Dr Beard delivers an interesting lecture:  

Interesting thesis by Maria Nilsson out of the University of Gothenburg. Here’s the abstract: Nilsson, M., The crown of Arsinoë II. The creation and development of an imagery of authority. 760 pp. 158 pls. Written in English. This study deals with a unique crown that was created for Queen Arsinoë II. The aim is to [...]

Man … we’re pretty close to being able to play insula-collapse-bingo … from NPR: A stretch of garden wall ringing an ancient house in Pompeii gave way Tuesday after days of torrential rain, the latest structure to collapse at the popular archaeological site. Pompeii officials said an inspection found that a 40-foot (12-meter)-long section of [...]

This one likely won’t make it to the English press, but Il Tempo is reporting that remains of a massive temple platform that came to light during WWII bombing is not actually that of the Capitoline Triad as has been believed for at least a generation. The recent discovery of some statue podiums near the [...]

My Twitter godfather beat me to this one … on the periphery of our purview:  

pridie kalendas decembres 406 B.C. — death of Euripides (by one reckoning) 147 A.D. — birth of Annia Galeria Faustina, the daughter of the emperor-to-be Marcus Aurelius 1817 — birth of Theodor Mommsen, Nobel prize winning ancient historian