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Rare Roman treasures found on shipwreck in Swiss lake
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/rare-roman-treasures-found-on-shipwreck-in-swiss-lake/157564

Roman mosaic shows topless woman battling leopard in arena, study finds | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/roman-mosaic-shows-topless-woman-battling-leopard-in-arena-study-finds

From Iron Age to Roman Empire: A Child’s Tomb, a Kissing Figurine, and 800 Ancient Remains – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/from-iron-age-to-roman-empire-a-childs-tomb-a-kissing-figurine-and-800-ancient-remains/

One of world’s largest Ionic temples endures in Türkiye’s Sardis – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/one-of-worlds-largest-ionic-temples-endures-in-turkiyes-sardis-3216926

Roman shipwreck off Playa de Palma: Recovery begins

Shipwreck Mallorca: Recovery of the Roman shipwreck off Playa de Palma begins

Iron from a 2,600-year-old shipwreck off Israeli coast may rewrite the history of war | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iron-from-a-2600-year-old-shipwreck-off-israeli-coast-may-rewrite-the-history-of-war

Chicago archaeologists on how war, looting threaten Iran’s cultural heritage – WBEZ Chicago
https://www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-with-sasha-ann-simons/2026/03/25/chicago-archaeologists-on-how-war-looting-threaten-irans-cultural-heritage

Classics at the U: Enduring and vital – @theU

Classics at the U: Enduring and vital

CLARE department closure planned under Arts Renewal; professors question consultation – The Gauntlet

CLARE department closure planned under Arts Renewal; professors question consultation

When the past leaves fingerprints: Students unearth ancient Italian artifacts in a new Etruscan exhibit at the UC Berkeley Library | UC Berkeley Library
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/etruscans

David Wenham opens up on return to stage in Sydney Theatre Company’s An Iliad
https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/david-wenham-on-what-the-iliad-can-tell-us-about-today-s-war-20260318-p5oymc

What’s Your Star Sign? The Ancients Could Offer You Some Insight. – The New York Times

World’s Oldest Erotic Graffiti Is on Astypalaia, Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/26/worlds-oldest-erotic-graffiti-found-in-greece/

Greek Gallery Ower Arrested for Allegedly Selling Stolen Antiquities
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/giorgos-tsagarakis-dealer-arrested-stolen-antiquities-1234778988/

Greece, marble fragment possibly linked to Parthenon marbles emerges from 1802 shipwreck
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/greece-marble-fragment-possibly-linked-to-parthenon-marbles-emerges-from-1802-shipwreck

Ovid puts today’s radicals to shame | The Spectator Australia

Ovid puts today’s radicals to shame

‘The ancients would laugh’ at what we consider democracy today, says archaeologist | CBC The Nature of Things
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-nature-of-things/the-ancients-would-laugh-at-what-we-consider-democracy-today-says-archaeologist-9.7141887

Ephemeris ~ BELLUM ET INDUTIAE IN ORIENTE PROPINQUO
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2465

Aristotle On Being Kind To Foreigners – The Historian’s Hut

Aristotle On Being Kind To Foreigners

(10) Gazing on Ulysses – by The Paideia Institute
https://paideiainstitute.substack.com/p/gazing-on-ulysses

Ancient texts and marital breakdown: Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody descends into implausibility
https://theconversation.com/ancient-texts-and-marital-breakdown-yann-martels-son-of-nobody-descends-into-implausibility-276857

Reusing Pages of Books | Variant Readings

Reusing Pages of Books

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Useful Chart
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-useful-chart.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: A War That Does Not Concern Us
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-war-that-does-not-concern-us.html

Varia! – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Varia!

Spring Cleaning Academic Style – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Spring Cleaning Academic Style

Decentralizing Data (and Publishing) | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Decentralizing Data (and Publishing)

PaleoJudaica.com: Shipwreck evidence for Iron Age II smithing and smelting
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/shipwreck-evidence-for-iron-age-ii.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Did the Armenian alphabet come from the Ethiopic alphabet?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/did-armenian-alphabet-come-from.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Why was the Elephantine Judean temple really destroyed?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/why-was-elephantine-judean-temple.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Californian Hymn to Homer
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-californian-hymn-to-homer.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: “Questo è cosa stupenda”. Il Museo egiziano descritto da Champollion
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/questo-e-cosa-stupenda-il-museo.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: »Diaetae hypocaustae«: Klimatisierung von römischer Oberschichtarchitektur unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der urbs und der Region Latium
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/diaetae-hypocaustae-klimatisierung-von.html

The Straits from Troy to Constantinople | Spartokos read

The Straits from Troy to Constantinople

Brill’s companion to the campaigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.31/

The Molyvoti, Thrace, archaeological project 1: landscape, architecture, and material culture – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.30/
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The Delian League: Ancient NATO? – The Ancients | Acast

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(297) The Roman Guide to War – YouTube

Slavery was vital to the democracy of ancient Athens | CBC.ca
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7140492

The Western world’s first democracy was sparked by an assassination | CBC.ca
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7140489

The word ostracize comes from an ancient Greek anti-corruption practice | CBC.ca
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7140490

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MINOAN STUDIES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/minoan-studies/5B126AD1C009706CD685CF0DD5BCBF4F

RECENT RESEARCH ON THUCYDIDES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/recent-research-on-thucydides/584084732164F1E2261AC47C6B0E9FE0

ROMAN RELIGION | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/roman-religion/E1B663ABD02544150E8207B689A1B36C

‘THEY ARE NOT FAR FROM BEING ALL ROMANS’: LATINISATION AND THE LATIN-NOW PROJECT | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/they-are-not-far-from-being-all-romans-latinisation-and-the-latinnow-project/F2F64072067D2A663F1C9EF6A88F1D3F

DEATH IN CLASSICAL ATHENS: POLITICAL, EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL PERSPECTIVES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/death-in-classical-athens-political-emotional-and-intellectual-perspectives/B6561779F2D6271FE45E9D8A1A2CB210

ASPECTS OF THE ROMAN IMPERIAL AND LATE ANTIQUE PERIOD | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/aspects-of-the-roman-imperial-and-late-antique-period/158B427852B76F894BEECEAA8841444E

ROMAN CONCEPTS OF LEADERSHIP | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/roman-concepts-of-leadership/07DE391630A62265FA3A1542988A0F6A

ANTIQUITY BEYOND BORDERS: NEW VISIONS OF A GLOBAL, POSTCOLONIAL, RACIALLY TRANSFORMATIVE FIELD | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/antiquity-beyond-borders-new-visions-of-a-global-postcolonial-racially-transformative-field/D09A542BF619319258FD360D987D4410

• 1546 — death of Thomas Elyot (compiler of the first major (?) Latin-English dictionary)
• 1859 — birth of A.E. Housman

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Roman-era ship cargo discovered in Lake Neuchâtel – SWI swissinfo.ch
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/history/roman-cargo-found-at-the-bottom-of-lake-neuch%c3%a2tel/91155472

A 1st-century child’s tomb is discovered in Pas-de-Calais with a figurine of his parents kissing and more than 800 archaeological structures

A 1st-century child’s tomb is discovered in Pas-de-Calais with a figurine of his parents kissing and more than 800 archaeological structures

Children buried in adult bronze belts found in 2,500-year-old tomb in Italy | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-891092

Massive Iron Age hoards discovered in England may be from funeral of powerful Celtic queen | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/massive-iron-age-hoards-discovered-in-england-may-be-from-funeral-of-powerful-celtic-queen

Archaeologists uncover earliest layers of ancient Nea Paphos
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/archaeologists-uncover-earliest-layers-of-ancient-nea-paphos/157543

What’s for dinner? Tooth enamel reveals what early Mesopotamians really ate
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-dinner-tooth-enamel-reveals-early.html#goog_rewarded

What Caused History’s ‘First Pogrom’? New Study Points to a Lurid Personal Rivalry – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2026-03-25/ty-article/what-caused-first-pogrom-new-study-points-to-a-lurid-personal-rivalry/0000019d-2159-d868-a1bd-7bf9c3cc0000

Gang Caught Smuggling 4,600 Looted Ancient Artifacts Into The U.K.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/bulgaria-artifact-smugglers

Archaeologists Are Mystified by These 2,000-Year-Old Bodies Found Seated Upright and Facing West in France
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-are-mystified-by-these-2000-year-old-bodies-found-seated-upright-and-facing-west-in-france-180988425/

1,600-Year-Old Monastery in Egypt Reveals Rare Greek Inscription – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/25/egypt-monastery-greek-inscription/

Roman Necropolis With 3,000 Tombs Discovered Beneath Croatia’s Oldest City – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/24/roman-necropolis-tombs-zadar-croatia/

Why does the discovery of ‘Port Talbot’s Pompeii’ matter? | Country Life
https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/why-does-the-discovery-of-port-talbots-pompeii-matter

Excavations at Alexander the Great’s rediscovered city in Iraq postponed due to war – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/25/excavations-at-alexander-the-greats-lost-city-in-iraq-postponed-due-to-war

Students Bring National Spotlight to RMC Classics at Major Meeting of Classical Association – Randolph-Macon College

Students Bring National Spotlight to RMC Classics at Major Meeting of Classical Association

A Chorus of Refugees: Reviewing “Suppliants of Syria”
https://www.strandmagazine.co.uk/single-post/a-chorus-of-refugees-reviewing-suppliants-of-syria

RRC 486/1 – Obverse Analysis – Liv Mariah Yarrow

RRC 486/1 – Obverse Analysis

A Return to Illicit Cultural Property – Illicit Cultural Property

A Return to Illicit Cultural Property

Laudator Temporis Acti: Something Incomprehensible?
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/something-incomprehensible.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Abracadabra yet again
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/abracadabra-yet-again.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology Volume 12 • 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/israel-museum-studies-in-archaeology.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Large late-antique Coptic monastic complex excavated in Egypt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/large-late-antique-coptic-monastic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Language, Italian Landscape: Griko and the Re-storying of a Linguistic Minority
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/greek-language-italian-landscape-griko.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les formules et la métrique d’Homère
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/les-formules-et-la-metrique-dhomere.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ponda.org: Predynastic online database
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/pondaorg-predynastic-online-database.html

Other Georgian publications | Spartokos has read

autres publications géorgiennes

Plinius der Jüngere: Briefe – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.29/

The historical landscape of ancient Kalabría: Balkan and Aegean linguistic influences – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.28/

The Bible’s First Kings – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Bible’s First Kings

Imperial Women of Rome by Mary T. Boatwright – Review
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/imperial-women-of-rome

The Odyssey in Graphic Novel Form | by Priya Sridhar | Permanent Nerd Network | Mar, 2026 | Medium
View at Medium.com

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Augustus – An Introduction (Part 1) – Ancient History 101 | Acast

Augustus – An Introduction (Part 2) – Ancient History 101 | Acast

118: Graecia Capta – The Roman…–The Hellenistic Age Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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(254) Ancient Greek Novel: The Gateway to Reading Greek | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | Luke Ranieri – YouTube

(254) Cato vs. Cato | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | Ian Flanders | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

(254) Leisure in Premodern Philosophy | Lecture in LATIN | Ignacio Chàvez | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

• c. 30 A.D. — crucifixion of Dismas “the Good Thief” at Jerusalem
• 101 A.D. — Trajan departs for his first war against the Dacians
• 235 A.D. — The emperor Maximinus Thrax is coopted into all the priestly colleges
• c. 269 A.D. — martyrdom of Cyrinus

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Egypt Unearths 1,500-Year-Old Monastic Complex in Al-Qalāyā, Second-Largest in Christian History – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/egypt-unearths-1500-year-old-monastic-complex-in-al-qalaya-second-largest-in-christian-history/

Archaeologist Howard Carter celebrated death of journalist who invented the ‘Curse of Tutankhamun’ as a ‘real blessing’, letter reveals | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15674249/Howard-Carter-celebrated-death-journalist-Curse-Tutankhamun.html

Croatia’s Zadar Reveals a Massive Roman Necropolis Used Continuously for 500 Years Beneath Its Streets – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/croatias-zadar-reveals-a-massive-roman-necropolis-used-continuously-for-500-years-beneath-its-streets/

Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum to showcase ancient Roman artifacts
https://curiocity.com/unearthing-vindolanda-bata-shoe-museum-toronto/

“Medea” at Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock

“Medea” at Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock

Restoration, Promotion of Roman-Era Villa in N. Greece Announced – tovima.com

Restoration, Promotion of Roman-Era Villa in N. Greece Announced

Hiker Looking For Asparagus Stumbles Upon Roman Tombstone
https://allthatsinteresting.com/livorno-italy-roman-tombstone

Hungary Repatriates Stolen Ancient Vases to Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/24/hungary-repatriates-stolen-ancient-vases-greece/

D.A. Bragg Announce Return Of 17 Antiquities To The People Of Italy And The Vatican – Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

D.A. Bragg Announce Return Of 17 Antiquities To The People Of Italy And The Vatican

Merely the Third To Kill Me: Hektor, Patroklos, and the End of Iliad 16 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Merely the Third To Kill Me: Hektor, Patroklos, and the End of Iliad 16

RRC 486/1 – Reverse Analysis – Liv Mariah Yarrow

RRC 486/1 – Reverse Analysis

Umbrian Nummi (?) – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Umbrian Nummi (?)

Two for Tuesday: Ginsberg and Cavafy | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Two for Tuesday: Ginsberg and Cavafy

Ibn ‘Abd al-Hakam and the Secret Source of the “General Estoria’s” History of Egypt – JASON COLAVITO
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/ibn-abd-al-hakam-and-the-secret-source-of-the-general-estorias-history-of-egypt

PaleoJudaica.com: Is the Ark of the Covenant in the Solomon Islands?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/is-ark-of-covenant-in-solomon-islands.html

PaleoJudaica.com: When did the Bavli become authoritative – especially in the Land of Israel?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/when-did-bavli-become-authoritative.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient coins seized at West Bank checkpoint
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/ancient-coins-seized-at-west-bank.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Honor Frost: Selected Works
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/honor-frost-selected-works.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/poetry-as-initiation-center-for.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’Épithète Traditionnelle dans Homère: Essai sur un problème de style Homérique
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/lepithete-traditionnelle-dans-homere.html

livre russe en ligne | Spartokos a lu

livre russe en ligne

Horace: poet on a volcano – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.27/

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Man-into-Beast Changes in Ovid, G.B. Riddehough (Gurgle 7) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/man-into-beast-changes-in-ovid-gb-riddehough-gurgle-7/

102: Athens Doubles Down–Casting Through Ancient Greece – Apple Podcasts

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(209) How Rome Lost its Republic (DOCUMENTARY) – YouTube

(209) The Power of Leisure in Epicurean Philosophy | Lecture in LATIN | David Butterfield – YouTube

(209) Fear for protected archaeological sites in southern Lebanon as strikes hit nearby – YouTube

(209) How Caligula Took Power – Roman Empire Animated DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

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Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime Opportunities List 24 March 2026

Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime Opportunities List 24 March 2026

The cult of Dionysos Phallen on Lesbos

The cult of Dionysos Phallen on Lesbos

International Conference “Ritual Acts in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry”
https://www.philology.uoc.gr/en/nea/international-conference-ritual-acts-in-archaic-and-classical-greek-poetry