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This was brilliant craic. We're back in two weeks, so Belfastians, consider coming along! It's free, and everyone is welcome.

This small megalithic tomb in the north of the Burren of County Clare is likely to be a wedge tomb. These are relatively common monuments in the area, and they usually date to around 2500BCE, during the Chalcolithic Period. A transitional time between the Neolithic and Bronze Age. #SpéirGhorm 🏺

You think you've got the weight of the world on your shoulders? Hah! Here's the oldest extant sculpture of Atlas, holding up the heavens in the form of a celestial sphere which features a majority of the constellations known to the Greeks. 🏺 #ancientbluesky Roman, ca. 150 CE. #MANN 📸 me

Attention, @minimuslatin.bsky.social ! 😋

"Man muss etwas machen, um selbst keine Schuld zu haben. Dazu brauchen wir einen harten Geist und ein weiches Herz. Wir haben alle unsere Maßstäbe in uns selbst, nur suchen wir sie zu wenig." - Sophia "Sophie" Scholl (ermordet 22.02.1943)

Timeline cleanse of stunning award winning marine photography 🧪

It shouldn’t be a question. If you’re asked it, the only answer should be, fuck off. But I guess you couldn’t stretch that to a Times op-ed.

For #RomanSiteSaturday an aerial view of the amphitheatre in Itálica, #Spain. ‘Game of Thrones’ fans may recognize the #Dragonpit! The amphitheatre was built in the 2nd century AD and held up to 25,000 spectators.   Photo: Amazing Aerial Agency   🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

Ancient human remains uncovered in a #Derry bog, are believed to belong to a young woman (now named "Ballymacombs More Woman") who lived around 2,000 years ago: 🏺 www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

What a wonderful start of the day with our very own Dr Ryan Lash leading a fantastic field trip for the module ARCH20170 Discovering Ireland Landscape! Glorious day, very engaging talk and equally engaged students! The module is open to all students @ucddublin.bsky.social

Even if you’ve only got a tiny bit of rainbow to you, and so perhaps you’ve always passed as heteronormative, now’s the time to start showing that tiny bit of rainbow. It’s beautiful, and it needs protecting.

Comrade Tangerine Krasnov... www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

Go harder. Be more feminist, more Black, more gay, more queer. Ramp it up. Conform even less. Diversify and include with even more gusto. And do not fear. Because these are the death throes of a dying age.

And this morning the Shed is a bothy on the edge of a desolate moor: scented with heather and woodsmoke…

On Monday it will be three years since Russia invaded Ukraine - during that time, only the Russians have made the kind of savage attacks on Volodymyr Zelensky that Donald Trump made during the past week, writes Sean Whelan.

Trump intends to use US Military sites to “concentrate” undocumented immigrants in camps - presumably the Irish will be in camps in the NE states? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

So, it seems if you stand up to Trump’s bullying - he backs down (see also Canada, Mexico, etc, etc). Lesson no.1

Today is #InternationalMotherLanguageDay, a day to promote linguistic heritage and equal rights to education. In Central Eurasia, #archaeology is challenged by linguistic barriers, as the region's language diversity makes collaborative research hard. 🆓 https://buff.ly/4bKNsoT

Yesterday we hosted the very bravest and hardiest of local teens... Through one of the wettest, muddiest days yet this year, they managed to plant over 100 native trees, build a wattle fence, landscape our new Saxon garden, and start work on a woven Mesolithic shelter!

“What do we do at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC)?” A short video created for UCD Earth Institute, for the EPA's #StoryOfYourStuff Schools' competition youtu.be/44_3AS28EiI?...

Gorgeous #Roman glass cups decorated with colourful enamel-painted animals from the Roman arena, AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark, where they are known as ‘circus beakers’. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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Pres AndrewJackson (!) was offered a coffin thought to have held a Roman emperor.His reply "I cannot consent my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emp. or a King; my republican feelings & principles forbid it,the simplicity of our system of government forbids it". A message?

Do they honestly believe he gives a flying fornication?! www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

In early medieval Ireland, according to early Irish law and practice, one was entitled to a bed, food, and water for washing. At UCD, we found that using a wooden bucket and granite pebbles, water can be brought to 81° Celsius (too hot for a bath!) inside 3 minutes! 1/ youtube.com/shorts/uJyqx...

"Today, we're going quite nerdy." Curious about what cuneiform is, how we know how to read it, what stories it preserves? And do you want to laugh while you're learning? Check out the latest episode of You're Dead to Me with Phil Wang, @gregjenner.bsky.social & me! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

📰 Archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last missing royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty! 🏺 #AncientEgyptBluesky #ArchaeologyNews

Collapsing mines in southern Britain can be lethal. In 1967, Jean Thompson was tragically swallowed by a collapsing Denehole in Frindsbiry, Kent, while walking to work along a built-up street. Her body could not be recovered. www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/...

UCD’s Graduate Certificate in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (Online/Distance Learning) is a part-time, online, distance learning course designed to provide students with an understanding of rôle of experimental archaeology in understanding material culture hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #1614: Put down the thesaurus. Your readers don't need a wide variety of different words for the same thing. They want different IDEAS.

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And this morning the Shed is a Victorian folly, hidden at the heart of a maze of overgrown box hedges...

A tiny #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of carnelian (height 0.9 cm). Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility. Dating c. 1540-1296 BC, New Kingdom. Photo: Cleveland Museum of Art 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

I’ll be here talking about Peggy Piggott, of Sutton Hoo fame, and the importance of writing women back in to history. 🏺| ‘Female Foundations: The Lives and Legacies of Women in the Earth Sciences’ | Dorchester, 8th March 2025 #IWD2025 | Tickets available here: www.reachequality.org/events?fbcli...

Great to hear more about this important bog body discovery especially that tge remains are female which is very unusual in this context. www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

Lisnadarragh Wedge Tomb • Monaghan Wedge tombs were the last of Ireland's megalithic tomb tradition, and date to around 2500–2000 BC. This is a period known as the 'Chalcolithic', a transitionary time between the stone age and the first metalworking in Ireland.