r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 13d ago
Archaeology Doubles on sax.
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 14d ago
Archaeology Neolithic carved stone artifact found at Skara Brae, Orkney. Purpose unknown. Any guesses?
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • Apr 26 '26
Archaeology From Susa, southwestern Iran. Now in the Louvre.
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • Jan 16 '26
Archaeology I think my local cemetery would disagree.
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 15d ago
Archaeology They understand, they just don't care.
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wooden box-coffin containing a cat mummy, dating from the Late Period to the Ptolemaic Period
r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • May 30 '26
Archaeology Papyrus written by two children, Psenthotes and Naneferho, pleading to the Gods Horus and Thot for help against their cruel father who abused them after their mother's death; 1st century B.C.
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Text in comments.
r/Snorkblot • u/RIPVector • Apr 15 '26
Archaeology Scientists Find 7,000-Year-Old Sahara Skeletons With DNA That Doesn’t Belong to Any Modern Humans
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r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Jun 07 '26
Archaeology I found this ring on beetroot
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • Apr 12 '26
Archaeology 5,000-year-old carved stone ball from northeast Scotland, about the size of a tennis ball. Purpose unknown.
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Known as the Towie ball, it is currently housed in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
r/Snorkblot • u/Kovalsouth • 15d ago
Archaeology 5,000-year-old arrow emerges as Norway’s melting mountain ice reveals older archaeological finds
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • Nov 23 '25
Archaeology “8,000-year-old obsidian mirrors from Çatalhöyük — the oldest crafted mirrors in the world.” Carved around 6400 BCE
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Their convex shaping suggests they may have also been used to focus sunlight and brighten dark interior spaces
r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Jul 10 '26
Archaeology Tiny little stone stars from an ancient sea floor. These are star shaped crinoid columnals, the fossilized stem pieces of sea lilies that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.
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r/Snorkblot • u/Trivi_13 • Oct 21 '25
Archaeology This rendering looks a lot like my Uncle Nick. Does anyone else recognize a relative?
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • Nov 23 '25
Archaeology Worst Roman mosaics ever found in Britain. Both in Yorkshire.
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(Upper) Venus being worshipped by a merman. (Lower) Romulus and Remus suckling from the she-wolf.
r/Snorkblot • u/Thubanstar • 13d ago
Archaeology 2,400-Year-Old Puppets With 'Dramatic Facial Expression' Discovered Atop Pyramid in El Salvador
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r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Apr 26 '26
Archaeology In late August 2017, a reindeer huntsman Einar Åmbakk discovered this exceptionally well-preserved Viking sword in the high mountains of Lesja, Oppland, Norway. Which was just sticking out among the stones.
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r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Sep 11 '26
Archaeology A receipt for the delivery of beer, 2700~BC, Old Akkadian. Private collection
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