• 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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LEGENDA
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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”)

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Roman soldiers in Slovakia might have lived way better than we thought – The Slovak Spectator
https://spectator.sme.sk/culture-and-lifestyle/c/roman-soldiers-in-slovakia-might-have-lived-way-better-than-we-thought

Idol of Pomos: A 5,000-year-old fertility figurine from Cyprus that wears a miniature version of herself on a necklace | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/idol-of-pomos-a-5-000-year-old-fertility-figurine-from-cyprus-that-wears-a-miniature-version-of-herself-on-a-necklace

Temple of the god Pelusium discovered in Sinai: a shrine rewrites the history of Pelusium
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/temple-of-the-god-pelusium-discovered-in-sinai-a-shrine-rewrites-the-history-of-pelusium

Hezbollah rocket hits remains of 1,500-year-old Byzantine church in northern Israel | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-rocket-hits-remains-of-1500-year-old-byzantine-church-in-nahariya/

[FWIW] ‘Unbelievable’ discovery as archaeologists ‘find’ Jesus’ tomb | World | News | Express.co.uk
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2192412/unbelievable-discovery-archaeologists-find-jesus-tomb

2,700-Year-Old Urartian Dams May Have Surpassed Early Roman Engineering – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2700-year-old-urartian-dams-may-have-surpassed-early-roman-engineering/

David’s Sling and an Inscribed Sling Bullet from Hippos – Biblical Archaeology Society

David’s Sling and an Inscribed Sling Bullet from Hippos

Archaeologists Recover Marble Fragment from Elgin’s Lost Cargo off Kythira – tovima.com

Archaeologists Recover Marble Fragment from Elgin’s Lost Cargo off Kythira

Sanctuary of Trojan War Hero Odysseus Found—’Most Significant’ Archaeological Discovery in Years – Men’s Journal
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/sanctuary-odysseus-homer-archaeology

UI professor repairs damaged ancient manuscripts with AI – The Daily Iowan
https://dailyiowan.com/2026/04/12/ui-professor-repairs-damaged-ancient-manuscripts-with-ai/

Power, illusion and the Thucydides warning  | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/04/12/power-illusion-and-the-thucydides-warning

Selections from Martial’s Epigrams on CANEPress – CANE

Selections from Martial’s Epigrams on CANEPress

Weekly Varia no. 177, 04/12/26 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 177, 04/12/26

Paranoid | Sphinx

Paranoid

(8) An Odyssey Of My Own – CSMFHT Writes
https://csmfht.substack.com/p/an-odyssey-of-my-own

Een plakboek met archeologieplaatjes – Mainzer Beobachter

Een plakboek met archeologieplaatjes

PaleoJudaica.com: How old is the layout of the MT Hebrew Bible?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-old-is-layout-of-mt-hebrew-bible.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Eight 3,000-year-old scrolls excavated in Egypt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/eight-3000-year-old-scrolls-excavated.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mythical Structures in Herodotus’ Histories
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/mythical-structures-in-herodotus.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/sappho-in-making-early-reception.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ankle and Ankle Epithets in Archaic Greek Verse
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/ankle-and-ankle-epithets-in-archaic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Ritual Poetics
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/greek-ritual-poetics.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aspects of Time in Jewish and Christian Exegesis
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/aspects-of-time-in-jewish-and-christian.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Buried History: The Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/03/newly-open-access-journal-buried.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Ethik des Traums in den Werken Plutarchs von Chaironeia: Wissen und Ereignis
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/die-ethik-des-traums-in-den-werken.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Abbreviations
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/cuneiform-digital-library-initiative.html

Sprache, Stil und Text in der lateinischen Spätantike. Beiträge zur lateinischen Literatursprache – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.16/

Life of Aesop the Philosopher – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.15/

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(231) Odysseus: The Trickster King | Part 1 | Greek Mythology Retold Podcast – YouTube

(231) Odysseus: The Trickster King Part 2 of 2 – YouTube

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VIDENDA
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(231) Quarrying Games in Antiquity | Alex de Voogt, Professor, Psychology Department at Drew University – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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0426-115 Teaching Fellow in Classical Language and Literature (Latin) – Jobs at Royal Holloway
https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=0426-115

• ludi Cereri (day 2)– games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C.
• rites in honour of Jupiter Victor and Jupiter Liber
• 150 A.D. — martyrdom of Carpus and companions at Pergamon
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Maximus and companions at Silistria
• 1748 — death of Christopher Pitt (translator of Virgil)