Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 28 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- The site of the Colombare di Negrar di Valpolicella reveals terraces from the Bronze Age | The State News
- Discovery of 4,500-year-old palace in Iraq may hold key to ancient civilisation | Archaeology | The Guardian
- News | A unique district of the ancient agglomeration… | Inrap
- New York antiquities trafficking unit focuses on US patron of Israeli archaeology | The Times of Israel
- Archaeology: new accords boost Italy-Kuwait cooperation – Culture – ANSAMed.it
- Fugitive suspects create fake ancient cemetery to defraud antiquities dealers – Egypt Independent
- Egypt court reduces prison sentence for antiquities smugglers – Courts & Law – Egypt – Ahram Online
- Ancient hall found in villa where Roman emperor partied | Miami Herald
- Change to treasure law ‘will keep more artefacts in UK museums’ | Heritage | The Guardian
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- The Forgotten Heirs: Gaius and Lucius Caesar | Garstang Museum of Archaeology
- Egyptians: Aelian on Egyptian views and customs about animals and animal-worship (late second century) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Egyptians, Taurians, and Celts: Cicero’s Philus engages in ethnographic discourses for philosophical aims (mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Illusion of Progress
- Being Known, Praying Out Loud – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Coins and the date Judaism emerged
- PaleoJudaica.com: Old Esther scrolls recovered in Turkey
- PaleoJudaica.com: Oldest Hebrew Bible up for auction
- Blog Post #75: Interview with Christine Johnston of the Ancient World in 3D Project – Peopling the Past
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: LGPN-Ling: Etymology and Semantics of Ancient Greek Personal Names
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Worlds in Film and Television: Gender and Politics
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 01/01/1989
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650, Part One, The Ancient World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Gobbling Food Set Out for Hecate
- (I Don’t Want A) Photograph | Sphinx
- Heavy Bronze – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Lenborough All Over Again: Norfolk Roman Pewter Deposit Shown Being Crudely Dug Up on Tekkie Video
- Oxyrhynchos (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Bondi Treasure Hunter” Hits England
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Citizen Scientists Studying LiDAR Maps Have Found 1,000 Prehistoric Burial Mounds Across the Netherlands
- Roman funerary stele with portrait found – The History Blog
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: East of England Commercial Artefact Hunting Rally Organiser
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- The World of Sincerity is a Goddess – Part IX – Plautus: Playwright of the Roman People |
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Great Gain
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T Yourself By Following Someone Else – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation: A Personal View – Antigone
- 1,600-year-old fragment Of Enigmatic Roman Artifact Discovered In Belgium – Arkeonews
- Drought and the Fall of the Hittite Empire
- Who Were the Ancient Scythians? | Discover Magazine
- Royal Sumerian palace and temple uncovered in ancient Girsu
- Scavi per una casa di campagna portano alla luce domus romana, strada selciata ed edificio pubblico – Stile Arte
Fresh Podcasts
That’s right all you hard boppers, we’re back with a new episode on the 1979 cult classic, The Warriors. Joined by special guests Joel Christensen, Tim Gerolami and 60,000 soldiers, the streets are ours. We get into Xenophon’s 5th c. travel blog that (maybe) inspired this tale, gang life in the movies, Tim’s dad and the ultimate question one can pose on this show: CAN YOU DIG IT?
Fresh Youtubery
- Restauro di una rosetta dell’epoca di Maiuri – YouTube | Pompeii
- Ouvrage de l’EFA : À l’ombre du Lycabette – YouTube | Ecole française d’Athènes
- Who were the Hittites? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- Dan McClellan Discusses the Importance of Public Scholarship on Social Media | Bible & Archaeology – YouTube | XKV8R
- Laura Fontana | Politicising matrons’ mourning in the early Roman Republic | Assemblywomen – YouTube | Women’s Classical Committee UK
- What are the Largest Battles of Ancient Greece? (500 BC – 1500 AD) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
- Mauritzio Forte | Unlocking Digital Archaeology – YouTube | Oriental Institute
- Why the Myth of the Library of Alexandria Is Wrong – YouTube | Kaz Rowe
Book Reviews
- JCT ~ Oh My Gods (A) Sheppard. Scholastic 2019.
- BMCR ~ Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the world of Greek myth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- BMCR ~ Dimosthenis Kosmopoulos, Architettura templare italica in epoca ellenistica. Studia archaeologica, 250. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2021.
- BMCR ~ Alison Noble, Alexander Alexakis, Richard H. Greenfield, Animal fables of the courtly Mediterranean: the Eugenian recension of Stephanites and Ichnelates. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 73. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022.
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- 2023 LIST OF APPROVED SESSIONS – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[Saturday] If it thunders today it portends a heavy wind and the outbreak of pustules on people
[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends an abundance of reptiles and worms
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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