Paul Barford

British Archaeologist, archaeoblogger concerned about portable antiquities issues and cleaning up no-questions-asked antiquities trade. Retweet not endorsement.

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@ZeggerH52434 @Gnosisinformant @MichaelButtonX Um, but there's city coinage being struck precisely here from the 300s BC, well before Caesar and Roman claims on Aeneas so it is physical evidence, not just stories https://t.co/PLQ2lbCvxK

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@carlow_bobby @adancingferret @StevenBartlett "I could literally present numerous examples similar, you fell at the 1st one" - Gottcha!

And this is the way these discussions all go.

Tell us WHY a Roman engineer "could not" have done this - somebody did, we know the Romans had very good engineers, why not one of them?

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@carlow_bobby @adancingferret @StevenBartlett Like the malignant-narcissist arrogant engineer/workgangs leader that everybody hated because he spent his life trying to show he was the best of the best and would stop at nothing in achieving that. Like pulling off an insane project like this.

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@carlow_bobby @adancingferret @StevenBartlett Remember there was a guy who said that in the next decade his people would get a man on the moon and back, USING PRIMITIVE 1960s TECHNOLOGY (!) and actually did it

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@carlow_bobby @adancingferret @StevenBartlett Remember there was a guy who said that in the next decade his people would get a man on the moon and back, USING PRIMITIVE 1960s TECHNOLOGY (!) and actually did it

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@carlow_bobby @adancingferret @StevenBartlett Like the malignant-narcissist arrogant engineer/workgangs leader that everybody hated because he spent his life trying to show he was the best of the best and would stop at nothing in achieving that. Like pulling off an insane project like this.

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@adancingferret @StevenBartlett As Justine points out, there is a HUGE difference between "keep on asking questions" (like a five-year old) and striving to obtain some better answers (like the persistent and better-informed fifteen year old may be more capable of)

[Justine “That Woman” Warren @adancingferret]

While I certainly wish Graham the best with his health, his ideas about the past are not only unsupported by actual evidence, he relies on misrepresentation of the archaeological, textual, and narrative evidence he does present to make cases based on ideas that have their roots in 19th century fringe narratives

And the idea that “mainstream history INSISTS our civilisation only started 6,000 years ago” is also a misrepresentation of what archaeologists and historians actually have to say about the ancient past, human culture, and the concept of “civilization.”

Graham may feel we ignore or dismiss evidence, but what has he actually done to address this? Despite the wealth and notoriety he’s gained through skillful media manipulation he has not to my knowledge contributed to a single archaeological project, a single site, or responded to any scholarly critique of his work with anything but outrage.
That’s not how we actually learn things or make progress. But it is how Graham makes money.

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@slacker_fella Another classic, from Feb. 2022 (author Yury Hudimenko) https://t.co/97pDjyybgr

[Slacker Fella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🌻 @slacker_fella]

Its happening...

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@TaggartTomD @BohuslavskaKate Tom Taggart from Nova Scotia (a colony), Canada knows ALL ABOUT that, obviously. Disapproves of sovereignty and fighting for freedom from invasion. Nice guy.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Before I leave Ireland, I want to place on record that in the last 24 hours I have received constant stalking and death threats for my reporting. However I will not be intimidated.

What I have uncovered is deeply troubling, and the effort to silence it only makes that clearer.

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@The_Real_ITDUDE Putin's birthday

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@BAJRjobs @Megalithic12000 "The difference is that the Colosseum comes with evidence. Many megalithic sites come with assumptions, and genuine unanswered logistical and engineering questions" -why is that?

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

"The historical record is not a record of the past. It's a record of what was recorded and which of those sources survived". Duh.

[BabylonBibi @BabylonBiBi]

@hashjenni Here:

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Ilhan Omar was the only Democrat who voted against the Ukraine aid package.

Yet another champagne socialist who turned out to be a disgrace.

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@aminJml @Tendar In colonial Africa and the Americas, how many peoples lost their sovereignity because they did not avoid "antagonizing the superpower" that colonised and destroyed them? List them please.

[Paul Barford @PortantIssues]

@aminJml @Tendar In your simplistic worldview @aminJml, how many modern wars were in reality caused by "Nation (of territory) X antagonising Nation Y", and how many were in fact caused by Nation Y wanting to take over something Nation X has?