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The royal palace at Deir el-Ballas, north of Luxor, Egypt. It was the seat of Theban kings and is a reconstruction based on the ongoing archaeological excavations at the site. Features in my graphic novel AHMOSE which is on Kickstarter now! https://t.co/nOV6Vvsc3R

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2021-04-18

Photo from a British newspaper (THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS)
From 1852 it illustrates the transport of winged bulls from archaeological sites in Nineveh, northern Iraq, to ​​British Museum’s.

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2021-04-17

The archaeological record of Flores shows that Homo floresiensis must have been a highly competent stone tool maker and user. The tools left by this show that large brains and humanlike wrists are not essential to technology

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2021-04-17

A colourised reconstruction of the stone is on display at Xanten Archaeological Park, near to where the stone was found.

Photo: Jona Lendering via Livius

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2021-04-15

Aya, using her archaeological knowledge, is able to discover a hidden passage behind one of the stone murals. What secrets lie down there?

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2021-04-12

This week’s is a Finnish convex round brooch (KM41330:1) dating from the Viking Age, a metal-detecting find from Hämeenlinna, Finland. Archaeological Collections of FHA/ - . 📷: Rohiola/FHA.

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2021-04-09

my great grandparents when they met on an archaeological expedition in 1926

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2021-04-09

Lions of the Palace of Boukoleon
They are now at Istanbul Archaeological Museums

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2021-04-05

This of Samarie (a created by me more than 20 years ago) is part of a that will see the light next year. At least so I hope. This dates back to at least 10/15 years ago, a true archaeological find 😂

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2021-04-03

Hey! I’m Jess, an MSc student in Archaeological Science focusing on zooarchaeology and 3D modelling. Outside of my studies I’m a digital artist, who mostly paints animals

Here’s one of my most recent paintings
🐁 🫖

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2021-04-02

We often think that Roman spent most of their lives inside their own houses. Archaeological evidences & literally sources instead tell us that they frequently enter business, working but also running corporations & even owning factories

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2021-03-19

Beautiful Bronze Age pyxis from Mycenae, Grave Circle A, 16th century BC. This ancient wooden box is decorated with gold plates with repousse relief depicting lions chasing a deer and antelope.
Image: National Archaeological Museum Athens.

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2021-03-17

Recent archaeological work has uncovered the aesthetic cultures of who sometimes decorated themselves with colors, shells, talons, and feathers, marked and engraved cave walls, and had an ear for language.

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2021-03-04

Housing several Prehistoric rock paintings, the Bhimbetka rock shelters give the visitor a glimpse into the history of life that flourished in the area through different historical ages.
A feature of an archaeological wonder!
Post design by Shivani Shenoy

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2021-02-24

1989-90 Take Pride in America bookmark issued by the Archaeological Assistance Division of the NPS to SHPOs, who then stamped their contact info & supplied them to the public via libraries, mailings & speaking events during Archaeology Week. Knoll (1990) says 36 SHPOs responded.

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2021-02-20

Long held in a private collection (!) the tooth of a c. 9-yr-old child marks the Neandertal’s southernmost known range. The associated archaeological assemblage suggests Neands used Nubian Levallois, previously thought to be restricted to H. sapiens. https://t.co/ulVJnQmrd8

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2021-02-16

Archaeological adventures: The Monkley Idol, Shark Eater, Bermuda Conspiracy
https://t.co/CVUV6xzbjw

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2021-02-14

A last for the morning, with this awesome panel of Dido from the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). Dido is seated on her throne, with an attendant personification of Africa, as Aeneas' ship departs.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8898)

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2021-02-12

In the city of in there is the which has a really impressive collection of The beautifully preserved mosaic depicting  travelling on his sea is especially impressive.

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2021-02-08

First ed. of La Chausse's "Romanum Museum..." (1690), this book is a predecessor of the archaeological manual, and provides historical and religious context for each item, as well as explanations of their uses, using a methodical classification system

https://t.co/4KxSExar7o

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2021-02-06