Cleopatra's tomb?...

Where is Cleopatra's tomb? Recent reports claim this tomb is at "Taposiris Magna," located about 31 miles (50 kilometers) west of Alexandria. Many scholars believe that Cleopatra was buried within Alexandria, possibly in an area that is now underwater. https://t.co/waQqkM41uA

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 28, 2021

Pompeii unveils more secrets...

After all this time, ash-bound Pompeii still is demonstrating it hasn't quite 'uploaded' all its secrets just yet... What an incredible discovery this is... https://t.co/wi2qkpkq8l

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 27, 2020

Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, make the extraordinary discovery of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby. 

Traces of nearly 2,000-year-old food were found in some of the deep terra cotta jars containing hot food which the shopkeeper lowered into a counter with circular holes.

This antique hot-food eatery is known as a thermopolium.

Australian history slowly emerges...

Kakadu rewrites Australian history. World's oldest stone axes -polished + sharpened edges - proving that the earliest Australians among the most sophisticated tool-makers of their time: no other culture had such axes for another 20,000 years. https://t.co/XadUFPocwQ via @smh

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) June 12, 2020

I do believe that we still have a long long way to go before the 'real' history of Australia emerges...It is far more diverse than mere colonial intrusions...When I first went to Tasmania and saw impressions of early aborigines there, I was shocked...They looked so vastly different from images I saw of early aborigines in a shop in Katoomba... And then, I realised why...Tasmanian aboriginals looked more African...The Roaring Forties perhaps???? So, shock horror, could migration have not begun 'out of Africa' but out of Australasia and back??? For further discussion see HERE

And then there are barely explained artifacts found in Queensland, suggesting other connections...the Romans, the Celts...???? Western Australian and Queensland coastlines have quite a range of mysteries that don't quite fit the current textbooks...

archaeology still happening...

A Wedding Photographer Took an Online Archaeology Class During Lockdown—and Discovered a Stonehenge-Like Structure https://t.co/aEBBzzXvUJ

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) May 24, 2020