Hodie est a.d. V Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 12 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
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- 300-meter stretch of aqueduct from late Second Temple period uncovered in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel
- Israel uncovers massive section of Second Temple-era Jerusalem aqueduct – The Jerusalem Post
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- 8,200-year-old water channel discovered in İzmir – Türkiye News
- Auctioneer exposed by BBC admits illegally selling rare ancient coins – BBC News
- Despotiko, a font of ancient treasures | eKathimerini.com
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Articles Published in the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology in 2022-2023
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- Herodes de Grote – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Treasure Act 1996 (as amended in 2023)
- Did He Die or Not? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hapax legomena (unique words) in the Hebrew Bible
- PaleoJudaica.com: Strange, Excavating the Land of Jesus (Eerdmans)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Nothing That Is Not Zeus
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- A Dream to Remember, Repeat – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- Roman Archaeology Blog: Reconstructed Roman Gateway Tells The Story Of Britain’s Invasion
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- The curious tale of the British Museum’s disappearing collection – YouTube
Book Reviews
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Dramatic Receptions
- The Odyssey: The Underworld – National Theatre, London – The Reviews Hub
- Review: THE ODYSSEY: THE UNDERWORLD, National Theatre
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- The Ancient Oracle of Delphi, Greece
- What Socrates Can Teach Us about Political Discourse | Merion West
- Ostia: Home to one of the greatest centers of post-Temple Jewry -opinion – The Jerusalem Post
- The birth of dialectics in Ancient Greece | Counterfire
- How Did Ancient Romans Build Aqueducts? | IFLScience
Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends an abundance of crops but the death of cattle.
… 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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