British Archaeologist, archaeoblogger concerned about portable antiquities issues and cleaning up no-questions-asked antiquities trade. Retweet not endorsement.

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Paul Barford retweeted
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Replying to @MichaelButtonX
So this your reasoning for making up fictional stories for which there is no evidence? So anyone can make up any story they like?
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Paul Barford retweeted
Replying to @MichaelButtonX
OMG, how profound!! How come no archaeologist ever thought of it that way do you think? And of course history "shows us the past"? Yes, "historian"? How do we know about the past at all? #ButtonboyDiscoverstheWheel
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Paul Barford retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: 🚨 @TulsiGabbard Recycled Published Russian Intelligence And Claimed It Was An Official American Intelligence Document In Her Latest Act Of Deception Days Before She Is Set To “Resign” As DNI 🚨 In her “Ukrainian Bio lab” document “declassification” release this week, I’ve discovered that DNI Tulsi Gabbard used graphics from official Russian intelligence documents and slapped an ODNI @ODNIgov logo on top of these same documents to present them as an official intel report created by the US government. Upon further analysis of Tulsi Gabbard’s most recent declassification related to Ukraine, I have discovered evidence that she is directly peddling Russian government propaganda. Here’s the evidence: Source: dni.gov/files/BIOLAB_Slides.… Slide 1 ironically includes an IC assessment that claims Russia will attempt to spread false narratives about the US’s bio labs in Ukraine, which is exactly what @TulsiGabbard just helped the Russian Government do. Slide 2 contains an AI generated map of Ukraine which is clearly not an IC product, and which contains basic spelling and geographical errors, making a mockery of the US government. Slide 4 contains the internal work product of an American corporation (Black and Veatch) that worked with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in Ukraine. The Russian Government claims to have captured these documents during their invasion of Ukraine. The Russian Government then widely publicized these products in their own official reports in 2022. Gabbard’s political staff (not IC analysts) recycled published propaganda of the Russian Government in an attempt to spread false narratives while falsely claiming the slideshow she released this week is an original work product of US intel agencies. Page 83 of the following document presented by the Russian Government to the UN Security Council shows the exact figure that Gabbard recycled in slide 4 of her release this week. Source: the-trench.org/wp-content/up… Gabbard’s intent with this deception is to conflate the biological safety work being done to prevent dangerous uses of Soviet era pathogens (which has been publicly disclosed since 2005 as the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction framework) with bioweapons production so that Russia has another manufactured excuse to continue its prolonged war with Ukraine. Let’s be clear: there is no evidence that Ukraine in its longstanding cooperative program with the US has engaged in Gain of Function or biological weapons research. But what is clear is Tulsi Gabbard and her staff promulgated Russian intelligence products as American work, in violation of the Espionage Act. My FOIA request to ODNI regarding the production of these documents is being submitted on Monday morning. By law, ODNI has 10 business days to respond. I look forward to reading the emails. The Trump administration should order ODNI to take these Russian documents down today. This is embarrassing for the Trump administration. Nice to know ODNI gets their “intel” and their graphics from Russian intelligence. See photographic evidence below 👇🏻
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/…
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Paul Barford retweeted
Replying to @FoxNews
😅🤣😂 This should be one of the Kennedy Centers new productions
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What did I miss this time about the biolabs again? 🤔
Ladies and gentlemen, behold the map that supposedly shows the locations of "biolabs" in Ukraine in a recent document published by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. Before taking any of it seriously, note that the map doesn't even place Kyiv correctly, not even remotely close.
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Simply brilliant... the "MozART Group", from Poland!!
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Paul Barford retweeted
In the nick of time for the celebratory weekend in the USA, here's "Trumpy Doodle" - our 250th anniversary version of "Yankee Doodle" that you can also download as a song on Bandcamp, with the lyrics: themarshfamily.bandcamp.com/… #nokings #america250 🎶🚫👑✊
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Paul Barford retweeted
So, again I ask us to return to the specific question asked here: WHY can these stones [allegedly] "not have been moved" by a Roman engineer but [allegedly] a not-Roman one working in another time? This specific question, not some other, nor JimmyCorsetti falsehoods. Plse focus.
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Bollocks. Show me the documentation of the building of (a) the Temple of Divus Claudius in Camulodunum in Britain, (b) Hadrian's humongous Temple of Olympian Zeus in the centre of Athens. What "records" do you expect?
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Paul Barford retweeted
This explains how their "Trilithons" are an INTEGRAL part of (the Julio-Claudian) Podium 2 and how that relates to the earlier Podium 1 with its probable Herodian echoes.
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Not-behaving-like-a-moron is not that hard either. This "paper" DOES NOT EXPLAIN WHY THIS "CAN'T HAVE BEEN DONE BY A ROMAN ENGINEER" instead of examining evidence, it just proposes some dumb "enigmas" that it claims "complicate things". researchgate.net/publication…. Pathetic argument.
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Archaeology IS a discipline. The stratigraphic poition of those stones is clear. What important "basic interdisziplinary research" do you see contained in this immature text of Vigato? [independent.academia.edu/Mar…]
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Also, if you accept this "paper", please explain the "geodetic alignments linking Baalbek with ancient sacred centers such as Giza and Heliopolis in Egypt". There is no such alingnment. The wall with the Big Stone Blocks ... is at heading 164.79° points precisely to Mecca/Kaaba!
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Paul Barford retweeted
"I could literally present numerous examples similar, you fell at the 1st one" - Gottcha! And this is the way these discussions all go. Tell us WHY a Roman engineer "could not" have done this - somebody did, we know the Romans had very good engineers, why not one of them?
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Like the malignant-narcissist arrogant engineer/workgangs leader that everybody hated because he spent his life trying to show he was the best of the best and would stop at nothing in achieving that. Like pulling off an insane project like this.
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Paul Barford retweeted
Remember there was a guy who said that in the next decade his people would get a man on the moon and back, USING PRIMITIVE 1960s TECHNOLOGY (!) and actually did it
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Paul Barford retweeted
Replying to @StevenBartlett
While I certainly wish Graham the best with his health, his ideas about the past are not only unsupported by actual evidence, he relies on misrepresentation of the archaeological, textual, and narrative evidence he does present to make cases based on ideas that have their roots in 19th century fringe narratives And the idea that “mainstream history INSISTS our civilisation only started 6,000 years ago” is also a misrepresentation of what archaeologists and historians actually have to say about the ancient past, human culture, and the concept of “civilization.” Graham may feel we ignore or dismiss evidence, but what has he actually done to address this? Despite the wealth and notoriety he’s gained through skillful media manipulation he has not to my knowledge contributed to a single archaeological project, a single site, or responded to any scholarly critique of his work with anything but outrage. That’s not how we actually learn things or make progress. But it is how Graham makes money.
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RT @slacker_fella: Its happening...
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