Archaeology is Fucking Awesome

If you like archaeology, you've probably had several moments where you just had to step back and go HOLY SHIT ARCHAEOLOGY IS THE COOLEST GODDAMN THING EVER.

This blog is dedicated to that. Amazing artefacts, exciting discoveries, excavations, and the occasional humour.

Note: if I reblog one of your excavation photos and you want it edited/taken down, just message me and I will do it posthaste!

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ancientart:

Pull toy in shape of an otter from Bet Shemesh (11th-10th BC).

Courtesy & currently located at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Photo taken by Chamberi.

katerader:

Dug a big fucking hole today. #archaeology #throughsolidclay #palisade #cleanwallsdudes

usvsth3m:

These are the schoolbook doodles of a seven year old boy called Onfim, who got bored learning his alphabet at some point in the late 12th Century.

There’s a weirdly Bayeux Tapestry look to these pics, if you compare them to what kids are drawing these days.

Onfim loses interest halfway through a lesson, so draws himself as a warrior riding a horse

“Me & my dad”

Crazy battle scene, with everybody on horses, shooting arrows pew pew pew

Utter madness

In Onfin’s hometown of Novogorod, Russia, they used to use birch bark to write on - which was very cheap and durable - but they lacked fridges to pin stuff up on. As a result, archaeologists have dug up loads of this ephemeral stuff from the mud, including medieval shopping lists.

For more on the academic background, check out the article at The Art of Onfim.

shovelbum:

I literally dug myself into a hole today.

tremblingcolors:

Rediscovery of Antinous, Delphi, 1893

chinacat-crazycat:

This is the cutest thing I h e ever found on a site. Dog print in a fort brick! #archaeology #fortcaswell #dog #print

ancientart:

Corinthian pyxis with a red powder, and two make-up pots with molded tablets of white lead, all having the same diameter and weight (2.75 cm and 5.5 g). Ancient Greek, found in a tomb from the 5th c. BC.

Courtesy & currently located at the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo taken by Bibi Saint-Pol.

archaeologicalnews:

A medieval jail and dungeon has been unearthed by workers installing a new water main in a market town in Kent.

The discovery in Middle Row, Faversham, by South East Water workers was confirmed by archaeologists.

A thick curved wall dates back to the 14th Century and the site’s use as a…

records-of-fortune:

J.M. Booth. c. 1930’s. Pompeii. Italy.

Photograph (black and white), from an album; view of the ruins of buildings and a fountain, on the street of abundance.

kittymaru:

Our site in Virginia! We are finding tons of whiteware, creamware, and pearlware and features related to a tavern. I love what I do.