Almost Archaeology
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Archaeology in/of/as/through pop culture. Run by @archaeonado.bsky.social, writing at almostarchaeology.com
The archaeology of archaeology A shed used from 1910 by Arthur Bulleid and Harold St George Gray during excavations at Meare Iron Age Lake Village Rediscovered in 1982 filled with tools and newspapers dating from 1890 😮 Now at Avalon Archaeology #Somerset #IronworkThursday #MetalworkThursday
“The town is devastated … I'm even trembling. The truth is that for those of us from Villena, this destroys us. It's part of our heritage, of our wealth," the mayor said. Makes me so sad to read this 😞 emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Thieves steal Bronze Age artifacts from Spanish museum in four-minute heist
The Treasure of Villena is a unique trove of almost ten kilos of gold, bowls, bottles and bracelets dating back to the Bronze Age.
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"There’s a certain cultural cachet in showing that you’re interested in music as an object and an experience...the haptic, sensorial quality of listening to music.”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘It brings me joy’: how young people are making CDs cool again
Dr Aisling Tierney@irishashyt.bsky.social · 2w agoHandmade cuneiform hair pins based on the Sumerian writing system. Four hair pins included in each set. Great gift for anyone who loves archaeology! Perfect for historians! Link tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4559... #cuneiform #archaeology #mesopotamia #archaeologist #sumerian
The next blockbuster: The Sea People Heroes: Rameses the Great & Ammurapi of Ugarit Villain: Odysseus Plot twist: climate change caused mass migration Final scene: Phoenician makes it out of Ugarit with an iron sword Film-making twist: archaeologists consulted Chris Nolan: call me Visuals:
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
In 1999, the Lunar Prospector orbiter was deliberately crashed into Shoemaker Crater at the Moon's south pole. The spacecraft carried some of the ashes of legendary planetary geologist Eugene Shoemaker. 🔭 🧪
Lunar Prospector - NASA Science
NASA's Lunar Prospector orbited the Moon for almost 19 months to map its surface composition and to look for polar ice. The probe found evidence suggesting
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On August 5, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is predicted to crash onto the Moon. What has crashed on the Moon before? The very first human object to touch the Moon - Luna 2 in 1959. A probe, 3 bombs, and a rocket body! 🧪 🔭
1959: Luna 2 (USSR)
YouTube video by International Astronautical Federation
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Bore da / good morning on #StandingStoneSunday Here are the Gorsedd stones inside Aberystwyth Castle at dusk; they were erected in 1914 for the Eisteddfod. It is the only Gorsedd circle in Wales to include a stone from every county 😮 🤔 coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/800... 📷 My own, last night
"This battle of trying to erase the Palestinian culture and Palestinian memory – it’s not something theoretical" ... "Every scan, every backup and every replicated copy is an act of resistance against erasure...to ensure that Palestinian memory survives even if the places that hold it do not."
WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago“We created this platform, the Palestine Museum Digital Archive, which is an unlootable archive,” says Amer Shomali the museum’s general director. The mission is to safeguard Palestinian history and make it available to those unable to visit Palestine.
Archaeo-policing - thanks to @thebugle.bsky.social "Archaeologists called in to investigate by Italy’s Carabinieri military police discovered the 'ancient' structure contained fibreglass, papier-mâché columns, rendered blocks and plaster statues dating from the early 2000s."
Italian conman jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre
In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials.
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"...attributed to the Ziwiye hoard, discovered in north-western Iran...a trove of gold, silver, bronze and terracotta found in 1947... the surviving pieces were 'sold in antique markets out of Iran in the 1960s' and 'are now scattered in different museums and private collections'.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoZendaya faces backlash for wearing ancient Iranian jewellery at Odyssey event
Another view of that tall space beneath the M8 Kingston Bridge approach, a kind of cathedral to the internal combustion engine.
Archaeologist heritage
David Peacock@pavonis.net · 4mo agoYesterday, the Uffculme History Group celebrated the life and work of the archaeologist Ralegh Radford, one of the village's most famous residents, by unveiling a blue plaque on his house in Uffculme, where he lived for nearly 50 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralegh_...
Extreme archaeology
Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · 3mo agoI talked to Justin Walsh and Shawn Graham about their new Mt Everest project, “Archaeology Impossible,” and what they learned from space archaeology on the ISS. 🏺🧪 @jstpwalsh.bsky.social / @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
