#archeologie

[goetiiavacuum]

adam and eve apple. quote translates to “I am your half”

[grandboute]

Petroglyphe de Bohuslän (Suède)

[bizarreauhavre]

Rare photography of the Sphinx in 1894.

[thatshowthingstarted]

Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century AD).

Stone Paste, Painted in Black Under Turquoise Glaze,

7,9 x 18, 7 cm,

Image Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

[helenethiennot]

Sans titre - Portugal - 2025

photographie argentique - Fomapan 200

Hélène Thiennot

[sanjaangie]

Hier et aujourd’hui : le palais de Minos, en Crète Les ruines rencontrent l’imagination — les vestiges du palais minoen de Cnossos se dressent à côté d’une reconstitution numérique montrant à quoi il pouvait ressembler à son apogée.

Construit entre 1900 et 1350 av. J.-C., ce vaste complexe était bien plus qu’une résidence royale : il servait de centre religieux et administratif au cœur de la civilisation minoenne, l’une des premières cultures avancées d’Europe.

Then and Now: The Palace of Minos, Crete Ruins meet imagination — the remains of the Minoan Palace of Knossos stand beside a digital reconstruction showing how it may have looked at its peak.

Built between 1900–1350 BCE, this sprawling complex was more than a royal residence — it served as a religious and administrative center at the heart of Minoan civilization, one of Europe’s earliest advanced cultures.

[no-passaran]

French archaeologists have finished their strike, but the problems persist!

The French Government has decided to change the law relating to research in preventive archaeology, which will allow for the destruction of archaeological sites before studying them. "Preventive archaeology" means the archaeological excavation and research of sites in danger of being destroyed or affected, usually when something is going to be built there. Preventive archaeology makes sure that a site has been excavated and documented properly before the construction work begins, so that we don't lose any information. After it has been excavated and documented, the owners of the plot of land may decide to partially or totally destroy the site and continue with their construction, but at least the knowledge of what once was there has been saved and can be consulted by researchers and the future generations.

Getting rid of preventive archaeology would mean destroying the archaeological sites without studying them, just to build faster. This would mean destroying the evidence of Humanity's past, a limited evidence that we will never recover, we will never know what was there. Imagine that Humanity's history is a book, destroying a site without properly excavating and documenting it would be equal to burning a page of the Humanity history book. That information would be lost forever.

On 15th April 2025, the Fédération des Métiers de l'Archéologie Préventive (FÉMAP) has released the following statement:

FEMAP Press Release: A breach in the regulations on preventive archaeology? How a bill could harm the protection of our heritage

Following on from the Malta Convention for the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage, France adopted a law on preventive archaeology in 2001, which ensures the detection, conservation, or safeguarding, through scientific study, of archaeological heritage elements affected or likely to be affected by public or private development projects.

Since then, all stakeholders involved, including government departments, Ministries of Culture and Research, local authorities, developers, and public and private preventive archaeology operators, have worked together to study, preserve, and promote archaeological heritage.

Over the past twenty years, preventive archaeology has led to major discoveries and scientific advances thanks to this initiative, funded by public and private developers. Preventive archaeology has proven itself to be a key element of regional planning. Its implementation is seamlessly integrated into development projects, from the most modest to the most ambitious.

However, under Article 15bis C, paragraph 18 of the bill to simplify economic life, currently under review by the National Assembly, projects deemed to be of major national interest would no longer be subject to preventive archaeology requirements. This would irrevocably lead to the disappearance of crucial information about our past and would amount to disassociating France from the Malta Convention.

At a time when it is more necessary than ever to write a shared history, France should be proud of its preventive archaeology program and promote it throughout Europe. This is an original and scientifically ambitious program capable of supporting all European development projects.

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... mosaic ...

The world’s largest ancient mosaic has been discovered in Turkey. Archaeological excavations in Antakya, Turkey have turned up the largest floor mosaic at 9,000 square feet (836 m²) made in late Roman period, IV century CE.