ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ August 22, 2025

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Photos show 2,000-year-old artifacts pulled from sunken city off Egypt’s coast – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/photos-egypt-artifacts-sunken-city-mediterranean-sea/

Egypt to build world’s first underwater museum with submerged treasures – Egypt Independent

Egypt to build world’s first underwater museum with submerged treasures

Archaeologists uncover 13 ancient graves in central Sofia – News
https://bnr.bg/en/post/102201071/archaeologists-uncover-13-ancient-graves-in-central-sofia

Nine female burials at Türkiye’s Satala surprise archaeologists; remains described as unusually delicate – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/nine-female-burials-at-turkiyes-satala-surprise-archaeologists-remains-described-as-u-3205731

Returning to a Roman Tomb.. Extraction of an Ancient Stone Shaped Like an Eagle in Manbij, Aleppo Countryside
https://www.tesaaworld.com/en/news/returning-to-a-roman-tomb-extraction-of-an-ancient-stone-shaped-like-an-eagle-in-manbij-aleppo-countryside

Tornos News | Continuation of excavations in Kardamena, Kos
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/52947-continuation-of-excavations-in-kardamena-kos.html

Palestine urges UNESCO to protect archaeological sites from Israeli theft – Middle East Monitor

Palestine urges UNESCO to protect archaeological sites from Israeli theft

Israeli army classifies 63 sites in the West Bank as ‘Israeli heritage’ – Middle East Monitor

Israeli army classifies 63 sites in the West Bank as ‘Israeli heritage’

France, Découverte d’un mausolée romain près de Lyon : “exceptionnel” selon les archéologues
https://www.finestresullarte.info/fr/archeologie/france-decouverte-d-un-mausolee-romain-pres-de-lyon-exceptionnel-selon-les-archeologues

Before the Ruins. See what Ancient Knossos Palace looked like in its Glory Days –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/08/22/ancient-knossos-palace-ruins-2

Ancient Coin of Egypt’s Queen Berenice Found in Jerusalem Excavations for the First Time – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-08-22/ty-article/ancient-coin-of-egypts-queen-berenice-found-in-jerusalem-excavations-for-the-first-time/00000198-cd08-d1d0-af9d-dfa9074e0000

Silver was key currency in Israel long before invention of coins, study finds | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/silver-was-key-currency-in-israel-long-before-invention-of-coins-study-finds/

Nomads Thrived in Greece After the Collapse of the Roman Empire – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/22/nomads-thrived-greece-after-collapse-roman-empire/

The Brown Classics Department Mourns the Loss of Michael C. J. Putnam | Department of Classics | Brown University
https://classics.brown.edu/news/2025-08-20/loss-michael-c-j-putnam

National Latin Exam Awards (North Pocono) – Scranton Times-Tribune

National Latin Exam Awards (North Pocono)

Ancient Greek Spirit Revived at Heraia–Pythagoreia Festival on Samos, Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/22/ancient-greek-spirit-heraia-pythagoreia-festival-samos-greece/

The World’s First Archaeologist Was a Babylonian King – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/22/worlds-first-archaeologist-babylonian-king/

Sip, don’t suck: defining ‘Greek’ and ‘male’ via beer, wine and sex | The Journal of Hellenic Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-hellenic-studies/article/sip-dont-suck-defining-greek-and-male-via-beer-wine-and-sex/1FC60BDD488FA33E0AAC56652217AFA4?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Between images and concepts: Pherecydes of Syros and figuration in Archaic Greek thought | The Journal of Hellenic Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-hellenic-studies/article/between-images-and-concepts-pherecydes-of-syros-and-figuration-in-archaic-greek-thought/2E48DEE0DCCD22837B71F74670624B7A?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

From Individual Virtue to the Just State: Cicero and the Legal Nature of Roman Political Thought | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/from-individual-virtue-to-the-just-state-cicero-and-the-legal-nature-of-roman-political-thought/98F327304DF4FA6CEB58DB78CDE8A7DF?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Hell is Other Poets: Tibullus, Ovid and Statius in Queer Elysium | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/hell-is-other-poets-tibullus-ovid-and-statius-in-queer-elysium/1332D4F3428FF642CF6A3A423C41873E?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Claiming pietas: Vergilian Rhetoric in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/claiming-pietas-vergilian-rhetoric-in-valerius-flaccus-argonautica/4ED0518ABAB24F47E6EA6F34E0DDE200?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

SAPPHO IN JULIUS POLLUX’S ONOMASTICON: A MATERIAL GIRL IN A MATERIAL WORLD | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/sappho-in-julius-polluxs-onomasticon-a-material-girl-in-a-material-world/712D0E87D204C77E7D626D0F7E39A5F6?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

WHO MAKES THE PESTO? LABOUR, SOCIAL STATUS AND AUTHORSHIP IN THE MORETVM | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/who-makes-the-pesto-labour-social-status-and-authorship-in-the-moretvm/39D47C4D626107A062005DAA25B12673?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Women in Cambridge Latin Course
https://www.cambridge.org/es/education/blog/2025/08/22/cur-metella-in-atrio-sedet/

Excavating the CA Archive – Roman Lincoln – Current Archaeology

Excavating the CA Archive – Roman Lincoln

The Nile Mosaic at Palestrina – The Past

The Nile Mosaic at Palestrina

The ancient Greeks and Romans grappled with housing crises, too
https://theconversation.com/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too-261860

The ancient Greeks invented democracy – and warned us how it could go horribly wrong
https://theconversation.com/the-ancient-greeks-invented-democracy-and-warned-us-how-it-could-go-horribly-wrong-250058

(14) Aeneid XI.100-202 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xi100-202-cbd?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168994134&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Laudator Temporis Acti: Different Gifts
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/08/different-gifts.html

Painting Likely Depicting Iphigenia, By An Artist From Pompeii (destroyed in the year 79) – The Historian’s Hut

Painting Likely Depicting Iphigenia, By An Artist From Pompeii (destroyed in the year 79)

A Brief History On The Ancient Belief In Fire-Dwelling Salamanders – The Historian’s Hut

A Brief History On The Ancient Belief In Fire-Dwelling Salamanders

PaleoJudaica.com: Towers, Manichaeism: Encounters with death (Brepols)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/towers-manichaeism-encounters-with.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/on-oxyrhynchus-papyri.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Franek, Solomonica Magica (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/franek-solomonica-magica-brill.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Textboook: Guide to Ancient Aegean Art
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/open-textboook-guide-to-ancient-aegean.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Textbook: Guide to Ancient Etruscan Art
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/open-textbook-guide-to-ancient-etruscan.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Textbook: Guide to Ancient Greek Art
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/open-textbook-guide-to-ancient-greek-art.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in British Secondary Education
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/classical-civilisation-and-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Greek for Everyone: Essential Morphology and Syntax for Beginning Greek
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/ancient-greek-for-everyone-essential.html
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Laudatio Turiae – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA371 – Do we know anything about ancient soldiers dice games?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa371-do-we-know-anything-about-ancient-soldiers-dice-games

Emperor Nero – Dan Snow’s History Hit | Acast

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(59) Ancient Roman Table Manners & Etiquette – YouTube

(59) Roman Bread – House of T. Terentius Proculus – Latin – YouTube

(59) Conversation: Timeless Tales—Greek and Roman Mythology in the Art Institute – YouTube

(59) How Clean Was Ancient Rome? Baths, Sponges, And Toilets – YouTube

(60) Exploring Rome’s Ancient Spa: The Taurine Baths – YouTube

(60) Egypt unveils 2,000-year-old sunken city • FRANCE 24 English – YouTube

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Ancient Animal Studies: Present and Future
https://www.aman-uk.org/events

CFP CAMWS 2026 | CAMWS
https://camws.org/CFPCAMWS2026

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ August 21, 2025

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Urban civilization rose on the back of tides in Southern Mesopotamia
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-urban-civilization-rose-tides-southern.html

Quartz sphinx among antiquities pulled from the Mediterranean Sea off Egypt | The National
https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art-design/2025/08/21/what-are-the-sunken-antiquities-recovered-from-abu-qir-bay-in-alexandria/

In Photos: Egypt recovers three massive ancient colossi from Abu Qir seabed – Greco-Roman – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/551647.aspx

Remnants of 2,000-year-old sunken city lifted out of the sea off Alexandria | Egypt | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/21/egypt-retrieves-parts-of-2000-year-old-sunken-city-canopus-off-coast-of-alexandria

Ibex motif linked to fertility and celestial symbolism in ancient Near East art
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-ibex-motif-linked-fertility-celestial.html

[AI?]Ancient village tied to Jesus’ apostles emerges after fire | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-864803

Palestine urges UNESCO to protect archaeological sites from Israeli theft
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/palestine-urges-unesco-to-protect-archaeological-sites-from-israeli-theft/3665594

Silver once used as form of currecy in Land of Israel | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-864913

Nine female burials at Türkiye’s Satala surprise archaeologists; remains described as unusually delicate – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/nine-female-burials-at-turkiyes-satala-surprise-archaeologists-remains-described-as-u-3205731

Purple Ambitions: Tel Shiqmona and the Rise of Israelite Dye Industry in the Iron Age – The Ancient Near East Today
https://anetoday.org/tel-shiqmona-purple-dye/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Ancient Greek Weighing Scale Found in Jerusalem Reveals Hellenistic Trade Practices – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/20/ancient-greek-weighing-scale-jerusalem/

News – Archanes 2025 – Archaeological Institute of America

Archanes 2025

Archaeology steps up as diplomatic tool—Türkiye leads new wave – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/archaeology-steps-up-as-diplomatic-toolturkiye-leads-new-wave-3205726

The Great Escape: How 10,000 Ancient Greek Warriors Fled Persia Against All Odds – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/21/great-escape-ten-thousand-ancient-greek-warriors-fled-persia/

Ulysses as an Oblique Foil for Aeneas: Vergil’s calculated repudiation of the Romans’ Greek ancestry
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394767227_Ulysses_as_an_Oblique_Foil_for_Aeneas_Vergil%27s_calculated_repudiation_of_the_Romans%27_Greek_ancestry

The Ancient Roman Dodecahedron: The Mysterious Object That Has Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries | Open Culture

The Ancient Roman Dodecahedron: The Mysterious Object That Has Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

The ancient dangers of ‘proscription’ | The Spectator Australia

The ancient dangers of ‘proscription’

The Bacchae at Edinburgh Fringe: stylish retelling of ancient story by Company of Wolves
https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/the-bacchae-review-assembly-roxy-edinburgh-company-of-wolves-ewan-downie

The Cambridge Professor Who Decoded Keros Bronze Age Civilization in Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/21/cambridge-professor-keros-bronze-age-civilization-greece/

(14) Predicting Ancient Meteors – by Owen Rees
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/predicting-ancient-meteors?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2470207&post_id=167977788&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(14) Aeneid XI.1-99 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xi1-99-e13?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168994009&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Laudator Temporis Acti: Sweet It Is
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/08/sweet-it-is.html

Three Things Thursday: Teaching, Writing, and Reading | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Three Things Thursday: Teaching, Writing, and Reading

Betwixt the Vestals! – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Betwixt the Vestals!

Reading the Odyssey | Blog post | Mary Beard

Reading the Odyssey

PaleoJudaica.com: “Two astonishing years” for lost scriptures
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/two-astonishing-years-for-lost.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On ancient wilderness narratives
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/on-ancient-wilderness-narratives.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Swinney, Reforging History in the Persian Era Editing of the Twelve (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/swinney-reforging-history-in-persian.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Textbook: Guide to Ancient Egyptian Art
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/open-textbook-guide-to-ancient-egyptian.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Taymāʾ III: Catalogue of the Inscriptions in the Taymāʾ Museum and Other Collections
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/tayma-iii-catalogue-of-inscriptions-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/mythology-unbound-online-textbook-for.html

(14) ANE Today, 21 August 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-21-august-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=171384227&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria – The Ancients | Acast

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(28) Rare Gold Coin of Egyptian Queen Berenice II Discovered in the City of David – Israel Antiquities – YouTube

(29) Alexander the Great: Ruthless Siege of Tyre Explained – YouTube

(29) Why and How the Battle of Teutoburg Happened – Who Was Varus? – YouTube

(29) Cleopatra’s Final Secret | Official Trailer | National Geographic – YouTube

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Connecting Pillars: Phenomenon Herm in Perspective. Exploring the Semi-Figural, Tradition, and Innovation in Ancient Sculpture. | Institute of Archaeology | UZH
https://www.archaeologie.uzh.ch/de/Veranstaltungen/Tagung–Connecting-Pillars.html

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ August 20, 2025

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Archaeologists discover Ancient Christian cross on Abu Dhabi island depicting site of Jesus’ crucifixion | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/middle-east/ancient-christian-cross-abu-dhabi-archaeology-b2810881.html

Want to understand the history of European culture? Start with the Minoans, not the Ancient Greeks
https://theconversation.com/want-to-understand-the-history-of-european-culture-start-with-the-minoans-not-the-ancient-greeks-257193

Rare gold coin of Queen Berenice II unearthed in Jerusalem
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/h1h52xmtll

In St. Casciano, all summer long, archaeological walks to discover the bronze shrine
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/in-st-casciano-all-summer-long-archaeological-walks-to-discover-the-bronze-shrine

Cicero’s BATHHOUSE is found after 2,000 years: Archaeologists discover the remains of the Roman statesman’s sauna in the ancient sunken city of Baiae | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15013509/Cicero-BATHHOUSE-Archaeologists-discover-sunken.html

[AI?]Rare gold coin depicting Egyptian queen found in Jerusalem | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-864777

Biblical Family Tree or Ancient Map? – Biblical Archaeology Society

Biblical Family Tree or Ancient Map?

Unique Roman Tombs Uncovered in Ancient Greco-Roman City of Sillyon in Turkey – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/20/unique-roman-tombs-ancient-city-sillyon/

Annual Caistor archaeological dig of Roman town under way
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7y0v5v2elo

Ancient Vase Reveals Greek Goddess Aphrodite as First Mom to Spank Her Child with a Sandal – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/20/mother-spank-child-sandal-greek-goddess/

2150 years old: Jerusalem dolphin artifact found
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/08/19/jerusalem-2150-old-dolphin-artifact-found-in-special-operation/

[AI?]2,000-Year-Old Greek Artifact Seized in Jerusalem Raid | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-864761

(12) Aeneid X.833-908 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-x833-908-53a?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168993951&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

PaleoJudaica.com: Strauss, Jews vs. Rome (Simon & Schuster)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/strauss-jews-vs-rome-simon-schuster.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Looted inscribed dolphin weight recovered in Jerusalem
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/looted-inscribed-dolphin-weight.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Coin of Berenice II excavated in Givati Parking Lot
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/coin-of-berenice-ii-excavated-in-givati.html

Recycling the Roman Villa | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Recycling the Roman Villa

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Latin ReadHer: Discover Latin by Women
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/latin-readher-discover-latin-by-women.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Codename SICILYWAR: Archaeology, Museums, and Social Networks under Threat in Sicily during World War II
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/codename-sicilywar-archaeology-museums.html

Greece’s Northern Frontier: Studies in the History of the Ancient Greek Experience in the Black Sea | Spartokos read

Greece’s Northern Frontier: Studies in the History of the Ancient Greek Experience in the Black Sea


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Daimons are Forever: Plato’s Apology, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 190) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/ad-navseam-episode-190/

The Colosseum – Dan Snow’s History Hit | Acast

(12) Tutankhamun, Nefertem, and the Lotus of Rebirth
https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/tutankhamun-nefertem-and-the-lotus?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=752411&post_id=163884976&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=play_card&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true
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(2) Roman Clan Warfare | Warriors of History | Animated Documentary – YouTube

(2) Exploring Amman’s Lost Roman Water Monument – YouTube

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The Brian D. Joseph Chair in Classics Application Form – CYA – College Year in Athens

The Brian D. Joseph Chair in Classics Application Form

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ August 19, 2025

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Annual Caistor archaeological dig of Roman town under way
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7y0v5v2elo

A Forgotten Capital in Anatolia: 2,000-Year-Old Bone Pen Unearthed at Türkmen-Karahöyük – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/a-forgotten-capital-in-central-anatolia-2000-year-old-bone-pen-unearthed-at-turkmen-karahoyuk/

Ancient Egyptian desert inscriptions may reveal oldest known reference to Moses, researcher says
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/world-news/ancient-egyptian-desert-inscriptions-may-reveal-oldest-known-reference-to-moses-researcher-says/

Elite Roman tomb discovery in ancient Sillyon
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/08/elite-roman-tomb-discovery-in-ancient-sillyon/155806

Archaeologists Find Infant Remains At A Hittite Site In Turkey
https://allthatsinteresting.com/turkey-usakli-hoyuk-infant-remains

1,600-Year-Old Greek Mosaic Inscription in Israel Reveals Byzantine Nursing Home – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/19/byzantine-nursing-home-israel-greek-inscription/

Archaeologists Find a Mosaic Depicting Flip-Flops at Ancient Roman Villa
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/flip-flops-mosaic-villa-romana-del-casale-2677238

Ruins of Well-Preserved Roman Bathhouse May Have Belonged to Cicero
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-roman-bathhouse-cicero-baiae-underwater-1234749495/

Jesus Holding a Magic Wand? – Biblical Archaeology Society

Jesus Holding a Magic Wand?

In St. Casciano, all summer long, archaeological walks to discover the bronze shrine
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/in-st-casciano-all-summer-long-archaeological-walks-to-discover-the-bronze-shrine

2150 years old: Jerusalem dolphin artifact found
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/08/19/jerusalem-2150-old-dolphin-artifact-found-in-special-operation/

[AI?]Egypt Reclaims Ancient Artifacts from Dutch Museums | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-864650

Italian Police Catch Tourist Stealing Stones From the Ancient City of Pompeii
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/italian-police-catch-tourist-stealing-stones-from-the-ancient-city-of-pompeii-180987193/

Homosexuality in Ancient Greece: Honor, Disgrace, and Social Boundaries – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/18/homosexuality-ancient-greece-honour-disgrace-social-boundaries/

Discover the World’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, from Ancient Rome | Open Culture

Discover the World’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, from Ancient Rome

The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD) | Open Culture

The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD)

Turks ask Troy archaeologist Korfmann’s grave relocation, as site under threat in Germany – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/turks-ask-troy-archaeologist-korfmanns-grave-relocation-as-site-under-threat-in-germa-3205625

How Alexander the Great Used Myths to Conquer the World – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/19/alexander-the-great-myths-conquer/

Could Hermes Be the Ancient Greek God Millennials Relate to Most? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/18/ancient-greek-god-hermes-icon-millennials/

From the Venus de Milo to the Danish Mermaid – When the female breast turns from art into porn – ProtoThema English

From the Venus de Milo to the Danish Mermaid – When the female breast turns from art into porn

Rolling out the red carpet – Engelsberg ideas

Rolling out the red carpet

(12) The Red Carpet treatment – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/the-red-carpet-treatment?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=171367882&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(12) Aeneid X.719-832 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-x719-832-5ff?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168993888&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Greek tragedy ‘The Libation Bearers’ to be staged in Bangladesh for the first time | Daily Star
https://www.thedailystar.net/entertainment/theatre-arts/news/greek-tragedy-the-libation-bearers-be-staged-bangladesh-the-first-time-3965346

Learning about modern flattery from ancient Pliny | Mary Beard

Learning about modern flattery from ancient Pliny

Circumcelliones – Mainzer Beobachter

Circumcelliones

(12) 19 August 58 BCE: From Cicero (in Thessalonica) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/19-august-58-bce-from-cicero-in-thessalonica?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=171328940&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

NDQuesday: NDQ and Google’s Gemini LM | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

NDQuesday: NDQ and Google’s Gemini LM

New Roman History Comic: where did Proscription come from? | Greek Myth Comix

PaleoJudaica.com: Cartagena Festival 2025 is coming
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/cartagena-festival-2025-is-coming.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Hendel, Genesis 1–11
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/review-of-hendel-genesis-111.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A late-antique senior care home in Sussita (Hippos) National Park?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-late-antique-senior-care-home-at.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Textiles and War in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity: Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilisation in Bucharest, Romania, 17-19 May 2023
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/textiles-and-war-in-europe-and.html

Book details Jews’ two-century fight against Roman Empire | Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/08/book-details-jews-two-century-fight-against-roman-empire
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Instant Classics – Trailer • Instant Classics
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0tyHBTKsSumPZbZFxLo6KX?si=cAEH2P8aRaKabTnbluGNeA&nd=1&dlsi=f282af56e9734659

Q&A with Louise O’Brien, our Expert in Residence by The Classics Podcast
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/the-classics-podcast/episodes/QA-with-Louise-OBrien–our-Expert-in-Residence-e370vbe

95: The Battle of Mantinea – Casting Through Ancient Greece – Apple Podcasts

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ August 18, 2025

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Ruins of Well-Preserved Roman Bathhouse May Have Belonged to Cicero
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-roman-bathhouse-cicero-baiae-underwater-1234749495/

Archaeologists discover 2000-year-old Roman road in Scottish park | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25399064.archaeologists-discover-2000-year-old-roman-road-roundhouse/

4 Roman-era tombs unearthed at Sillyon ancient city in Antalya – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/4-roman-era-tombs-unearthed-at-sillyon-ancient-city-in-antalya-3205601

Archaeologists Uncover Double-Headed Ritual Hearths in Anatolia’s Tadım Mound – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-uncover-double-headed-ritual-hearths-in-anatolias-tadim-mound/

What Is the Sinai? – Biblical Archaeology Society

What Is the Sinai?

Pazuzu figurine: An ancient statue of the Mesopotamian ‘demon’ god who inspired ‘The Exorcist’ | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/pazuzu-figurine-an-ancient-statue-of-the-mesopotamian-demon-god-who-inspired-the-exorcist

1,600 years of care: Archaeologists in northern Israel uncover world’s earliest home for elderly | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-say-theyve-uncovered-earliest-home-for-elderly-in-northern-israel/

Ancient Water Pipeline Unearthed on 65-Meter Hill in Tajikistan – The Times Of Central Asia

Ancient Water Pipeline Unearthed on 65-Meter Hill in Tajikistan

Türkiye’s Sardes prepares to showcase Lydia civilization remains | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/turkiyes-sardes-prepares-to-showcase-lydia-civilization-remains/news

Giant Roman baths finally unearthed in Spain’s Elche after eight year dig – Olive Press News Spain

Giant Roman baths finally unearthed in Spain’s Elche after eight year dig

Why Did The Ancient Egyptians Worship And Sacrifice Crocodiles? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/17/why-ancient-egyptians-worship-sacrifice-crocodiles/

PaleoJudaica.com: Papyri at the University of Oslo
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/papyri-at-university-of-oslo.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Rowlands, The Metaphysics of Historical Jesus Research (Routledge)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/rowlands-metaphysics-of-historical.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Harrison, Kingship and Empire under the Achaemenids (Edinburgh University Press)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/harrison-kingship-and-empire-under.html

Did the Romans do the ‘Roman Salute’ – Bad Ancient
https://www.badancient.com/claims/roman-salute/

Vooroordelen over gender – Mainzer Beobachter

Vooroordelen over gender

CANE Summer Institute Reunion – CANE

CANE Summer Institute Reunion

(12) Aeneid X.606-718 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-x606-718-e20?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168993849&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Weekly Varia no. 143, 08/17/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 143, 08/17/25

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The LCP Handbook to the Late Roman Amphora 1 (LRA1)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-lcp-handbook-to-late-roman-amphora.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia: Vol. IV: Inscribed Documents
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-palace-of-nestor-at-pylos-in.html

! Murcia Today – The Carthaginians And Romans Fiestas, A Legacy Of The Rich Past Of Cartagena
https://murciatoday.com/the-carthaginians-and-romans-fiestas-a-legacy-of-the-rich-past-of-cartagena_1000230366-a.html
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EPISODE 113: Rome’s Forgotten Guerrilla Master — History on Fire
https://historyonfirepodcast.com/episodes/2025/08/18/episode-113-romes-forgotten-guerrilla-master

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(241) Lost Kingdom of the Desert: How the Nabataeans created an Empire – YouTube

(246) Roman Servian Class I | Warriors of History – YouTube

Vespasian #4 – Marc Hyden, author, “Emperor Titus” – Life Of The Caesars

Vespasian #4 – Marc Hyden, author, “Emperor Titus”

(247) Prof. Dr David Breeze, ‘Elizabeth Hodgson: a dispassionate recorder of Hadrian’s Wall? – YouTube

(247) Dr Amara Thornton, ‘Beyond Notability’ project – YouTube

(247) Dr Tatiana Ivleva, ‘Present but forgotten: why we need historiography of… – YouTube

(247) Dr Martha Stewart, ‘Margerie Venables Taylor (1881-1963): an unsung heroine of Roman Britain?’ – YouTube

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Call for Papers: Historical Languages and AI
https://daidalos-projekt.de/conference/cfp/