Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 8 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
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- X-Ray Analysis of Pompeii Victims’ Bones Suggest They Suffocated to Death
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- Residents of Pompeii who fled the eruption of Vesuvius died of asphyxiation | Culture | EL PAÍS English
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- Hawass hints at Imminent Unveiling of Queen Nefertiti’s Mummy at Bowers Museum | Sada Elbalad
- A Museum Was Warned About Looted Antiquities. It Didn’t Listen.
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- The Times view on the British Museum losses: Absent Antiquities
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- The Goddess of the Semuncia – Liv Mariah Yarrow
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Can the Stoics help solve the mental health crisis? Should we adopt an Epicurean approach to pleasure? On this week’s podcast, writer and lecturer Jane O’Grady joins Prospect’s Mindful life columnist Sarah Collins to discuss whether the ancient Greeks can teach us how live.
Episode 2 of ALILI and it’s time to head back to ancient Mesopotamia and hear all about Akkadian, an influential lingua franca of the ancient world. Old it may be, but Akkadian still has much to tell us about its many cousin languages still spoken to this day. Akkadian expert Iris Kamil both introduces and shares a little of her boundless enthusiasm for the language and its surprisingly relatable sources.
No longer tied up by Hannibal, the vengeful Romans give their undivided attention to Philip V in the Second Macedonian War (200-197 BC). The king manages to hold his own against the Republic until they send the ambitious young commander Titus Quinctius Flamininus, who forces a showdown at Cynoscephalae that will radically change the balance of power in Greece.
This is an episode about a plague that killed up to 100 million people by the time it was done—as many as 60% of its victims. It’s the first documented occurrence of a pandemic that we have, and it’s the first documented outbreak of the deadlyYersinia pestis. No, we’re not talking about the Black Death of Medieval Europe. We’re talking about the Plague of Justinian. The Plague of Justinian was just one part of the fallout of the global volcanic eruption of 536 AD. Three eyewitness accounts have survived–and, in the grand tradition of this podcast, we decided to read them to you whilst Yule-level drunk. Buckle up. It is a wild, plague-tastic ride.
Egypt’s New Kingdom, the peak of its monumental building and international power, ended in the aftermath of the Bronze Age Collapse. Once again, Egypt fragmented into multiple smaller states. Yet millions of people still lived and died under the rule of those claiming the mantle of the ancient pharaohs, and Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period was far from a backwater.
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Book Reviews
- Typologie des établissements de la chôra de Chersonèse taurique et des colonies scythes tardives de Crimée | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Hernán González Bordas, Manuscrit d’un voyageur, voyages d’un manuscrit: un recueil d’épigraphie africaine établi par Francisco Ximenez et son étude par Scipione Maffei. Scripta receptoria, 22. Bordeaux; Pessac: Éditions Ausonius, 2022.
- [BMCR] Pauline LeVen, Music and metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman thought. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends the death of upper class youths.
… 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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