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Adam R. Hemmings
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Archaeologist ~ Producer ~ Community Builder

My many and different hats:

Founder of Citizen State | Archaeology & Heritage Law Academic 🏛️ | Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society 🌍 | Editor of Studies of Biblical Interest 📚| Sometimes a bass-baritone
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Nov 15
Well, I made it! Who’s over here already? Interested in following:

🌟 #CommunityBuilders
🌈 #Utopians
🏠 #Housing and #Homelessness #Activists
⚒️ #Archaeologists
🔬 #Scientists
📜 #Historians
🎭 #TheatreMakers
👽 #Scifi and 🎃 #Horror Makers
🎓 #Academics
🌍 And anyone building a #betterworld
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New research at Aguada Fénix in Mexico shows a massive early Maya construction shaped as nested crosses with long axes, canals, and a central cache with the earliest directional colour symbols. A vast cosmogram that drew people together.

#Maya #Archaeology #LiDAR

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Landscape-wide cosmogram built by the early community of Aguada Fénix in southeastern Mesoamerica
The cosmogram of Aguada Fénix built over the landscape between 1050 and 700 BCE rivaled the extents of later Mesoamerican cities.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Unbelievable. First €88m jewels vanish, now a known problem floods the Louvre and soaks hundreds of Egyptology books. How does the world’s most visited museum keep getting blindsided? Fix your infrastructure before buying more art! 🤦‍♂️📚💦 #Louvre #DoBetter

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Water leak in Louvre damages hundreds of books
The leak in the Egyptian department comes just weeks after a jewellery heist that put the museum's security infrastructure under scrutiny.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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The real scandal is Britain’s aging, neglected housing stock. But it’s fixable: fund councils to renovate empties, support retrofits, and make good homes a national priority. Quality is possible and we have to choose it. #EmptyHomes #BetterHomes

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Steep rise in Herefordshire empty homes branded
Councillors say too many properties are becoming dilapidated and the government should act.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Don’t miss these in-person conferences coming up in London. Spaces are limited. There’s an excellent line-up of speakers at both events. Check out the keynotes!

28 Jan 2026 @goodhomesalliance.bsky.social
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26 Feb 2026
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Good Homes - Beyond Net Zero​ 28 January 2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 | British Library Knowledge Centre, London, NW1 2DB Join the Good Homes Alliance and South East Consortium for a new and exciting joint networking and knowledge sharing event, bringing together the GHA’s annual Good Homes Conference and SEC’s Sustainability AM. Healthy Buildings Conference 2026. 26th February 2026 | 13:00-17:45 followed by drinks and networking until 19:30. 150 Holborn, London EC1N 2NS The ASBP is celebrating its 10th annual Healthy Buildings Conference! Highlights include: - A keynote talk from Professor Stephen Holgate, MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology, UKRI Clean Air Champion and Special Advisor to the RCP on Air Quality - Sessions with expert speakers on PFAS and POPS in construction products, WELL Building case studies, indoor air quality research at UoYork, and the health & wellbeing benefits of natural paints. - Speakers from Henning Larsen, Overbury, Introba, University of York, Environment Agency, Edward Bulmer Natural Paint and a panel discussion chaired by Simon Jones, host of the Air Quality Matters Podcast. - Drinks and networking with a spectacular view over London to celebrate our 10th conference!
December 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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What happens when #solarpower reaches a remote coastal community in #Kenya? Dive into a captivating photo story & see how pursuing #3xRenewables brings real change to people's lives: www.irena.org/Digital-cont...
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Interesting takes on Neanderthal #religion. Of course, got to love the identification of anything we don't understand as "ritualistic"!

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Did Neanderthals have religious beliefs?
Whether Neanderthals had religious beliefs is a subject of ongoing debate.
www.livescience.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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United Health wants its ‘swagger back’.

How? By dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage

Why? America's largest insurer wants to improve its profit margins, medical costs are skyrocketing because the GOP cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies.
( > News > MarketWatch > UnitedHealth is dropping a million senior... United Health is dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage as it aims to restore its 'swagger' MarketWatch Provided by Dow Jones • Nov 19, 2025 at 7:56:00 AM By Neal Shah America's largest insurer is making sweeping changes to its Medicare Advantage plans to improve profit margins United Health Group is dropping some of its Medicare Advantage plans. United Health Group announced last month that it plans to drop 1 million Medicare Advantage members. Two weeks later, at a UBS healthcare conference, Wayne DeVeydt, the company's chief financial officer, said many of the changes UnitedHealth is making will allow it to "get back to the swagger the company once had."
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Harsh, dry weather is increasing salinity in the soil and damaging the historical monuments in the ruins of cities such as #Ur, the birthplace of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Babylon, once-magnificent capital of empires.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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📢 New in "Studies of Biblical Interest"

Chrissy M. Hansen argues that the James passage in Josephus Ant. 20.200 shows signs of Christian redaction and may have been interpolated by Eusebius.

Open Access and available here: www.biblicaljournal.org#volumes

#Josephus #James #BiblicalStudies
Studies of Biblical Interest - Volume II (2025)
CHRISSY M. HANSEN - Josephus and the Murder of James: An Argument Against Some Common Wisdom - p. 1-19
www.biblicaljournal.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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This is awesome! Not only showing the benefits of painstaking conservation work (10 years in this case!), but also...anyone have a bug for some experimental archaeology to reconstruct one of these fine vessels???

#Peterborough #Archaeology #History #HistoricEngland

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rare Bronze Age log boats on display in Peterborough first
The boats
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November 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The #Tutankhamun Archive at Oxford’s Griffith Institute is more than history. From Carter’s notes to Burton’s photos, every detail of the discovery is preserved and now reimagined in the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, now live in beta and bringing the tomb to life.

tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk
Explore Tutankhamun's tomb through the excavation records of Howard Carter and his team in the 1920s
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November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Stability for life? (But not as we know it!)

#PlanetaryScience #Astronomy #Space #Astrobiology

@ox.ac.uk

phys.org/news/2025-11...
Saturn's icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life
A new study led by researchers from Oxford University, Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona has provided the first evidence of significant heat flow at E...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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A love a good dip in and out book! No matter how deep into a subject I get, these kinds of volumes always leave me learning something new. Awesome work @theees.bsky.social!

#ancientegypt #archaeology #history #Egypt

www.ees.ac.uk/resource/anc...
Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries
An essential guide to the history of ancient Egypt through the lens of 50 fascinating discoveries made in the first century of excavations by the Egypt Exploration Society.
www.ees.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Coverage in The Times of our concerns about how languages will fare under the proposed changes to the national curriculum
www.thetimes.com/article/9b0f... @britishacademy.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social
Some experts are worried about the changes. While the British Council is supportive, Professor Charles Forsdick, lead fellow for languages at the British Academy, said: "We are concerned about the implications for language education and the need for breadth in the curriculum for all learners. The recommendation to abandon the EBacc at GCSE would eliminate one of the few remaining safeguards for language provision in England's schools and risk narrowing education for the next generation."
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Thoughts on this??? New theory on the Pyramid’s construction: not ramps, but an internal pulley & counterweight system. Simon Scheuring says the passages and scrapes reveal a complex lifting mechanism that powered its rise from within.

#Archaeology #Egypt #Pyramids

www.nature.com/articles/s40...
Construction of the Great Pyramid with pulley-like systems using counter-weights on sliding-ramps - npj Heritage Science
npj Heritage Science - Construction of the Great Pyramid with pulley-like systems using counter-weights on sliding-ramps
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November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Amazing how many people in universities have imbibed metrics as the only marker of value. It needs to change.
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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After 20 years of monumental work, the Grand Egyptian Museum opens today! 🎉 All of Tutankhamun's treasures, together at last. Can’t wait to visit in 2026! 🇪🇬🏛️

#GrandEgyptianMuseum #Tutankhamun #Egypt #History #Culture

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🔴 Live updates: All eyes on Egypt as the Grand Egyptian Museum opens its doors - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities
Egypt will inaugurate the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) after more than two decades of construction, creating the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization. Ahram Online is providing liv...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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It's a truism in archaeology that during a dig, your most spectacular finds will always come on the last day of the season. I guess that extends to arachnology too! And just in time for Halloween 🕷️

#FieldWork #Spiders @nationaltrust.org.uk @britishspiders.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Lost' spider species rediscovered on Isle of Wight
Aulonia albimana was found at the National Trust's Newtown National Nature Reserve.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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These finds now seem a dime a dozen - but still amazingly fascinating!

news.missouristate.edu/2025/09/09/d...

#Amazon #LostCities #Archaeology
Did two Missouri State archaeologists find a lost city in the Amazon? - News - Missouri State University
Dr. Daniel Pierce and Christopher Bodine are setting out to prove it.
news.missouristate.edu
October 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Just gorgeous! One of my biggest regrets is not having visited in more politically stable times.

#Iran #Persia #OmarKhayyam #Monuments

www.atlasobscura.com/places/omar-...
Omar Khayyam Mausoleum
The beautifully designed resting place of Iran's national poet is a masterpiece of modern Persian architecture.
www.atlasobscura.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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What we build is a statement of our character as a civilization. I'm hugely pleased to see social housing designed in such a beautiful and sensitive way. Indeed, this type of standard should be that which we aspire to all round.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#SocialHousing #Architecture #Beauty
Riba Stirling Prize 2025: Appleby Blue Almshouse named Britain's best new building
Appleby Blue Almshouse in London wins the Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Prize.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Beyond the Frontier: Unearthing the Secrets of Scotland’s Silver Hoard www.historyhit.com/beyond-the-f...
Beyond the Frontier: Unearthing the Secrets of Scotland’s Silver Hoard
In 1919, a discovery was made near Edinburgh that stunned the archaeological world: over 23 kilograms of ancient silver, one of the largest hoards of...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Saddened by the responses to this.
October 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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What a person and life-story! I always remember watching wonderful Jane Goodall documentaries with my Grandfather, showing those often-dismissed bonds between humans and our animal kin.

And may we all have that verve for discovery to continue our lifework at 91!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dame Jane Goodall revolutionised our understanding of our closest primate cousins
Those she inspired say she not only revolutionised our understanding of chimpanzees - but challenged how we relate to the natural world.
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October 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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A sacred Mayan cave system in the Yucatán is under threat from projects like the Tren Maya, where concrete pillars are already polluting water that flows to the Caribbean. History, culture, and climate all on the line. #Yucatán #ClimateJustice #Maya

www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p...
A journey through an ancient underground Mayan cave - BBC Reel
www.bbc.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM