• 13 A.D. — Augustus writes his will
• 33 A.D. — one of the calculated dates for the crucifixion of Jesus
• 68 A.D. — Galba rails against Nero and declares himself vir militaris (source?)
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Irene, Agape, and Chionia

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Thirty previously unpublished verses by Empedocles discovered on a papyrus from Cairo
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-previously-unpublished-verses-empedocles-papyrus.html

Mysterious Greek inscription may reveal lost temple beneath Syria’s Great Mosque | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260401071947.htm

What Did Ancient Pompeians Burn as Offerings to Their Gods? New Research Reveals the Surprising Answer
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-did-ancient-pompeians-burn-as-offerings-to-their-gods-new-research-reveals-the-surprising-answer-180988467/

Rare Roman Bone Phallus Unearthed in Nijmegen as Museum Opens Forgotten Boxes – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/rare-roman-bone-phallus-unearthed-in-nijmegen-as-museum-opens-forgotten-boxes/

New Sinai Fortress Reveals Militarized Route Linked to the Biblical Exodus – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/new-sinai-fortress-reveals-militarized-route-linked-to-the-biblical-exodus/

‘A wow moment’: ancient Romanian gold helmet returned in plea deal with theft suspects | Art theft | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/02/stolen-romanian-gold-helmet-recovered-netherlands

Pompeii completely scanned. The first comprehensive map of the ancient city changes everything. 70,000 analyses reveal the ancient city’s most fragile points. Will it now be possible to prevent collapses?

Pompei “scansionata” interamente. La prima mappa totale della città antica cambia tutto. 70.000 analisi svelano i punti più fragili della città antica. Ora si potranno prevenire i crolli?

[old news]Oldest Synagogue Outside Israel Found on Delos, the Sacred Greek Island – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/02/oldest-synagogue-outside-israel-found-delos-sacred-greek-island/

Apaturia, the Ancient Athens Festival of Kinship and Citizenship – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/02/apaturia-ancient-athens-festival-kinship-citizenship/

Did Mycenaeans Contact Scandinavians? Evidence From the Bronze Age – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/01/mycenaeans-contact-scandinavians-evidence-bronze-age/

Greece, discoveries between Kasos and Karpathos: five Byzantine wrecks and anchors identified
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/greece-discoveries-between-kasos-and-karpathos-five-byzantine-wrecks-and-anchors-identified

Ancient Grease, The Vaults review: This extremely rude mash-up of ‘Grease’ and the Greeks is terrific fun
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/ancient-grease-review

Syracuse Drops 84 Programs Including Classics, Ceramics and Italian – The New York Times

[Note date] Ancient Statues at The Met to Receive Patrons’ Noses
https://hyperallergic.com/ancient-statues-at-the-met-to-receive-patrons-noses/

Sentenced To Marry Her Cook? Emperor Justinian II’s Bizarre Punishment Of A Rebel’s Wife – The Historian’s Hut

Sentenced To Marry Her Cook? Emperor Justinian II’s Bizarre Punishment Of A Rebel’s Wife

Aeschylus – The Historian’s Hut

Aeschylus

The Destruction of the Temple of Baal and the Slaughter of his Priests, by Philips Galle (1537–1612) after Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) – The Historian’s Hut

The Destruction of the Temple of Baal and the Slaughter of his Priests, by Philips Galle (1537–1612) after Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574)

The Latin sermons of Eusebius of Emesa: excerpts from Buytaert’s introduction

The Latin sermons of Eusebius of Emesa: excerpts from Buytaert’s introduction

March Reading Notes – Noodlings

March Reading Notes

Performance of Security at the Drents Museum Helmet Return Press Conference

Performance of Security at the Drents Museum Helmet Return Press Conference

An ancient oracle warned about invading Persia – leaders throughout the ages have learnt the hard way | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/oracle-persia-invading-trump-middle-east-b2950958.html

Prices and provenance of papyri recently sold or for sale | Roberta Mazza

Prices and provenance of papyri recently sold or for sale

Nemi objects in the Louvre – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Nemi objects in the Louvre

Teaching My New Book | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching My New Book

A change is as good as a rest? – Classical Studies Support

A change is as good as a rest?

Garum, de Romeinse vissaus – Mainzer Beobachter

Garum, de Romeinse vissaus

PaleoJudaica.com: A late-antique baptismal ointment receptacle excavated at Hippos?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-late-antique-baptismal-ointment.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Sifting out an Egyptian-motif seal impression for Passover
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/sifting-out-egyptian-motif-seal.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Does the number of plagues matter?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/does-number-of-plagues-matter.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die ‘Sumerische Königsliste’ als Werk der Geschichte
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/die-sumerische-konigsliste-als-werk-der.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ministries of Song: Women’s Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/ministries-of-song-womens-voices-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/kleos-in-minor-key-homeric-education-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les fluides corporels en Égypte et au Proche-Orient anciens: Actes du colloque organisé à l’Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, 5-7 septembre 2019
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/les-fluides-corporels-en-egypte-et-au.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Resources in Premodern Societies: New Approaches to Lifeworlds, Skills and Complexity
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/resources-in-premodern-societies-new.html

From masters of slaves to lords of lands: the transformation of ownership in the western world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.02/

Book Review: “Ancient Rome” by Thomas R. Martin | Geeks
https://vocal.media/geeks/book-review-ancient-rome-by-thomas-r-martin

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Special Episode – Archaic Roman Religion – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Special Episode – Archaic Roman Religion

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(511) Burial cave found at Azekah – YouTube

(511) Natalie Haynes on Medea: Greek Tragedy’s Most Shocking Heroine – YouTube

(511) David Bowie – Heroes cover in Classical Latin – YouTube

(510) Cats catting in Latin – YouTube

(511) Roman military festival at Vindolanda | Lecture in LATIN | Isabel Schumacker | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

(511) Tropaeum Alpium: Rome’s Victory Monument in the Alps – YouTube

(511) Augustus’ monumental victory monument in Roman France! – YouTube

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(9) ANE Today, 2 April 2026 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-2-april-2026

Pasts Imperfect (4.2.26)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-4-2-26/

AI for Ancient Studies (AI4AS)

AI for Ancient Studies (AI4AS)

• 1640 — death of the Polish Jesuit/Latin poet Matthias Casimir Sarbiewski

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Is This 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic the First Known Image of a Woman Fighting Wild Beasts in an Ancient Roman Arena?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/is-this-1800-year-old-mosaic-the-first-known-image-of-a-woman-fighting-wild-beasts-in-an-ancient-roman-arena-180988456/

Enigmatic Artifact Found in Hippos May Reveal Forgotten Stage in Baptism – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2026-04-01/ty-article/enigmatic-artifact-found-in-hippos-may-reveal-forgotten-stage-in-baptism/0000019d-449d-d905-a39d-d49f5b3c0000

Archaeologists probe sunken harbor remains at site that inspired Seferis poem | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1299835/archaeologists-probe-sunken-harbor-remains-at-site-that-inspired-seferis-poem/

Marine Excavations Uncover 2,600 Years of History in Aegean
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/01/marine-excavations-uncover-2600-years-of-history-in-aegean

Frankfurt Uncovers Its Oldest Known Roman Military Camp in Höchst Excavations – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/frankfurt-uncovers-its-oldest-known-roman-military-camp-in-hochst-excavations/

New finds reveal daily life of Roman soldiers in Ancient León
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/new-finds-reveal-daily-life-of-roman-soldiers-in-ancient-leon/157629

[paywalled] Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2520194-historians-dispute-link-between-drought-and-rebellion-in-roman-britain/

Archaeologists unearth bronze belts in Samnite tombs
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/archaeologists-unearth-bronze-belts-in-samnite-tombs/157626

Greek Police Officers Sentenced Over Antiquities Trafficking
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/01/greek-police-officers-sentenced-over-antiquities-trafficking

Major underwater discoveries off Karpathos and Kasos
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/major-underwater-discoveries-off-karpathos-and-kasos/157633

2,000-Year-Old Pompeii Ash Reveals Romans Burned Incense and Wine From Distant Lands | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/2-000-year-old-pompeii-ash-reveals-romans-burned-incense-and-wine-from-distant-lands-48901

Meet the rebels who destroyed an ancient Roman legion with guerrilla warfare | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/rebels-destroyed-ancient-roman-legion-guerrilla-warfare/

Hermione, the Overlooked Daughter of the Trojan War and Her Significance in Greek Mythology – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/01/hermione-greek-mythology-significance-role/

What Archaeologists Found While Searching for a Buried Second Sphinx in Egypt

What Archaeologists Found While Searching for a Buried Second Sphinx in Egypt

Ashes from Pompeii: incense burners, residue analyses and domestic cult practices | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ashes-from-pompeii-incense-burners-residue-analyses-and-domestic-cult-practices/CDE44811873BBC667EC3E7A19042EC62

Buried on the boundary: Interpreting Venta Icenorum’s enigmatic ditch deposits – The Past

Buried on the boundary: Interpreting Venta Icenorum’s enigmatic ditch deposits

Laying Out the Last Supper – Biblical Archaeology Society

Laying Out the Last Supper

Ephemeris ~ LEX NOVA HIEROSOLYMITANA
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2466

Shock a Cagliari: la scoperta archeologica è pesce d’aprile – Sardegna Sotterranea

Shock a Cagliari: la scoperta archeologica è pesce d’aprile

Context of Nemi Finds – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Context of Nemi Finds

Nemi Bibliography Round Up – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Nemi Bibliography Round Up

Hot For Teacher | Sphinx

Hot For Teacher

Who Was “Phanophis”? Unearthing Bar Hebraeus’s First King of Egypt – JASON COLAVITO
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/who-was-phanophis-unearthing-bar-hebraeuss-first-king-of-egypt

Taking Egypt out of the Israelites – The Temple Mount Sifting Project

Taking Egypt out of the Israelites

March 2026 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/march-2026-turkish-archaeology

Writing Wednesday: Revising the Introduction | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Writing Wednesday: Revising the Introduction

PaleoJudaica.com: The hand and arm of the Lord
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-hand-and-arm-of-lord.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Heat and Lust: Hesiod’s Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/heat-and-lust-hesiods-midsummer.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/man-in-middle-voice-name-and-narration.html

“Fatsa Cıngırt Kayası within the Pontic Coastal Settlements: An Assessment in the Light of Archaeological Data | Spartokos a lu

“Fatsa Cıngırt Kayası within the Pontic Coastal Settlements: An Assessment in the Light of Archaeological Data

Olbia Pontica after the Romans: late 3rd–early 5th centuries | Spartokos read

Olbia Pontica after the Romans : late 3rd–early 5th centuries

[paywalled] Book Review: ‘Son of Nobody,’ by Yann Martel – The New York Times

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Gods in Epic Poetry – Ancient History 101 | Acast

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(473) What was a Roman tettina? – YouTube

(475) Could you open carry in Ancient Rome? DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(472) Was the Trojan Horse Actually an Earthquake? – YouTube

(472) When the Tiber Flooded in Ancient Rome – YouTube

(473) Briseis and the Women, Grieving: Iliad 19. Ancient Greek, lute, lyre, drum. Bettina Joy de Guzman. – YouTube

(473) Investigating Early Bronze Age Urbanism at Tall al-Handaquq South – by Dr. Hanna Erftenbeck – YouTube

(475) Could you open carry in Ancient Rome? DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

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CfP: Reimagining Futures, Reinventing Pasts: Classical Antiquity and the Making of Imagined Worlds (AMPRAW 2026) – CRSN

CfP: Reimagining Futures, Reinventing Pasts: Classical Antiquity and the Making of Imagined Worlds (AMPRAW 2026)

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Roman Archaeology
https://www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?isPreview=Yes&jobid=3266

Project MUSE – Essays on Ancient Israel in Its Near Eastern Context
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/132399

SAM Newsletter April 2026
https://mailchi.mp/f6e2ed6686e8/sam-newsletter-april-2026?e=875f90a671

Nestor – April 2024 issue available
https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/pages/news/870-april-2024-issue-available-2

Greek Mythology Quiz
https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/greek-mythology-quiz-2026

The Odyssey release date: When Christopher Nolan’s take on the seminal story arrives in theaters | Popverse
https://www.thepopverse.com/movies-the-odyssey-release-date

• Veneralia
• 114 B.C. — dedication of aTemple to Venus Verticordia
• 286 A.D. — Maximianus is elevated to the rank of Augustus