• 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

• Festival of Mars (day 24)
• Quando Rex Comitavit Fas — a somewhat obscure entry in the Roman calendar which seems to hearken back to the days of the monarchy. A plausible explanation connects this with the fact that this was one of the days when the ancient Comitia Calata would ‘witness’ wills, and so other legal matters could not take place until the king had dismissed the comitia.
• Happy blogday to Jim Davila’s Paleojudaica …

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Scholars Reject Claims That Achilles Had Scythian Origins
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/23/scholars-reject-claims-that-achilles-had-scythian-origins

Ancient coins from Hasmonean kingdoms, Jewish revolts seized after suspected smuggling | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-coins-from-hasmonean-kingdoms-jewish-revolts-seized-after-suspected-smuggling/

‘Learn your lesson’: Dark message is found inscribed on a 2,000-year-old sling bullet from the ancient Holy Land | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15671003/Dark-message-sling-bullet-Holy-Land.html

Ostia Antica uncovers mosaics after winter: protective tarpaulin removal operations underway
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/ancient-art/ostia-antica-uncovers-mosaics-after-winter-protective-tarpaulin-removal-operations-underway

How Dante’s Inferno Was a Fiery Act of Political Payback | HISTORY
https://www.history.com/articles/dantes-inferno-hell-people-alighieri-politics

Elite Old Kingdom Tombs Discovered in Aswan – Biblical Archaeology Society

Elite Old Kingdom Tombs Discovered in Aswan

Getting bogged down in Procopius of Gaza

Getting bogged down in Procopius of Gaza

Laudator Temporis Acti: Relief of Pan
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/relief-of-pan.html

Poëzie: Sappho – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Sappho

Laudator Temporis Acti: An Ancient Formula
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/an-ancient-formula.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Odyssey
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-odyssey.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Telemachus
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/telemachus.html

New Book Chapter: Exploring Aspects of the Online Trade in Antiquities Through Snapshot Analysis (with Emily Peacock)

New Book Chapter: Exploring Aspects of the Online Trade in Antiquities Through Snapshot Analysis (with Emily Peacock)

So you have an interview for grad school… – Liv Mariah Yarrow

So you have an interview for grad school…

Weekly Varia no. 173, 03/22/2026 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 173, 03/22/2026

Dumb All Over | Sphinx

Dumb All Over

Archeologie en neoliberalisme – Mainzer Beobachter

Archeologie en neoliberalisme

PaleoJudaica.com: Römer Festschrift (De Gruyter)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/romer-festschrift-de-gruyter.html

PaleoJudaica.com: When was the Book of Daniel written?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/when-was-book-of-daniel-written.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The ANE Myth of the Servant
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-ane-myth-of-servant.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth-Century Greek East: Theodoret’s Apologetics against the Greeks in Context
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/christianity-and-hellenism-in-fifth.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Interdisciplinary Uses of Homer: In Dialogue with Douglas Frame
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/interdisciplinary-uses-of-homer-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Middle East Cultural Heritage at Risk in Armed Conflict
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/middle-east-cultural-heritage-at-risk.html

Ergasteria: premises and processes of creation in antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.26/

Tiberius and the charisma of Augustus: the principate enshrined – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.25/

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(175) Julius Caesar vs. King Ariovistus: The Battle for Gaul – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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What is life? An Aristotelian Solution

What is life? An Aristotelian Solution

Luxor Grant

Luxor Grant

The Early Greek Protome Griffin

The Early Greek Protome Griffin

Roman Voices – Text and Teacher’s Guide – CANE

Roman Voices – Text and Teacher’s Guide

Assistant Professor in Classical Greek Language and its Legacies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY495/assistant-professor-in-classical-greek-language-and-its-legacies

• Festival of Mars continues (day 23)
• Tubilustrum — as part of the general military preparations which are associated with the festival of Mars, the ‘war horns’ (tubae) were ritually cleaned
• Quinquatrus (day 5) — final day of the gladiator fest
• 1606 — Death of Justus Lipsius