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Debborah Donnelly
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Egyptian archaeologist, environmentalist🌲🐝, gemmologist💎, ceramicist🏺, photographer📷, veteran Canadian Navy Officer⚓🍁
#Egypt #archaeology #travelblog
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AWA’s 60th Anniversary
A huge thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate this milestone this year! We are grateful for the support of Albertans.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Archeologists Showcase Greek Warrior-Princess Finds
#archaeology #Greece
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November 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Lesney Abbey , London
Holga, Kentmere 200
#believeinfilm #analogphotography #bnwfilm#bnwphotography
Medieval ruins, small flight of steps in between to low walls
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Archaeologists discover 3,500-year-old Egyptian fortress buried in the desert:
#Sinai #archaeology #Egyptology
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Archaeologists discover 3,500-year-old Egyptian fortress buried in the desert
A 3,500-year-old fortress from ancient Egypt has been discovered, featuring towers, zigzag walls, and ancient military remains.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Archaeologists Discover #Roman Stadium in Ancient Greek City of Blaundus
#Greece #archaeology
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Archaeologists Discover Roman Stadium in Ancient Greek City of Blaundus - GreekReporter.com
Archaeologists discover a Roman stadium in Blaundus, an Ancient Greek city perched above Turkey’s Ulubey Canyon.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Sometimes you Need to Fight⚖️

Little ENGO fighting for Environmental Justice
#coal #Alberta

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Sometimes you Need to Fight⚖️ — The Road Less Travelled
“Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock with a high amount of carbon and hydrocarbons. Coal is classified as a nonrenewable energy source because it takes millions of years ...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Get your 2026 nature calendars! Pre-orders close this WEDNESDAY, Nov. 26 📅

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November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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❄️Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!❄️
#yyc #snow
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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View of the Acropolis - Athens, Greece (Sep 30, 2025)
#Greece
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Climb to the sun.
Your frozen boughs
Shimmer across the sky.

Your work is done.
Decades digging roots
Deep
In unforgiving soil.

Shine on, wild one.
Your legacy:
A forest
Of grit and grace.

#ImageAndVerse #Stunday
#EastCoastKin #nature #poetry
#PhotographersofBlueSky
#PhotographersUnited #photo
4 snow covered pine trees glow in the golden hour light of Genesee, Colorado. Canon R5, 24-140mm Canon lens.
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Ancient Curse Tablets Found in Athens Reveal Dark Side of Classical #Greece
#archaeology
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Ancient Curse Tablets Found in Athens Reveal Dark Side of Classical Greece - GreekReporter.com
A discovery of a trove of ancient Greek curse tablets was made recently in Athens' downtown neighborhood of Kerameikos (Ceramicus).
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November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The Endangered Species Act is the world’s most successful conservation law, but it's under attack AGAIN. The Trump administration just proposed four new rules that would gut the Act and drive species closer to extinction. Take Action >> act.biologicaldiversity.org/nXrxsHJM-USw...
Stop Trump's Extinction Plan
The Endangered Species Act is the United States' most successful conservation law, and it's under attack again. The Trump administration just proposed new rules that would gut the Act and drive imperi...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I missed my favourite YYC restaurant

Food is what reminds us of home - provides comfort and gives us pleasure.

#Vietnamese #food

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I missed my favourite YYC restaurant — The Road Less Travelled
I love traveling, and I love eating all kinds of local food while I’m away, but I also admit that I was really craving Vietnamese food by the end of my 5 1/2 week vacation. Here in Calgary I often w...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Poinsettia from last year starting to turn red, Christmas cactus blooming and so is my African violet!
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A first for Alberta - a legislative petition, not just a policy petition, demanding the prohibition of all new coal mines (including Grassy) on the eastern slopes of the Rockies.
Way to go Corb.
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Corb Lund launches Alberta-wide petition against foreign ruination of the Rocky Mountains
Alberta’s favourite musician continues to light fires in Smith's murky coal bin
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November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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225 royal ushabti figurines unearthed in Nile Delta Tanis archaeological site
#archaeology #Egypt #Egyptology
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225 royal ushabti figurines unearthed in Nile Delta Tanis archaeological site - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities
A French archaeological mission at the San El-Hagar site in Tanis has uncovered 225 ushabti figurines belonging to King Shoshenq III of the 22nd Dynasty in Egypt, which experts hailed as the most sign...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Excavation reveals well-preserved 3rd-century #Roman mosaic in #Türkiye
#archaeology
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Excavation reveals well-preserved 3rd-century Roman mosaic in Türkiye
Archaeologists in the Iznik district of northwestern Türkiye have uncovered part of a third-century mosaic floor, first detected during sewer construction...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Visiting Seti I in KV 17
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.”

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Canada shamed as “Fossil of the Day” at COP30, for the first time in more than a decade - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)
Belém, Brazil, 18 November 2025: Today at COP30, international civil society denounced Canada as Fossil of the Day—the first time since 2014 that Canada has been singled out for this dishonour. Foss...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Archaeologists reveal second-largest Roman olive🫒 oil mill in the Roman Empire
#Tunisia #archaeology
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Archaeologists reveal second-largest Roman olive oil mill in the Roman Empire
Ca' Foscari University of Venice is co-directing a major international archaeological mission in the Kasserine region of Tunisia. The excavations, focused on the area of ancient Roman Cillium, on the ...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Israel land grab - plans to take 4,600 dunams in northern West Bank, citing archaeology protection
#archaeology #heritage #Palestine
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Israel plans to take 4,600 dunams in northern West Bank, citing archaeology protection
A Palestinian official said on Tuesday that Israel plans to take 4,600 dunams of land belonging to the towns of Sebastia and Burqa in Nablus governorate in the northern West Bank, claiming it is to…
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November 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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We collaborated with graphic designer + wildlife photographer Robin Albright to create 2026 nature calendars! 📅

Pre-order is open NOW until Wednesday, Nov. 26!

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November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Speaker Series: Excavating #Meroe (Sudan): or Calgarians on the Nile
Archaeological Society of Alberta - Calgary
Nov 19, 2025
#archaeology
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November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Zoolights (2024)
Thanks to Loreen for sharing her holiday spirit from last year’s visit to the #Calgary Zoo to see the lights! 🐫🐒🦩🦌
Now open for 2025!
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Zoolights (2024) — The Road Less Travelled
Guest post from Loreen Ayuda - check out the Calgary Zoo!
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November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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#Kuwait uncovers 7,700-year-old ovens, ancient owl sculpture, rare artefacts in landmark archaeological discovery
#archaeology
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Kuwait uncovers 7,700-year-old ovens, ancient owl sculpture, rare artefacts in landmark archaeological discovery
New findings reveal how early communities cooked, crafted and lived over 7,500 years ago
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November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM