Don Walker

Breaking news from our excavations at Holborn Viaduct! We’ve uncovered the first complete Roman funerary bed found in Britain - and there's more. This fascinating site covers an incredible 2000 years of London's history. Read more HERE: buff.ly/3SuYLJm

Built around 1130, this tiny pink church is an extraordinary time capsule to the Norman world 🕰️ #DYK that St Mary’s Church has the oldest timber roof of any building in England? 🌳 📍 Kempley, Gloucestershire

Possible Sarmatian in Roman Britain you say?

DNA detectives solve the mystery of a 2,000-year-old corpse. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

People reaching for the DNA like it’s the shark repellant bat spray when they’d be better off going for the good old fashioned batarang.

My Huxley lecture, November 2023 Mostly out of Africa youtu.be/0O6l-PjMgBs

Previous work that had discussed the burial in these terms was in good faith and based on the analysis that was available at the time, but techniques improve and sometimes results change.

Swali Time! Plague in Britain 4000 years ago.

Cast of Star Wars out of costume in 1977.

Animals that went extinct because of humans

Evening shadows piercing the farmland at Chilton in South Oxfordshire.

One of the oldest churches in Britain - the Saxon church of St Mary sub Castro, Dover

that’s wizard youtu.be/dPSZJ3xH5sA

@Dr_Fishbones So to summarise, you’re having a wizzard kind of a day? 🤣 youtu.be/IJPc7esgvsA

Neanderthals lived in groups big enough to eat giant elephants | Science science.org/content/articl…

This is my sort of football…

Very excited that this is out in time to be a stocking filler!

Look at these bad boys

Lovely 😊

One of my childhood heroes. He made everything easy to understand: compelling to watch and learn. 🤗 Judith Hann, Raymond Baxter, Johnny Ball, Maggie Philbin, Brian Cant and of course @FloellaBenjamin and Valerie Singleton - forever thankful to all of you. 🤗