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Maarten Horn

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PhD Student in History and Senior Library Information Assistant at UEA • Desk Chair Archaeologist • Histories of Archaeology • Egyptian Prehistory • Cancer Survivor • Dutch and Dad

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Bury St Edmunds Iron Age coin hoard sells for more than £33,000 Finder Prof Tom Licence plans to use some of his share to fund archaeological work in eastern England.

So most coins have gone to anonymous collectors, awesome…. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

05.03.2026 07:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🏺🗃️ The #Historians of #Archaeology group website launches soon!

historiansofarchaeology.wordpress.com

We welcome submissions for the blog from everyone working on any aspect of the history of archaeology (excavations, object provenance, community, popular histories, histories of science...)
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24.02.2026 14:35 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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Went to see Tutankhamun Exhibition on Tuesday it was worth the 3 hours wait.

06.02.2026 11:39 👍 236 🔁 28 💬 15 📌 3
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‘We zijn mentaal gekoloniseerd geraakt,’ zegt journalist en schrijver Joris Luyendijk over Europa. Met 500 miljoen inwoners, een enorme economie, eigen scheepsvaartindustrie en topuniversiteiten zouden we alles in huis moeten hebben. Toch blijven we onszelf wijsmaken dat we klein zijn.

27.01.2026 11:24 👍 181 🔁 56 💬 6 📌 5
UEA Archives Blog - UEA Library at University of East Anglia

Lovely blog post about the history of the UEA Library I work for and in! uea-uk.libguides.com/blogs/archiv...

21.01.2026 16:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wonder if the capital of Venezuela will now also undergo a name change to “honour” Trump’s “heroism”. World has gone mad.

03.01.2026 18:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Interesting! Reminds me a bit of the Egyptian Predynastic “bull” or “elephant” amulets in the 4th millennium BC

28.11.2025 19:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Flyer for book, IN THE SHADOW OF EL TAJIN: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico. 

"Immensely important.... Sam Holley-Kline reframes the archaeological site of El Tajín as a location of recent, rather than just ancient, Indigenous history. In the Shadow of El Tajín makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of the history of archaeology in Mexico and beyond, as well as to our understanding of Mexican political economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -LISA PINLEY COVERT, author of San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site.

Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative absence from discussions of global archaeology and heritage belies a century of wide-ranging labor, extractive industries, and commodity exchange.
In the Shadow of El Tajin tells the story of how a landscape of ancient mounds and ruins became an archaeological site, brings to light the network of actors who made it happen, and reveals the Indigenous histories silenced in the process. By drawing on the insights of Indigenous Totonac peoples who have lived and worked in El Tajín for more than a century, Sam Holley-Kline explores historical processes that made both the archaeological site and regional historical memory. In the Shadow of El Tajín decenters discussions of the state and tourism industry by focusing on the industries and workers who are integral to the functioning of the site but who have historically been overlooked by studies of the ancient past. Holley-Kline recovers local Indigenous histories in dialogue with broader trends in scholarship to demonstrate the rich recent past of El Tajín, a place better known for its ancient history.

SAVE 40% with code 6AF25 at nebraskapress.unl.edu

Flyer for book, IN THE SHADOW OF EL TAJIN: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico. "Immensely important.... Sam Holley-Kline reframes the archaeological site of El Tajín as a location of recent, rather than just ancient, Indigenous history. In the Shadow of El Tajín makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of the history of archaeology in Mexico and beyond, as well as to our understanding of Mexican political economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -LISA PINLEY COVERT, author of San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site. Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative absence from discussions of global archaeology and heritage belies a century of wide-ranging labor, extractive industries, and commodity exchange. In the Shadow of El Tajin tells the story of how a landscape of ancient mounds and ruins became an archaeological site, brings to light the network of actors who made it happen, and reveals the Indigenous histories silenced in the process. By drawing on the insights of Indigenous Totonac peoples who have lived and worked in El Tajín for more than a century, Sam Holley-Kline explores historical processes that made both the archaeological site and regional historical memory. In the Shadow of El Tajín decenters discussions of the state and tourism industry by focusing on the industries and workers who are integral to the functioning of the site but who have historically been overlooked by studies of the ancient past. Holley-Kline recovers local Indigenous histories in dialogue with broader trends in scholarship to demonstrate the rich recent past of El Tajín, a place better known for its ancient history. SAVE 40% with code 6AF25 at nebraskapress.unl.edu

PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico!

Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social!

For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978....

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02.11.2025 02:54 👍 41 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 2

How quickly will Trump claim that the decision to declare this year’s winner of the Nobel peace prize is María Corina Machado is rigged…

10.10.2025 09:12 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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04.10.2025 20:16 👍 2064 🔁 622 💬 35 📌 18

It’s like in a competition where they say: “Express your opinion, but be careful, you’ll win only if your opinion coincides with the general opinion”. Perfect. This is the making of the cliché…

03.10.2025 06:38 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Wow the colonialism is strong in that “peace” plan

29.09.2025 19:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Realizing that the traditional notion of difference is understood as negative lack (in opposition to a Deleuzian perspective on difference) is really quite eye-opening!

12.09.2025 10:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Empire building in Great Yarmouth

The Empire building in Great Yarmouth

Love this building in Great Yarmouth

29.08.2025 07:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you know what information is given on the image on the reverse?

15.08.2025 08:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for making my morning! Haha!

15.08.2025 07:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital The broadcaster condemns the "blatant attack on press freedom", while the IDF alleges one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

Plain murder: Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike in Gaza www.bbc.com/news/article...

11.08.2025 05:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sign the Petition Expand Bus Services for Mulbarton & Surrounding Village Residents

🚍 A Mulbarton resident has launched a petition for better bus services in our area – long overdue.

Rural communities deserve proper public transport.

Add your name here:
🔗 www.change.org/p/expand-bus...

06.08.2025 09:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This looks interesting! My grandfather knew Esperanto, looking forward to seeing this out

07.08.2025 14:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.

26.07.2025 17:51 👍 187 🔁 85 💬 7 📌 0
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Middle East crisis live: Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children, UN agencies say Supplies of ready-to-use-therapeutic food will be depleted by mid-August if nothing changes, says Unicef

"Gaza is on the brink of running out of the specialised therapeutic food needed to save the lives of severely malnourished children":

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

25.07.2025 11:29 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

21.07.2025 07:52 👍 2502 🔁 1022 💬 45 📌 23

I’m 6”4’ and I can tell you it does not come with health benefits.

18.07.2025 08:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.

15.07.2025 06:50 👍 94 🔁 57 💬 7 📌 9
Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies - Birkbeck, University of London

Thanks to an incredibly generous former student, we have some wonderful news for archaeology at Birkbeck: a new institute.

The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies will enable research projects, support global collaborations, and fund studentships as well.

www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...

14.07.2025 14:39 👍 80 🔁 31 💬 8 📌 5
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Palestinian lives mean nothing to the BBC.

14.07.2025 04:45 👍 462 🔁 158 💬 20 📌 3

Ha! You’re absolutely right!

12.07.2025 10:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Netanyahu nominating Trump for the Nobel prize. Great, I needed something to laugh about this morning.

08.07.2025 05:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

how can you live with yourself? That should be the only question put to them in interviews.

07.07.2025 12:30 👍 73 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
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Douwe Bob-tweet had anders gemoeten, zegt VVD-leider Yesilgöz na interne kritiek VVD'ers hebben twijfels over haar leiderschap en een goede verkiezingsuitslag. Haar kritiek op de zionisme-uitspraak van Douwe Bob valt niet bij iedereen in goede aarde.

Proberen een politieke slag te halen door iemand van volkshaat te beschuldigen, het is pure machtslust. nos.nl/l/2573375

03.07.2025 06:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0