Archaeological Community

المتحف المصري الكبير ❤️💪 The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt. With 872,000 square-feet of floorspace, the Grand Egyptian Museum is the largest archaeological museum in the world.

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The Basque people

The Basque people, indigenous to the western Pyrenees straddling northern Spain and southwestern France, are one of Europe’s most culturally distinct groups. Their homeland, known as Euskal Herria, encompasses a rugged landscape that has helped preserve their traditions and identity for millennia.... (edited) read more

Does your laptop look like this

Just when I thought my shop was a tech repair spot, not an archaeological dig! Customer rolls in with this Acer laptop that's clearly been moonlighting as a crumb collector and spill magnet. That touchpad Probably the birthplace of a new coffee-based life form. If your keyboard's growing its own... read more

Word Of The Day

Tatterdemalion (noun): A person dressed in ragged or disreputable clothing; an untidy or disheveled individual. Pronunciation: [TAT-er-dih-MAY-lee-uhn] Etymology: The word emerged around the early 1600s, combining "tatter" (from Old Norse for rags) with a suffix that might come from the French... read more

Is A.i. smarter than a 5th grader? - or are we only as smart as a 5th grader?

as smart as the system wants us to be** -- So I asked A.i. to generate a map laying out what civilization(s) were around during a "predynastic" prehistory map based on our archaeological findings so far.. [a map of the ancient world with Egypt and all these civilizations marked geographically] -... read more

Sanxingdui - a lost mysterious civilization

Sanxingdui ('Three Star Mound') is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Largely discovered in 1986, following a preliminary finding in 1927, archaeologists excavated artifacts that radiocarbon dating placed in the 12th–11th centuries BC. The... read more