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Huge depositions of 1st century BC metalwork from destroyed wagons found near York and next to a top-level British hillfort settlement.
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Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain - Volume 100 Issue 411Cambridge Core
Pompeii victim identified as Roman physician killed while fleeing Vesuvius eruption
More than sixty years after archaeologists excavated Pompeii’s Garden of the Fugitives, researchers identified the likely profession of one victim from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in CE 79. Evidence hidden inside a plaster cast points to a physician who died while trying to escape the city with tools...
More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/05/pom…
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Pompeii victim identified as Roman physician killed while fleeing Vesuvius eruption
CT scans and medical tools hidden in a Pompeii cast identify a Vesuvius victim as a Roman physician fleeing the eruption.Dario Radley (Archaeology News Online Magazine)
I’ve just signed a 6-month contract to work as a collections curator for Västmanland County #Museum. It's in Västerås, the country’s sixth largest city. My office will be at the satellite storage facility in nearby Hallstahammar.
Västmanland formed part of the core ancient tribal territory of the Swedes that lent their name to the current much larger kingdom, and has rich #archaeology.
Historia & kultur – Fri entré - Västmanlands läns museum
Västmanlands läns museum – ett kulturhistoriskt museum med utställningar, program och digitala upplevelser. Utforska Västmanlands historia och upptäck vårt spännande kulturarv!Västmanlands läns museum
For #MosaicMonday the mosaic in the so-called winter triclinium of the #Roman villa at Antandros. A kantharos and birds are depicted in the centre of the mosaic.
The villa dates back to the 4th c. AD. Antandros is located in the ancient Troas region, 2 km east of the town of Altınoluk, Turkiye.
#RomanArchaeology #archaeology
"HaS sCiEnCe GoNe ToO fAr?!"
uh...
yeah, it has
#science has gone too far
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"'It was very very good': #Ötzi the Iceman's body is covered in ancient #yeast — and scientists just used it to make a #sourdough
A new study cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeasts that had colonized Ötzi's body shortly after his death 5,300 years ago in the #Alps."
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We've reached the point where we're having to actively degrade the UI and remove useful features of the small scientific database I co-maintain (xronos.ch) to try and reduce the extreme load imposed by (unwanted and politely-asked-to-go-away) AI crawler bots. Conversations about new features have to ask whether it's going to make the crawler load problem worse.
