Month: December 2024

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN December 31, 2024

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French Egyptologists discover reburied 4,000-year-old sarcophagus in Lux – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-835350

Zahi Hawass anticipates a slew of major archaeological findings for 2025 – Egypt Independent

Zahi Hawass anticipates a slew of major archaeological findings for 2025

Lost Papyrus Discovered by Berlin Scholars Sheds Light on Jesus’s Early – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-835504

Head of ancient statue found in Libya’s Shahat | The Libya Observer
https://libyaobserver.ly/culture/head-ancient-statue-found-libyas-shahat

4th-century cancer talisman found in Pisidia Antiokheia, Turkey, as a fa – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-835357

Rare trove of ancient coins found in Israel: “Archaeological Hanukkah miracle” – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-coins-found-israel-archaeological-hanukkah-miracle/

Hundreds Of Ancient Coins Uncovered In The “City Of Palm Trees” – Greek Inscription Adds Mystery

Hundreds of Ancient Coins Uncovered in the “City of Palm Trees” – Greek Inscription Adds Mystery

A Roman Statuette from the 2nd Century Found in Braga Reveals a Case of Crouzon Syndrome in Antiquity

A Roman Statuette from the 2nd Century Found in Braga Reveals a Case of Crouzon Syndrome in Antiquity

Why Is Twitter Talking About Emily Wilson’s Translation Of ‘The Odyssey?’ The ‘Tell Me About A Complicated Man’ Controversy Explained | Know Your Meme
https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/why-is-twitter-talking-about-emily-wilsons-translation-of-the-odyssey-the-tell-me-about-a-complicated-man-controversy-explained

Emily Wilson’s “The Odyssey” Translation Discourse | Know Your Meme
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/emily-wilsons-the-odyssey-translation-discourse

Penn professor’s translation sees renewed interest, thanks to Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/movies/christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-penn-professor-20241230.html

The Guardian of Amphipolis: Full Documentary – GreekReporter.com

The Guardian of Amphipolis: Full Documentary

‘Kaos’: Netflix Cancels Jeff Goldblum’s Greek Mythology Comedy After One Season – IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64874208/

Conversation: What was damnatio memoriae? How to get cancelled in Ancient Rome – rogueclassicism

Conversation: What was damnatio memoriae? How to get cancelled in Ancient Rome

Everyday Orientalism’s Top 15 of 2024 – Everyday Orientalism

Everyday Orientalism’s Top 15 of 2024

PaleoJudaica.com: ANE & Mediterranean top ten discoveries 2024
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/ane-mediterranean-top-ten-discoveries.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Top ten 2024 discoveries in Egypt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/top-ten-2024-discoveries-in-egypt.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Bible Places Blog comprehensive “top ten” 2024 list
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-bible-places-blog-comprehensive-top.html

PaleoJudaica.com: PaleoJudaica’s top ten (with bonuses) for 2024
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/paleojudaicas-top-ten-with-bonuses-for.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Bible History Daily’s top ten 2024 stories
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/bible-history-dailys-top-ten-2024.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Christianity Today’s biblical archaeology top 10 for 2024
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/christianity-todays-biblical.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Top Haaretz biblical archaeology stories 2024
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/top-haaretz-biblical-archaeology.html

Nestor – January 2025 issue available
https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/pages/news/807-january-2025-issue-available

Vragen rond de jaarwisseling (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

Vragen rond de jaarwisseling (3)

The sculpture treasure of Tomis – Constanța | Spartokos read

Le trésor de sculpture de Tomis – Constanța

Roman Christmas Days VI: 25 December 336 – The Earliest Christmas Feast in Rome « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Roman Christmas Days VI: 25 December 336 – The Earliest Christmas Feast in Rome

2024 On The Sphinx | Sphinx

2024 On The Sphinx

My 2024 in Words – Noodlings

My 2024 in Words

My 2024 in Books – Noodlings

My 2024 in Books

missing Persephone, raging Demeter sought to exterminate humanity – purple motes

missing Persephone, raging Demeter sought to exterminate humanity

Celebrating Christmas and New Year’s in Athens, 1895-96: From the Letters of Nellie Reed, Student of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. | From the Archivist’s Notebook

Celebrating Christmas and New Year’s in Athens, 1895-96: From the Letters of Nellie Reed, Student of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Roman Christmas Days V: 25 December 333 – The Elevation of Constans to Caesar « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Roman Christmas Days V: 25 December 333 – The Elevation of Constans to Caesar

Searching for Severus: Did a Roman emperor visit Carlisle? – The Past

Searching for Severus: Did a Roman emperor visit Carlisle?

Aeschylus – The Historian’s Hut

Aeschylus

Skyrocketing prices are an age-old problem. Here’s how Roman emperors battled runaway inflation
https://theconversation.com/skyrocketing-prices-are-an-age-old-problem-heres-how-roman-emperors-battled-runaway-inflation-243921

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: NinMed: Medicine fit for a king
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/ninmed-medicine-fit-for-king.html

Alesia: Site of Caesar’s Greatest Victory – Time Travel Rome

Alesia: Site of Caesar’s Greatest Victory


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8. Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula: Urban Living in Rome with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill by The Classics Podcast

9. Claudius and Nero: Urban Living in Rome with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill by The Classics Podcast

Ancient Greece Declassified: 57 The Life of Plato w/ Robin Waterfield
https://greecepodcast.libsyn.com/57-the-life-of-plato-w-robin-waterfield
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How to celebrate New Year’s like ancient Rome – YouTube

Roman Daily Life Mod for Minecraft – YouTube

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UNC Greensboro Employment Opportunities | Assistant Professor
https://spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/30887

Conversation: What was damnatio memoriae? How to get cancelled in Ancient Rome

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Munzir Rosdi/Shutterstock

Michael Hanaghan, Australian Catholic University

People throughout history have deliberately tried to forget corrupt or criminal leaders who offend the public’s sense of morality or justice. The term damnatio memoriae (“condemnation of memory”) describes this kind of deliberate forgetting in ancient times.

Damnatio memoriae refers to the deliberate political erasure of a person following their political failure and, usually, their death. It’s like a kind of post-mortem cancel culture.

So where did this idea come from and what did it look like in Ancient Rome?

An old idea

The term was probably first coined in the title of a thesis written by two late 17th century philologists named Christoph Schreiter and Johann Heinrich Gerlach. But it described a much older practice.

In antiquity, erasure might include the removal of heads from statues or the deletion of names on inscriptions.

Several emperors – including Nero and Domitian – were subject to the kind of erasure practices encapsulated by the term damnatio memoriae.

But one particularly good example of damnatio memoriae involves Crispus, the first son of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity).

In 326CE, Constantine executed Crispus by – according to one version of the tale – “cold poison”. Constantine, in all likelihood, had discovered Crispus was having an affair with Constantine’s second wife, Fausta. This was especially scandalous because Fausta was Crispus’ own stepmother.

Fausta later died in an overheated bath. This may have been a botched abortion attempt or a deliberate albeit unusual method of execution.

Whatever the case, Crispus was killed and, in the aftermath, was subjected to damnatio memoriae.

A statue of Constantine is set against a blue sky.
Constantine wasn’t thrilled by the rumours about his wife and her stepson – his son from a previous marriage.
chrisdorney/Shutterstock

Crispus the Cancelled

At the time of his death, Crispus was an important political figure. A political deal had raised him to the position of Caesar (which meant “junior emperor” and, arguably, heir to the throne).

Crispus’ military campaigns had been successful and he’d been the subject of public praise. He had held the highest constitutional office – the consulship – on no less than three occasions.

This meant Crispus’ name had been written on stone all across the Roman empire, from official government proclamations to the more mundane milestones marking Roman roads.

In 2022, I visited the northern Italian city of Brescia, which was once a significant Roman town. As I wandered through the museum, admiring its rich collection, I made my way down some stairs and was stopped in my tracks by one such milestone.

A milestone shows the spot where Crispus' name has been rubbed out.
A line is clearly missing – this is where Crispus’ name would once have been.
Michael Hanaghan

A line is clearly missing in the picture between the words victori semper Aug (meaning “the eternally victorious senior emperor”) and the next line Fl Iul Constantio (the name “Flavius Julius Constantius”).

The museum’s plaque confirmed Crispus’ name had once appeared there alongside his fellow junior emperors – his half-brothers Constantine II and Constantius II.

It once read in full:

To our four masters, Flavius Constantine the Great, the eternally victorious senior emperor, and to our most noble junior emperors, Flavius Julius Crispus, Flavius Claudius Constantine, and Flavius Julius Constantius.

The gap where Flavius Julius Cripus was once written is quite obvious – and that is really the point.

This is not a secret erasure of someone’s name, but a public display of its removal.

It served as a powerful reminder of the ongoing stigma that should be associated with Crispus’ name for all Romans making their way along the road in the years that followed.

At the same time, this erasure directly challenged Crispus’ importance and relevancy to history by removing a record of his existence, and in this particular case, of his prominence as a junior emperor.

The name of Crispus’ half-brother Constantine II was also chiselled away from this milestone, almost certainly after he was killed in a civil war against his younger brother Constans in the year 340.

How was damnatio memoriae done?

It was once assumed damnatio memoriae must have been ordered and organised. In recent years, however, scholars have come to understand the deliberate erasure of names as a far more organic and localised process.

Centuries before Crispus, inscriptions referring to Julius Caesar’s close confidant, Marc Antony, had been similarly deleted and removed. After Caesar’s death, Marc Antony had taken up with Caesar’s ex (Cleopatra) and fallen out spectacularly with Caesar’s heir (Octavian, who would soon rename himself Augustus).

A painting titled The Death of Mark Antony with Cleopatra.
Marc Antony – friend of Caesar, lover of Cleopatra – was subjected to damnatio memoriae after he died, following defeat in war by Augustus.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Marc Antony was subjected to damnatio memoriae after losing his war against Augustus, but not all mentions of his name were erased – many, including some that
celebrate Antony’s sexual prowess, remain.

Prominent women could also be subject to this kind of memory erasure.

Messalina, the famously promiscuous second wife of Claudius, was the subject of a senatorial decree after her death that sought to erase her name and even ban its mention. Yet inscriptions referring to Messalina nevertheless remain.

But even if we don’t know exactly how damnatio memoriae was done, or how consistently it was applied, we do know it happened.

In the case of the milestone I saw in Brescia, we can only really speculate as to why Crispus’ name was removed from this one in particular. Maybe it was in a prominent position where it gained too much attention, or perhaps there was a localised push to remove his name.

Whatever the case, this milestone is physical evidence for something that we all instinctively do when a politician has failed in controversial, embarrassing or upsetting circumstances: we do our best to forget them.The Conversation

Michael Hanaghan, Senior Research Fellow in Latin Christianity in Late Antiquity, Australian Catholic University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN December 30, 2024

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Like your pet more than people? So did some of the Greco-Romans
https://theconversation.com/like-your-pet-more-than-people-so-did-some-of-the-greco-romans-236592

Ancient Greeks Descend from the Pontic Steppe, New Study Claims – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Greeks Descend from the Pontic Steppe, New Study Claims

What was damnatio memoriae? How to get cancelled in Ancient Rome
https://theconversation.com/what-was-damnatio-memoriae-how-to-get-cancelled-in-ancient-rome-242193

10 stunning ancient Egyptian discoveries made in 2024, from hidden temples to hallucinogenic rituals | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/10-stunning-ancient-egyptian-discoveries-from-hidden-temples-to-hallucinogenic-rituals

Roman-era stadium in Bolu, Turkey illuminated following excavations – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-835263

Archaeologists find lavish banquet frescoes in Pompeii’s newly discovere – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-835266

2,000-year-old RSVP: A birthday invitation from the Roman frontier that has the earliest known Latin written by a woman | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-000-year-old-rsvp-a-birthday-invitation-from-the-roman-frontier-that-has-the-earliest-known-latin-written-by-a-woman

160 Coins Minted by Hasmonean King Discovered on Hanukkah | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | David Israel | 29 Kislev 5785 – Monday, December 30, 2024 | JewishPress.com

160 Coins Minted by Hasmonean King Discovered on Hanukkah

Archaeologists discovered ancient royal Hasmonean coins in Israel – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-835380

How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04161-z

A Roman Statuette from the 2nd Century Found in Braga Reveals a Case of Crouzon Syndrome in Antiquity

A Roman Statuette from the 2nd Century Found in Braga Reveals a Case of Crouzon Syndrome in Antiquity

4th-century cancer talisman found in Pisidia Antiokheia, Turkey, as a fa – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-835357

Ninth legion’s ‘lost battle’ found, claims Roman expert
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dl99d69x9o

Interpol database on stolen Cypriot antiquities to be updated | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/12/30/interpol-database-on-stolen-cypriot-antiquities-to-be-updated

How to Build an Empire: Slavery in Ancient Rome – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2024-12-30/ty-article/how-to-build-an-empire-slavery-in-ancient-rome/00000194-177e-dc0f-abdc-1f7e5bfc0000

Boris Johnson Slams ‘Absurd’ Trigger Warning For Homer

Boris Johnson Slams ‘Absurd’ Trigger Warning for Homer

Schinas Urges Starmer To Return Parthenon Sculptures As Gesture Of EU Reconciliation

Schinas Urges Starmer to Return Parthenon Sculptures as Gesture of EU Reconciliation

75 years of FIEC – lecture recordings – The Classical Association of Canada

75 years of FIEC – lecture recordings

Canadian Institute in Greece Summer Program – Instructors (Deadline January 31) – The Classical Association of Canada

Canadian Institute in Greece Summer Program – Instructors (Deadline January 31)

The Practical Case for Studying Latin – Antigone

The Practical Case for Studying Latin

Ps. 97/96:5 in the Vulgate – “terrae” or “terra”? – Roger Pearse

Ps. 97/96:5 in the Vulgate – “terrae” or “terra”?

Blogs of the Year 2024 | Sphinx

Blogs of the Year 2024

My 2024 in Writing – Noodlings

My 2024 in Writing

Laudator Temporis Acti: Epitaph of Fabia Merope
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/epitaph-of-fabia-merope.html

Reviewing “The Return” and Reading the “Odyssey”
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/reviewing-the-return-and-reading?publication_id=1870284&post_id=153809435&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN December 29, 2024

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Could returning the Elgin Marbles aid Starmer’s Brexit reset?

Could returning the Elgin Marbles aid Starmer’s Brexit reset?

Keir Starmer must return Elgin Marbles for Brussels reset, ex-EU chief says
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/28/starmer-must-return-elgin-marbles-for-brussels-reset/

Nikolaos Laskaris and the only Aphrodite of his life | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1257294/nikolaos-laskaris-and-the-only-aphrodite-of-his-life/

Ancient Greek Curse Pot Highlights Diverse Athenian Society

Ancient Greek Curse Pot Highlights Diverse Athenian Society

How Well Known Virgil Was In The Roman Empire & Why It Is Important In Gladiator 2, Explained
https://screenrant.com/how-well-known-virgil-roman-empire-gladiator-2-explained/

The Magical Ancient Greek Temple of Poseidon at Sounion – GreekReporter.com

The Magical Ancient Greek Temple of Poseidon at Sounion

2000-Year-Old Roman Bath Restored in Ancient City of Ephesus – GreekReporter.com

2000-Year-Old Roman Bath Restored in Ancient City of Ephesus

Guide to the Classics: Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War

Bronze Age Minoan Ingots Are Evidence of Ancient Trade Links – GreekReporter.com

Bronze Age Minoan Ingots Are Evidence of Ancient Trade Links

The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe – GreekReporter.com

The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe

What Elon Musk gets wrong about the Roman Empire – The Spectator World

What Elon Musk gets wrong about the Roman Empire

University chiefs issue trigger warning for undergraduates studying Greek mythology warning they may find it ‘uncomfortable and challenging’ – as former Prime Minister Boris Johnson slams ‘absurd’ move | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14232627/University-chiefs-issue-trigger-warning-undergraduates-studying-Greek-mythology-warning-uncomfortable-challenging-former-Prime-Minister-Boris-Johnson-slams-absurd-move.html

Volunteers mark finish of 5-year Roman mosaic endeavour
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/volunteers-mark-finish-of-5-year-roman-mosaic-endeavour-s5qwnsh7r

Ancient Greeks would not recognise our ‘democracy’ – they’d see an ‘oligarchy’
https://theconversation.com/ancient-greeks-would-not-recognise-our-democracy-theyd-see-an-oligarchy-60277

Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
https://www.thecollector.com/lost-battlefield-alexander-the-great-turkiye/

What Witches From Ancient Greece Tell Us About Modern Witchcraft – GreekReporter.com

What Witches From Ancient Greece Tell Us About Modern Witchcraft

Roman fort revealed in Pembrokeshire? – The Past

Roman fort revealed in Pembrokeshire?

Chalke Valley’s first-known Roman villa revealed – The Past

Chalke Valley’s first-known Roman villa revealed

Section of Watling Street uncovered in London – The Past

Section of Watling Street uncovered in London

Digital data: Fishbourne Roman Palace   – The Past

Digital data: Fishbourne Roman Palace  

Spencer Alley: Roman Leavings
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2024/12/roman-leavings.html

Cornelis de Bruijn (13) Het einde – Mainzer Beobachter

Cornelis de Bruijn (13) Het einde

Roman Times: Wall color as an indication of wealth in Pompeii
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/12/wall-color-as-indication-of-wealth-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Southern Cappadocia from Prehistory to Byzantine Times: 3rd IFEA Archaeology Meeting, Istanbul, November 8-9, 2012
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/la-cappadoce-meridionale-de-la.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hittitology today: Studies on Hittite and Neo-Hittite Anatolia in Honor of Emmanuel Laroche’s 100th Birthday : 5e Rencontres d’archéologie de l’IFEA, Istanbul 21-22 novembre 2014
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/hittitology-today-studies-on-hittite.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Roman Lower Danube Frontier
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-roman-lower-danube-frontier.html

Roman Gods & Goddesses: The Most Important Deities Of Ancient Rome | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/roman-gods-goddesses-who-religion-mythology-guide/

PaleoJudaica.com: On Shikhin and its pottery works
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/on-shikhin-and-its-pottery-works.html

Roman Christmas Days IV: 25 December 323 – CTh XVI.2.5 « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Roman Christmas Days IV: 25 December 323 – CTh XVI.2.5

Laudator Temporis Acti: Credo
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/credo.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The High Cost of Housing
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-high-cost-of-housing.html

explorator 27.09 – Explorator

explorator 27.09


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Anima Latina 29.12.2024 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2024/12/anima-latina-29-12-2024.html

Emperor Constantine – The Ancients | Acast

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Augustus Fights in Spain, Thrace, Yemen, Africa – Roman Empire DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN December 27, 2024

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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Cast: Who Is Playing Who? | Den of Geek

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Cast: Who Is Playing Who?

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey:’ Cast, Release Date and More
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-cast-release-date-1236260285/

Nile rats and Black Death: Mummy reveals bubonic plague in Egypt 3,290 y – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-834951

Province of Granada was being exploited for copper 4,000-years-ago
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/12/province-of-granada-was-being-exploited-for-copper-4000-years-ago/154205

Ankara police recovers 1,500-years-old priest statue, 7 years after muse – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-835089

Stunning Roman-era gold and onyx ring featuring Venus Victrix found in F – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-835090

Two Looters of Ancient Greek and Roman Artifacts Arrested in Egypt – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/two-looters-of-ancient-greek-and-roman-artifacts-arrested-in-egypt/

Divers loot hundreds of Greek, Roman artifacts off Alexandria’s coast – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-835088

Ancient lamp found could prove Jews were always in Jerusalem – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-834956

Izmir’s ancient theater set to become Türkiye’s ‘Colosseum’ | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/izmirs-ancient-theater-set-to-become-turkiyes-colosseum/news

70-acres Roman bath complex restored in Ephesus, Turkey – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-835093

Chicken Bones Reveal Exact Date of Ancient Greek City’s Destruction – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2024/12/27/destruction-ancient-greek-city-scythopolis/

Alexander the Great’s Most Pivotal Battlefield Has Finally Been Identified
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alexander-the-great-battle-of-granicus-site-found-2593832

The birth of Jesus would probably have been forgotten – if it wasn’t for a plague | Jonathan Kennedy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/25/birth-jesus-plague-roman-empire-christianity

December 27, 537: The Grand Opening of Hagia Sophia – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2024/12/27/grand-opening-hagia-sophia/

Colorful murals discovered in Pompeii, photos show | Centre Daily Times
https://www.centredaily.com/news/nation-world/world/article297546563.html

The Hermes Revelation: A Monumental Archaeological Discovery of 2024 – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2024/12/27/statue-greek-god-hermes-bulgaria-roman-sewer/

Cornelis de Bruijn (9) Perzië – Mainzer Beobachter

Cornelis de Bruijn (9) Perzië

Cornelis de Bruijn (10) Persepolis – Mainzer Beobachter

Cornelis de Bruijn (10) Persepolis

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions Zotero Library
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/corpus-of-south-arabian-inscriptions.html

Spencer Alley: Headless Romans
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2024/12/headless-romans.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: New Map of the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-map-of-coin-hoards-of-roman-empire.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Birds, Benefactors of Mankind
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/birds-benefactors-of-mankind.html

Roman Christmas Days II: 25 December 274 – Aurelian’s Sun Temple « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Roman Christmas Days II: 25 December 274 – Aurelian’s Sun Temple


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Stream The Roads to Rome by When in Rome | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/wheninromepodcast/the-roads-to-rome

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA337 – Legions and Foederati
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa337-legions-and-foederati
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Jupiter’s Moons & Their Myths – YouTube

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Charred woods of the pre-alpine Gallo-Roman settlement of the col d’Adon (Les Mujouls, Alpes-Maritimes, France): Identification, architectural function, sanitary state and environmental context – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X24005583