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Maen Llia: June 11th 2025 - the moon rise at the major southern lunar standstill aligns with Maen Llia and the stone row leading from it despite a strip of cloud which tried its best to hide the moon. Maen Llia Standing Stone is an elegant and imposing standing stone which is impressively situated in a remote position at the top of the Llia valley, along which it points directly north to south. It is a massive slab of a stone 3.8 metres in height, 2.8 metres across but only 0.

ArdentArchivist 17h ago

Ticia Verveer 17h ago

Identification Tharais: Rediscovering a Byzantine Archaeological Site
on the Madaba Mosaic Map

Researchers Used a 1,500-Year-Old Map to Find a Lost City

Excavators determined the ancient city, Tharais, was a religious hub of the Byzantine Empire.

Popular Mechanics

ArdentArchivist 21h ago

Nina Willburger 23h ago

A section of the #Roman Eifel #aqueduct that supplied water to the city of Cologne. The vaulted underground tunnel with an inspection shaft at Mechernich-Breitenbenden was unearthed during construction work in the late 1970s. The estimated maximum flow rate of the aqueduct was 250 litres per second. At that rate, the aqueduct would have supplied Cologne with 20 million litres of water each day!

📷 https://www.krefeld.de/de/vermessung/fernwasserleitungen/

#RomanArchaeology #archaeology

ArdentArchivist 1d ago

Stevan 1d ago

Here's an interesting one. Both herself and I have noticed several newsletters to which we've subscribed suddenly stop. When we checked, it appears the newsletters are still in existence; we just unilaterally no longer get them.
The only reason I can think of is our email system doesn't send back magic pixels or whatever nefarious surveillance-tech they use to monitor how we read or respond to the newsletters, so we get dropped off the lists as being worthless.

ArdentArchivist 1d ago

sjvn 1d ago

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for #LibreOffice and #Linux https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/ by @sjvn

Europe doesn't trust the US government or its tech powers, so its countries are looking elsewhere.

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux

Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here's why.

ZDNET

ArdentArchivist 1d ago

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Tom 1d ago

@brianbilston

I shared this with my wife.

She has views 🙂

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Minimus 1d ago

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 439
Silvius et amici meditantur tabernaculum erigere (Silvius and his friends practise putting up a tent). sengi, arvicola corniculaque asseres tractant; Silvius paxillum tenet (The sengi, the vole and the little crow handle the poles; Silvius holds a tent peg).

ArdentArchivist 1d ago

Nina Willburger 1d ago

Children have always enjoyed making noise: a some 4,000 years ago, a kid in Egypt was buried with this rattle, so the child might play with it in the afterlife.

On display at Neues Museum Berlin

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