Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 20 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Ancient Female Figurines Sheltered by Boar Tusks Discovered in Ukraine Cave – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Address book owned by Howard Carter naming Tutankhamun backer Earl of Carnarvon | Daily Mail Online
- UK hands back 6,000 antiquities borrowed from Iraq 100 years ago
- After Seizures, the Met Sets a Plan to Scour Collections for Looted Art – The New York Times
- Remembering Champollion – Culture – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
- Italy begins to reckon with Fascist-era colonial collections | AP News
- Alla scoperta del passato dell’antica Akragas – QdS
- Great moment for Italian archaeology, says culture minister – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
- Immaculate 2,000-year-old carvings of ‘true beauty’ found buried in Wales – Wales Online
- Is the curse of the mummy REAL? Archaeologist suffers mystery illness after opening Egyptian tomb | Daily Mail Online
- Çanakkale: Where ancient Troy sits beside the modern city | CNN
- Declassified documents on Parthenon Marbles reveal rift between UK government and British Museum
In Case You Missed It
- A California Man Repatriated 30 Ancient Artifacts He Found in His Father’s Cupboard After Reading a Viral Article About Repatriation
- Egypt recovers 4 historic artifacts from Italy
- Buddha in the land of the pharaohs: 2,000-year-old statue of Siddhartha Gautama discovered in Egypt | Culture | EL PAÍS English
Classicists and Classics in the News
- News – AIA Member Dr. Thomas Palaima Elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences – Archaeological Institute of America AIA News
- Professor Emerita Jenifer Neils awarded the Hovorka Prize for contributions to classical studies The Daily
Public Facing Classics
- Roman temple thought to be dedicated to Mars could actually have been used to worship many gods – expert explains
- Cleopatra’s skin colour didn’t matter in ancient Egypt – her strategic role in world history did
- One Of Rome’s Most Devastating Military Defeats Was Masterminded From Within
Fresh Bloggery
- Sad About Other People’s Riches – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Zeugma Belkis Bullae – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Lemuria, Lemures, Lemur | Greek Myth Comix
- Lemuria, Lemures, Lemur | Greek Myth Comix
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Community and Identity in the Roman Seventh Legion
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PERAIA project: Landscapes, Networks, and Society along the ancient Libyan sea
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bone Rules Catalogue
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cyprus_Settlements: Cyprus Settlement Database v1.0.0
- Thorvaldsen’s Coins? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Escape Politics and Have Lunch on Your Own Time – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- 7,000-year-old road found under Adriatic – The History Blog
- Militaire termen in het Gallisch – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Quasi-Riddles in Plautus
- Feeding the Stomach, Feeding the Mind – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Insistence on Accuracy
Other Blog-like Publications
- Late Pharaonic and Early Christian finds located in Meir
- Battle of Thermopylae: History, Facts, and Location
- The Stone Bodies Of Pompeii Aren’t What You Think | IFLScience
- Cosmic Rays Reveal Mystery Chamber From Ancient Greece | Discover Magazine
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
The discovery of a tavern at Early Dynastic Lagash has us asking questions. Who drank there, who ran the joint, and how did you pay come to mind, along with the obvious problems of drunks and pickled eggs. With a special shoutout to wise bartenders everywhere from Siduri to Sam Malone!
Fresh Youtubery
- Ancient Roman Society and Social Order – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- #WCCWiki Report 2023 Victoria Leonard WCC AGM 2023 – YouTube | WCC UK
- Ancient Conspiracies: The Hunt For Cleopatra’s Truth | The Last Mystery Of Cleopatra | Timeline – YouTube
- The Sacred Band of Thebes #ancientgreece #greekmythology #ancienthistory #shorts #queerhistory – YouTube
- CLEOPATRA (FULL DOCUMENTARY) – YouTube | Curtis Ryan Woodside
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Andrew Shortland, Patrick Degryse, When art isn’t real: the world’s most controversial objects under investigation. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022.
- BMCR ~ James McNamara, Victoria Emma Pagán, Tacitus’ wonders: empire and paradox in ancient Rome. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Life in Ancient Nubia: Bioarchaeological Perspectives
- Seventh Sir Jeremy Morse Lecture – Prof. Katherine Harloe Tickets, Thu 11 May 2023 at 17:00 | Eventbrite
- Madeline Miller at the Department of Greek and Latin, UCL Tickets, Thu 11 May 2023 at 17:00 | Eventbrite
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Research Associate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Pericles’ Funeral Oration: The Greatest Speech in History
- Aristotle on Leisure | Psychology Today
- How Hannibal Crossed the Alps (With Elephants)
- Scientists Create AI to Translate Ancient Akkadian Cuneiform
- Calypso, from myth to music – The New European
Diversions
‘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:
If it thunders today, it portends storms, heavy rain, flooding of rivers, and a flourishing of lizards and reptiles.
… 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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