• ludi Cereri (day 5)
• 43 B.C. — Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) is hailed as Imperator for the first time
• 69 A.D. — suicide of the emperor wannabe Otho (this might have occured on April 17)
• 304 A.D. — martyrs of Saragossa
• 1928 — death of Jane Ellen Harrison (Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion among others)

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2,000-Year-Old Roman Murals Reveal a Surprisingly Advanced Painting Technique | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/2-000-year-old-roman-murals-reveal-a-surprisingly-advanced-painting-technique-48959

A Whorl Apart: the journey of a terracotta textile tool from Bronze Age Troy to Dublin – Trinity News

A Whorl Apart: the journey of a terracotta textile tool from Bronze Age Troy to Dublin

4,000-year-old clay tablets inscribed with magical spells… and beer tabs
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-year-clay-tablets-inscribed-magical.html

Hidden treasures: Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar | Archaeology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/15/hidden-treasures-spanish-archaeologists-discover-trove-of-ancient-shipwrecks-in-bay-of-gibraltar

Ancient 2,200-Year-Old Land Lease Contract from Amos City Details Exact Agricultural Rules—Even Tree Planting Depths – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-2200-year-old-land-lease-contract-from-amos-city-details-exact-agricultural-rules-even-tree-planting-depths/

Why Does This Newly Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Stone Slab Depict a Roman Emperor as an Egyptian Pharaoh?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-does-this-newly-discovered-2000-year-old-stone-slab-depict-a-roman-emperor-as-an-egyptian-pharaoh-180988549/

The Roman Conquest of Jerusalem – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Roman Conquest of Jerusalem

The Hidden Code Behind Ancient Greece’s Enduring Civilization – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/15/hidden-code-ancient-greece-enduring-civilization/

[old news]Stunning Statue of Greek Goddess Artemis Found at Titanic Wreck – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/15/statue-greek-goddess-artemis-titanic-wreck/

The roots of environmental awareness in classical literature | Great British Life
https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/cotswold/25976630.roots-environmental-awareness-classical-literature/

[stale] Archaeologists Found 43,000 Ancient Egyptian ‘Sticky Notes’ That Reveal What Life Was Actually Like for Everyday People
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/ancient-egypt-ostracon-04324/

Greeks and Turks square off over ownership of ancient, healing soup | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/soup-patsa-iskembe-greece-turkey-tripe-b7b26cc22b1ad5e6f62d6ef82d64ebdc

Leading researcher wins top prize for transforming access to Classics – Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2026/04/leading-researcher-wins-top-prize-for-transforming-access-to-classics–/

University Cuts Two out of Three of Classical Studies Majors | The Loyola Phoenix

University Cuts Two out of Three of Classical Studies Majors

Pig Latin, Dog Latin And The World Of Non-Latin ‘Latin’ Codes
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/pig-latin-and-other-latins

Troy Artifacts from Türkiye to Be Exhibited at Rome Colosseum Archaeological Park
https://en.milliyet.com.tr/news/ancient-troy-artifacts-set-for-landmark-exhibition-at-romes-colosseum-7571739

Pliny the Younger’s Perfectly Round, Sacred Lake With Floating Cows – The Historian’s Hut

Pliny the Younger’s Perfectly Round, Sacred Lake With Floating Cows

Voices | Hiding in Plain Sight

Hiding in Plain Sight

Muse Of Lyric Poetry, By Henry Siddons Mowbray (c. 1858–1928) – The Historian’s Hut

Muse Of Lyric Poetry, By Henry Siddons Mowbray (c. 1858–1928)

A New Handbook, a Dutch Trial, and the Mona Lisa on Stage – Illicit Cultural Property

A New Handbook, a Dutch Trial, and the Mona Lisa on Stage

Conservation of a Papyrus Roll with No Glass Frames | Variant Readings

Conservation of a Papyrus Roll with No Glass Frames

The Personal Political: Hektor, Polydamas, and Trojan Politics in Iliad 18 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Personal Political: Hektor, Polydamas, and Trojan Politics in Iliad 18

PaleoJudaica.com: More on that Ark of the Covenant docudrama
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/more-on-that-ark-of-covenant-docudrama.html

PaleoJudaica.com: U of Iowa project funded to reconstruct ancient manuscripts
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/u-of-iowa-project-funded-to-reconstruct.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On biocodicology
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/on-biocodicology.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2011/08/digital-archaeological-atlas-of-holy.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Meaningful Practices: Non-scribal Communication in the Aegean and the Near East during the Bronze Age
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/meaningful-practices-non-scribal.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Digital Library: AMAR: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Site Reports
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2009/07/open-access-digital-library-amar.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Das Corpus der hethitischen Festrituale: Kritische Editionen
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/das-corpus-der-hethitischen-festrituale.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Meteorology Beyond Borders: Ancient and Modern Reflections
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/meteorology-beyond-borders-ancient-and.html

The idea of the city in late antiquity: a study in resilience – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.19/

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The Last Great War of Antiquit… – Literature and History – Apple Podcasts

Virgil’s Aeneid – Ancient History 101 | Acast

119: The Rise of the Parthian …–The Hellenistic Age Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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VIDENDA
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(295) Did the TROJAN WAR Happen? – YouTube

Rome’s triumph was the ancient world’s most effective piece of propaganda – Big Think

Rome’s triumph was the ancient world’s most effective piece of propaganda

(295) Walking the Missing Colosseum: New Pavement Revealed – YouTube

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Divine Currency!? Italic and Roman monetary cultures on the Eve of the First Punic War | Department of Classics
https://classics.wustl.edu/events/divine-currency-italic-and-roman-monetary-cultures-eve-first-punic-war

Teaching Fellow in Classical Language and Literature: 630422
https://www.academicjobs.com/university-jobs/teaching-fellow-in-classical-language-and-literature-latin-surrey/630422

• ludi Cereri continue (day 4)– games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C.
• Fordicidia — an obvious fertility ritual in which a pregnant cow would be sacrificed to the earth goddess Tellus
• 421 B.C. — Peace of Nikias brings the first phase of the Peloponnesian war (a.k.a. the Archidamian War) to an end (by one reckoning)
• 69 A.D. — the forces of emperor wannabe Vitellius defeat the forces of emperor wannabe Otho
• 251 A.D. — Martyrdom of Maximus and Olympiades in Persia

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Tomb restoration completed – Heritage – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1207/565929/AlAhram-Weekly/Heritage/Tomb-restoration-completed.aspx

Ancient work by ‘lost’ philosopher who inspired Plato and Aristotle is uncovered in Egypt | News Tech | Metro News

2,000-year-old work by ‘lost’ philosopher who inspired Plato and Aristotle is uncovered in Egypt

Greece moves to protect 19 ancient sites like Olympia from wildfires and heatwaves | South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3350008/greece-moves-protect-19-ancient-sites-olympia-wildfires-and-heatwaves

Reassembling Tutankhamun’s Tomb – The Past
https://the-past.com/feature/reassembling-tutankhamuns-tomb/

[AI?] Greece’s Antikythera Mechanism upends timelines of technology | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-892953

[questionable headline]Roman Objects Discovered in 2,000-Year-Old Lake  – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/roman-objects-discovered-2000-year-old-lake-11820418

A Cycladic stone-carver that pays attention to detail – National Archaeological Museum
https://www.namuseum.gr/en/monthly_artefact/22504/

[AI?] The Battle that Sealed the Fate of the Persian Empire 2,356 Years Ago – tovima.com

The Battle that Sealed the Fate of the Persian Empire 2,356 Years Ago

August Mariette – The Past

August Mariette

[paywalled] A Historian Found Evidence of a Hidden Army Inside the Roman Empire
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a70966841/hidden-army-inside-rome/

Major upgrade transforms Greece’s National Archaeological Museum experience
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/14/national-archaeological-museum-upgrade-athens/

Why the right is so obsessed with Rome – Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/14/why-the-right-is-so-obsessed-with-rome/

Mary Beard on what Trump and the emperors of Ancient Rome have in common | Radio Times
https://www.radiotimes.com/books/mary-beard-talking-classics-the-shock-of-the-old-interview/

(8) Artemis Returns – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/artemis-returns

Iphigenia – Arcola Theatre | Review

Iphigenia – Arcola Theatre | Review

Iphigenia review: A clumsy and unnecessary attempt to make Euripides relevant | The Standard
https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/iphigenia-review-arcola-b1278641.html

Athens Launches Specialized Unit to Combat Art Crimes and Antiquities Smuggling
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/14/greece-launches-new-art-crimes-unit-to-combat-antiquities-smuggling/

Two Things Tuesday: Thinking about the Summer | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Two Things Tuesday: Thinking about the Summer

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: DNA and Codicology
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2026/04/dna-and-codicology.html

The Epic Cycle/YOU ARE ODYSSEUS episode 3 | Greek Myth Comix

The Epic Cycle/YOU ARE ODYSSEUS episode 3

Laudator Temporis Acti: Socrates Saves Alcibiades
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/socrates-saves-alcibiades.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: In Defiance of Tradition
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/in-defiance-of-tradition.html

Het huis van Massinissa – Mainzer Beobachter

Het huis van Massinissa

PaleoJudaica.com: Reports of bombed antiquities sites in Israel and Lebanon
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/reports-of-bombed-antiquities-sites-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: 39 more Lebanese sites under enhanced cultural protection
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/39-more-lebanese-sites-under-enhanced.html

PaleoJudaica.com: What’s in the Herculaneum papyri? What might be?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/whats-in-herculaneum-papyri-what-might.html

Discovery of Theodosia: pages of archaeological studies of southeastern Crimea and the early stages of the history of the Theodosia Museum of Antiquities. 1771–1871 | Spartokos read

Découverte de Théodosie : pages d’études archéologiques du sud-est de la Crimée et les premières étapes de l’histoire du musée des antiquités de Théodosie. 1771–1871

Soignés et guéris par les dieux – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.18/

Lucian’s Sale of Lives and The Dead Come to Life: an intermediate Greek reader – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.17/

O Homer, Where Art Thou?: Review of “Son of Nobody” by Yann Martel – Providence

O Homer, Where Art Thou?: Review of “Son of Nobody” by Yann Martel

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(261) How ancient Roman mosaics were made – YouTube

Inside Roman combat training at Isca Augusta | Watch
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/inside-roman-combat-training-at-isca-augusta/vi-AA20LIQW

• ludi Cereri continue (day 3) — games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C.
• 69 A.D. — first battle at Bedriacum; the forces of emperor wannabe Vitellius eventually would defeat the forces of emperor wannabe Otho
• 73 A.D. — mass suicide at Masada (?)
• 195 A.D. — Julia Domna, wife of the emperor Septimius Severus, is given the title mater castrorum (“mother of the camp”)