[I’m thinking of making this a regular feature]
The Ancient Greece and Rome section of my Explorator newsletter for this week (full issue available here):
Horse burials from an 8th century necropolis in Athens:
http://www.amna.gr/english/article/12498/Intact-horse-skeleton-discovered-in-ancient-cemetery-in-southern-coastal-Athens
http://horsetalk.co.nz/2016/01/16/horse-skeletons-ancient-greek-cemetery/#axzz3xVa3dQu4
Plenty of evidence found during A1 construction suggests the Romans were in Yorkshire a decade earlier than previously thought:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-35314396
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/our-yorkshire/heritage/spectacular-discoveries-could-put-romans-in-yorkshire-a-decade-before-they-settled-in-york-1-7676043
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14205317.display/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3401618/Treasure-trove-Roman-artefacts-A1-Pots-beads-jewellery-177-000-pieces-unearthed-roadworks.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Remains of a Bronze Age village near Aquileia:
http://www.thelocal.it/20160113/bronze-age-village-found-near-ancient-roman-city
Nice feature on some Greek pots at Yale:
https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/4177/at-home-in-ancient-athens
Bice Peruzzi is studying burial practices in Central Apulia:
http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=22681
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-ancient-burial-rituals-lot.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/uoc-abr011116.php
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2016/the-changing-burials-rites-in-pre-roman-central-apulian-region
That Bodicacia inscription is now in the Corinium Museum:
Studying/recreating Greek pottery:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-greek-vases-20160117-story.html
Feature on the Battle of Watling street and other Boudiccan things:
Roman London was a pretty cosmopolitan place:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2016/roman-londons-cosmopolitan-history-revealed
Lessons from the Iliad:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/160110-homer-iliad-ancient-world-alexander-ngbooktalk/
They drained the Great Bath at Bath:
http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Great-Bath-Roman-Baths/story-28511353-detail/story.html
On black Classicists:
http://www.bu.edu/today/2016/black-classics-scholars-an-untold-story/
Review of Holland, *Dynasty*:
More on Knossos being larger than previously thought:
More on Roman toilets and parasites:
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