• Festival of Mars continues (day 21)
• Quinquatrus continues (day 3) — originally a one-day festival with rites in honour of Minerva, by Ovid’s day it had been increased to five days, with the last four involving gladiatorial bouts
• 1766 — death of Richard Dawes (Classical scholar)

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The Bothros of Aeolus, a ritual pit on the island of Lipari that reveals the secrets of the cult that united Greeks and indigenous people in Sicily

The Bothros of Aeolus, a ritual pit on the island of Lipari that reveals the secrets of the cult that united Greeks and indigenous people in Sicily

The Golden Helmet of Leiro: A Bronze Age Masterpiece Hidden for Millennia on Spain’s Atlantic Coast – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/the-golden-helmet-of-leiro-a-bronze-age-masterpiece-hidden-for-millennia-on-spains-atlantic-coast/

Roman funerary inscription emerges from mud in Livorno Countryside
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/roman-funerary-inscription-emerges-from-mud-in-livorno-countryside/157476

Unusual burials of Celtic ‘warriors’ discovered in France point to violent deaths | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/unusual-burials-of-celtic-warriors-discovered-in-france-point-to-violent-deaths

Excavations in ancient Roman Saepinum uncover a domus with advanced hydraulic technology and a Byzantine treasure

Excavations in ancient Roman Saepinum uncover a domus with advanced hydraulic technology and a Byzantine treasure

Pompeii’s battle scars linked to an ancient ‘machine gun’
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-pompeii-scars-linked-ancient-machine.html

Ancient sling bullet delivers a 2,100-year-old taunt: ‘Learn your lesson!’
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ancient-bullet-year-taunt-lesson.html#goog_rewarded

Is this art Celtic? It’s complicated. — Harvard Gazette

Is this art Celtic? It’s complicated.

1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to ‘protect’ both the living and the dead | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1-800-year-old-nails-discovered-in-3-burials-in-roman-necropolis-possibly-to-protect-both-the-living-and-the-dead

Lost Parthenon Piece Unearthed From Lord Elgin’s Shipwreck
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/parthenon-fragment-lord-elgin-shipwreck-2755894?amp=1

Hipparchus’s Lost Star Catalogue Re-emerges – tovima.com

Hipparchus’s Lost Star Catalogue Re-emerges

Turkey in cultural diplomacy push to bring history home
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260320-turkey-in-cultural-diplomacy-push-to-bring-history-home

Nine ancient Greek vases stolen from Argos museum are returned from Hungary | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1298721/nine-ancient-greek-vases-stolen-from-argos-museum-are-returned-from-hungary/

Stunning Hellenistic Treasures Discovered in Bulgaria’s Nessebar – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/20/hellenistic-treasures-bulgaria-nessebar/

The Real Locations of Odysseus’ Journey in Homer’s Odyssey – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/19/places-odysseus-journey-homer-odyssey/

Well, well, well! Workers discover unusual Roman feature built 2,000 years ago during shop renovation | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15660747/Workers-discover-unusual-feature-built-years-ago.html

Reuniting the Parthenon Sculptures: An Appeal to Queen Mary and King Frederik of Denmark Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/19/reuniting-the-parthenon-sculptures-an-appeal-to-queen-mary-and-king-frederik-of-denmark

[AI?] 1,500-year-old mosaic reads like ‘haters gonna hate’ | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-890556

[AI?] Evidence of ‘crucifixion’ found in Roman graves | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-890552

Surveying Falerii Novi: Rethinking the development of a Roman town – The Past

Surveying Falerii Novi: Rethinking the development of a Roman town

Five Ways Ancient Queens Found Fame and Even Cult Followings Through Art and Visual Culture
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/march/five-ways-ancient-queens-found-fame-and-even-cult-followings-thr.html

March 20, 71 C.E.: Plutarch witnesses an eclipse

March 20, 71 C.E.: Plutarch witnesses an eclipse

IPHIGENIA Comes to Arcola Theatre in a New Adaptation by Serdar Biliş
https://www.broadwayworld.com/brooklyn/article/IPHIGENIA-Comes-to-Arcola-Theatre-in-a-New-Adaptation-by-Serdar-Bili-20260319

[old news]German scientists have deciphered 1800-year-old Roman tablets | Turkmenportal.com
https://turkmenportal.com/en/news/98139-nemetskie-uchenye-prochitali-rimskie-tablichki-vozrastom-1800-let-

Unprecedented Discoveries of Christian Baptism Found on the Shore of Galilee – Biblical Archaeology Society

Unprecedented Discoveries of Christian Baptism Found on the Shore of Galilee

Israeli Archaeology, Land Theft, and the ‘Greater Israel’ Project: The Case of al-Burnat (‘Ebal’) – EVERYDAY ORIENTALISM

Israeli Archaeology, Land Theft, and the ‘Greater Israel’ Project: The Case of al-Burnat (‘Ebal’)

(9) What If You Could Study With the Greatest Minds in History?
https://latinum.substack.com/p/what-if-you-could-study-with-the

(9) Amaryllis, Cheesemaker – by The Paideia Institute
https://paideiainstitute.substack.com/p/amaryllis-cheesemaker

The History Girls: “Read the Falco Books.” by Susan Price
https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2026/03/read-falco-books-by-susan-price.html

Spencer Alley: Commercial Neoclassical
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2026/03/commercial-neoclassical.html

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (1)

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (2)

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (3)

PaleoJudaica.com: Did the British Museum change a display due to UKLFI objections?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/did-british-museum-change-display-due.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Stanley, A Ram for Mars: A Slave’s Story, Book 3
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/stanley-ram-for-mars-slaves-story-book-3.html

PaleoJudaica.com: BIAJS Book Prize 2026
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/biajs-book-prize-2026.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kition-Bamboula X: L’habitat de la fin du Bronze récent et du début de l’âge du Fer
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/kition-bamboula-x-lhabitat-de-la-fin-du.html

The Oxford history of the archaic Greek world. Vol. IV: Cyrene to Metapontion – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.24/

The west pediment of the Parthenon: iconography and iconology – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.23/

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How the Tetrarchy Won the East – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA401 – Why Did Helmets Have Crests?
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa401-why-did-helmets-have-crests
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(97) The Truth About the Ancient Celtic Gods – YouTube

(98) Archeologists Investigate The 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Of Ramesses II – YouTube

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Latin Morph!
https://latin-morph.streamlit.app/

• Festival of Mars (day 20)
• Quinquatrus (day 2) — second day of a five-day festival (although the name originally came from the fact that it came five days after the Ides, apparently) sacred to Mars but also somehow connected to Minerva; it was also apparently a ‘school holiday’, so no doubt we’ll soon be reading about how the Romans invented Spring Break
• 43 B.C. — Birth of Ovid (by one reckoning)
• 268 A.D. — assassination of Gallienus

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First Four-Wheeled Chariots Found in Iron Age Britain Near Queen Cartimandua’s Capital – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/first-four-wheeled-chariots-found-in-iron-age-britain-near-queen-cartimanduas-capital/

[AI?] Evidence of ‘crucifixion’ found in Roman graves | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-890552

Divers find marble treasure from Athens’ Acropolis in Lord Elgin’s shipwrecked brig at the bottom of the Aegean Sea | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/divers-find-marble-treasure-from-athens-acropolis-in-lord-elgins-shipwrecked-brig-at-the-bottom-of-the-aegean-sea

Fisherman hands over ancient amphora netted off Peloponnese | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1298576/fisherman-hands-over-ancient-amphora-netted-of-peloponnese/

Baalbek, the Lebanese city from the era of Alexander the Great under bombardment – protothema at the ancient temples – ProtoThema English

Baalbek, the Lebanese city from the era of Alexander the Great under bombardment – protothema at the ancient temples

Trump, Iran, and the Warning of Crassus

Does Trump See Himself as Alexander the Great? Iran, Persia, and the Cruel Lesson of Crassus

AI sheds light on an ancient gaming mystery | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1120532

The Law of War in Ancient Greece: Ideals and Their Failure in Practice – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/18/laws-war-ancient-greece/

Why Was Socrates Sentenced to Death? | HISTORY
https://www.history.com/articles/socrates-trial-death-hemlock

Austrian Academy of Sciences is developing the Ancient Greek AI “Apollo” with Mistral AI and Reply
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/oeaw-entwickelt-altgriechisch-ki-apollo-mit-mistral-1

1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to ‘protect’ both the living and the dead | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1-800-year-old-nails-discovered-in-3-burials-in-roman-necropolis-possibly-to-protect-both-the-living-and-the-dead

As the Romans did: discoveries show Jerusalem’s transformation after destruction – JNS.org – Jewish News Syndicate
https://www.jns.org/israel-news/as-the-romans-did-discoveries-show-jerusalems-transformation-after-destruction

The Brilliant Blue Paint Covering This Lavish Room in Ancient Pompeii May Have Cost More Than Half the Annual Salary of a Roman Foot Soldier
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-brilliant-blue-paint-covering-this-lavish-room-in-ancient-pompeii-may-have-cost-more-than-half-the-annual-salary-of-a-roman-foot-soldier-180988374/

Five restored Etruscan vases on display at Florence’s Opificio delle Pietre Dure
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitions/five-restored-etruscan-vases-on-display-at-florence-s-opificio-delle-pietre-dure

Dark message warning enemy to ‘learn your lesson’ found inscribed on 2,000-year-old sling bullet from ancient Holy Land | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/middle-east/dark-message-warning-enemy-to-learn-your-lesson-found-inscribed-on-2-000-year-old-sling-bullet-from-ancient-holy-land

Ancient skeleton unearthed in France is latest to be found sitting upright | France | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/ancient-skeleton-discovered-sitting-upright-in-france

Why a 2,000-Year-Old Book by a Roman Emperor Has Become One of the Fastest Selling Titles in Recent Times | Times Now
https://www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle/books/why-a-2000-year-old-book-by-a-roman-emperor-has-become-one-of-the-fastest-selling-titles-in-recent-times-article-153860787

Democracy Was Not Just a Greco-Roman Affair in the Ancient World
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/march/democracy-was-not-just-a-greco-roman-affair-in-the-ancient-world.html

An imperial domus discovered in the Sepino Archaeological Park in Molise – Directorate General of Museums
http://musei.beniculturali.it/notizie/notifiche/scoperta-una-domus-imperiale-nel-parco-archeologico-di-sepino-in-molise

A Mediterranean Valley redux – The Past

A Mediterranean Valley redux

Surveying Falerii Novi: Rethinking the development of a Roman town – The Past

Surveying Falerii Novi: Rethinking the development of a Roman town

Typesetting | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Typesetting

(9) We are cooking
https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/we-are-cooking

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Slough of Philology
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-slough-of-philology.html

Het beeld van Zeus in Olympia – Mainzer Beobachter

Het beeld van Zeus in Olympia

PaleoJudaica.com: Lots more ghost wheels?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/lots-more-ghost-wheels.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Debating diachronic diversity dating for biblical Hebrew
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/debating-diachronic-diversity-dating.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the formation and reception of the Babylonian Talmud
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/on-formation-and-reception-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Short Writings, Volume IV
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/short-writings-volume-iv.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Short Writings, Volume III
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/short-writings-volume-iii.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Short Writings, Volume II
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/short-writings-volume-ii.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Short Writings, Volume I
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/short-writings-volume-i.html

Die Zivilisierung der Barbaren. Eine Diskursgeschichte von Cicero bis Cassius Dio – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.22/

Ecologizing late ancient and Byzantine worlds – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.21/

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Episode 171 – The Gallic Sack of Rome – Part 6 – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Episode 171 – The Gallic Sack of Rome – Part 6

What if the Ides of March Failed? – The Ancients | Acast

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How the Phrase “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” Originated | HISTORY
https://www.history.com/videos/the-origin-of-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place

(70) Anatomy of the Ancient Egyptian Soul: The Ka – YouTube

(70) Why Did Ramesses II Marry His Own Daughters? – YouTube

(70) Aaron Poochigian | The Drama of Marcus’ Aurelius’ “Meditations” – YouTube

The Cyclops May Have Been Inspired by Real Science | HISTORY
https://www.history.com/videos/the-cyclops-may-have-been-inspired-by-real-science

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(9) ANE Today, 19 March 2026 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-19-march-2026

Pasts Imperfect (3.19.26)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-3-19-26/

Assistant Professor of Practice, Classics (College of Humanities) job with University of Arizona | 37964668
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37964668/assistant-professor-of-practice-classics-college-of-humanities-/

• Festival of Mars (Day 19)
• Quinquatrus (Day 1) — a festival celebrating Minerva’s birthday (maybe)
• rites in honour of Minerva (obviously connected to the above)
• 11 B.C.E. — Herod dedicates his renovated Temple in Jerusalem
• 303 A.D. — Martyrdom of Pancharius of Nicomedia
• 363 A.D. — fire destroys the Temple of Apollo on the Palatine