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Repositorio INAH @mediateca-inah.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Códice Colombino Dentro del acervo “Testimonios Pictográficos”, la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia “Eusebio Dávalos Hurtado”, resguarda esta invaluable códice. repositorio.inah.gob.mx/o-43910

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dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social @dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Un conjunto de lápidas grabadas procedentes del sur del Estado de México, revela datos sobre la iconografía de la ciudad prehispánica de Teotihuacán. Artículo aparecido en la revista unodiverso de El Colegio de Morelos. revistas.elcolegiodemorelos.edu.mx/unodiverso/a...

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[Nuevo artículo] La iconografía teotihuacana en los relieves arquitectónicos de “Las Parotas”, Estado de México | unodiverso

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 17/05/2026

#Teotihuacan, Mexico was once the largest city in the Americas. It exerted influence on the distant #Maya and the presence of a Teotihuacan-style altar at Tikal, Guatemala indicates there may have even been a Teotihuacan enclave in the Maya capital. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Above: excavated stone altar with residues of paint on its sides.
Below: illustration of the same altar reconstructing the design, which depicts geometric patterns and stylised faces wearing headdresses in red and yellow.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A stunning crocodile 🐊 mummy mask with traces of its original paint still visible and eyes inlaid with glass, which initially contributed to a lifelike gaze. From Egypt, Roman Period, 1st or 2nd century AD. Crocodile mummies are closely associated with the cult of Sobek, in which...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

A crocodile mummy mask in a museum setting, shaped like a crocodile’s head with traces of paint around the inlaid eyes, and jagged teeth along the side.

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Repositorio INAH @mediateca-inah.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

El libro “La cerámica en fases tempranas (100-200 d. C.) de Teotihuacán. Y su interacción con otras áreas de Mesoamérica”, escrito por Julie Gazzola y publicado por el INAH en 2024, ofrece un análisis detallado de los primeros desarrollos cerámicos en esta gran urbe mesoamericana.

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Repositorio INAH @mediateca-inah.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

El primer arqueólogo mayista nacionalizado mexicano nació un día como hoy, en 1906. En reconocimiento a su trayectoria, compartimos este boletín informativo del Museo de Sitio y Zona Arqueológica de Palenque “Lakamha'”, publicado en 2005. repositorio.inah.gob.mx/o-9718

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Repositorio INAH @mediateca-inah.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

En esta tesis de licenciatura, presentada en junio de 2004 en la ENAH, Teri Erandeni Arias analiza el papel del cocodrilo dentro de la cosmovisión maya a lo largo del tiempo, desde la época prehispánica hasta la actualidad. repositorio.inah.gob.mx/node/3073

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Repositorio INAH @mediateca-inah.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Heterofonías del pasado en la Colección Samuel Martí Hoy compartimos el catálogo de la exposición homónima, coordinado por Israel Gutiérrez Barrios, con textos del Dr. Gonzalo Sánchez, curador de la muestra. Esta publicación fue editada en 2020. repositorio.inah.gob.mx/node/5292

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Repositorio INAH @mediateca-inah.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Antropología Núm. 20 (1988): Centros Regionales El Boletín Oficial del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia dedicó su número 20 a documentar las labores de los Centros Regionales entre 1983 y 1987. repositorio.inah.gob.mx/o-143131

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Repositorio INAH @mediateca-inah.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Aztèques, peuple du soleil Bajo la coordinación del arqueólogo Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, el catálogo "Aztèques, peuple du soleil" documenta la exposición homónima presentada en el museo Pointe-à-Callière, Cité d’archéologie et d’histoire de Montréal. repositorio.inah.gob.mx/o-5099

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 07/05/2026

From the expansive monuments of the Andes to the complex ceramic traditions of the Amazon, our South American #archaeology collection features some of the most exciting research publishing right now, and is currently completely FREE to access! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Machu Picchu, the remains of an extensive stone temple on a mountaintop, overlaid with the text 'South American Archaeology, Antiquity'.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,250 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’🍺 ‘stung by a scorpion’ 🦂 and ‘embalming brother’! 🤯 From Deir el-Medina, royal tomb worker’s village 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a dark beige coloured fragment of limestone measuring 38.5 cm in height and 33 cm max width, from Deir el- Medina, the royal tomb worker’s village, near ancient Thebes, Egypt. The fragment of limestone, known as an ostracon, was used as a cheap alternative material to papyrus, to record the attendance of 40 workers over a period of 280 days. The lines of text are written in hieratic script. Names and dates are written in black pigment, with reasons for absence written in red pigment

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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Adding "I can't come to work today, I'm too busy brewing beer" to my out of office...

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Miss the days when brewing beer was an excused absence

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dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social @dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

México en la Bienal de Venecia, 2026. Del periódico La Jornada. 7 mayo 2026.

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Photo Diary @amablephoto.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

. 📸 Neil Libbert . Salford, 1957 #PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #BlueskyPhotography #PhotoKind

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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 31/03/2026

📣 The International Journal of Cultural Property is seeking proposals for a Special Issue (Volume 34, 2027). 🔎 Themes of interest include: #CulturalProperty and: #HumanRights; #Identity; #InternationalCriminalLaw; #SustainableDevelopment; #Trafficking. Find out more. 🔗 cup.org/4bwn8jp

Text reads "Call for Special Issue Proposals: IJCP Volume 34 in 2027" above an image of a publication titled "International Journal of Cultural Property.

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Mexico has denounced the planned sale on eBay of 195 archaeological pieces and demanded that the auction by an eBay user in Orlando, Florida, identified as “Coins Artifacts,” return the objects to Mexico. mexiconewsdaily.com/news/culture...

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Culture Ministry seeks to block another sale of pre-Columbian artifacts — this time, on eBay

A foreign sale of artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian past is being challenged legally by the Culture Ministry.

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

In a sign of growing international cooperation in the restitution of looted artifacts, Portugal has returned three pre-Columbian objects to Mexico. This will be the first time Portugal has repatriated unlawfully acquired antiquities to that country. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

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In a First, Portugal Returns Looted Antiquities to Mexico

In a sign of growing international cooperation in the restitution of looted artifacts, Portugal has returned three pre-Columbian objects to Mexico.

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

New Case: Mayan Jaguar Head, contributed by Lisa Duffy-Zeballos In 1999, on a tip, New York City police raided a Brooklyn garage where they made a surprising discovery. Inside a wooden crate packed with newspaper was a four-foot-long 500-lb stone sculpture of a jaguar head with a man in its jaws.

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The FBI has returned to Peru 48 cultural objects -- ranging from colonial-era paintings and textiles to ancient ceramics and silver ornaments -- after investigations in Santa Fe and Las Vegas. www.fbi.gov/news/stories...

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FBI Returns Cultural Artifacts to Peru | Federal Bureau of Investigation

The FBI's Art Crime Program formally returned 48 items to the South American country during a March 24, 2026, repatriation ceremony in Washington, D.C.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

WOW, I just hit 19k followers! When I joined Bluesky in July 2023, I never imagined things would take off like this. The exodus from X was clearly waiting to happen, I’m so glad it did. It’s great to see such a large community of archaeology enthusiasts here! Thank you all! This figurine...🧵1/2 📷me

Amber figurine of a bear on a small metal stand, viewed from the side, with warm orange translucent tones and a softly blurred indoor background.

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dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social @dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

La #arqueología de #Teotihuacán en el diario La Jornada de hoy, 1 de abril. Investigaciones en el túnel de la pirámide de la serpiente emplumada.

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arqueomex.bsky.social @arqueomex.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Alfonso Caso e Ignacio Bernal, en su libro Urnas de Oaxaca, muestran que para los mayas y los zapotecas el murciélago era una deidad muy importante y que con frecuencia se le representaba con características humanas y nunca en una forma natural. 📌Conoce más arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antig...

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

NYT: Smithsonian Returns Three Khmer Artifacts Thought Looted to Cambodia The objects were the first returned under a 2022 policy requiring the institution to weigh a wider range of factors, like plunder under colonial rule, when deciding to repatriate items. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/a...

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Smithsonian Returns Three Khmer Artifacts Thought Looted to Cambodia

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dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social @dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Participando en el simposio “Monte Albán y sus interacciones regionales” organizando por la zona arqueológica de Monte Albán. Un trabajo sobre las vasijas efigies cerámicas con representaciones de ancianos.

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dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social @dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Felicidades a mis amigas y colegas de la @CNCPC_INAH por el premio otorgado a este importante libro sobre Palenque y sus monumentos grabados! youtube.com/shorts/uHzDt...

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Michael E Smith @michaelesmith.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Latin American Antiquity 14:221-228. Smith, ME (2005) "Did the Maya Build Architectural Cosmograms?" Latin American Antiquity 16:217-224. I would have thought that scholars who disagreed with me would use my critique to develop better methods of identifying 5/6

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Michael E Smith @michaelesmith.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

🧵The cosmogram crowd are at it again. Sigh. Cool new site, Aguada Fenix, is interpreted by Takeshi Inomata et al as a big cosmogram. The article is here: science.org/doi/10.1126/..., with a journalism article in LiveScience here: livescience.com/archaeology/.... What's wrong with that? 1/6

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Landscape-wide cosmogram built by the early community of Aguada Fénix in southeastern Mesoamerica

The cosmogram of Aguada Fénix built over the landscape between 1050 and 700 BCE rivaled the extents of later Mesoamerican cities.

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dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social @dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Hoy en Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, hablaremos sobre la repatriación de bienes culturales.

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Libération @liberation.fr · 07/11/2025

Au Mexique, un peuple préhispanique exige de la France la restitution d’un manuscrit ancestral : «Pourquoi une œuvre réalisée par mes ancêtres et qui parle de mon peuple se trouve-t-elle à l’autre bout du monde ?»

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Au Mexique, un peuple préhispanique exige de la France la restitution d’un manuscrit ancestral

La question du retour de trésors du patrimoine mexicain, comme le précieux «Codex Borbonicus conservé à Paris, sera abordée lors de la rencontre entre Emmanuel Macron et son homologue Claudia Sheinbaum, à Mexico, vendredi 7 novembre.

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Egypt’s Grand Museum Is Finally Open. Now, ‘We Need Our Stuff Back.’ For many Egyptians, the state-of-the art museum is a stage from which to renew demands that Egypt’s most iconic antiquities belong in their homeland — not the marble halls of European museums. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...

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Egypt’s Grand Museum Is Finally Open. Now, ‘We Need Our Stuff Back.’

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Capturing a 3D Scene in Blender, step-by-step, for the Portrait of Tenochtitlan 3D viewer. The presentation is up on youtube! #tenochtitlan #threejs

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/ Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me

This black-figure terracotta kantharos-rhyton has a sculpted donkey-head attachment and Dionysian figures around the body of the vessel. In fact, on the rear of the cup Dionysos is shown riding on an ithyphallic mule or donkey, so the head on the cup is Dionysos' own steed. The fun part is that when you grasp the cup by both handles and raise it to your mouth to drink, you look like you’re wearing a donkey mask, providing a great deal of chuckles from your fellow symposiasts.

This appears to be the earliest preserved Attic rhyton (a vessel for wine, frequently with animal head pouring spouts), and this rhyton-kantharos as a whole is a rare preserved example of an Athenian plastic vase with black-figure decoration. In design, the donkey's tall, outward-flaring ears are echoed by the kantharos' tall looping strap handles. In order to assemble this vase, the potter cut a hole in the kantharos' bowl and precisely inserted the donkey's head, thereby forming a dual-chambered wine vessel with a large capacity. But the resulting rhyton-kantharos is overweighted toward the donkey's head, which extends down so far that the donkey's lips set the vessel off kilter, and it rests unstably on the kantharos' foot.

Greek, Attic, about 520-500 BCE, possibly found in Athens. Black-figure terracotta with some pigments (purple on the Dionysian figures and red inside the donkey's mouth).

Height: 21.59 cm (8.50 in.)
Diameter: 13.65 cm (5.37 in.)

British Museum, London (1876,0328.5)

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 04/11/2025

NEW Atop El Castillo, Chichen Itza's largest pyramid, stand two ruined columns that once portrayed the feathered serpent deity K’uk’ulkan. 3D-imaging technologies have identified scattered fragments of these columns, allowing a digital reconstruction. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology #Maya

3D reconstruction of a 3.67m-tall stone column in the shape of a feathered serpent, with its head on the ground and tail curling upwards, made up of several fragments pieced together.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

New Case: The Aubin Tonalamatl, contributed by Damien Huffer In June 1982, Mexican attorney and journalist José Luis Castañeda del Valle entered the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris using a false student ID and permits. He convinced curators that he was a student there to study the ancient text.

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

New case: The Dallas Bhairava Mask This is one of two sacred masks stolen in 1994 from Dolakha, Nepal. The masks date to c. 16th century CE and are effigies of Shiva—one of Hinduism’s most important deities.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

“He has not only provided the political climate and resources for the University to turn into the empty shell that it now is, but has…given so many in our leadership the inspiration to crack down on civil and constitutional rights, attack academic freedom and turn their back on common human decency”

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I had a great time releasing this at the Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City yesterday. Thank you all that could attend!

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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It's live! My Interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan is available online. Please give it a try and let me know what you think! retratodetenochtitlan.mx #tenochtitlan #cdmx #b3d #threejs

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Tenochtitlan 3D viewer | retrato de Tenochtitlan

interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan

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dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social @dr-ai-rivera.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

En la conferencia del Dr. Nikolai Grube, en la UNAM, sobre la escritura maya más allá de los espacios palaciegos. Muy interesante y con datos sobre la importancia de las mujeres mayas como escribas. Grato encontrar a amigos y colegas, como Christophe Helmke.

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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 19/09/2025

Thank you to all our journal, book and Cambridge Elements reviewers! 👏 Your time, expertise, and dedication help ensure the quality and integrity of our research. Explore our peer review resources 🔗 cup.org/4gBOerI #PeerReviewWeek

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

For #RomanFortThursday a carved pedestal from the headquarters building of the legionary fortress at Mogontiacium, present-day Mainz, depicting two #Roman legionaries. Dating 2nd half of the 1st century AD. On display at Landesmuseum Mainz. 🏺 📷 me

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Manhattan DA returns 9 antiquities to Costa Rica seized during ongoing investigations of trafficking networks targeting South and Central America. They were smuggled into the US and laundered by through false provenances, exhibitions, and museum donations. manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-an...

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Jose Maria Velasco @jmvelasco.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Escena del periodo Cuaternario Paleolítico Inferior www.wikiart.org/en/jose-maria-velas…

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