Blogging Pompeii: Ancient speed dating.

[actually an interesting teaching technique]

Katakolon Museums: The fire pump of Heron.

[I saw a recreation of this thing (or something similar) on some television show; was it the Reinventors? I seem to recall they made it Chinese …]

History of the Ancient World:  Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, and the Origins of Christmas.

[’tis the season; might as well have an academic article rather than some journalist’s spin …]

The History of Rome: 161- The Swamps of Ravenna.

[Stilicho and all that …]

Tip o’ the pileus to Chuck Jones for alerting us to this paper (and others) by Andre Lemaire:

• Remarques sur le contexte historique et culturel de fondation de Carthage