This is the oldest map of the world… in the world. 🗺️

Irving Finkel on a 6th-century BC Babylonian clay map, and the mountain where it says you'd find the wreck of the Ark.

Clip: The British Museum
#ArchaeologyRocks #Babylon #cuneiform

Ancient places that don't look real 🤯 Petra, Göbekli Tepe, Machu Picchu, Giza, Angkor Wat, Persepolis, Chichén Itzá, Great Zimbabwe & Mesa Verde — 9 sites, 9 countries in 40 seconds.

#ArchaeologyRocks #archaeology

This 2,000-year-old lump hides a computer. 🤯

Sponge divers raised the Antikythera mechanism from a shipwreck in 1900–01. X-rays and CT scans revealed ~30 bronze gears that tracked the sun, moon, eclipses and even the Olympics.

Nothing as complex is known for 1,000+ years.

#ArchaeologyRocks

The real Indiana Jones? 🏺 James Henry Breasted was America's first Egyptology PhD. He founded Chicago's Oriental Institute (now ISAC), crossed a Middle East in turmoil in 1919–20 and put the "Fertile Crescent" on the map.

Indy said it belongs in a museum. He built one.

#ArchaeologyRocks

“It tells you how to play the national board game of ancient Mesopotamia.” 🎲

Irving Finkel on how a Babylonian clay tablet unlocked the rules of the 4,500-year-old Royal Game of Ur.

Clip: The British Museum
#ArchaeologyRocks #RoyalGameOfUr #BritishMuseum

Clip: Matthew Morgenstern on recovering the lost history of Eastern Aramaic.

#ArchaeologyRocks #Mandaean #magicbowls #Aramaic #ancienthistory

On the other: Ethiopic “Lord of Heaven / Lord of Earth.”

Clip: Aaron Butts.

#ArchaeologyRocks #Ezana #Aksum #Ethiopia #epigraphy #ancienthistory

1780 BC clay tablet → Babylon’s recipe for the ark. Irving Finkel calls it an utter corker. Real writing of real language. 🧠📜

#ArchaeologyRocks #cuneiform

7 yr ago, I dragged my family to yet another archaeological site & they patiently put up with me looking longingly at the archaeologists digging. Now I’m doing an assignment for my final year of an Arch deg on the arch landscape of that site. I didn’t dare dream this would happen 😎#archaeologyrocks!

Sea Peoples slammed Egypt in 1207 and again in 1177 — that’s the book title.

Old story: drought → famine → Sea Peoples → collapse.
Cline: survive one disaster — but what about a perfect storm?

Eric H. Cline (GWU) on the Late Bronze Age collapse.

#ArchaeologyRocks #1177BC #BronzeAge

It's been quite a journey to get to this point ... About to go back to being an undergrad after nearly 30 years! #archaeologyrocks #thinkuhi #beyondexcited @ Orkney College UHI https://www.instagram.com/p/BnYJwqXlp2P/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=1gj9azw5t848o

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Seriously fascinating! All burials related; 3,000 y/o genealogical tree. Some descendants living in area even today. 😳 #archaeologyrocks #lt

Skara Brae, in high-res 3D! Because #archaeologyrocks!

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