Archaeologists Found a Skeleton Wearing a Silver Amulet. It Rewrote the History of Christianity. Incredible discoveries keep happening in the most unlikely places.

Archaeologists accidentally found a skeleton in Germany with a silver amulet containing a fragile folded inscription. Using CT scans, they read text invoking Christ, showing Christianity reached that region earlier than thought — rewriting part of early Christian history

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.

Gender roles in Neolithic Hungary may have been more flexible than researchers previously expected. 🏺🧪

Ancient mass grave in Serbia seen as a grisly show of power Women and children were executed in an elaborate prehistoric ritual

When archaeologists found the bodies of 77 women and children in an Iron Age grave, they pinned it on a prehistoric plague outbreak. A new analysis reveals it was actually a mass execution. Most bizarre? @mireniraorb.bsky.social's look at their genes shows the victims weren't related. @science.org

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

Really excited to share our new paper on the Early Iron Age mass grave at Gomolava (9th c. BCE), a study I had the pleasure to work on during my PhD with an amazing group of co-authors across multiple disciplines. Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

The Housing Ambition team thank Kenyan Ambassador to Ireland, George Morara Orina and his team for warmly receiving Brendan O'Neill, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and Samantha Martin, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy to discuss the richness of Kenya's archival history.

Our piece in The Conversation about the massacre and mass grave at Early Iron Age Gomolava, reflecting on aspects of its resonance today theconversation.com/a-2-850-year... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Archaeologists have to call out the destruction of cultural heritage wherever it’s done - e.g. 6th century Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza (extensive destruction of museums, archaeological sites, libraries) or here, a UNESCO world heritage site in Tehran

Explore the cultures of the Mediterranean from prehistory to late Antiquity, from Greece to North Africa to Iberia with us on our new Graduate Diploma and MSc programmes at #ucdmediterraneanarchaeology in @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and @ucdclassics.bsky.social at @ucddublin.bsky.social