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design of the of the villa of P. Fannius Synistor at near published the 23rd Feb 1901 in the "Caras y Caretas" (n.125, p.12). These paintings are now at Source:BNE https://t.co/nS8qRnadgH

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2020-04-14

"what should be done with the 20 million cubic metres of rock and soil that the excavation will produce"

hmm what indeed

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2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

Finished that one (and another one too) for that in the meantime, by the way. 😉

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2020-04-12

Sunday! And most stuff‘s off the desk (right in time for the next week of homeoffice approaching).

So, the rest of this afternoon’s going to be - finally returning to that project thing. 😉

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2020-04-05

A look back to August 2015 and the discovery of a spectacular inscribed stone slab inside Structure Eight. 📷 Jo Bourne/Ole Thoenies.

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2020-04-03

Spending some more time with drafts and that ... so here‘s a little study in Turkish 🍵 for this 😉

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2020-03-01

Yesterday I spent the day photographing some of the Meroitic material in , which originate from the excavations of John Garstang. They were given to Henry Wellcome, a sponsor of the excavation, around 1911. Here's a nice offering table found in tomb 307 at Meroe.

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2020-02-26

In 1849 Thomas Layton donated to the British Museum fossil bones of oxen and bear, together with numerous antlers, that were found during the excavation of the cutting at Kew Bridge Station. They were later transferred to the . https://t.co/DDJsPlDo8k

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2020-02-26

Picasso met the social climbing Olga, a great beauty & dancer. She challenged his sense of self & the result was his excavation of classicism. Portrait of Olga in an Armchair (1917-8), Sleeping Peasants (1919) & The Source (1921)

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2020-02-20

Am I spending my free evenings working on some obscure illustrated excavation journal?

Um, yes ... I’m spending my free evenings working on some ... obscure illustrated excavation journal. 🤷🏻‍♂️😉

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2020-02-17

Notification for all Imperial citizens.
A Luther-pattern Excavation-Automata has been improperly activated by accident and is now wandering around.
If seen, report it and do not approach as it may go berserk.

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2020-02-14

Excavations in the 1930s recovered fragments of the gleaming mosaics which would have decorated the palace at Ctesiphon when it was built, like this one now in the

-kf

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2020-02-10

Vinny is an archaeologist specialising in underwater excavations. Is a lazy beachbum at all other times and just wants to pearl dive and drink margaritas with a nice lady on an island somewhere.

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2020-02-10

Next up was the extensive Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia, next to a beautiful village and excellent spring. While there are ongoing excavations, the site was looted in the 20th century, & finds thought to be from the graves were repatriated to Greece from a gallery in the US

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2020-02-09

The Achavanich Beaker, discovered during an excavation of a burial cist in 1987. The cist was unusual in that it was dug into the Caithness flagstone bedrock, a process that would have involved moving 3.4 tones of stone to create a pit. Full detail here https://t.co/BaFDwh9uRE

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2020-02-07

Archaeologists are essential to an excavation site for sure. Anthropologists, zoologists, botanists, and architects are needed too.

But it is the many local workmen doing the actual digging, who keep the whole thing running.

Here‘s to them. ✊

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2020-02-02

Another angle on 'story time' of course would be the many little excavation anecdotes we have in our field journals.

Like that time a scorpion and I had a little ... misunderstanding about who was first in the excavation house‘s bathroom that one evening. 😬🤷🏻‍♂️

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2020-01-25

The 3D print of a skull with a craniotomy recovered in excavations on Rat Island in Gosport. Look out for fascinating developments and coverage in 2020 having already featured in and

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2020-01-15

Look what just arrived from ! This wonderful replica of an imported 13/14th century serpent-headed jug that was found during excavations in Wood Quay,

I'm so delighted with it and it will take pride of place at home!

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2020-01-11