The ceasefire was broken. And guess who broke it, killing hundreds, and who gave the thumbs up.

Please take a moment to read about the GAZAMAP Project and its important work documenting and protecting cultural heritage as well as training and supporting heritage students in Gaza ❤️ #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #MaritimeArchaeology #GAZAMAP

Thrilled to find out that @UoPeople, where I have the honor to serve as an adjunct instructor, is now accredited by WASC. If you agree that education should be a right for all and not a privilege for a few, share! #UoPeopleAccreditation #EducationForAll

Coz the West Bank is also under fire...

The first royal #tomb in #Egypt's Theban area since 1922 has been found; Tomb C4 in the West Wadis (close to the Valley of the Kings) once hosted #Pharaoh Thutmose II, the husband of Queen Hatshepsut. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/02...

An overview of archaeological research and museum establishment in Gaza #Palestine, land grabs and Disneyfication in historic sites, canonizing illegal excavations, and how to stand up to what #Classics are teaching us. Just some of the topics under discussion here www.youtube.com/watch?v=alb0...

Missing link in Indo-European #languages’ history found. New insights into our linguistic roots via ancient #DNA analysis. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/02...

#Egypt, #archaeology Ramesside settlement levels found at Plinthine! A #Ramesside settlement has finally been identified in the lower levels of the mainly Hellenistic site of Kom el-Nugus next to Taposiris Magna. Full article @antiquityj.bsky.social, news post version buff.ly/3Q728pa

Thinking about how "lunar history" redefines the meaning of #history as a term. Anyways, there are some updates on the measurements of moon rocks from the Apollo missions. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/02...

I hope the historians and archivists are kicking into high gear right now. Re: USAID— So much history is literally about to be wiped out.

A King's Mother from the medieval #Nubian kingdom of Makuria. For more reconstructions of Medieval Robes from Nubia, in the exhibition at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, from February 6. #blackhistorymonth #archaeology #africa www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/02...

The #Amazon Casarabe people used extensive drainage canals and farm ponds, starting the #Neolithic Revolution in their area between 500 and 1400 A.D. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/02...

13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of #medieval #churches using #Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/02...

Reconstructions of #Medieval Robes from #Nubia. Five robes for royal mothers, kings, and a bishop have been reconstructed based on paintings from the cathedral of Faras (medieval Nubian Kingdom of Makuria) and archaeological material. #exhibition. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/02...

Lead contamination in ancient Greece points to societal change. Maritime contamination, especially, is contemporary with the Roman conquest of Greece. #paleoenvironment buff.ly/3WLBAxn

Getting to know the Avars. Two settlements with people of different origins living peacefully side by side, which were excavated in Austria, help us get closer to how the legendary conquerors looked like and behaved.

DGAM calls on archaeological missions to return to work in the country #Syria #archaeology #havetrowelwilltravel www.sana.sy/en/?p=345660

Recording heritage condition during the Great Return. Archaeologist Fadel AlUtol returns home to Gaza City and shares current images of the mosaics in the Byzantine church complex in Jabaliah, which he had extensively worked on before the war. #palestine, #archaeology, #heritage.

Athens peeps, this is for you! #palestine, #event

The Vasari Corridor opens again in #Florence. Historic Medici-era route that joined the Uffizi with Palazzo Pitti/ Boboli Gardens, via Ponte Vecchio, reopens with a special ticket. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/01...

"Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology" [la classe d'article que hauria tingut els 324alfamascles bullint a Tw] theconversation.com/ancient-dna-...

#Paleobotany. Analysis of plant microfossils from Middle #Neolithic grinding stones (3270–2920 cal BCE) found at Oldenburg, Germany, reveal a #diet of wild grass fruits, knotweeds, acorns, starch-rich tubers, and possibly wild legumes, apart from cereal. buff.ly/4gdXznF

Queerness Βeyond Ιdentity. Cfp for a Panel at the Society for Classical Studies 157th Annual Meeting (Jan. 7-10, 2026). Deadline March 1, 2025. For more buff.ly/3WzErcS, #queer, #classics, #archaeology

How we started writing. Great #archaeology post from a group of experts dedicated to tracing the origins of writing. anetoday.org/writing-sout...

I can’t even look at the news today but this is about where I’m at. Artist credit: Liberal Jane

"Over 20,000 Palestinian Children Orphaned by War in Gaza" "Palestinian families have stepped in to take care of children not their own but the volume of children orphaned by the war is staggering" www.dropsitenews.com/p/20000-pale...

4,900 years ago, a #Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. The trigger? A large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout Northern Europe. #sunstones, #ancient, www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/01...

Post doc position! #archaeology🏺

Semantic Annotation for the #Ancient World – SA4AW May 20-21, 2025, in Rethymno, Crete (Greece). #conference #cfp, #digitalhumanities, www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/01...

EAA 2025 session on Ancient Egyptian Settlements Deadline for paper submissions: 6 February 2025 www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/01...

Ptolemaic era statue head found in 7th c. CE city of Taposiris Magna. (...and, yes, there is more to Abusir than seeking Cleopatra's tomb in the Great Temple). www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/01...

Cleopatra’s sister remains missing as a skull thought to belong to her is now found to be the one of a tween boy. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/01...

#PostDoc position on ancient #Egyptian #slavery announced. The successful candidate will explore the position of slaves through papyrological sources in ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Latin through project SLaVEgents, hosted at the University of Crete. buff.ly/3PxrPil

The #tomb of #Pharaoh Shepseskaf in Saqqara is to be studied by a Polish-Egyptian mission. The tomb, associated with numerous theories and myths, has never been thoroughly studied. The team returns after a 1st successful preliminary research season. #archaeology www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/01...

Δεν είχα ξαναδεί, τουλάχιστον εγώ, τέτοια αντικείμενα. Μιλάμε για έναν άλλο, άγνωστο κόσμο. Να πάτε! www.instagram.com/stories/high...

Works of Flemish artist De Vély at risk of leaving the UK www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/01...

#HappeningNow. Religious Secularity at #Byblos: a Laboratory Synthesising the Materiality of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Bronze Age. #Workshop running from 9 a.m. CET, by Professor Gianluca Miniaci and Camilla Saler. Streaming Link: bit.ly/ReligiousSec...

Nothing is closer to a Christmas destination than the place where Christ was born. For the moment, praying for a better future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF11...

New discoveries at Taposiris Magna Temple, #Alexandria. Significant discoveries include 337 coins, many depicting Cleopatra VII, oil lamps, bronze statues, a limestone container for cosmetics, a scarab amulet, and an impressive head of a statuette buff.ly/4ixuPII

The latest issue of Αρχαιολογία και Τέχνες (Issue 146) has arrived, just in time for the holiday season! featuring cutting-edge research on the caves of Northern Greece, it is part of our #Cave #Archaeology special.

Reading about the Inca ceramic assemblages associated with the capacocha (child sacrifice ritual performed at volcano peaks) as manifestation of Inca religious-territorial domination and #imperialism. So, could the capacocha be the #Inca equivalent to the Egyptian #boundary stelae? buff.ly/4ijq59O

For Pharaonic Egypt of the New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age) the Bayuda desert was a natural barrier preventing direct hegemony in this part of Sudan, possibly forcing the Egyptians to outsource control to local chieftains. Now, archaeology analyses the Bayuda, revealing its unique character.

NEW Archaeologists find a tattoo of a classic Christian symbol on the foot of a body from medieval Nubia. It was likely a sign of the bearer's faith, indicating tattoos could be an expression of Christianity in medieval Nubia. 🆓 buff.ly/48S7flN

... to worry about the state of archaeology in Gaza now is not a priority until one realizes that what is being produced under Western eyes is the acceleration of chronicle into history and the latter’s ‘degradation’ into #archaeology ". www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Marija's Kurgan hypothesis has been magnificently vindicated by recent work”, or when Colin Renfrew acknowledged he had got it partially wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmv3...

This day’s read. Illuminating! Abd el-Gawad, Heba; (2023) Strategic Narcissism: A Lived Experience of ‘Decolonising’, Inclusion of and ‘Collaborations’ with Indigenous Researchers. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology , 148 (2) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

#HappeningNow. You still get to register your online attendance at the workshop To Embrace and to Reject: Cultural Memories in #Roman Macedonia (ca. 1st Century BC – 3rd Century AD.

Which #Mycenaeans? Forms of #Regionalism in the Copais Basin in LH IIIA-B. #Lecture today by Stefano Ruzza (PhD candidate, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and La Sapienza University of Rome), at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens. buff.ly/3CwutSb

Archaeologists need to recenter their practices from the outset, not just during times of war. Well-versed thoughts, by Isabelle Vella Gregory in her recent "The Invisibility of Sudan's Civil War" paper. Full paper here www.cambridge.org/core/journal...