It's Friday, Let’s play #HeritageFromAbove Do you know where we are zooming to today? Do you need a hint? An impressive find of fishing material was excavated from this archaeological site discovered in 1969. Answer in the comments if you know where we are

♀ How did we celebrate International Women’s Day?

🗨 Find out about the incredible women we heard from on the 7 and 8 March as well as the wider work women are doing in the Department and McDonald Institute.

👉 Read about the day: arch.cam.ac.uk/news/internati…

We’re excited to announce our major new exhibition - The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence, opening November 2024 at V&A South Kensington.

Folio from the Hamzanama c. 1562-1577. Opaque water colour and gold on cotton backed with paper © MAK / Georg Mayer

I am pleased to announce that The NYPL now offers the first Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Fellowship to support advanced research on NYPL's materials from the Arab world,Turkey,Iran,South Asia, Central Asia, and their diasporas in the United States 1/
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Celebrating the rich #culturalheritage of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Highlights from #InternationalMuseumDay 2024 celebrations at all Museums across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

#KPArchaeology #InternationalMuseumDay 2024 #MuseumDay #Archaeology Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan Public Diplomacy Pakistan

Read our latest blog where our Michael Fradley discusses the continuing issue of open-access #satellite imagery over #Gaza , and the clear discrepancy of availability on Google Earth compared to other parts of the #mena region👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
eamena.org/article/endang…

Are you a researcher working in the field of archaeology, digital humanities, and/or data management?👀

Apply for a fully funded placement at a leading host organisation in Europe to support your research!🏺

The 1st ATRIUM TNA Call closes on May 31st🔜 atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/

We are hiring! Join NCAP as a Collections Assistant (ACIU Project) Help us with the enormous task of digitising our historic collection of over 30 million images (photographic prints & film), including WW2 reconnaissance photography & survey imagery.
applications.historicenvironment.scot/pages/Job_Sear…

Apply for the Gaza-Palestine Postgraduate Taught Scholarship by 28 May 1pm (UK time). The 2024 scholarship covers the cost of tuition, accommodation in a single occupant en-suite room in University halls of residence & a maintenance award of £5,000.

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The map above is a recently conserved early copy of a British map of Karachi and its cantonment. To learn more about what else is held in these archives follow the link below;

archives.sindhculture.gov.pk

And many thanks to Curator Akash Datwani and team!

For this #MapsMonday we are not highlighting a singular map per se, but instead giving some love to the institutions that protect them.
We visited the Sindh Archives in Karachi where they hold newspapers, rare records and maps of Sindh.
#maps #heritage #archive #sindh

The Kallanai Grand Anicut Dam, built by Chola King Karikalan in the 2nd century AD, is one of India's oldest operational irrigation structures. It rerouted the Cauvery river, initially irrigating 69,000 acres and now about 1 million acres! thanjavurtourism.com/images/kallana…

Want to learn advanced #QGIS for spatial analysis and data visualization? We are launching our Advanced QGIS course on YouTube and have designed a challenge #30DaysOfQGIS . Spend 30 mins every day for the next 30 days learning QGIS. Interested? Check out spatialthoughts.com/2024/05/13/30d…

Exciting news - our Ishiba Durham Archaeology has developed a QGIS plugin allowing users to open their QGIS map canvas location on the Corona CAST Atlas webpage to view declassified satellite imagery of the same area.
Find the plugin at:
github.com/ishibaro/CAST-…
Instructions on images 😊

Check out this 1894 irrigation map of the Cauvery delta in India, showcasing the river's flow and principal masonry irrigation works. Created by the Survey office in Madras, it highlights Sir Arthur Cotton's engineering efforts. #MapMonday #Irrigation #Engineering #Cauvery #sasia

KP Archaeology has published the first ever report of an archaeological survey carried out in Mohmand district, documenting over 400 heritage sites and extending the area's historical timeline. #kp archaeology #gandhara #kp #pakistan #mohmand