A bit of catching up …
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LEGENDA
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Talk about striking gold! Bathroom fitter discovers 50 Roman coins in a field in Leicestershire – and they could be worth £1,500 | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14362997/Bathroom-fitter-discovers-Roman-coins-field-Leicestershire.html
Skeletons From Ancient Santorini Volcano Eruption Found in Turkey – GreekReporter.com
Skeletons From Ancient Santorini Volcano Eruption Found in Turkey
Roman-era treasures seized in Aydın home raid in western Türkiye | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/roman-era-treasures-seized-in-aydin-home-raid-in-western-turkiye/news
AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano – Newsday
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/britain-herculaneum-scrolls-ai-vesuvius-oxford-b75705
Volcano-scorched Roman scroll is read for the first time in 2000 years | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2466940-volcano-scorched-roman-scroll-is-read-for-the-first-time-in-2000-years/
Peer inside the Herculaneum scroll for the first time in 2,000 years: Scientists use AI to virtually unfurl a ‘badly burnt’ manuscript that was charred during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14362767/Herculaneum-scroll-AI-burnt-Mount-Vesuvius.html
AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption | Science | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/05/ai-helps-researchers-read-ancient-scroll-burned-to-a-crisp-in-vesuvius-eruption
First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yvrq7dyg6o
Scientists review Arabic manuscript containing lost works of Apollonius and shed light on Islamic scientific tradition
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-scientists-arabic-manuscript-lost-apollonius.html
Oldest Known Evidence of Lead Pollution Found in Ancient Greece | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oldest-known-evidence-of-lead-pollution-found-in-ancient-greece-180985989/
An experiment of Athenian democracy | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1260347/an-experiment-of-athenian-democracy/
Painted Etruscan Tomb Discovered in Necropolis in Lazio, Italy – GreekReporter.com
Painted Etruscan Tomb Discovered in Necropolis in Lazio, Italy
Archaeologists uncover burial site in Negev Highlands – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-840832
How Rome built a 37-meter-high, Nubian-style pyramid in 15 BCE – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840593
His father used diplomacy, he conquered the world: How Alexander became – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840592
Turkey hands over 152 illegally smuggled artifacts to Egypt – Egypt Independent
Stern-faced Roman Medusa mask mold discovered in Sicily’s Finziade – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840589
A Five-Pound Hunk of the World’s Oldest Known Synthesized Pigment Was Found in Nero’s Palace | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-five-pound-hunk-of-the-worlds-oldest-known-synthesized-pigment-was-found-in-neros-palace-180985974/
New evidence suggests Funerary Palaces in the southern Levant originated in the north
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-evidence-funerary-palaces-southern-levant.html
Ancient evidence of women slave trade exposed in southern Israel
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/02/05/2500-years-old-dig-sheds-light-onto-horror-of-human-trafficking/
New Discoveries Shed Light on the Ancient Wonders of Pompei – UNESCO World Heritage Centre
https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2741
How AI imagery could be used to develop fake archaeology
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-ai-imagery-fake-archaeology.html
Researchers Examine 2400-Year-Old Quivers, Reveals Ancient Scythians Used Human Skin for Leather – Knewz
https://knewz.com/world/researchers-examine-2400-year-old-quivers-reveals-ancient-scythians-used-human-skin-for-leather/
Ancient herald school in Roman Forum opens to public after major restoration | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/02/05/ancient-herald-school-in-roman-forum-opens-to-public-after-major-restoration
Xenophon’s Ten Thousand: Ancient Greece’s Greatest Escape – GreekReporter.com
Missing link in Indo-European languages’ history found
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-link-indo-european-languages-history.html
In Pompeii, increased tourist flows do not depend on new excavations or reopening of domus: a new study
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/museums/in-pompeii-increased-tourist-flows-do-not-depend-on-new-excavations-or-reopening-of-domus-a-new-study
Why Is There an Ancient Rome Researcher on Musk’s DOGE Staff?
Why Is There an Ancient Rome Researcher on Musk’s DOGE Staff?
Donald Gordon obituary | Roman Britain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/04/donald-gordon-obituary
Classics Department Could be History – The Observer
Home | Substack
https://substack.com/home/post/p-156168957
Ilimilku of Shuban—Scribe Of The Ancient Kingdom of Ugarit – The Historian’s Hut
Epicurus – The Historian’s Hut
Pallas And Arachne, Designed By Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (c. 1595–1676) And Etched By Stefano della Bella (c. 1610–1664) – The Historian’s Hut
Narrative Analogy in the David Story | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/narrative-analogy-david-story
Passion for ancient past drives grad student’s present success – The Brock News
Passion for ancient past drives grad student’s present success
It was never a Roman salute | The Butler Collegian
WC Theatre to present the Greek tragedy ‘Antigone’ | The Highland County Press
https://highlandcountypress.com/education/wc-theatre-present-greek-tragedy-antigone#gsc.tab=0
Why Trump’s rage defies historical and literary comparisons, according to a classics expert
https://theconversation.com/why-trumps-rage-defies-historical-and-literary-comparisons-according-to-a-classics-expert-248510
Why Hitchens Wanted to Return the Parthenon Marbles – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/02/why-hitchens-wanted-return-parthenon-marbles/681563/
Laudator Temporis Acti: Humanitas
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/humanitas.html
Laudator Temporis Acti: Yes
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/yes.html
Laudator Temporis Acti: A List of Body Parts
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-list-of-body-parts.html
Reviewing Pseudoarchaeology (Part 2) | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
PaleoJudaica.com: Phoenician inscription recovered in IAA underwater survey
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/phoenician-inscription-recovered-in-iaa.html
PaleoJudaica.com: The Musk Foundation is funding the Vesuvius Project
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-musk-foundation-is-funding-vesuvius.html
Update (February 5th, 2025) – Tales of Times Forgotten
A Mosaic from Thabraca with a Writer at a Desk | Variant Readings
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: From the Prehistory of Upper Mesopotamia to the Bronze and Iron Age Societies of the Levant. Volume 1. Proceedings of the 5th “Broadening Horizons” Conference (Udine 5-8 June 2017)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/from-prehistory-of-upper-mesopotamia-to.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Imperial Connections. Interactions and Expansion from Assyria to the Roman Period. Volume 2. Proceedings of the 5th “Broadening Horizons” Conference (Udine 5-8 June 2017)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/imperial-connections-interactions-and.html
How to Eat | Princeton University Press
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691256993/how-to-eat
Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE | Spartokos a lu
Classical controversies: reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity in the twenty-first century – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Classical controversies: reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity in the twenty-first century
The Oxford handbook of Palmyra – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
LRCW 6: late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archaeometry. Land and sea: pottery routes – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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VIDENDA
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Spotlight Lecture: Ancient Egyptian Cancer: Disease, Treatment and Evolutionary Perspective – YouTube
The “right” version of Greek Myth (w Natalie Haynes) – YouTube
What Graham Hancock Wants You to Ignore: Real Archaeology in the Ice Age – YouTube
Conjuring Ghosts In Ancient Mesopotamia (w Irving Finkel) – YouTube
See inside the circus school that trained heralds to entertain Rome’s emperors – YouTube
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient Greek History) – Job Opportunities – University of Cambridge
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48963/
Music, Dance, and Soundscapes in the World of Alexander the Great | Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale
Music, Dance, and Soundscapes in the World of Alexander the Great
Data Driven Classics: Interdisciplinary Connections through Shared Data | King’s College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/data-driven-classics-interdisciplinary-connections-through-shared-data-workshop
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