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IAA reveals new study focused on studying ancient Jerusalem bullae | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-894849

Archaeologists discover collection of gold jewelry on Greek island | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-894646

Stolen Antiquities Return Home to Greece – tovima.com

Stolen Antiquities Return Home to Greece

New Study Reveals Sasanian Metalworkers Were Experimenting with Brass 1,400 Years Ago – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/new-study-reveals-sasanian-metalworkers-were-experimenting-with-brass-1400-years-ago/

Bath complex and villa remains found in Alexandria
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/05/bath-complex-and-villa-remains-found-in-alexandria/157964

Ancient Venus revealed: Rare Roman find emerges beneath Bodiam Castle
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/05/ancient-venus-revealed-rare-roman-find-emerges-beneath-bodiam-castle/157957

In Pompeii, ancient graffiti depicting daily life is being revealed thanks to modern technology | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pompeii-graffiti-corridor-technology-9.7184868

Forum of the Only Roman Colony in the Iberian Peninsula That Had Never Been Excavated Discovered in Andalusia

Forum of the Only Roman Colony in the Iberian Peninsula That Had Never Been Excavated Discovered in Andalusia

An Inscription Found in the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor in Tivoli Identifies the Basilica Where Augustus Dispensed Justice Cited by Suetonius

An Inscription Found in the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor in Tivoli Identifies the Basilica Where Augustus Dispensed Justice Cited by Suetonius

Ancient Belgian grave reveals trade system after Roman bronze coins disappeared | Archaeology News Online Magazine
https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/belgian-grave-trade-system-after-roman/

Roman York infants buried in rare purple and gold cloth linked to elite families, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine
https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/roman-york-infants-buried-in-rare-purple/

‘Tiny’ Roman penis charm found at Carlisle Cricket Club
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7074n1xr42o

Ancient Roman Ship Coating Reveals Secrets Hidden for 2,200 Years
https://scitechdaily.com/ancient-roman-ship-coating-reveals-secrets-hidden-for-2200-years/

Ancient Mummy Found with Iliad Text | Egyptian Streets

Ancient Mummy Found with Iliad Text

Circe, the Enchantress of Greek Mythology, as Depicted in Paintings – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/03/circe-first-greek-witch-mythology-paintings/

How Ancient Greeks Invented the First Patent System – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/03/ancient-greeks-first-patent/

Ancient True Crime: The Unsolved Assassination of King Philip II – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/03/philip-ii-assassination-alexander-the-great-macedonia/

The Ancient Greek Cynic Philosophers and Their Fight Against Societal Norms – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/02/ancient-greek-cynics-fight-societal-norms/

The Greek Origins of Saint Mark’s Horses in Venice – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/02/greek-origins-saint-marks-horses-venice/

Ancient Greek Armor Protected Soldiers in an 11-Hour Battle Simulation – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/01/ancient-greece-armor-protection-battle-simulation/

Did Cleopatra Really Die From a Snake Bite? Here’s What History Tells Us
https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/mystery/did-cleopatra-die-from-snake-bite-history

A Tomb at Knossos Inspired by the Iliad?

The Archer’s Tomb

In 1973, an excavator pulled out a pile of soggy wood chips and discovered the world’s oldest birthday invitation | – The Times of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/in-1973-an-excavator-pulled-out-a-pile-of-soggy-wood-chips-and-discovered-the-worlds-oldest-birthday-invitation/articleshow/130673014.cms

Erm … Actually! A Nerd’s Guide to Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ – The Cornell Daily Sun
https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2026/05/erm-actually-a-nerds-guide-to-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey

One Of The World’s First Epidemics Helped Sparta Defeat Greece. Now, We Might Finally Know What Caused This “Plague Of Athens” In 430 BCE | IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/the-plague-of-athens-was-one-of-the-worlds-first-epidemics-and-now-we-may-know-what-caused-it-83378

UNC Hosts Second Annual Colloquium in Classical Reception with King’s College | Department of Classics
https://classics.unc.edu/2026/05/01/unc-hosts-second-annual-colloquium-in-classical-reception-with-kings-college/

Achilles’ New Delight: Reactions to Weapons and Fun with the Homeric Scholia – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Achilles’ New Delight: Reactions to Weapons and Fun with the Homeric Scholia

(7) The Path from Aulis – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/the-path-from-aulis

Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals

The Interpretation of Ancient Greek Literature – Antigone

The Interpretation of Ancient Greek Literature

Unshod Dido in Aeneid 4: Vergil and the Literary Transitive Property – Antigone

Unshod Dido in Aeneid 4: Vergil and the Literary Transitive Property

April Reading Notes – Noodlings

April Reading Notes

Glossolalie – Mainzer Beobachter

Glossolalie

De terugkeer van de Valse Marius – Mainzer Beobachter

De terugkeer van de Valse Marius

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Israel in Lebanon
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/05/israel-in-lebanon.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: An Asyndeton Filling Hexameter in Prudentius
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/05/an-asyndeton-filling-hexameter-in.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Misleading
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/05/misleading.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Dillon, John the Baptist and Composite Intertextuality in the Fourth Gospel (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/05/dillon-john-baptist-and-composite.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Mirotznik, The Portrayal of Pagan Worship in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism (CUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/05/mirotznik-portrayal-of-pagan-worship-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeologies of the Roman Mediterranean: Papers Presented in Honour of Professor Simon Keay
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/archaeologies-of-roman-mediterranean.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Metis: ASCSA Archaeological Platform
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/metis-ascsa-archaeological-platform.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les lois barbares: Dire le droit et le pouvoir en Occident après la disparition de l’Empire romain
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/les-lois-barbares-dire-le-droit-et-le.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Giuseppe Tucci: Une biographie
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/giuseppe-tucci-une-biographie.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/canaanite-scribal-creativity-and-making.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Voix / Voies de Calliope: L’Épique hors de l’épopée de l’Antiquité à nos jours
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/voix-voies-de-calliope-lepique-hors-de.html

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Anima Latina 03.05.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/05/anima-latina-03-05-2026.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 02.05.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/05/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-02-05-2026.html

Ancient History Podcast – Political Violence in Ancient Greece
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-history-podcast-political-violence-in-ancient-greece
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(212) Europe’s first city is older than you think! – YouTube

(212) The Forma Urbis Romae: a mysterious plan of Rome – YouTube

(212) Colloquium abbatis et eruditae || Erasmus, “Colloquia familiaria” – YouTube

(212) A Pig in the Roman Empire – YouTube

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explorator 28.18 ~ May 3, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.18 ~ May 3, 2026

Lecturer in Latin Language Education at King’s College London
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRK231/lecturer-in-latin-language-education

• ludi Florae (possible day 7) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who presided over (of course) flowers and their blossoms
• c. 62 A.D. — martyrdom of James the Lesser in Jerusalem
• c. 80 A.D. — martyrdom of Philip the Apostle in Heirapolis, Phrygia
• 115 or 116 A.D. — martyrdom of Pope Alexander I in Rome
• c. 286 — martyrdom of Maura at Thebias
• 1810 — Byron swims from Sestos to Abydos, imitating Leander’s visits to Hero

• Floralia (day 6) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who presided over (of course) flowers and their blossoms

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Rare Tyrian purple reveals elite Roman infant burials in York
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-rare-tyrian-purple-reveals-elite.html

Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of Crypto parasite | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/poop-encrusted-chamber-pots-from-the-roman-empire-reveal-oldest-known-human-cases-of-crypto-parasite

This Man Fled Pompeii as Mount Vesuvius Erupted. Archaeologists Found Him 2,000 Years Later, Holding a Bowl to Protect His Head and a Lamp to Light His Way
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-man-fled-pompeii-as-mount-vesuvius-erupted-archaeologists-found-him-2000-years-later-holding-a-bowl-to-protect-his-head-and-a-lamp-to-light-his-way-180988647/

Medusa-clad Athena Statue Unearthed – Biblical Archaeology Society

Medusa-clad Athena Statue Unearthed

Alexander the Great’s (Marble) Head Turned Up in New York. U.S. Officials Say It Was Stolen—and Just Sent It Back to Italy
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/alexander-the-greats-marble-head-turned-up-in-new-york-us-officials-say-it-was-stolen-and-just-sent-it-back-to-italy-180988650/

[old news]Ancient Greek Armor Protected Soldiers in an 11-Hour Battle Simulation – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/01/ancient-greece-armor-protection-battle-simulation/

‘Decimate’ means much more today than it did in ancient Rome : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5775464/decimate-ancient-rome-punishment-trump

[paywalled] US exhibition unearths the Etruscans and their enduring cultural influence – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/01/exhibition-unearths-the-etruscans-and-their-enduring-cultural-influence

[paywalled] Edmonia Lewis’s Death of Cleopatra: A sculpture that weathered
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/01/arts/edmonia-lewis-death-of-cleopatra-sculpture/

LPAC Presents Euripides’ The Trojan Women in Collaboration with EGTNY, May 14-17 – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/lpac-presents-euripides-the-trojan-women-in-collaboration-with-egtny-may-14-17/

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

A gem of a colleague: Ittai Gradel, 1965–2026 | Classics at Reading

A gem of a colleague: Ittai Gradel, 1965–2026

News – 2026 Boochever Grant Spotlight: Dominique Langis-Barsetti – Archaeological Institute of America

2026 Boochever Grant Spotlight: Dominique Langis-Barsetti

News – 2026 Colburn Fellowship Spotlight: Nicole Constantine – Archaeological Institute of America

2026 Colburn Fellowship Spotlight: Nicole Constantine

National Humanities Center Announces 2026–27 Fellow: Danielle Kellog | University of Cincinnati
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2026/04/national-humanities-center-announces-202627-fellow–danielle-kellog.html

Tracing Roman civilian lives through things left at Hadrian’s Wall | King’s College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/roman-soldiers-are-important-and-interesting-in-the-history-of-the-roman-conquest-of-britain-but-they-are-far-from-the-whole-story-new-book-explore-civilian-lives-at-hadians-wall

There is a Senate in London: Britain’s Classical 18th Century – Antigone

There is a Senate in London: Britain’s Classical 18th Century

Photographs and Videos of the submerged ruined Roman fort at Walton Castle

Photographs and Videos of the submerged ruined Roman fort at Walton Castle

Procopius of Gaza, Letters – machine translation now online with notes.

Procopius of Gaza, Letters – machine translation now online with notes.

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th April 2026 | Sphinx

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th April 2026

Blog #123: Lingua Vitae: Learning Latin in Virtual Reality by Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (with Special Thanks to Em Dang) – Peopling the Past

Blog #123: Lingua Vitae: Learning Latin in Virtual Reality by Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (with Special Thanks to Em Dang)

Voor-westerse geschiedenis (9) visserij – Mainzer Beobachter

Voor-westerse geschiedenis (9) visserij

PaleoJudaica.com: Forthcoming: Ross, Baylor Handbook of Greek Ruth
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/05/forthcoming-ross-baylor-handbook-of.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Idumean fiscal system in the Aramaic ostraca
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-idumean-fiscal-system-in-aramaic.html

PaleoJudaica.com: What was Pontius Pilate’s actual title?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/05/what-was-pontius-pilates-actual-title.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Old Age
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/old-age.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Funeral Instructions
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/05/funeral-instructions.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Rania Archaeological Project
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/rania-archaeological-project.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die ápa-√yaj-Konstruktion: Untersuchungen zum exozentrischen Resultativum im Indoiranischen, Griechischen und Lateinischen
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/die-apa-yaj-konstruktion-untersuchungen.html

The Meaning of Myth in Uncertain Times: How Classical Mythology Helps Us Navigate a World in Crisis E. Bracke (2025) Routledge. | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/meaning-of-myth-in-uncertain-times-how-classical-mythology-helps-us-navigate-a-world-in-crisis-e-bracke-2025-routledge/613E33F8986FE0D89FE0C311301E2591
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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA407 – War Pigs Revisited
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa407-war-pigs-revisited

Anima Latina 01.05.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/05/anima-latina-01-05-2026.html

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(167) Homer is from the 8th Century BCE, Sappho is from the 6th Century(ish) BCE 🫶🏼 #shorts #greekmyth – YouTube

Archimedes palimpsest – RFI
https://www.rfi.fr/en/video/20260501-archimedes-palimpsest

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Visiting Assistant Professor – Classical Archaeology | Texas Tech University System
https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25898&siteid=5637#jobDetails=912381_5637

DRINK LIKE THE ROMANS: PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF THIN-WALLED WARE POTTERY IN NEA PAPHOS DURING THE EARLY ROMAN PERIOD | Annual of the British School at Athens | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annual-of-the-british-school-at-athens/article/drink-like-the-romans-production-and-consumption-of-thinwalled-ware-pottery-in-nea-paphos-during-the-early-roman-period/FF9AA8E00F5FA71955A843CF217E08BE

GREEK AKROPOLEIS: FORTIFIED HILLTOPS, PLACES OF CULT, AND SYMBOLS OF FREEDOM AND OPPRESSION | Annual of the British School at Athens | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annual-of-the-british-school-at-athens/article/greek-akropoleis-fortified-hilltops-places-of-cult-and-symbols-of-freedom-and-oppression/394371D4079C925BBFB5D75D11A064E1

Emendations in Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica Book 2 | The Cambridge Classical Journal | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-classical-journal/article/emendations-in-valerius-flaccus-argonautica-book-2/20997025A0536FB49DE31CC1C59975E9

The Berlanga Cup. New Evidence of Hadrian’s Wall Pans Found in Hispania Citerior (Spain) | Britannia | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/berlanga-cup-new-evidence-of-hadrians-wall-pans-found-in-hispania-citerior-spain/DEB2A799F3168B6FA651AB927D3A039D

Teaching Late Latin: past and present, challenges and prospects | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/teaching-late-latin-past-and-present-challenges-and-prospects/D3F41CB942687D750C993AA157E9D087

NOT BY VICTOR: THE CODEX BARB. LAT. 812 AND DE VIRIS ILLVSTRIBVS RECONSIDERED | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/not-by-victor-the-codex-barb-lat-812-and-de-viris-illvstribvs-reconsidered/7B2C7536AF22A35DB52530753CE63C3C

AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS, LIBANIUS AND LATE ROMAN NAMES | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/ammianus-marcellinus-libanius-and-late-roman-names/3CFDF033350DF2FAFF1FCDE1EA167E63

• 1700 — death of John Dryden (poet and translator of many of the versions of ancient poetry which abound on the internet)