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Founded 2008 · 284.5K members

285.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 120.1K upvotes, which works out to 421 per 1,000 members.

421peak upvotes per 1,000 members
285.3Kmembers
120.1Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
102posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

55% 31% 9%
Link 55% Image 31% Gallery 9% Text 4% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Remember, we punch fascists here

↑ 120.1K 💬 2.1K image 2024

I'm not even that in to archeology, but if we punch nazis I'm in

↑ 37.7K 💬 1.3K image 2024

Recent LIDAR scans have revealed ancient cities deep in the Amazon rainforest

↑ 11.2K 💬 170 image 2024

Newly rediscovered thousand-year-old mountain cities in Uzbekistan have been lidar scanned

↑ 6.2K 💬 70 image 2024

Archaeologists in Greece uncovered 430,000-year-old wooden tools, now considered the oldest handheld wooden tools ever found. The discovery suggests …

↑ 6K 💬 124 link 2026

PSA: R/Archeology is run by Nazi apologists.

↑ 6K 💬 331 text 2025

Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt

↑ 5.8K 💬 90 link 2024

Man Mound in Saulk County Wisconsin.

↑ 5.2K 💬 233 image 2026

Venus of Cussac, Dordogne France, 25,000 years old.

↑ 4.2K 💬 175 image 2026

George Washington's stash of 250-year-old cherries have been found hidden under the floor at Mount Vernon

↑ 4K 💬 139 link 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Archaeology, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Archaeology?
r/Archaeology is a Reddit community. It was founded in 2008 and has 284.5K members.
How many members does r/Archaeology have?
r/Archaeology has about 285.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 102 of its posts; the biggest reached 120.1K upvotes, which is 421 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Archaeology?
"Remember, we punch fascists here" reached 120.1K upvotes and 2.1K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Archaeology.
What subreddits are similar to r/Archaeology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/Archaeology?
Of the posts we hold, 55% are link posts and 31% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Archaeology?
Across 102 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 22:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes), Monday at 19:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 06:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Archaeology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Archaeology has 2.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Archaeology, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.