💀 Chelsea Morgan 🌈

Love bioarchaeology, books, games, & dumb jokes. Research interests: bone metabolism, disease, sex, gender & diet. She/her 🌈 pan. Views my own

[NEZ @NN_EE_ZZ]

Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

A bone figurine of a woman with lapis lazuli eyes, from Egypt, the Amratian culture, dating to approximately 3700-3500 BC. Currently on display at the British Museum.

[💀 Chelsea Morgan 🌈 @archaeocattus]

@MAGA_Maggot3 @Woman_Unruled @erewhonsmoothie A quick search and I found multiple articles saying the opposite? Took me 2 seconds

[Jani Gem 🌶 @Jani__Gee]

Idk how to say this eloquently but I’ll say it anyway:

Corporations are at the point where they know for a fact that we won’t fight back so they are increasingly comfortable offering us next to nothing and still charging us at a premium.

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Ivory, bone, and antler carvings depicting polar bears swimming and stalking. Created by the Dorset culture (Geographical range:Northern Canada and Greenland) circa 500 BC–1500 AD. Currently housed in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt, c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketch pads rather than paper.

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met https://t.co/0LXnqhKClE

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Corsican vendetta corsa knife inscribed with “Che la mia ferita sia Mortale” (May my wound be mortal), crafted in the early 20th century. From Czerny’s International Auction House.

[Natalie de Corsair 🐸 @natalie_corsair]

It's her day off. Would you hang out?

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

We're delighted to have on loan to our #MedievalWomen exhibition a roll containing the testimony of London sex worker Eleanor Rykener.

In our latest blogpost, learn more about Eleanor's story, and how she was arrested exactly 630 years ago today.

https://t.co/u51eIUiV6U

[💀 Chelsea Morgan 🌈 @archaeocattus]

@GayBreakfast @mayakern Hydrangeas!!!

[Arch Illu @archillu]

#Archaeological #drawing!
An essential part of the scientific documentation is the graphic interpretation of the objects. Over the last 10 years, we`ve developed a style that is aesthetic & at the same time as effective, allowing objects to be compared across regions. #ArchIllu

[Angela O'Brien @GrecianGirly]

When your dog hears a bag of treats being opened…

[EDGE Science @EDGE_Science_]

THIS JUST IN - BABY HOMOTHERIUM MUMMY FOUND IN SIBERIA!

It was only a matter of time before we got the rest of the Pleistocene fauna of this region in mummy form. More material for de-extinction maybe

https://t.co/CXULMA0EPU

[Dr Karin Sowada @KS_Archaeology]

This was, and still is, a great paper.

Sadly lead author Dr Jana Jones @Macquarie_Uni #Egyptology died last year after a long illness

She was rightly proud of this groundbreaking work, which pushed back dates for embalming to c 3700-3500 BC

#mummies #egypt #archaeology

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 2015, archaeologists made an extraordinary discovery in the Champagne region of France—a lavishly furnished tomb belonging to a Celtic prince dating back to the 5th Century BC. The exact identity of the prince remains unknown, as no inscriptions or written records were found to directly identify him. However, the wealth and grandeur of the burial suggest he held significant power and status.

This burial site, located in Lavau, held incredible artifacts that offered a rare glimpse into the wealth and power of the ancient Celtic elite. The prince was buried with a chariot, surrounded by treasures that included an intricately decorated bronze cauldron, Greek and Etruscan pottery, and a golden torc, one of the most iconic symbols of Celtic royalty. Among the remarkable finds was a unique 5-foot-wide bronze cauldron, adorned with the head of the Greek river god Achelous, featuring large, exaggerated horns. This cauldron, believed to have been imported from Greece or Etruria, likely served a ceremonial purpose for feasts or rituals involving the consumption of wine—a significant luxury among the Celts.

These artifacts suggest the Celts had far-reaching trade connections, even with Mediterranean cultures, highlighting their significance in early European history. The discovery of the tomb not only sheds light on the burial practices and craftsmanship of the time but also reinforces the Celtic tribes' sophisticated status during the Iron Age.

📸: Denis Gliksman/Inrap

#drthehistories

[Ghost of Hellas @ghostofhellas]

The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Photo Credit: Herculaneum: Past and Future, by Andrew Wallace Hadrill (2011).