Archaeologists near Venice just found Altino's lost church, built ~1,600 years ago on Roman road stones laid upside down. It suggests Venice began as a slow, managed move, not a panicked flight from invaders. 🏛️ #History #Archaeology #Venice #MedievalHistory www.medievalists.net/2026/10/arch...

Archaeologists Discover Long-Lost Early Medieval Church Near Venice - Medievalists.net

Archaeologists have discovered a long-lost early medieval church near Venice, revealing new evidence about the origins of the city and its Christian history.

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Some things never change... Archaeologists in Türkiye have discovered 4,000-year-old dog paw prints preserved in a mudbrick from a Bronze Age house. #history #archaeology #pets www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/bron...

Bronze Age paw prints finds trace of daily life from 4,000 years ago - Türkiye Today

Excavations at Tavsanli Hoyuk in Kutahya, western Türkiye, uncover paw prints dating back about 4,000 years

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On this day, the Mayor of New York opened the subway... #otd #nyc

Archaeologists in Peru uncovered a 1,400-year-old Moche child's tomb containing 32 offerings, including ceramics depicting bound prisoners. #peru #historynews www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

1,500-year-old pre-Inca burial contains a high-status toddler ‪—‬ but the grave goods are puzzling

Archaeologists have uncovered the 1,500-year-old burial of an elite toddler from the Moche culture in Peru.

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The bigotry is just so off the rails right now... #rfk

Bluesky has four types of users... #bluesky #history

A new Chicago History Museum exhibit includes a dress fragment kept by Elizabeth Keckly. Born enslaved, she bought her freedom, became Mary Lincoln’s dressmaker, and organized aid for newly freed people during the Civil War. #history #arthistory #historynews www.chicagohistory.org/chicago-hist...

Chicago History Museum Explores the Work of Museum Conservators in New "Threads of a Nation: Preserving Presidential Clothing" Exhibition - Chicago History Museum

Opening to the public in late October, “Threads of a Nation” highlights the work and expertise required to protect and preserve rare artifacts, clothing associated with U.S. presidents for future … Le...

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Springfield’s 1895 George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum reopened yesterday after nine months of preservation work. springfieldmuseums.org/press-releas... #historynews #museum

Maybe it's the historian in me, but all these stories about coders leaving AI companies while everyone else keeps on trucking reminds me a little too much of the Titanic... #ai #claude

Titanic Band Violinist Performs

ALT: Titanic Band Violinist Performs

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A new Milwaukee exhibition explores 180 years of mining through photography. In 1911, Lewis Hine photographed boys sorting coal in Pennsylvania, exposing child labor behind America's industrial growth. #arthistory #museumnews #history mam.org/exhibitions/...

Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography

“Beneath the Surface” brings together 180 years of photography to reveal the environmental, social, and human consequences behind the extractive industries that power modern life.

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AP reports that Acadia National Park removed a sign explaining Cadillac Mountain’s sacred meaning to the Wabanaki. Their peoples have lived in the region for 10,000+ years. #nativehistory #erasinghistory #historynews www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

At Cadillac Mountain, a missing Wabanaki marker and the fight over what national parks should tell

Signs and exhibits about slavery, climate change, and Native Americans have been removed from national parks across the country as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to eliminate what it call...

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A Roman figurine, an ancient hunting bow, and a mountaineer's helmet—melting Swiss glaciers are revealing a remarkable historical archive. A new exhibition in Lucerne displays the discoveries. #climatechange #history apnews.com/article/swit...

A 'Treasury of Ice' goes on show, revealing relics as Swiss glaciers rapidly melt

The Glacier Garden in Lucerne is showcasing artifacts from Switzerland's glaciers in an exhibit called "Treasury of Ice."

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A Roman coffin. An Anglo-Saxon skeleton. New research at Westminster Abbey suggests a 4th-century sarcophagus was reused for an abbot around 1020. Radiocarbon dating narrows the mystery— #Archaeology #History www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/m...

Mystery of Abbey's Roman sarcophagus solved | Westminster Abbey

The identity of a skeleton found in a Roman sarcophagus in the grounds of Westminster Abbey more than 150 years ago appears closer to being solved.

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A supposed clue to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance turned out to be washed-up trees, researchers announced today. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished in 1937 while flying toward Howland Island. The island-castaway theory remains unproven. #historynews www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Amelia Earhart researchers leave remote atoll empty-handed after ‘plane debris’ found to be a clump of trees

Expedition was drawn to Nikumaroro after spotting what was described as a metallic glint in waters off uninhabited island

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Egypt wasn't the Nile's only great civilization. Kushite kings ruled Egypt in the 8th–7th centuries BCE, and Nubians built their own pyramids. A new exhibition at North Carolina's Museum of Art opened yesterday—with free admission today. #History #Archaeology ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Ancient Nubia

Enjoy interactive experiences throughout the exhibition, including a replica of a royal tomb, a digital archaeological dig for artifacts, and a design your own pectoral station created by the NCMA’s…

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Am I the only one who was thinking about Fonzie "jumping the shark" while watching that Tesla event?!? #tesla #jumptheshark

#OtD 16 Oct 1859 abolitionists led by John Brown, including Black people recruited by Harriet Tubman, raided a federal armoury in Harpers Ferry, WV, to get weapons to arm enslaved people. Several were killed, and Brown later executed for treason stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8828...

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A new study reveals a 13,800-year-old base camp in Alaska, complete with bone needles, stone tools, an earth oven, and traces of a possible dwelling. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42873868/

More than 20,000 historic bricks return to Houston Freedmen's Town www.chron.com/culture/arti... #blackhistory #history

20,000-plus bricks to be restored to Houston Freedmen's Town

The bricks were laid by formerly enslaved Texans who settled in Fourth Ward after being denied access to most parts of Houston.

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#OtD 16 Oct 1854 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland. Moving to London, he became an advocate of libertarian socialism and an early inspiration for what would become a movement for LGBT+ rights. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 16 Oct 1793 Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France before the French revolution, widely but incorrectly believed to have said about the angry and hungry masses "let them eat cake", was beheaded. Learn more about working class radicals in the rev: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

Sun Stone, National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City. January, 2025. 📷 Fujifilm X100VI 🎞 23 mm – 1/35″ – f/5.6 – ISO 2000 🏷️ #Photography

John Brown Tee in honor of the anniversary of his raid on Harpers Ferry. #johnbrown #harpersferry historyhappenings.etsy.com/listing/4315...

Laramie County Library receives $10K grant to develop oral history project. capcity.news/general/2026... #oralhistory #publichistory

Laramie County Library receives $10K grant to develop oral history project

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Laramie County Library recently announced that it has received a $10,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. A release from

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A farmer in Egypt’s Nile Delta spotted an inscribed stone outside his home—and helped uncover the remains of two colossal royal statues. archaeologymag.com/2026/10/gian... #egypt #historynews #discovery

Giant Ramesses II statues found in Behbeit El-Hagar after a villager reports a carved stone block | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Rescue digs in Behbeit El-Hagar reveal two giant statues, likely of Ramesses II, and a pink granite block, after a villager reported a find.

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On October 9, 2026, the Driehaus Museum opened Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History, the Chicago presentation of the first museum exhibition devoted to Emma Stebbins. #arthistory #museum #historynews driehausmuseum.org/exhibition/e...

I see historical inaccuracies in media are trending. My personal favorite, William Wallace didn't wear a kilt! A few centuries off on that one... #kilt #braveheart

William Wallace: I'm Going To Pick A Fight!

ALT: William Wallace: I'm Going To Pick A Fight!

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Egypt just unveiled the restored 2nd-century “Tondo of the Two Brothers.” In Roman Egypt, portraits could be placed over mummified faces, blending Egyptian funerary customs with Greco-Roman painting. #Arthistory #History #Archaeology egyptianmuseumcairo.eg/artefacts/po...

250 years ago today, Benedict Arnold’s fleet lost the Battle of Valcour Island—but delayed a British invasion from Canada. The Smithsonian is now conserving the recovered gunboat Philadelphia. #History #historynews www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...

National Museum of American History Commemorates 250 Years of the Gunboat Philadelphia | Smithsonian Institution

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