Mastodawn

Druidtemple … what a name, what a place …. Just south of Inverness the remains of one of only 50 Clava Cairns. #TombTuesday
More pictures on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=877

ArdentArchivist 7h ago

Minimus 12h ago

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 435
amica Silvio dona esculenta ex Italia reduxit (Silvius' friend brought back edible presents from Italy). Silvius numquam formas siccatas pastae et lycopersica in capsulā stanneā vidit (Silvius has never seen dried pasta shapes or tomatoes in a tin)!

ArdentArchivist 7h ago

Stevan 12h ago

Oh well done BBC, repeating on air the racist "advert" Farage's fascists produced for their Scotland colony. I may not have much good to say about the Scottish Labour branch office, but lines have been fully breached with this. The BBC never neglects an opportunity to gives the fascists oxygen, complete with "both sides" nonsense. They (and us) are being played.

ArdentArchivist 17h ago

Nina Willburger 21h ago

For #TilesOnTuesday large dog's paw prints on a #Roman tile. I can totally picture animals walking on tiles before they were fired!

On display at Hegau Museum Singen

📷 me

#archaeology #RomanArchaeology

ArdentArchivist 22h ago

Jonny Clark 22h ago

#fledgling #bluetit getting a feed on the reserve at #WWTCastleEspie.

#nature #natureohotography #wildlife #bird #birds #young #immature #youngster #wwt #CountyDown #NorthernIreland #spring @RSPB @wwtworldwide

ArdentArchivist 1d ago

Nina Willburger 1d ago

New discovery: Roman army camp found beyond Roman Empire’s northern frontier

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/roman-army-camp-found-beyond-roman-empires-northern-frontier

#RomanArchaeology #archaeology

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Ticia Verveer 1d ago

Egypt unveiled three tombs in the Dra Abu al-Naga necropolis in Luxor. Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 BC) and identified the names and titles of their owners through inscriptions found within
https://apnews.com/article/egypt-luxor-necropolis-tombs-new-kingdom-8d9890225f73e8fa88bfa18ef0a2b62a

Egyptian archaeologists discover three tombs in Luxor

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period from 1550–1070 B.C. They identified the names and titles of their owners through inscriptions found within. That's according to a statement released Monday by the tourism and antiquities ministry. The ministry released pictures of items discovered in the tombs. They include artifacts and statues. The discovery comes several months after ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3,600 years were unearthed at the causeway of Queen Hatshepsut’s funerary temple. The discovery comes in the lead-up to the highly anticipated full opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum. The site will showcase more than 100,000 artifacts from Egypt’s rich ancient heritage.

AP News

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Megalithic Portal (Andy B)1d ago

Sometimes I get the funniest spam emails:

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Nina Willburger 1d ago

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A lovely Phoenician pendant shaped as a head, dating 6th-4th c. BC.
Pendants in the shape of heads were popular products of Phoenician workshops and were presumably designed to ward off evil.

📷 Ruhr Museum/Rainer Rothenberg

#Archaeology

ArdentArchivist 2d ago

Ticia Verveer 2d ago

A new study by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that bodies recovered from a "war-cemetery," previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, did not die in a single dramatic event.
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-roman-massacre-iconic-archaeological-site.html

The Roman massacre that never happened according to a new study of an iconic archaeological site

A new study by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that bodies recovered from a "war-cemetery," previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, did not die in a single dramatic event. The work is published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.