IN THE NEWS … Archaeologists Found a 2,100-Year-Old Warrior Buried With a Gold Coin to Pay His Way Into the Afterlife Romans May Be Behind Malta’s Thousands of Mysterious Stone Tracks | Arkeonews Mystery of Abbey’s Roman sarcophagus solved | Westminster Abbey Face of a man from Roman Scotland revealed after nearly 2,000 years |…

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1558 – death of Julius Caesar Scaliger

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IN THE NEWS … ‘True place’ where Jesus was baptized discovered at site matching biblical account, archaeologist claims | Daily Mail Online Roman child’s grave contains coin to pay afterlife entry fee | Popular Science The World’s Oldest Shipwreck May Have Been Found Off Turkey. But The 4,500-Year-Old Ship Itself Is Gone Roman Fort Found…

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480 B.C. — Battle of Salamis (one reckoning; seems a bit late) 127 A.D. — ludi votivi decennales pro salute Augusti c. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Maximus of Aquila 1524 — death of Thomas Linacre … “the best Greek and Latin scholar of his age” 1952 — death of Michael Rostovtzeff (author of The…

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IN THE NEWS … Ancient Revenge Porn: When Sex Became a Weapon – Archaeology Ancient Nubian temple faience workshop shows how Kushite rulers controlled materials, labor, and burial goods | Archaeology News Online Magazine Romans may have set fire to Celtic town during conquest to ‘humiliate’ the enemy, archaeologists find | Live Science Why Vesuvius…

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