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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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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 4h
These finds now seem a dime a dozen - but still amazingly fascinating!

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#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.
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 22h
Just gorgeous! One of my biggest regrets is not having visited in more politically stable times.

#Iran #Persia #OmarKhayyam #Monuments

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Omar Khayyam Mausoleum
The beautifully designed resting place of Iran's national poet is a masterpiece of modern Persian architecture.
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 5d
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.

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#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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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 12d
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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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 15d
Saddened by the responses to this.
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 20d
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!

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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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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 22d
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

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A journey through an ancient underground Mayan cave - BBC Reel
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 26d
Ah, just wonderful! Yet another rights-trampling policy. I can't wait to see how they deal with the flurry of lawsuits because 4.5 MILLION people don't have smartphones in the UK - and that's for for many reasons (i.e. protected characteristics). #DigitalID #BrokenGov

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Digital ID cards will make it tougher to work in UK illegally, says Keir Starmer
The prime minister says Labour has shied away from illegal immigration concerns, but says the new ID will make
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 26d
That's a lot a lamassu! I'm interest to see what the "war spoils" finds from Egypt and the Levant turn out to be. #Archaeology #Iraq #Assyria

www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/iraq...
Iraq discovers largest Assyrian winged bull, standing 6 meters tall - Türkiye Today
The Iraqi Antiquities Authority will establish a museum at the discovery area to connect Assyrian artifacts with the Islamic heritage.
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 27d
Moved by @unesco.org's launch of the Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. Powerful way to push back against illicit trafficking. One day, may we also see a physical museum, where returned treasures can be honoured in the communities they belong to. #Museums

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Unesco launches virtual museum of stolen cultural objects - Museums Association
Online platform will recreate stolen artefacts to raise awareness about looting
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 27d
When I thought the universe couldn’t get any weirder… UChicago physicists suggest dark energy may be evolving. This could mean a new particle, a changing cosmic acceleration, and a Big Freeze billions of yrs from now. Not a physicist, but pretty awesome! #Cosmology

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Is dark energy evolving? UChicago astrophysicists consider the possibilities
In Q&A, experts unpack new evidence that hints at the true nature of dark energy
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · 28d
That poor bear!

#Serbia #Roman #Amphitheatre

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A spectacle of the Roman amphitheatre at Viminacium: multiproxy analysis of a brown bear skull | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
A spectacle of the Roman amphitheatre at Viminacium: multiproxy analysis of a brown bear skull
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · Sep 22
Basically, Farage is promoting fascism. I don’t see how anyone can deny it.
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Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social · Sep 18
Mural in the museum at #Bewcastle, just north of Hadrian's Wall, showing the many phases of human activity there: from Roman (site of a six-sided fort!), through Anglian, Norman to modern (note the RAF on the horizon). It is a remote, captivating spot. #RomanFortThursday #Cumberland
📷 My own
A photo of a colourful painted mural inside a museum. It is from the perspective of looking through a gap in a ruined wall, on which a shepherd sits with his sheepdog. Sheep rest around the Bewcastle Cross as a Roman cavalryman approaches. Rolling hills disappear into the distance, and an RAF jet flies low just above the horizon.
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Sep 17
This is a must-read. Survival is priority in Gaza, yet citizens race to save centuries of history. Gaza is more than violence: it’s culture, heritage, people. The horrors and destruction witnessed are so unnecessary and cruel - they damage the whole of us as humans.

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The frantic race to protect historic treasures from Israeli bombs - BBC News
As Israel continues its bombardment, Palestinians are trying to protect what remains of Gaza’s ancient artefacts
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Sep 16
From sacred tree to symbol of power: the palmette motif in Iron Age Judah tells a story of divinity, empire, and shifting royal identity under Assyrian influence. #Archaeology #AncientHistory #IronAge

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Rooted in power: the transformation of the palmette motif from an elite symbol to a marker of royal authority in Iron Age Judah
The palmette, a representation of the sacred tree, was a prevalent motif in the southern Levant, often associated with divinity and royal authority. Its earliest attestations in Iron Age Judah date...
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Sep 15
Read about the damage to Lincoln’s Roman wall this morning. Dr Samantha Stein compared it to the Sycamore Gap felling, but harsher, because stone doesn’t grow back. Hard to see heritage chipped away like this. #Archaeology #History #Lincoln

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Lincoln Roman wall damage likened to Sycamore Gap felling
Archaeologist Dr Samantha Stein says the damage to the Roman wall was
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Sep 12
So this explains the use of data tapes in The Original Series...

#DNA #DataStorage #StarTrek #Hardware

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DNA cassette tapes could solve global data storage problems
Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, and we are creating data faster than we can store it. Fortunately, we don't ...
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · Sep 12
Menhir La Motte de Beurre: This menhir is broken in two, each part about 1.8m (6 ft) long. Only one is standing, it has a bird carved on it, shown in full flight, superposed over a white quartz vein.
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Sep 11
When political violence takes a life, as it has done to Charlie Kirk, we all lose. No matter our beliefs - and how fundamentally we might disagree - murder is never justified. It fuels extremism and tears at the fabric of democracy. We need to break this cycle: now! #EndPoliticalViolence
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Sep 10
If I could teleport anywhere right now, it’d be to The Golden Age of Archaeology exhibition. Ancient coins, shipwreck treasures, the Karahantepe discoveries… I’d be in awe for hours.

#Archaeology #Türkiye

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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Sep 5
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France prepares law to fast-track return of art looted during imperial conquests
France's government on Wednesday discussed a bill that would streamline the process of returning artworks and cultural artefacts looted from the country's former colonies over more than a century of…
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Sep 5
Very interesting France is considering this. It would seem to cover artefacts between 1815 to 1972 that were illegally removed.

That time frame would definitely include the Dendera Zodiac.

Anyone have a full text of the bill they could direct me to?

#repatriation #antiquities #museums
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Aug 27
Fondly remember working with Gabor at Bishopstone. Great to see his team’s Cookham discovery. This monastery may have been one of our first hospices, showing how caring for community health has always mattered.

#Archaeology #Healthcare @uor-research.bsky.social

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Cookham 2025 excavations Tumours and trauma treated at Anglo-Saxon hospice - University of Reading
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Aug 27
Can't wait to see what you find when it is!
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