This modern reconstruction of everyone's favourite Minoan fresco did not accurately represent the woman's nipple. Seems like a minor point ( 😐 ) but this is one detail by the original artist perhaps meant to convey that this is a mature woman rather than an unmarried girl.

Distribution of Yamnaya kurgan burials in eastern Hungary. From The People of the Pit-Grave Kurgans in Eastern Hungary by István Ecsedy (1979).

Just learned about Ooyurka stones: perhaps the most neolithic-looking tool ever found in Australia They're only dug up in the Queensland rainforest. None have been dated and tribal descendants have no idea what they were used for!

*record scratch, freeze frame* Yep, that's me, you're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.

Probably the most flagrant excess a person could hope for. This Cup is carved from a single piece of Amber and dated to 1750 BC to 1550 BC. Bronze Age people were clearly fans of beauty and fashion, and I think a cup made of a fragile substance like amber is up there as one of

After he's been extracted from the wall.

A video I took at the reconstructed Bronze Age village at the Pfahlbauten museum, Germany. It’s changed how I view Bronze Age houses forever. #archaeology #history #ancientcivilizations #ancienthistory #prehistory

Happy Ötzi day! On this day in 1991, the famous 5000+ year old ‘iceman’ was discovered by hikers in the Ötzal mountains. Ötzi, and everything it seems he had on him, was flash frozen by the alpine ice, and thus perfectly preserved. This is his bearskin hat. It had straps to tie

The view from on top of Nuraghe Su Nuraxi, Bronze Age fortress. In the near distance you can see the lower part of a tower which once was part of the surrounding wall, but was partially dismantled later in the early Iron Age fortress use as building materials for huts. (Sardinia,

MIGRATION OF THE JASTORF CULTURE Expansion and Migration of the Proto-Germanic Jastorf Culture in the Pre-Roman Iron Age.

1400 BC to 1300 BC, Bronze Age Greek helmet, designed and decorated to mimic the boars tusk helmets of Greece’s earlier Bronze Age. Found on ‘the Greek mainland’ #bronzeage #ancientgreece #greek #prehistory #AncientHistory #ancientcivilizations #armour

The below chart is comparing different populations and ignoring others eg mesolithic and neolithic populations, which were far higher than Yamnaya, who were derived from EHG + CHG. Different parts of Europe continued to have different proportions of blue eyes throughout time.

If you can't tell the difference between AI generated art that you hate and a real photograph that you're in favour of then you should probably calm down.

New excavations 25 feet below ground level at Sardis, one of ancient Anatolia's great monumental cities, have revealed walls from a sprawling palace dating back to the eighth or ninth century B.C., the era of the early Lydians. archaeology.org/news/2025/08/2…

A piece of Bronze Age fabric from the Hallstatt mines. This piece is one of the older fragments found in the salt mine. The earlier pieces dated to between 1500 BC to 1200 BC tend to be simpler in make, i.e. natural woollen colours and little patterning as opposed to the early

“Afanasievo bronze knife, circa 3000 BCE. Khuurai Gobi 1 (Kurgak Gobi 1), Western Mongolia” The Afanasievo culture is credited with first bringing in the Bronze Age into parts of Mongolia and the Altai regions. Image credit: Gary Todd commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Afan…

Common recurring widespread cultural practice. Some of your ancestors kidnapped some of your ancestors.

'Where now is this liquid fire? And it is a great wonder how knowledge of the preparation of this eludes even the Venetians.' – Ioannes Chortasmenos, MS Vat. Gr. 163, f. 175r.