TJM

As an archaeologist, I’m interested in trash. So, when I saw this “Do not litter” sign on the side of an exit ramp of a highway in Ontario, I was intrigued by its old-fashioned notion of “trash” 1/

600-year-old artifacts found in abandoned Bearded Vultures nests 🤯 phys.org/news/2025-10-b…

Legendary City of Troy Yields 4,500-Year-Old Golden Brooch and Jade Stone - Anatolian Archaeology anatolianarchaeology.net/legendary-city…

@CBS I promise you I will never watch your channel again. In firing Stephen Colbert and settling that lawsuit, you’ve proven yourselves to be the utmost cowards.

Minoan style!

@CanMusHistory It is a great exhibition! Lots of material that is not usually seen in Canada.

👑 See #FirstRoyals before it closes January 19th! ⚔️

La Machine is a French production company based in Nantes, France known for urban theatre their latest creation, a nearly 50-foot-tall robotic Minotaur, roaming the streets of Toulouse, France. x.com/DamnThatsInter…

Skeuomorphic wall treatment. Paint that imitâtes the more expensive marble. #skeuomorph

BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially unsurvivable 2°C 🧵

Skeumorphic tiles #skeuomorphsaturday

@AndersenAngus And then you hit that clover-favoured one… *ptoui!*

These were what we used to get during my childhood from Trick or Treating, remember them?

A 387-year-old handwritten shopping list, dated October 1633, found under the floorboards of a London home. Written by Robert Draper, this letter lists various household items, including greenfish, pewter spoons, and a frying pan. Collection: National Trust. "...Mr Bilby, I pray p[ro]vide to be sent too morrow in ye Cart some Greenfish, The Lights from my Lady Cranfeild[es] Cham[ber] 2 dozen of Pewter spoon[es]: one greate fireshovell for ye nursery; and ye o[t]hers which were sent to be exchanged for some of a better fashion, a new frying pan together with a note of ye prises of such Commoditie for ye rest. Your loving friend Robert Draper, Octobre 1633, Copthall"

Researchers identify remains of Franklin expedition skipper - Legion Magazine legionmagazine.com/researchers-id…

Mysterious 'horseman' from lead coffin unearthed in Notre Dame Cathedral finally identified livescience.com/archaeology/my…

Bronze Sword Bearing Ramesses II’s Name Discovered in Ancient Egyptian 3,200-Year-Old Barracks zmescience.com/science/news-s… via @zmescience

Archaeology in spaaaaace… Archaeologists conduct first ‘space excavation’ on International Space Station – and discover surprising quirks of zero-gravity life theconversation.com/archaeologists… via @ConversationEDU

Skeuomorphic wall decoration. Plaster made to look like marble. #skeuomorphsaturday

@theo_nash Depending on how things were going with my dissertation, I had some choice words to say about Minoan pottery too.

Pottery descriptions as personal insults:

Analysis of Thutmose III’s Tomb Paintings Reveals Unprecedented Colors and Minoan Techniques labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/05/ana…

Found in the northern Sinai Peninsula, this multi-room structure may have housed Thutmose III’s troops over three and a half millennia ago. bit.ly/4bnY1xy