Abbey Archaeology

15/04/2023

❤️ Grand National Day ❤️

I try to pick a winner and you can see this year's entry approaching the fence

09/04/2023

We're celebrating by watching the new Indiana Jones teaser with a good song choice 🤩
However you're spending Easter, have a good one ❤️

Watch the Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie, opening in theaters on June 30, 2023.Harrison Ford returns as the le...

06/04/2023

The perk of working in a Bury St Edmunds office is eating your packed lunch in the Abbey Gardens.
It really is beautiful here and I even share some food with the squirrels

04/04/2023

This week is Global Asbestos Awareness Week. A week long campaign ran by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organisation ('ADAO'). Raising awareness helps prevent exposure to asbestos and therefore it's related diseases ~ so, do your part by reading, watching and SHARING the information.

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08/03/2019

Neanderthals ate fast food too 🤔

Oh wait no; its slightly different 🐇

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12/02/2019

Has discovered that Facebook have skeleton stickers
Not a lot of work done then!

19/01/2019

Breaking news 🤔😛🧐 Possible political assassination from almost 4000 years ago

Scientists have reexamined the skeleton of the prince, who died 3,846 years ago. They say injuries found on his bones point to the "oldest political assassination in history," probably by an "experienced warrior."

07/01/2019

Hope everyone had a good festive period and haven't yet broken their New Years resolutions.
As its now back to work time, I've realised that over the Christmas period …..

06/01/2019

If your in Northern Ireland, today is your last chance to see Dippy the Dinosaur - Before he gets disarticulated, boxed and shipped to his next port of call.
Seen him last week, Well worth the journey

Rise and shine - it’s Dippy's last morning waking up here and he can’t wait to meet everyone to say goodbye!

22/11/2018

Seen on Facebook; absolutely grizzly stuff - Is this ethnographic evidence to explain partial (or single) human presence in pre-historic contexts. Probably not, but definitely food for thought! 💀🙀🐜

Formica archboldi mimics another ant predatory species before spraying it with acid and killing it.

07/11/2018

Gaulish head embalming.
Very grissly stuff - glad I'm not there enemy

New chemical analysis of iron age skulls confirms the grisly practice, referred to in ancient texts