• 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

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Children discover mysterious ancient skeleton sitting upright next to playground in France – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mysterious-ancient-skeleton-sitting-upright-france/

Turkey: Ancient Mosaic With Greek Inscription Brought to Light – tovima.com

Turkey: Ancient Mosaic With Greek Inscription Brought to Light

‘Mentor’ shipwreck study uncovers possible fragment of Parthenon | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

 ‘Mentor’ shipwreck study uncovers possible fragment of Parthenon

Gladiatorial reliefs discovered near the Appian Way | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Gladiatorial reliefs discovered near the Appian Way

Hippos-style humor: rare 2,000-year-old sling bullet bearing Greek taunt discovered
https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/bjl0xydcbx

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

[paywalled] Archeologists Uncovered Evidence of a 2,000-Year-Old Machine Gun
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a70698814/archeologists-uncovered-evidence-of-a-2000-year-old-machine-gunand-the-damage-it-did/

A look at the legacy of the Romans across Somerset | Great British Life
https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/somerset/25855079.look-legacy-romans-across-somerset/

Rome’s Colosseum gets a fresh look that recreates the footprints of long-gone columns :: WRAL.com
https://www.wral.com/news/ap/032ca-romes-colosseum-gets-a-fresh-look-that-recreates-the-footprints-of-long-gone-columns/

Restored Ramses II statue head installed at Abydos temple in Sohag – Tourism – Egypt – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1238/564240/Egypt/Tourism/Restored-Ramses-II-statue-head-installed-at-Abydos.aspx

Climate change to identity: The vital lessons in Metamorphoses, Ovid’s 2,000-year-old poem
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260317-metamorphoses-ovids-2000-year-old-poem-says-a-lot-about-2026

Donald Trump’s Melian Dialogue | History Today
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/making-history/donald-trumps-melian-dialogue

Cops and Antiquities Robbers Caught Red-handed Shelter Together From Iranian Missiles – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2026-03-17/ty-article/cops-and-antiquities-robbers-caught-red-handed-shelter-together-during-attack/0000019c-fb7a-d62f-ab9f-ff7ebe7c0000

Pre-state vaults and ancient cisterns provide shelter for Jerusalemites again under siege | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pre-state-vaults-and-ancient-cisterns-provide-shelter-for-jerusalemites-again-under-siege/

Elephant Bone Found In Spain May Be The First Physical Evidence Of War Elephants Being Used In The Region 2200-Years-Ago » TwistedSifter

Elephant Bone Found In Spain May Be The First Physical Evidence Of War Elephants Being Used In The Region 2200-Years-Ago

Metamorphoses – Rijksmuseum
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/metamorphoses

Destiny in the Stars. The Beginnings of the Zodiac

Destiny in the Stars. The Beginnings of the Zodiac

Learn Ancient Greek in 118 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard | Open Culture

Learn Ancient Greek in 118 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard

Greece greenlights €3B Israeli missile and drone defense system | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-890272

Odysseus Found Not Guilty at the National Hellenic Museum’s Trial – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/18/odysseus-found-not-guilty-national-hellenic-museum-trial/

There’s Plenty of Crying in Epic: Introducing Book 16 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

There’s Plenty of Crying in Epic: Introducing Book 16

Writing Wednesday: Revisions to my Book | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Writing Wednesday: Revisions to my Book

Laudator Temporis Acti: Criticism
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/criticism.html

Caesars erfgenaam: Octavianus – Mainzer Beobachter

Caesars erfgenaam: Octavianus

PaleoJudaica.com: Maaloula latest
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/maaloula-latest.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Was the Second Temple ANE or Greek inspired?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/was-second-temple-ane-or-greek-inspired.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Athribis ostraca and what’s on them
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/more-on-athribis-ostraca-and-whats-on.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-best-of-achaeans-concepts-of-hero.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La Table des rois: Contribution à l’histoire textuelle des ›Tables faciles‹ de Ptolémée
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/la-table-des-rois-contribution.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Conceptions of Cyclicity in Babylonian and Greco-Roman Scholarship
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/conceptions-of-cyclicity-in-babylonian.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ›Versus ad picturas‹ – Text/Image Relation in Greek, Latin and Arabic Poetry
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/versus-ad-picturas-textimage-relation.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Ancestors of Genesis and the Exodus Traditions: A Festschrift for Thomas Römer
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-ancestors-of-genesis-and-exodus.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Rethinking Orality III:From Homer to Neuroscience
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/rethinking-orality-iiifrom-homer-to.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Iran in the ISAC Museum: From Prehistory to the Achaemenid Period
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/ancient-iran-in-isac-museum-from.html

Marble Statuettes of the Roman Period By Brian A. Martens (Agora 39). Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2025. Pp. 704. ISBN 978-0-87661-239-2 (hardcover) $150. | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 130, No 2
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740693?utm_source=Archaeological+Institute+of+America&utm_campaign=601102ad39-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_16_11_36_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-894de77e7c-215971384&mc_cid=601102ad39&mc_eid=693126d49d

The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii By Gabriel Zuchtriegel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-226-83960-8 (hardcover) $25. | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 130, No 2
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740824?utm_source=Archaeological+Institute+of+America&utm_campaign=601102ad39-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_16_11_36_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-894de77e7c-215971384&mc_cid=601102ad39&mc_eid=693126d49d

Painting Pompeii: Painters, Practices, and Organization By Francesca Bologna. Turnhout: Brepols 2024. Pp. 150. ISBN 978-2-503-61119-8 (paperback) €85. | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 130, No 2
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740029?utm_source=Archaeological+Institute+of+America&utm_campaign=601102ad39-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_16_11_36_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-894de77e7c-215971384&mc_cid=601102ad39&mc_eid=693126d49d

Archaeology of Colour: Technical Art History Studies in Greek and Roman Painting and Polychromy Edited by Hariclia Brecoulaki. Turnhout: Brepols 2024. Pp. 450. ISBN 978-960-371-089-9 (hardcover) €132.08. | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 130, No 2
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740027?utm_source=Archaeological+Institute+of+America&utm_campaign=601102ad39-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_16_11_36_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-894de77e7c-215971384&mc_cid=601102ad39&mc_eid=693126d49d

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AUDIENDA
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Classics & Careers S3, E5: Jam…–The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

Xenophon – A Biography – Ancient History 101 | Acast

“What is ‘Classics’ Anyway?” – Ancient History 101 | Acast

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(37) The Amateur Who Found (and Destroyed) Ancient Troy – YouTube

(38) Archeologists Investigate The Pharaoh Who Stole History – YouTube

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Research Associate in Ancient Near Eastern Studies | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | 1909
https://jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/65bcdc8b60cafe78b0188cf73c8542959a61ff940

Full-Time Faculty Positionat College of the Holy Cross

Full-Time Faculty Position at College of the Holy Cross

Romano-British Agricultural Land Management Adjacent to the Dringhouses Roadside Settlement, York: Archaeological investigations at Abbeyfields House, Regency Mews, Dringhouses, York. Savine et al. Internet Archaeology 71.
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue71/8/index.html

Late Iron Age/Romano-British Transition Pastoral Activity in the Western Environs of York: Archaeological investigations at the A1237/B1224, Wetherby Road Roundabout, York. Savine and Coates et al. Internet Archaeology 71.
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue71/9/index.html

Roman Occupation in the Extramural Settlement South-west of the colonia: Archaeological investigations at York Station Gateway, Queen Street, York. Savine et al. Internet Archaeology 71.
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue71/7/index.html

Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/vehicles-of-change-two-exceptional-deposits-of-destroyed-chariots-or-wagons-from-late-iron-age-britain/729BB6B21858170704D32CBDBF68C5DA

Athenian Figure-Decorated Pottery for Whom? A View from Eastern Andalucía (Spain) | April 2026 (130.2) | American Journal of Archaeology

Athenian Figure-Decorated Pottery for Whom? A View from Eastern Andalucía (Spain)

Anubis in Contemporary Popular Culture

Anubis in Contemporary Popular Culture

• Festival of Mars continues (day 18)
• 37 A.D. — The dead emperor Tiberius’ will is annulled and Gaius (Caligula) is given the title “Augustus” by the senate
• 235 A.D. (?) — murder of Alexander Severus at Moguntiacum (Mainz)

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Excavations in Syedra reveal a 1,500-year-old mosaic
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/excavations-in-syedra-reveal-a-1500-year-old-mosaic/157402

Just How Much Did Pompeii’s Prized Blue Paint Cost?
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pompeii-egyptian-blue-pigment-cost-2754800

Ancient graffiti reveals scenes of everyday life in Pompeii
https://www.dw.com/en/previously-unseen-ancient-graffiti-reveals-scenes-of-everyday-life-in-pompeii/a-76289185

‘Mentor’ shipwreck study uncovers possible fragment of Parthenon
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/mentor-shipwreck-study-uncovers-possible-fragment-of-parthenon/157420

Rare Painted Altar of Celtic God Sucellus Discovered at Roman Sanctuary in France – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/17/painted-altar-celtic-god-sucellus-roman-sanctuary-france/

How Did Humans Travel, Trade, and Even Escape Across the Landscapes of Ancient Greece? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/17/humans-travel-trade-escape-ancient-greece/

Gladiatorial reliefs discovered near the Appian Way
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/gladiatorial-reliefs-discovered-near-the-appian-way/157415

First inscribed Hellenistic sling bullet found in Israel’s Golan | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-890153

Feature: Is He Guilty? Greek Hero Odysseus Is Tried for Murder in the National Hellenic Museum’s Latest Courtroom-Style Drama | Third Coast Review
https://thirdcoastreview.com/stages/2026/03/16/feature-odysseus-trial-national-hellenic-museum

Australian artist creates LEGO tribute to late director of Acropolis Museum | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1298187/australian-artist-creates-lego-tribute-to-late-director-of-acropolis-museum/

A complete Bronze Age loom with carbonized wood found in Alicante reveals how textiles were made 3,500 years ago

A complete Bronze Age loom with carbonized wood found in Alicante reveals how textiles were made 3,500 years ago

Remains of a Roman Concrete Bridge-Aqueduct That Supplied Water to First-Century Caesaraugusta Found in Zaragoza

Remains of a Roman Concrete Bridge-Aqueduct That Supplied Water to First-Century Caesaraugusta Found in Zaragoza

Elite Ritual Banquets and Two Temples: Archaeologists Uncover a Vast Gallo-Roman Sanctuary in Burgundy – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/elite-ritual-banquets-and-two-temples-archaeologists-uncover-a-vast-gallo-roman-sanctuary-in-burgundy/

They Drove Nails Into the Dead — And It Wasn’t Random: The Dark Roman Ritual Behind It – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/they-drove-nails-into-the-dead-and-it-wasnt-random-the-dark-roman-ritual-behind-it/

Police detain suspected antiquities thieves before sheltering with them under rocket fire | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-detain-suspected-antiquities-thieves-before-sheltering-with-them-under-rocket-fire/

Police Arrest Athens Man for Possession of Ancient Greek Amphora Fragments (vid) – tovima.com

Police Arrest Athens Man for Possession of Ancient Greek Amphora Fragments (vid)

Haunting Casts Preserving Pompeii Victims’ Final Moments 2,000 Years Ago Go on Display in a Solemn New Exhibition
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/haunting-casts-preserving-pompeii-victims-final-moments-2000-years-ago-go-on-display-in-a-solemn-new-exhibition-180988350/

Pestilence and population shifts – The Past
https://the-past.com/comment/pestilence-and-population-shifts/

Two Thing Tuesday: The Archive and Watts’ Blindsight | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Two Thing Tuesday: The Archive and Watts’ Blindsight

Did Ancient Civilizations Have Organized Crime? – Tales of Times Forgotten

Did Ancient Civilizations Have Organized Crime?

The Bullet(s) Speak(s)! – Liv Mariah Yarrow

The Bullet(s) Speak(s)!

The Goddess of Many Faces — Unravelling the Mystery of Ephesian Artemis | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/goddess-many-faces-%E2%80%94-unravelling-mystery-ephesian-artemis

Answering Some Questions – The Philological Crocodile

Answering Some Questions

De Senaat vergadert – Mainzer Beobachter

De Senaat vergadert

PaleoJudaica.com: Mosaic-floor church excavated at Nitzana in the Negev
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/mosaic-floor-church-excavated-at.html

PaleoJudaica.com: “What is the Talmud?” – upcoming roundtable papers
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/what-is-talmud-upcoming-roundtable.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Unauthorized West Bank antiquity confiscation?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/unauthorized-west-bank-antiquity.html

Cicero. Laelius de Amicitia – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.20/

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Catullus Nose Poetry: Three Neoteric Gems (Ad Navseam, Episode 214) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/catullus-nose-poetry-three-neoteric-poems-ad-navseam-episode-214/

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(14) New casts of Pompeii victims go on display – YouTube

(14) lēctūra duodecima: Comparison of Adverbs; Volō, Mālō, Nōlō; Proviso Clauses (LTN 102) – YouTube

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The Aesthetics of Ovidian Violence and the Limits of Narrative

The Aesthetics of Ovidian Violence and the Limits of Narrative

Invited Lecture: Dodona Travels to Ithaca and Back — Lessons from Testing AI in Greek Epigraphy (Hybrid) – TALOS AI4SSH

Invited Lecture: Dodona Travels to Ithaca and Back — Lessons from Testing AI in Greek Epigraphy (Hybrid)

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 17 March 2026

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 17 March 2026

Ancient oak trees reveal why Roman Britain really collapsed
https://www.zmescience.com/science/history-articles/tree-climate-roman-britain-rep/

• Festival of Mars continues (day 17)
• Liberalia — a festival of general merriment and wine drinking in honour of Liber Pater (another name for Bacchus)
• Agonalia — the rex sacrificulus would offer a ram to various deities
• 45 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats Pompey’s sons and Labienus at Munda
• 136 A.D. — the future emperor Marcus Aurelius dons the toga virilis
• 180 A.D. — death of Marcus Aurelius at Bononia
• 461 A.D. — death of Saint Patrick (traditional)