Spindle whorls and loom weights from #BronzeAge Beycesultan Höyük, Anatolia. Textiles rarely survive due to the region's humid soil, but over 40 spindle whorls found in one building suggest the site was a major textile production centre. 🔗 from 2025 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Workers at the archaeological site of Dura-Europos, Syria, during 1920s-30s Yale-French Academy excavations. They were vital to the project, but were never named and local voices are largely absent from publications on the site. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #WaybackWednesday 🏺 #Archaeology

King Ladislaus IV of Hungary was born #OnThisDay in AD 1262. He is often known as Ladislaus the Cuman due to his descent from the Cumans: a term for various nomadic Turkic groups who settled in the Carpathian Basin during the 12th and 13th centuries 1/2 #Medievalsky 🏺 #Archaeology

NEW Throughout history, food has always been more than survival, serving vital social and political roles. The latest #AntiquityEditorial explores diverse studies on the science and culture of food, from ancient China to communist Czechoslovakia. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Lidar image of the previously unrecorded #Maya city of Valeriana. Hidden in the dense jungle of Campeche, Mexico, this discovery suggests the central Maya Lowlands may have been much more urbanised and densely settled than first believed. 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

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There’s a wonderful review of Stone Lands in @antiquity.ac.uk! It really brings out the emotional pull these ancient places have for so many of us. I love it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New Book Chronicle: Megaliths and Neolithic societies in northern and western Europe | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

New Book Chronicle: Megaliths and Neolithic societies in northern and western Europe - Volume 100 Issue 412

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📰 Ancient sling bullets reveal the location of a Roman camp in the Pyrenees 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @livescience.com www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Ancient bullets reveal where a Roman camp hid in the Pyrenees of Spain before being ambushed

Researchers found the remains of a Roman camp from 39 B.C. that was ambushed by locals in what's now Catalonia, Spain.

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#OnThisDay in AD 1693, Dom Perignon supposedly invented champagne🍾 Whilst he in fact didn't (there are records of sparkling wine over 100 years earlier), he is credited as developing techniques to perfect it. Here's a tipsy #AntiquityThread on the #archaeology of wine 1/6 🧵🏺

Our August issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as: 🏺 The mysterious giant jar burials of Laos ⚕️ Surgical anaesthetic from Ming China 🕊️ The ancient relationship between humans and pigeons & more! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Bronze bowls from the kingdom of Urartu, Armenia, inscribed with the names of kings. Inspired by Neo-Assyrian cuneiform, the signs become more unique over time, showing the development of a distinct Urartian epigraphic identity. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #EpigraphyTuesday 🏺 #Archaeology

Petroglyphs from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, southern Alberta 🇨🇦 #HeritageDayinAlberta The #RockArt is still revered by First Nations people and continues to inspire Indigenous artists today. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

📰 New research suggests ancient Japanese tomb paintings weren't portraits of the dead, focusing instead on a shared belief about death rather than honouring one person. 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social archaeologymag.com/2026/07/japa...

Ancient Japanese tomb paintings were never portraits of the dead, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Study finds small human figures in ancient Japanese tombs symbolized a shared journey to the ancestors, not the buried individuals.

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Interested in how commerce worked in the past this #CommerceDay? Our Trade and Connections collection contains #archaeology research on everything from the Bronze Age tin trade to ancient Southeast Asian coin-based economies! Check it out: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺

And don't forget to check out the first research published on the Melsonby Hoards too! doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain - Volume 100 Issue 411

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‘Chariots, Treasure and Power: Secrets of the Melsonby Hoard’ Fantastic Yorkshire Museum exhibition showcasing some of the 800+ artefacts from the UK’s largest Iron Age metalwork hoard! So many beautifully crafted bronze objects decorated with coral, glass, and enamel! Do visit! 📷 me #Archaeology

Prehistoric maritime trade routes in the Gulf of Oman. Artefacts from Early Bronze Age Kalba show influence from both Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, indicating exchange across the Gulf as early as 4500 years ago. 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Metal head ornaments called chaplets were fashionable in the Kievan Rus', which encompassed much of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages #MedievalMonday These ones were found in Vilnius, Lithuania, indicating cultural contact over hundreds of kilometres. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Small fragment of #Roman mosaic recovered by William Shipp from Tarrant Hinton villa in 1845 (label still attached) A tiny reminder of a lost masterpiece for #MosaicMonday On display in the ever excellent Museum of East Dorset #Wimborne Minster 📷 April 2025

Archaeologists have discovered 7000-year-old fishing traps in the inland mountains of southern Norway. Predating the introduction of farming, they indicate Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were already actively managing their environments. 🏺 #AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵

The Paper of the Month from @antiquity.ac.uk is "The identification and work of an eighth-century #Maya mathematician" by Franco D. Rossi, David Stuart and Heather Hurst, available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/4fJdTyx #Antiquity #Archaeology #PaperOfTheMonth

🆕 DISCOVER the new #openaccess #research from #Cambridge shaping #archaeology right now! Free to read. Free to share. 🔗 https://cup.org/4w5nczT 📲 Download the research, explore the journals - and perhaps discover a home for your own work. 📸 Courtesy of @antiquity.ac.uk.

Today is sadly the final day of the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalOfArchaeology, but if you can't say goodbye just yet, don't forget that our Nature and Archaeology collection is still completely FREE! Check out the important research: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺 #Archaeology

Comprising ~950 metal artefacts, buried in North Yorkshire shortly before the Roman conquest, the Melsonby Hoards are one of Britain's largest #IronAge metalwork deposits #YorkshireDay Learn how they reveal northern Britain's wealth and connections 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

📰 New research finds lead was worked in Iberia during the Bronze Age, 1,800 years before previously known evidence linked to the arrival of the Phoenicians! 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/d...

Discovery Shows Lead Was Worked in the Iberian Peninsula During the Bronze Age 1,800 Years Before the Phoenicians Arrived

A discovery at the Minferri site, in the town of Juneda in Lleida, has completely upended the established chronology for lead metallurgy in the Iberian Peninsula. The research carried out at this…

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NEW Radiometric dating at Mujina pećina cave, Croatia provides the earliest dates yet recorded from an archaeological site in the Dalmatia region, pushing back human occupation in the area to c. 30,000 years earlier than previously thought! 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Lithics from the Esfarayen Plain, north-eastern Iran #FlintFriday The first documented evidence of Lower Palaeolithic lithics east of the Central Iranian Desert, they fill a crucial gap in our understanding of early hominin migration into Central Asia. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Mount Fuji erupted #OnThisDay in AD 1707 🌋 Japan has contended with volcanoes since it was first settled. ~7,300 years ago, a 'super-eruption' devastated Jōmon hunter-gatherer populations, but surrounding communities were able to survive and adapt. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Riverine rock art dates back as far as 28,000 years in Arnhem Land 🇦🇺 but is under threat from water erosion. The Bawinanga Rangers, predominantly Traditional Landowners, are engaged in preserving these cultural resources #WorldRangerDay 🔗 from 2022 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Pigeons have been an important part of human life for millennia, but the origins of their domestication were unclear. Analysis of pigeon bones from Bronze Age Cyprus sheds light on our ancient bond 🏺 A #FestivalOfArchaeology thread on #NatureAndArchaeology 1/14 🧵

"Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria" @jenbaird.bsky.social & Adnan Almohamad www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @antiquity.ac.uk #openaccess

Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria

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