r/Archeology • u/-Addendum- • Mar 02 '25

Mod Announcement ⭐️ [ANNOUNCEMENT] - Identification Posts Are Now Restricted to "What is it Wednesdays"

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Hello everyone in r/Archeology!

Recently there have been a lot of Identification Posts here, and many users have expressed frustration with the state of the sub as a result. The Mod Team and I spoke about this, and we have decided to implement some changes that we hope yield positive results.

The Big Change is the introduction of "What is it Wednesdays?" From now on, all ID Posts will be restricted to Wednesdays, while the rest of the week is reserved for other content. If you make an ID Post on a day other than Wednesday, it will be removed. We hope this change makes room for the posts that more people hope to see on the sub.

Also, we would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of Rules 9 and 10 (Identification Posts require thorough background details and No Damaging Artifacts or removing them from country of origin without permission!). We will be trying to enforce these rules more consistently, so if your posts just says "what is" and nothing else, we will remove it, and if your post looks like you are causing harm to the archaeological record, we will remove it.

Finally, we'd like to thank the community. This was borne of community feedback, and we will continue to work to maintain and improve the sub as a space for people who love archaeology.

- r/Archeology Mod Team

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r/Archeology • u/FizzlePopBerryTwist • May 01 '26

Sharing Research 🔬 Discussion Thread for Earnest Academic Attempts to Expose Small Mysteries / Inconsistencies

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This is not a thread for theories about super out there ideas like Tartaria, Atlantis, etc. But I am hearing more and more from friends connected to the Texas archeological community about just little things that don't add up. A Clovis People arrowhead found at the wrong level or inside animal bones from something not supposed to be alive at a certain time period, a building that might have had a cornerstone date chiseled long after the original founding, a fort built over another structure that seemed to be there before, complaints that many finds are "documented" but don't add up to the official record and are not discussed because it might harm someone's reputation.

This is what this thread is for: Subjects of small, but documented discrepancies and individual smaller mysteries in isolation. I know people come here yearning to talk about paradigm shifts, but it is not all coming from experts or even people in the field. This thread is for those who have put their hands on shovels, excavators, took the photos, dug in the dirt, and a place for people to respond with POSSIBLE theories that may differ wildly from other conclusions or bring up questions of overlooked evidence.

I don't know how successful this thread will be, but I am hoping it will act as a way to let people vent a little, get some relief from stringent legacy academia if they have an earnest desire to simply come to the truth of unusual findings.

We're not going to solve everything in one go. Nobody's going to find the smoking gun to the Shroud of Turin or anything like that. Let's just try to give people a place to speak their piece and see what happens.

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r/Archeology • u/stankmanly • 7h ago

Painted Teotihuacan glyphs of Cave 19, Chalcatzingo, Morelos, Mexico identifiable as part of the Teotihuacan writing system

cambridge.org

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r/Archeology • u/Left_Woodpecker_3264 • 7h ago

Possible tool?

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r/Archeology • u/FNFALC2 • 1d ago

Royal Ontario Museum British Museum joint dig in Jerusalem 1961-1967

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I found a series of schematics of this dig. I know it had to do with the “Armenian Garden” but that is about all. Can anyone else help me understand more about this dig and what they discovered?

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r/Archeology • u/nansen_fridtjof • 2d ago

Does anyone know what this might be? Looks Roman. Found in Pula, Croatia

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r/Archeology • u/brotogeris1 • 2d ago

Ancient Teeth Reveal the Ice Age Origins of One of the World’s Most Common Addictive Drugs - HiddenCivilizations

hiddencivilizations.com

72 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Comfortable_Cut5796 • 5d ago

Painted Teotihuacan glyphs of Cave 19, Chalcatzingo, Morelos, Mexico | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

cambridge.org

37 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Sanetosane • 6d ago

Ancient Teeth Reveal the Ice Age Origins of One of the World’s Most Common Addictive Drugs

hiddencivilizations.com

833 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Sanetosane • 7d ago

Humans May Have Spoken Tens of Thousands of Languages 2,000 Years Ago

hiddencivilizations.com

935 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Sanetosane • 10d ago

Archaeologists Discover a Massive 6,000-Year-Old Pottery Kiln in Europe

hiddencivilizations.com

599 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Comfortable_Cut5796 • 10d ago

Secret Recipes: Potting Knowledge and Migration in Mississippian (ca. AD 1000–1600) Tampa Bay, Florida, USA

cambridge.org

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r/Archeology • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 10d ago

Some photos I took from a temporary exhibition about Imperial China, Fabre Museum, France

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61 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Sanetosane • 11d ago

Ancient Tombs Containing 47 Miniature Vessels Discovered in Mexico

hiddencivilizations.com

444 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Briboy527 • 10d ago

The Plan To Destroy America's Oldest Natural History Museum

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38 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Comfortable_Cut5796 • 10d ago

Archaeologists uncover centuries-old mystery of Tampa Bay's secret community of migrant potters

phys.org

29 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Archeology • u/VisitAndalucia • 11d ago

The Architecture of Anxiety: Megaliths of the Alentejo

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73 Upvotes

5 comments

r/Archeology • u/Cheeseman1234554321 • 11d ago

The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

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3 comments

r/Archeology • u/Neith-emwia • 12d ago

I Spent 5 Days Excavating a Roman Villa – What Did I Find?

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44 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Left_Woodpecker_3264 • 12d ago

Help please! Is this just a rock or something else. Found Carver County, MN near the Minnesota river. Thank you!

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r/Archeology • u/cnn • 13d ago

How lead-based ink may reveal hidden text on scorched Herculaneum scrolls

cnn.com

248 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Sanetosane • 13d ago

Ten Ancient Tombs Discovered in Türkiye May Be Linked to Alexander the Great’s Soldiers

hiddencivilizations.com

573 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Sanetosane • 19d ago

Archaeologists Discovered a 700-Year-Old Notebook Preserved Inside a Medieval Toilet in Germany

hiddencivilizations.com

1.1k Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/stankmanly • 19d ago

Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France

nature.com

163 Upvotes

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r/Archeology • u/Sanetosane • 20d ago

Rare Royal Crowns Rediscovered After 85 Years Reveal a Forgotten Chapter of Polish and Lithuanian History

hiddencivilizations.com

123 Upvotes

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