• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Adaucus in Phrygia
• 1845 — the small glass ‘amphora’ known as the Portland Vase, while on loan to the British Museum, was smashed by a guy on a drinking binge (it was subsequently restored)

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The Workshop of the Final Day of Construction in a Luxurious Seaside Villa Discovered in Herculaneum

The Workshop of the Final Day of Construction in a Luxurious Seaside Villa Discovered in Herculaneum

Archaeologists Find Elite Family 14th Century BC Tombs in Cyprus
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/02/06/archaeologists-find-elite-family-14th-century-bc-tombs-in-cyprus/

Rare Lead Pipe Reveals Petra’s Advanced Ancient Aqueduct Engineering – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/06/lead-pipe-petra-advanced-ancient-aqueduct-engineering/

Roman head discovered at Hadrian’s Wall dig to go on display in Northumberland museum | Chronicle Live
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/roman-head-discovered-magna-fort-33368420

Ancient Roman Mithras Temple Discovered in Regensburg Old Town, Revealing Bavaria’s Oldest Mithraeum – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-roman-mithras-temple-discovered-in-regensburg-old-town-revealing-bavarias-oldest-mithraeum/

Archaeologists Unearth 2,700-Year-Old Phoenician Scarab Seal and Amulet at Nuragic Ruinas in Sardinia – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-unearth-2700-year-old-phoenician-scarab-seal-and-amulet-at-nuragic-ruinas-in-sardinia/

Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal’s war elephants in Spain
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-hannibals-war-elephants-in-spain/156943

Possible Remains of a Monumental Persian Garden Complex Identified Near Tabriz – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/possible-remains-of-a-monumental-persian-garden-complex-identified-near-tabriz/

Marseille’s Ancient Greek Quarry: A Bittersweet Victory for Heritage Preservation – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/06/marseille-ancient-greek-quarry/

“Render Unto Caesar” and the First Jewish Revolt – Biblical Archaeology Society

“Render Unto Caesar” and the First Jewish Revolt

Ancient Greek and Roman scholars were often more advanced than we are in challenging science misinformation – Genetic Literacy Project

Ancient Greek and Roman scholars were often more advanced than we are in challenging science misinformation

‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ Creator on What Happens to Ashur in Potential Season 2 – IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65695330/

New Hellenic Heritage Portal Includes All Museums, Monuments, Archaeological Sites – tovima.com

New Hellenic Heritage Portal Includes All Museums, Monuments, Archaeological Sites

[paywalled] Rebuilding the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Block by Virtual Block – The New York Times

Why the Ancients Ate These Bizarre Foods — and Why We Don’t Anymore | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/why-the-ancients-ate-these-bizarre-foods-and-why-we-don-t-anymore-48651

Fireside Friday, February 6, 2026 (On Ancient Migrations) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, February 6, 2026 (On Ancient Migrations)

In Sappho we trust – The Bowdoin Orient

In Sappho we trust

Incredible Prophecies, Sick Truths | Los Angeles Review of Books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/oedipus-rex-sophocles-arundhati-roy-mother-mary-essay/

Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Quick Hits and Varia

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

January Reading Notes – Noodlings

January Reading Notes

Did Cleopatra Really Die by Suicide Using an Asp (Snake)? – Bad Ancient
https://www.badancient.com/claims/did-cleopatra-really-die-by-suicide-using-an-asp-snake/

ALKE, KAIROS and ALALA | Greek Myth Comix
https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/7275/

(1244) Explore three amazing tombs on the Via Latina! – YouTube

De samenzweringen tegen Julius Caesar – Mainzer Beobachter

De samenzweringen tegen Julius Caesar

PaleoJudaica.com: Chief curator of the Museum of the Bible
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/chief-curator-of-museum-of-bible.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Implications of the oldest Sabbath names
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/implications-of-oldest-sabbath-names.html

PaleoJudaica.com: CT memorializes Barkay
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/ct-memorializes-barkay.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Silver Beyond Empire: The transition between late Roman and early medieval Europe
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/silver-beyond-empire-transition-between.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Blog: The History of the Study of Antiquity through the Lens of Autobiography
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2015/11/blog-history-of-study-of-antiquity.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Honour in Aristotle’s Ethics
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/honour-in-aristotles-ethics.html

The ancient world in alternative history and counterfactual fictions – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.09/

“Naturheiligtümer” im westlichen Kleinasien. Natur in sakralen Kontexten von der Archaik bis zum Ausgang des Hellenismus – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.08/
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Ancient History Podcast – A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-history-podcast-a-new-history-of-ancient-roman-theatre

Tetrarchy – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA395 – Gladiators and the Roman Army
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa395-gladiators-and-the-roman-army

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(1244) The Real Troy: A Geopolitical Chokepoint of the Bronze Age – YouTube

(1244) The Ancient Lyre and Kithara | Michael Levy – YouTube

(1244) Greek Immigration, Literature, and Identity in Egypt, Ancient and Modern – YouTube

(1244) Explore three amazing tombs on the Via Latina! – YouTube

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THE NAME OF THE ORGANON | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/name-of-the-organon/776F6A1B2A8BED46A97F4D9DA2100724?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

NEW FRAGMENTS FROM ON MELANCHOLY OF RUFUS OF EPHESUS IN AL-RĀZĪ’S THE COMPREHENSIVE BOOK | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/new-fragments-from-on-melancholy-of-rufus-of-ephesus-in-alrazis-the-comprehensive-book/EEC12C4B8997E1AFB219F8F0DB857E65?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

ATTITUDES TO THE LAW IN MENANDER: PAROCHIAL PANHELLENISM AND RADICAL CONSERVATISM | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/attitudes-to-the-law-in-menander-parochial-panhellenism-and-radical-conservatism/42BBD884B927F0ABAD38079DEC8F6751?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Call for Support: Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary | Call for Support: Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/support-calgary-classics/

• 46 B.C. — victory of Julius Caesar over pro-Pompey forces at Thapsus
• 300 A.D. — martyrdom of Theophilus Scholasticus ‘The Lawyer’
• 1811 — birth of H.G. Liddell (co-author of the massive Greek Lexicon which is still standard and father of Alice in Wonderland)
• 2001 — death of Emily Vermeule (author of Greece in the Bronze Age, among several other works)

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Hannibal’s famous war elephants: Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-hannibal-famous-war-elephants-bone.html

Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal’s war elephants in Spain
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-hannibals-war-elephants-in-spain/156943

Divers find ancient Roman shipwreck off Puglia

Divers find ancient Roman shipwreck off Puglia

Scents of the afterlife: Identifying embalming recipes by ‘sniffing’ the air around Egyptian mummies
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scents-afterlife-embalming-recipes-sniffing.html

Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-museums-biomolecular-archaeology-ancient-scents.html

Petra aqueduct survey uncovers rare 116-meter lead conduit beside terracotta pipe
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-petra-aqueduct-survey-uncovers-rare.html

Archaeology in the City of David Yields New Treasures – Christianity Today

Archaeology in the City of David Yields New Treasures

Ancient Egyptian letter hints at existence of giants | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-885660

The Roman Magna excavations: uncovering the past to safeguard its future | The National Lottery Heritage Fund
https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/roman-magna-excavations-uncovering-past-safeguard-its-future

Volcanic vulvas and hermaphrodite marble: Ovid’s Metamorphoses reshaped at the Rijksmuseum | Museums | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/feb/05/ovid-metamorphoses-rijksmuseum

Egyptian and Indus Valley civilisations ‘were in contact’ – Pakistan – DAWN.COM
https://www.dawn.com/news/1971071

Why We’re Still Fighting Over Elgin’s Marbles | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/frieze-frame-elgin-marbles-ae-stallings/

Ancient Greek Genius Archytas Built a Flying Machine 2,400 Years Before Drones – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/05/ancient-greek-archytas-flying-machine-drone/

Greek Temples May Be Stone Echoes of Ancient Ships – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/05/greek-temples-ancient-ships/

How Livy Turned Rome’s Past Into the Epic History We Still Read Today | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/livy-history-rome/

Alceste, By Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752), Clément-Louis-Marie-Anne Belle (1722-1806), And Michel Audran (1701-1771) – The Historian’s Hut

Alceste, By Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752), Clément-Louis-Marie-Anne Belle (1722-1806), And Michel Audran (1701-1771)

How Romans would have known how to deal with Epstein | The Spectator Australia

How Romans would have known how to deal with Epstein

Scents of the afterlife: Identifying embalming recipes by ‘sniffing’ the air around Egyptian mummies
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scents-afterlife-embalming-recipes-sniffing.html#goog_rewarded

Ann Harnwell Ashmead, renowned classical archaeology researcher and writer, has died at 96
https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/ann-harnwell-ashmead-obituary-penn-haverford-philadelphia-archeology-20260204.html

June LeRay (nee Smith) Bates Obituary – The Leader
https://www.the-leader.com/obituaries/pnys1401394

Can we do anything to get British Library manuscripts back online?

Can we do anything to get British Library manuscripts back online?

Teaching Thursday: Chasing AI | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Thursday: Chasing AI

De vele namen van Belgrado (4) – Mainzer Beobachter

De vele namen van Belgrado (4)

De werken van Herakles (slot) – Mainzer Beobachter

De werken van Herakles (slot)

De werken van Herakles (4) – Mainzer Beobachter

De werken van Herakles (4)

Laudator Temporis Acti: Timon
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/timon.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On Moses’ horns, once more
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/on-moses-horns-once-more.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Forthcoming Aitken memorial volume
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/forthcoming-aitken-memorial-volume.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Rome’s Visceral Reactions: Politics and Poetics in Flesh and Blood
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/romes-visceral-reactions-politics-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Heroines of Greek and Roman Myth: An Intermediate Latin Reader
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/heroines-of-greek-and-roman-myth.html

La fabrique des bébés dans l’Antiquité. Enquête sur les “biberons” gallo-romains – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.07/

Eliano. Lettere rustiche – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.06/
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Polyphemus Last Words: Live at Michigan Junior Classical League (Ad Navseam, Episode 209) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/polyphemus-last-words-live-at-michigan-junior-classical-league-ad-navseam-episode-209/

Special Episode – The Emperor Titus with Marc Hyden – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Special Episode – The Emperor Titus with Marc Hyden

Alexander the Great | Rise to Power – The Ancients | Acast

Roman Brick and Tile–Build Like a Roman – Apple Podcasts

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(1211) Spotlight Lecture: Judge like an Egyptian: Legal processes and dramas in the Pharaonic courts – YouTube

(1211) Inside Rome’s Best-Preserved Tombs: on the Via Latina – YouTube

(1213) Irene de Jong on her narratological commentary on Herodotus’ Histories – YouTube

(1215) Spartan Warriors? Modern myths and Ancient realities. – YouTube

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Why We Call It Psychology, Not Animology | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/platonic-psychology/202602/why-we-call-it-psychology-not-animology

(19) ANE Today, 5 February 2026 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-5-february-2026?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=186876388&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Pasts Imperfect (2.5.26)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-2-5-26/?ref=pasts-imperfect-newsletter

• 211 — death of Septimius Severus at York; his son Caracalla assumed the title of pontifex maximus at this time