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@archaeologymag
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256subscribers
+34 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001914733387 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @archaeologymag |
| Created | Between 1 April 2023 and 31 October 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 26 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 12 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 26 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/archaeologymag |
Science — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026, 10:46 | 256 | -1 |
| 19 Oct 2026, 04:58 | 257 | +6 |
| 12 Oct 2026, 20:49 | 251 | +5 |
| 1 Oct 2026, 16:41 | 246 | +7 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 12:22 | 239 | +3 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 15:58 | 236 | +4 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 04:56 | 232 | +4 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 14:34 | 228 | +1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 08:58 | 227 | +4 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 16:12 | 223 | +1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 10:32 | 222 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:14 | 222 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 1 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
5 reactions across 4 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 60.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 3 | 60.0% | |
| 👍 | 2 | 40.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 4 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 5 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 1 August 2026 to 7 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Why ancient societies buried their dead at home, and why they stopped People across history have honored their dead in many different ways. One tradition, now rare in much of the world, placed family members inside or beside their homes after death. A study published in American Antiquity found this practice was far more common in the distant past than many researchers once thought... More information: https://arch…
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1.4-million-year-old footprints in Kenya suggest Paranthropus boisei was far larger than thought and walked in groups A group of fossil footprints found beside an ancient lake in northern Kenya is giving researchers one of the clearest records of early human behavior ever found. The tracks date to about 1.43 million years ago and capture a single moment when at least eight hominins walked across wet ground before th…
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First Roman camp at Vindonissa revealed through new excavation of walls, barracks, and artifacts Archaeologists have uncovered major new evidence from the earliest Roman military camp at Vindonissa after an 11-month rescue excavation in Windisch, Switzerland. The work took place before construction of a new housing project and has provided a clearer picture of how the site developed between the 1st and 4th centuries…
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Climate cycles drove severe droughts behind the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations, study reveals Around 3,200 years ago, several major civilizations across the Eastern Mediterranean entered a period of rapid decline. The Mycenaeans, Minoans, and Hittite Empire all faced social and economic collapse. Historians have long linked this period to severe drought. A new study shows those dry years grew from several natu…
Rare First Temple figurine mold found in Jerusalem confirms local production A rare clay mold used to make the face of a female figurine has been found in Jerusalem. Archaeologists say the find gives the first direct proof that at least some First Temple period figurines were made inside the ancient city instead of arriving through trade... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/first-temple-figurine-…
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Roman soldiers relied more on hunting and fishing as life changed on the Danube frontier, study finds Roman soldiers stationed at the Diana-Karataš fort along the Danube ate far more than grain and preserved food. A new study of more than 10,000 animal remains shows meat formed a regular part of their meals for hundreds of years. Hunting and fishing grew much more common from the 4th century onward as life on the em…
More than 1,000 medieval skeletons rewrite the story of life in Ypres New research on more than 1,000 medieval skeletons is helping historians rebuild the lives of people who once lived in the Belgian city of Ypres. The work, led by researchers from Vrije Universiteit Brussel and partner groups, forms the heart of the new wONDERLAND exhibition at the Yper Museum. By joining archaeology, chemistry, and the study of h…
Pompeii’s restored House with Bakery ceiling brings Dionysus and Ariadne fresco back to life A restored ceiling from Pompeii’s House with Bakery has brought one of the city’s finest painted rooms back into view. The fresco, found in Regio IX, once decorated the vaulted ceiling of an upper floor dining room where guests gathered for banquets. After careful work by restorers and archaeologists, more than one quarter o…
Ancient language diversity peaked before expanding empires began a long global decline Around 7,500 languages are spoken or signed across the world today. A new study suggests this number is far lower than in the past. Researchers estimate Earth held tens of thousands of languages between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago before a long period of language loss began... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/an…
First Roman Republican silver coin hoard found in Saxony-Anhalt rewrites central Germany’s ancient history Silver coins from the Roman Republic rarely turn up in central Germany. Archaeologists have now confirmed the first documented hoard of Roman Republican silver denarii in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The small group of five coins adds fresh evidence about contacts between Rome and the people living beyond…
4,000-year-old silkworm cocoons suggest silk farming reached Central Asia before the Silk Road Silkworm farming reached Central Asia about 4,000 years ago, almost 2,000 years earlier than historians long believed, according to a new study. The finding comes from three ancient silkworm cocoons uncovered at the Bronze Age site of Sapalli Tepe in present-day Uzbekistan. More information: https://archaeologymag.com/202…
New Homo antecessor fossils show adults were also victims of cannibalism in ancient Spain Thirty years after the first Homo antecessor fossils changed ideas about Europe’s earliest people, archaeologists have added another chapter to the story. During the 2026 excavation season at Gran Dolina in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains, researchers uncovered 24 new human fossils from the Aurora layer. The finds give scientists t…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @archaeologymag. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 26 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Archaeology News” (@archaeologymag), 256 subscribers as measured 26 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/archaeologymag.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.