www.fbi.gov/news/stories...

Why New York can be a risky place for dealers and museums to hold [stolen] art Could the Manhattan district attorney's seizures be putting people off sending [stolen] artworks to the city? www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/04/w...

A new Cambridge Element volume on Linear A by Ester Salgarella, free to download for a limited window - grab it now! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Cultura reabre recintos ¬ La Policía Auxiliar de CdMx se encargará de vigilancia en museos del INAH: Sheinbaum La mandataria federal explicó que el cierre temporal se debió a un retraso en la adjudicación de la licitación para el servicio de vigilancia www.sinembargo.mx/4660495/la-p...

El premio Princesa de Asturias al Museo Nacional de Antropología de México 🇲🇽 …. Y también el problema de la seguridad en el museo. Del periódico La Jornada de hoy.

Gran día en la Dirección de Registro Arqueológico del INAH: repatriación de piezas arqueológicos desde Estados Unidos 🎉🎊

#Epigraphy #EpiDoc #AncientSky A reminder that I set up a starter pack for epigraphy: go.bsky.app/PmuQYDH, which will give you a few dozen suggestions of people to follow who work on a talk about ancient inscriptions. (Or you can bulk-follow, if you like them all!)

Courtesy of Proyecto Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural working at Tonina, @idiom_project is proud to present new inscriptions and drawings from the Maya site of Tonina, drawn by Bonn project member Guido Krempel classicmayan.kor.de.dariah.eu#/new-media

The Website / Portal of the Project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan contains resources like the Maya Image Archive, the Maya Hieroglyphic Text and Image Archive, a calculator for Maya calendrics and other useful tools for Maya hieroglyphic studies classicmayan.org/portal/

Dozens of representatives from Oceanic nations gathered at the Met before dawn this Thursday to reopen the museum's newly-imagined Oceania gallery—a space where the institution's directors promised them that their voices and decisions would now be prioritized

The ancient power of the sun #NationalMayRayDay 🌞 🏺 In Chaco Canyon, 13th-century-AD monumental roads align with the winter solstice sunrise over Mount Taylor. Features of both the land and sky were ritually important to the region's Indigenous people. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

INAH responde a youtuber ¬ MrBeast es señalado de violar acuerdo por promocionar marcas en zonas arqueológicas www.sinembargo.mx/4653644/mrbe...

13,000-year-old barbed point from Bergkamen 🇩🇪 that was attached to a shaft using beeswax #WorldBeeDay 🏺 This marks the oldest evidence of the honey bee in the region following the peak of the last ice age 🐝 🔗 from 2017 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝 Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC. Photo Getty Museum #Archaeology

Denuncian incumplimiento ¬ El INAH presenta demanda contra productora de MrBeast; Layda defiende visita El INAH exigió una retractación y el resarcimiento de los daños por la filmación de MrBeast en sitios arqueológicos www.sinembargo.mx/4652059/el-i...