the history bisexual.

archaeology student. good at music. continually confused in all other aspects.

[da-pu-ri-to-jo-po-ti-ni-ja]

✨ tag yourself ✨ but with Aegean Scripts! Mainly Bronze Age, with a sprinkle of Iron Age (Cypriot Syllabary).

[malenastefano]

Jewish artifacts found at an excavation site in Tayma, Saudi Arabia. Tayma was a Jewish oasis during the pre-Islamic era. It was the hometown of Jewish poet Shmuel Ben Adiya, famous for his unconditional loyalty towards Prince Imru al Qais in the 6th century.

Tayma, along with Khaybar were the two most important oasis in the Hejaz region (modern Saudi Arabia) that used to have a strong jewish presence until the fall of Khaybar in 628 (4388 - 4389 in the hebrew calendar) when the first muslims conquered the fortress and expelled most of the jewish population.

[archaeologysucks]

Oh so it’s going to be one if THOSE days.

[thoodleoo]

i could not survive in ancient greece i would be spending all my money on red figure kraters or whatever. my husband would come home like where did all of the funds for influencing votes go and i'd be like honey look this amphora's got achilles and ajax playing dice on it

[thoodleoo]

my wealthy husband: i thought i had some drachmas stashed away over here

the pottery i just bought with my husband's drachmas featuring an owl dressed up like a soldier:

[singing-graverobber]

I think one of the most beautiful things about learning an ancient or dead language, is the pure humanity thereof.

You could do or learn something more functional, sure, but you're taking time to understand the essence of a people long left behind in time.

These people, now dead for centuries or even millennia, wrote things down and in doing so, said:

"I was here, remember me"

And here, eras later, we take time to decipher, read, and understand it, to say into the void of their existence:

"We see you, we know you, you are still alive."

[sahonithereadwolf]

Thinking about the werewolf from the hate mail Lemgo council pharmacist David Welman (1595 - 1669) got after being accused of being a werewolf

[sahonithereadwolf]

it's so fucking cute. That war wlf is frolicking

[sahonithereadwolf]

Someone drew this in anger, they drew this and said "look at what a terrible beast you are"

[singing-graverobber]

I'm just going to start sending angry war wlf drawings to people I don't like.

[singing-graverobber]

*Me deciding what music to play in the morning*: you know what, I haven't had a Noah Kahan day in a while.

*my boyfriend, grabbing my phone*: last time you had a "Noah Kahan day," you cried for a week.

[archaeologistproblems]

Archaeologist problems: when you see an extremely accurate depiction of life on an archaeological site in a documentary, and everyone thinks you’re being sarcastic about how great this is.

[archaeologistproblems]

The sunglasses. The obligatory plaid shirt. The attitude to the problem at hand. This guy is everything archaeology should be.

[angel-derangement]

monks must have had crazy drama. all horny and bald and unwashed all together. pretty little friars

[joepanden]

[the-nettle-knight]

I did my Masters in experimental archaeology during 2020, so because of covid in my human osteology module, we each had our own skeleton to work from. These particular skeletons were from a priory in Norfolk. One of the monks had a build up of bone polishing from infection where his eyebrows would have been. According to my professor, the most likely cause was due to pubic lice in his eyebrows. Furthermore, every single monk from this site had an extra lumber vertebrae - a very uncommon but unharmful mutation. It suggested there was a high level of inbreeding in the area. Really don't want to know who exactly, this monk was going down on

[singing-graverobber]

if movies were accurate:

Indiana Jones and the intro to archaeology class that 75% of the students are failing, because they didn't expect to have to write research papers with accurately cited sources in a field that they thought was just looking at dinosaur bones

[singing-graverobber]

i got out of the shower, when i realized that i developed a new stretch mark on my thigh

the first feeling i had was one of excitement, thinking "YAY I GOT NEW SPARKLY BODY LIGHTNING", and I had to stop and be proud of myself for a minute.