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Ancient DNA reveals malaria killed the Medici brothers, not poisonA new DNA study of two Renaissance members of the Medici family has confirmed malaria, not poison, killed Grand Duke Francesco I de’ Medici in 1587. The research also found a previously unknown strain of the parasite behind the deadliest form of malaria, giving scientists new clues about how the disease spread across Europe...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/malaria-killed-the-medici-brothers-not-poison/Follow @archaeology#archaeology #malaria #renaissance

Nina Willburger (@drnwillburger.bsky.social)https://bsky.app/profile/drnwillburger.bsky.social/post/3mpdaszluxk2c> Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This magnificent #Roman #fish-shaped flask was found during the excavation of a storeroom in the ancient city of Begram/Afghanistan. It was probably made in a workshop at Alexandria/Egypt, dating 1st/2nd century AD. Begram was a major....🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

2,000 Years of Snails - Across Civilizations@archaeologyart #snails #globalmuseum #archaeology

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Iron Age mass killing in Serbia: 77 women and children found in 2,800-year-old grave at GomolavaArchaeologists at Gomolava in northern Serbia have documented one of the largest prehistoric mass killings in Europe. Inside a shallow pit dating to the ninth century BCE, they found the remains of 77 people who died in a single episode of violence about 2,800 years ago. Most of the dead were women and children...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/iron-age-mass-killing-at-gomolava-serbia/Follow @archaeology #archaeology #ironage

@readbeanicecream Between the cushions of a Viking sofa, perhaps?

@ninawillburger well, this is one way to get people to adhere to #silentsunday. I'm speechless.

@ninawillburger Oh, lovely!

@ninawillburger make society mesolithic again.

@ninawillburger That reminds me of learning about a Māori cave where I live here in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, where assorted needles shaped from bones were recovered.I just found a 2017 masters thesis from the University of Otago, by Georgia Kerby, on the artifacts recovered from the cave.In my memory, there was a needle shaped from the bone of a Haast's eagle, at the time the world's largest eagle (now extinct). Georgia more correctly classifies that object as a "winkle picker". I had to look that up. It was a pointed tool used for getting snails out of their shells.https://hdl.handle.net/10523/7325#archaeology #nz

The early medieval burial from Gammertingen, 6th century AD. The high-ranking warrior died in his early 30s and was buried with a Byzantine helmet (a so-called Spangenhelm), his weapons, and his mail armour, which consisted of about 45,000 iron rings!📷Landesmuseum Württemberg#archaeology

@ninawillburger This is so cute ... I can see Mama Tanagra and the kids at the table making little hares, just like us today painting eggs 😎.#archaeology

Perhaps you know nothing about early porcelain? (you should read "The white road" by Edmund De Waal), or celadon ceramics that travelled across much of the known world from China to Europe?Anyway, the images in this paper about underwater #archaeology are striking for the variety of products that were found at this shipwreck site in SingaporeThe Temasek Wreck ceramics cargo: Yuan blue-and-white porcelain, celadon and other ceramics found in Singapore waters https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050997125000132?via%3Dihub

@HollyCo26588808 > ...with radiocarbon dating revealing the oldest as 5,200 years old. Of the 16 canoes found so far, the youngest is 700 years old.16 canoes in the same location spanning 5,000 years? That seems pretty weird right? Like "question your methodology weird"?