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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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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...
phys.org
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
www.nature.com
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

english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/...
🔴 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.
www.bbc.co.uk
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
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
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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

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...
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
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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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.
www.turkiyetoday.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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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

www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
Unesco launches virtual museum of stolen cultural objects - Museums Association
Online platform will recreate stolen artefacts to raise awareness about looting
www.museumsassociation.org
September 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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

news.uchicago.edu/story/dark-e...
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
news.uchicago.edu
September 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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That poor bear!

#Serbia #Roman #Amphitheatre

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM