Matasha Mazis @mattyhari@qoto.org

#égyptologie #Fayoum

Sous le regard d'une jeune fille du Fayoum

https://egyptophile.blogspot.com/2015/09/sous-le-regard-dune-jeune-fille-du.html

People are like "why use the #favorite button if it doesn't boost it algorithmically?" and it's like, I don't know about any of you, but it makes me feel happy when someone favorite's something I say.

So from my perspective, you have a button whose sole purpose is that when you press it you could make someone feel a little happy.

Why wouldn't you press that button as much as you can?

This last month on Mastodon has been such a relief. Not only did I meet my Twitter friends, I have met many other logical and agreeable humans, cats, even God.
Here is to more of it in 2023.
Thank you friends. 🖖

“It’s important that, as we begin the New Year, look forward, we should project our intention ahead, so that we make this year a meaningful one, with a sense of happiness and joy. When we talk about the transformation of society, the transformation really has to start from the individual, from inside to outwards.”
—Dalai Lama

~3,700 years ago in ancient Babylon, someone approximated the square root of 2 to the equivalent of 6 decimal digits (they used the sexagesimal system back then, so base 60) 1.414213.

How they did it is explained here: https://ipch.yale.edu/news-events/3d-print-ancient-history-one-most-famous-mathematical-texts-mesopotamia

#Science #Math #History #Archaeology

My hi-light of 2022 social media came late this year with Greta Thunberg's exquisite one line take down of yet another vile misogynistic attack on her...

... and that same misogynist was *so* unbothered by being owned by a 19 year old woman that he had to make a two minute video response in a failed, pathetic and weak attempt to prove he really didn't care, no, not at all, not a single bit, not a scrap...

🤣🤣🤣

#Ratio #SheRises #GretaGotcha

Biologist J. B. S. Haldane once quipped that if there's a God, the Creator seems to have “an inordinate fondness for beetles.”

Why? Well, 1/2 of species described in #science are insects (among eukaryotes). Of those, >1/3 are beetles, at ~400,000 known species.

I’m especially fond of these critters bc I began my career working with Plagiodera versicolora, a particularly cute beetle.

Now some entomologists suspect there may be just as many parasitic wasps, but that’s a tale for another day.

Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #energy

The Urra=hubullu glossary, dating to the second millennium BCE, which lists important words in both Sumerian and Akkadian. The words are separated into categories, including types of vehicles, names of stars, and types of animals and plants. The title of the glossary comes from the first entry, which contains the words for "interest-bearing debt" -- urra in Sumerian, and hubullu in Akkadian.

#history #histodons @histodons

Rivers and lakes have always had a special place in beliefs and ritual. During the Bronze Age of southern Germany, in particular swords were frequently deposited in rivers. Swords found in the Danube and its tributaries, Historisches Museum Regensburg. #archaeology #museum #prehistory

"Ukrainian troops uncover ancient #Roman settlement while digging trenches in Kherson Oblast"

https://english.nv.ua/life/ukrainian-troops-uncover-ancient-roman-settlement-while-digging-trenches-in-kherson-50292279.html

#archaeology #Ukraine️ @archaeodons

Here's the deleted scene: https://youtu.be/hI55EKV8IiQ

This time of year can be difficult for many people. If you are in Australia, these helplines and services provide support:

1800 022 222 : Health Direct 24/7
1800 551 800 : Kid's Helpline (5-25 year olds)
1800 882 436 : Sane Mental Health Helpline

1300 659 467 : Suicide Call Back Service (15+)
1300 224 636 : Beyond Blue 24/7
1300 845 745 : Grief Line

1800 184 527 : QLife (LGBTQI)
13 92 76 : 13Yarn (Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders)
1300 789 978 : Mensline

1800 882 436 : Pregnancy, Birth and Baby
1800 422 737 : Carers Gateway
1800 737 732 : Respect (Domestic, family or sexual violence)

1800 250 015 : National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline
1800 858 858 : Gamblers Help
1800 007 007 : National Debt Helpline

Émir Nur #Harar #Grave #Tomb #Islam #GreenBurial

#ArchaeologyAdventCalendar

Bryn Cader Faner, above Talsarnau, North Wales, a Bronze Age cairn with the most amazing kerb of upright stones.

#BronzeAge #YRhinogydd #Wales

Amazing photo of #Vancouver captured yesterday by astronaut Koichi Wakata from the International Space Station. The snow makes everything pop out. #SpacePhotos

I have rewritten a toot 5 times trying to explain how my lack of income prevents me from enjoying Xmass fully.

But instead of giving you a sob story about my life, I want to tell you this...

If you have someone in your life who is struggling financially, just take them aside and let them know that you love them, and that you understand. Let them know that their value is in who they are, not how much they can buy.

Ask them what you can do to help them have a merry Xmass.

It'll mean a lot.

#CfP #CallForPapers

Attention #Archaeodons I'm co-organising a session at the #BelfastEAA conference next september looking at narratives of #Kinship between #Archaeology and #AncientDNA.

If you're working in this area and want to submit an abstract please do! It's session No. 542 (abstract in the image - posted twice to fit the alt text) and submissions should be made before Thursday 9 February 2023.

Submissions can be made at submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2023

If you're not sure or want to know more please feel free to drop me a line here or email my ANU address :)

(Fellow archs please boost so this goes to the wider community)

GUYS, MY FIRST PAPER IS OUT!!!!
I'm so happy I got to publish this. It's based on my B.A. thesis which I put a lot of work and heart into.

S. Krienen, Archaeological University Collections and Cultural Heritage Protection. A Blind Spot?

Read it for free:
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer/article/view/91529/87471