Y’all know how I regularly point out that Bran, my little barkaeologist, has more excavation experience than Jimmy? He’s also far, far superior in artifact identification. Bran can tell the difference between assorted rubble and remains of walls and other construction, along with bone, wood, and other materials. Tl:dr: my chihuahua is a better archaeologist than Jimmy.

Graham Hancock is bad at research. He uses outdated sources, misrepresents sources, & doesn't take proper accountability for all his errors. He is unreliable. youtu.be/NwnskyjiRuI

RT @PeterHotez: Gene Tierney contracted rubella while pregnant with one of her two daughters. This was before MMR vaccine became available…

The idiot Canadian tourist who kidnapped a flamingo named "Peachy" and took her to his room at the Flamingo Las Vegas has been convicted of felony animal cruelty. Mitchell Fairbarn faces up to 4 years in prison. Peachy has recovered but is rumored to still be resentful.

RT @bdk1521: This would be the same Mississippi where a young Black man’s death was ruled a drowning although the autopsy found no water in…

Classic Amodei. Joyce Mack was well known here for decades, but maybe Flippo and his genius team never heard of Thomas and Mack. Broke campaign laws, then to fix, attributed donation to dead woman. "Clerical error." Just as stolen valor was. Lots of bad clerks over there...

My coworker's mother passed away last November. She left her modest $190,000 house to him clear and free, no mortgage, completely paid off after thirty years of factory work. He moved into the home in January to finally settle the estate. Two weeks ago, a letter arrived from the state Medicaid estate recovery office. Because his mother spent four months in a rehabilitation facility before she passed, the state quietly slapped a retroactive $114,000 lien against the property title. He called the state health department, frantic, asking how a hospital stay could bankrupt an inherited home that had no mortgage balance. The caseworker sighed and told him: "Federal law requires state programs to claw back healthcare costs from deceased estates. The house cannot be sold or transferred until the balance is cleared in full." He offered to pay a monthly settlement. They said no. The full $114,000 is due in 60 days, or they foreclose on the property at a public auction. A lifetime of working-class savings, wiped out overnight by a retroactive healthcare lien. You don't own generational wealth. You're just holding a property title until the state finds a legal mechanism to repossess it the moment you die.

2,700-Year-Old Royal Faience Workshop Discovered in Sudan | Arkeonews arkeonews.net/2700-year-old-…

Photos of turning grooves on the pedestal of one of Queen Hatshepsut's obelisks at Karnak shows the turning groove on the right edge of the base. There is even a piece of flat granite that was placed to hide the groove. The rest of this cover stone is missing after 3400+ years The other photos show the back of the Ramesses II statue with Ptah and Sekhmet in my original post. It has columns of repetitive text with his royal names and titles. You can see the grove in the lower part of the image. Ramesses must have taken the pedestal of an earlier obelisk and repurposed it to make this statue group. It's impossible to say whose obelisk it belonged to. Likely an 18th Dynasty king. The likely suspects are Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, who are known for making multiple obelisks. Presumably the obelisk was no longer standing so the pedestal was up for grabs and Ramesses repurposed it. #obelisks #obelisk #Egypt #archaeology #history #ancient #archeohistories #GrandEgyptianMuseum #Karnak

Ramesses II dedicated this colossal group statue of Ptah, Sekhmet and his deified self to celebrate his Heb Sed festivals, the Egyptian royal "jubilee" which was traditionally celebrated in Memphis, home of Ptah and Sekhmet. The pedestal is engraved with the basket shaped hieroglyph for "festival". Sekhmet's eyes are deeply carved and may have held inlays of metal, alabaster and semi precious gem stones, giving her a more lifelike appearance. The only squat proportions were not because the artists lacked talent. Ramesses had the statue made from a huge block of recycled stone that was originally the square pedestal of an obelisk made by an earlier king. #Ramesses #Ramses #Ptah #Sekhmet #Memphis #mythology #Egypt #goddess

Highly recommend this for anyone interested in archaeology and who is interested in learning more. The @IASArabia have lectures which are recorded and shared online. This one is about tomb reuse from S/E Arabia!

Read the new research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10…

Undergrads learning ageing and sexing techniques in the zooarchaeology lab today. Note the classic first edition cover of "Teeth" by my PhD supervisor Simon Hillson.

Yesterday, I made a brief visit to #Çatalhöyük and really enjoyed the new visitor centre. I was extremely impressed. Definitely worth a visit!

The first analytical phase of Material Memory in Transition has recently been completed at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. The project is led by Dr Aleksandra Hallmann (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences), currently a

Now that @AbdulElSayed has been asked to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood because of his mother’s alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood before he was born, will we be asking Donald Trump to disavow the Ku Klux Klan because of his father’s alleged ties to the KKK in the 1920s? washingtonpost.com/history/2…

notice how much better black tie looks with a bow tie instead of a long tie

Ted Cruz refuses to disavow being the Zodiac killer.