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In the News
- Ancient Canaanites at Megiddo Raised a Glass to the Dead, Archaeologists Find – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- When Roman merchants and soldiers came to Madurai to trade in pepper – The Hindu
- In Photos: Largest ever intact embalming workshop uncovered in Saqqara – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
- Egypt unearths mummification workshops, tombs in ancient burial ground | Reuters
- Egypt unveils recently discovered ancient workshops, tombs in Saqqara necropolis | The Times of Israel
- Mycenean Era Tomb Unearthed In Central Greece Reveals Its Secrets
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Public Facing Classics
- Frieze Frame: Part I | The Hudson Review
- Frieze Frame: Part II | The Hudson Review
- 2,500-year-old poop from Jerusalem toilets contain oldest evidence of dysentery parasite | Live Science
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Sims-Williams et al., A Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book (Brepols)
- Better When Things Break? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The People We Are Today – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Crimean Coin Taken by Soviets from Museum Collection Sold for Record Price
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Bubbly Fields on Merovingian Coins: The ‘Peckham Hoard’
- Het Byzantijnse Rijk (2): Bloei – Mainzer Beobachter
- Embalming workshops unearthed at Saqqara – The History Blog
- Think Your Feelings, Write Your Thoughts – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Outstanding Virtue – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Weiss, De 2 à 4 Maccabées (Mohr Siebeck)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Barley Cake
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Fields of Study
- Last Call for Summer School! – Classical Studies Support
- Escape Politics and Have Lunch on Your Own Time – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Excavations and Researches at Shahr-i Sokhta
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Texts Added to the TLG Since January 2022
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access monograoh Series: Gli Album del Centro di Studi Papirologici dell’Università degli Studi di Lecce
- Autism and Classical Myth: Getting ready to look back – and ahead – by sharing five publication covers
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Remembering the War Dead
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Politics of Punctuation: Changing History One Mark at a Time – Antigone
- Lead tablets of Dodona in the ‘Memory of the World’ of Unesco
- Early toilets reveal dysentery in Old Testament Jerusalem
- New mummification workshops and tombs found in Saqqara
- Unique archaeological find in Thorikos, Greece
- Why ancient Mesopotamians buried their dead beneath the floor | Psyche Ideas
- Faeces from early toilets indicates dysentery in Kingdom of Judah | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Archaeologists discover Ancient Egyptian tombs and mummification workshops | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- How Did the Fall of Roman Britain Create King Arthur?
- Archaeologists conducting excavations at the Roman Fort of Apsaros in Georgia, found evidence of the Legion X Fretensis – Arkeonews
- Ancient quarry discovered near Tas-Silġ archaeological complex in Malta – Arkeonews
- Two monumental Roman carved heads unearthed in Carlisle – The Archaeology News Network
- Carabinieri seize 3,500 antiquities – The Archaeology News Network
- Ancient Greek coin sells for record price at Swiss auction – The Archaeology News Network
- 29 May 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Tusculum)
Fresh Podcasts
When looking at the Hebrew Bible, the city of Babylon plays a prominent role – especially in the Old Testament. A city famed for it’s architectural beauty and gardens, also holds stories of suffering and captivity. Travelling back to the 6th Century BCE, the Babylonian Captivity was a defining moment in both Judaean history, and faith. With enormous numbers of the Judaean elite banished to Babylon, there was a religious, and social, overhaul for all involved. So what happened in this pivotal moment in history – and what sources can we use to examine this event? In the final episode in our Babylon mini-series, Tristan welcomes Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones back to the podcast to look at Babylon within the Bible. Looking at surviving art and archaeology, cuneiform texts and biblical passages – what can we learn about this moment in ancient history, and the legacy that can still be felt today?
Synopsis: In Shalmaneser’s final years, his eldest son – the crown prince Assur-danin-pal – enters into rebellion, while his younger son, Shamshi-Adad, struggles to defend his father’s legacy. “Where my brother Assur-danin-pal, in the time of Shalmaneser, his father, acted wickedly, bringing about sedition, rebellion, and wicked plotting, caused the land to rise in revolt, prepared for war, brought the people of Assyria, north and south, to his side, and made bold speeches, brought the cities into the rebellion and set his face to begin strife and battle… 27 cities, along with their fortifications… revolted against Shalmaneser, king of the four regions of the world, my father, and… had gone to the side of Assur-danin-pal.” – Annals of King Shamshi-Adad V
Marlowe as a playwright at the beginning of the greatest period of Elizabethan creativity.
Season 4 is taking an intermission for the moment; I hope to have us traveling back to the 1920s soon. Until then, I’ve got something fun for you: a chat with the wonderful Genn McMenemy and Jenny Williamson of Ancient History Fangirl about their new book, Women of Myth. It’s a beautiful compendium of stories from all around the world about a diverse cast of heroines, goddesses, and monsters, all told with Genn and Jenny’s signature humour, empathy, and wit. So grab a drink, settle in, and let’s dive into the stories of some women from mythology.
- Thin End of the Wedge: 55. Agnès Garcia-Ventura: The historiography of assyriology on Apple Podcasts
Agnès discusses the history of the field, and why that matters now. Cast collections were an important part of Spain’s early interest in ancient Iraq. How did these collections form? Who was interested? What were they interested in? And why? The history of the field has also impacted how we interpret objects, and how we read ancient texts. What lessons does that teach us?.
Fresh Youtubery
- Not my cup of tea. #margaretatwood #shorts #bookreview #greekmythology – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- A Medusa retelling that deserves more attention #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Carmenta, prima poetria? – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- Egypt death rites: Mummification workshop found in Saqqara – YouTube
- Demeter/Ceres: Greek Myth Comix explains the Olympian Gods (OCR GCSE Classics learning and revision) – YouTube
- Ideal Masculinity: Inside Ancient Greek Male Beauty Competitions – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Historical Warfare – Spartan Hoplites (5th Century BC) – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- Mary Beard. 01. Museums & cultural property; impact of Classics & archaeology. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
- Chi (RI)cerca trova – Il restauratore racconta – La Latona di Veio: dalla scoperta al restauro – YouTube | Etruschannel
Book Reviews
Dramatic Receptions
- Ancient Greek drama given new lease of life | Cyprus Mail
- Review: “An Iliad” is indictment of modern rage, violence – Charleston City Paper
- Helen: the futility of war – St. Albert Gazette
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Research Papers of Possible Interest
Alia
- Red Traces, Part 5: Stop the Trojan War | Counterfire
- The End of Humanity According to Ancient Greek Mythology
- The School of Aristotle: One of the First Universities in the World
- In Sicily at Europe’s oldest surviving mikvah – The Forward
- The trouble with Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra | The Spectator
- 8 Secret Workout Tips from Ancient Greek Athletes
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 war in the north but it won’t affect trade.
… 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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