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FarraigePlaisteach, in Netherlands returns colonial-era artefacts to Sri Lanka

“as part of efforts by the former colonial power to redress historical wrongs, officials said”

Stolen in 1765. Returned in 2023. And Sri Lanka are still waiting for more. Doesn’t sound like a great effort on the part of the Dutch.

TheBest, in Scandinavia's oldest known ship burial is located in mid-Norway
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Super cool read. +1 to enthusiastic scientists, without them our world would be nothing.

TubeTalkerX, in New Zealand returns ancient artefacts to Egypt

Return the Slab….

Ok.

LongbottomLeaf, in Pleistocene-Holocene sedaDNA reconstruction of Southern Doggerland reveals early colonization before inundation consistent with northern refugia.

TIL about sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA), also known as dirtDNA. Wikipedia

sun_is_ra, in 73 pre-Incan mummies, some with 'false heads,' unearthed from Wari Empire in Peru

Some of the male and female bodies were buried wearing masks of carved wood and ceramic, which are known as “false heads,”

here, saved you a click

tierelantijntje, in See the Outstandingly Ornate 4th Century Mosaic Floors Unearthed in an Ancient Turkish Villa

Those are some spectacular patterns! They remind me of the ‘celtic knot’.

Brudiclad, in Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon

Thanks for sharing this. Been interested on Amazonian dark earths since I did some of my soil science Ph.D. fieldwork down in the Cerrado. I wonder how transferable this is to other tropical/sub-tropical soil systems. I would expect both the type of inputs, climate, and soil type to affect how much SOC changes

s_s, in A 1,400-year-old temple discovered at Suffolk royal settlement

wyrd bið ful aræd

Napain, in Hoard of 100,000 centuries-old coins discovered in Japan

big coin sausage

ShittyBeatlesFCPres, in Archaeologists Unearth Archive of Ancient City of Doliche, Founded in 300 B.C., Revealing Over 2,000 Clay Seals

If they had seals back then, they probably had penguins too. Or at least a shitload of mollusks. Seals gotta eat something.

AbouBenAdhem, in Cult temples and sacrificial pit unearthed at ancient Roman camp in Germany

I assume this is the site near Haltern that has long been speculated to be the lost colony of Aliso?

Stalinwolf, (edited ) in 'Magical' Roman wind chime with phallus, believed to ward off evil eye, unearthed in Serbia
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“Ayyye, I cast me evil eyyyye upon me neighbour, Garbbeus Vardicus Melatonus, I ken. Saba-ka-boo, a meta-ga-doo, a bibbiti, bobbiti-GYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! BE THAT A SMALL PENIS DANGLING FROM YOND WINDCHIME?!?”

“Yes,” her black cat whispers from her mounded shoulders, “A tiny penis.”

"Scandalous Effectus Mandellus, neighbour of me neighour, I cast upon you me evil eyyyye…"

Sal, in Maya warrior statue with serpent helmet discovered at Chichén Itzá
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That’s a really cool looking statue!

trash80, in New evidence strongly suggests Indonesia's Gunung Padang is oldest known pyramid [See comments.]

I saw this on Ancient Apocolypse

JohnDClay,

I hope you were watching to laugh at the ridiculousness? Here’s a good response series.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXtMIzD-Y-bMHRoGKM7yD2…

trash80,

I hope you were watching to laugh at the ridiculousness?

not specifically

jdf038,

Thanks for remindjng me of this series! I don’t have an archeology background but did study some history and it’s interesting (and unfortunate) how similar the fight between actual academic work and more popular pseudo histories is between the fields.

DogMuffins,

Yeah I was gonna say it’s more or less a direct lift from AA.

IIRC the Indonesian patient has Bauhaus created institutions of very poor repute to determine that this mountain is actually a pyramid. It’s so daft.

Like are voids deep in a volcano going to be secret chambers or just lava tunes?

trash80,

the Indonesian patient has Bauhaus created

what

DavidGarcia, in Rare tumor with teeth discovered in Egyptian burial from 3,000 years ago

I recommend everyone to google teratoma

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