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The Megalithic ‘Dragon Houses’ on a Greek Island That No One Can Explain

The Megalithic ‘Dragon Houses’ on a Greek Island That No One Can Explain

Rare ancient Roman ring unearthed in Lincolnshire ditch | Hilton Head Island Packet
https://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/world/article306426736.html

[AI?]Banana traces in ancient teeth reshape Iron Age trade map – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854123

Small objects from 3300 years ago had only been found in the wreck of the Uluburun, now also in a tomb in Cyprus

Small objects from 3300 years ago had only been found in the wreck of the Uluburun, now also in a tomb in Cyprus

[AI?]Christian chapel, Saint Salome inscriptions found in Judean cave – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854124

Roman Battlefield Unearthed Near Vienna – Biblical Archaeology Society

Roman Battlefield Unearthed Near Vienna

Who really led the Bar Kochba revolt? New research sheds light on rebellion’s enigmas | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/who-really-led-the-bar-kochba-revolt-new-research-sheds-light-on-rebellions-enigmas

Greco-Roman Mosaic Uncovered In Illegal Dig Near Zile Castle

Greco-Roman Mosaic Uncovered in Illegal Dig Near Zile Castle

[AI?]Roman pig jaw burial found at Legio—first evidence in the Levant – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854127

Roman antiquities found at the bottom of a garden, including tombstone of freed slave, go under the hammer | Irish Independent

‘Very rare’ African ebony figurines found in 1,500-year-old Christian burials in Israeli desert | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/very-rare-african-ebony-figurines-found-in-1-500-year-old-christian-burials-in-israeli-desert

Archaeologists discover new clues of cave dwelling in western Iran – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/513112/Archaeologists-discover-new-clues-of-cave-dwelling-in-western

Joe Rogan humiliates archaeologist in blistering showdown over Egyptian pyramid’s secret chambers: ‘Worst guest ever!’ | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14716701/Joe-Rogan-humiliates-archaeologist-called-bulls-Egyptian-pyramid-discovery-Worst-guest-ever.html

Prosecutor orders investigation into Acropolis drone light show | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1269896/culture-ministry-to-file-complaint-over-drone-display-over-acropolis/

Laudator Temporis Acti: Don’t Be a Coward
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/dont-be-coward.html

(12) Fighting the good fight – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/fighting-the-good-fight?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=163709182&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Blog #108: Everyday Orientalism with Katherine Blouin – Peopling the Past

Blog #108: Everyday Orientalism with Katherine Blouin

PaleoJudaica.com: Matthew Goff honored
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/matthew-goff-honored.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the leaders of the Bar Kokhba Revolt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/on-leaders-of-bar-kokhba-revolt.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Late-antique African figurines excavated in Negev
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/late-antique-african-figurines.html

Vienne – Mainzer Beobachter

Vienne

The Memory Collective – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

The Memory Collective

GCPS educators recognized by the American Classical League | News Details
https://www.gcpsk12.org/news-details/~board/news-releases/post/gcps-educators-recognized-by-the-american-classical-league

Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual)

Did Julius Caesar Burn Down the Library of Alexandria? – Bad Ancient
https://www.badancient.com/claims/julius-caesar-burn-library-of-alexandria/

Lessons from the Roman Empire about the danger of luxury – Big Think
https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/lessons-roman-empire-danger-luxury/

What Was a Colosseum Made of Shipping Containers Doing in the Port of Naples? | Collater.al
https://www.collater.al/en/coppa-pizzeria-daniele-sigalot-napoli-performance-art/

When Dionysus Lands on Erin: Greek Tragedy on Irish Grounds – Leiden University
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/06/when-dionysus-lands-on-erin-greek-tragedy-on-irish-grounds

Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Link&utm_campaign=New+Cambridge+Alert+-+Articles&WT.mc_id=New+Cambridge+Alert+-+Articles

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Animal Sacrifice and the Greek Gods – JSTOR Daily

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Animal Sacrifice and the Greek Gods

Cimetière de l’époque romaine de Frontovoe 3 au sud-ouest de la Crimée : en trois parties. Partie 2-3, | Spartokos a lu

Cimetière de l’époque romaine de Frontovoe 3 au sud-ouest de la Crimée : en trois parties. Partie 2-3,

Dinámicas históricas, religiosas e iconográficas en el norte de África – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Dinámicas históricas, religiosas e iconográficas en el norte de África

Horace by Peter Stothard: Plump, playboy poet who was in love with wine and the sunshine | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-14715629/Horace-Peter-Stothard-ancient-rome-history-review.html
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A Long & Storied (Mythical) Tale of Tyranny, Revisiting Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound – Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean | Podcast on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5AVl8ee3zvUqcrbgstObvY

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA357 – What was the least influential weapon on the ancient battlefield?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa357-what-was-the-least-influential-weapon-on-the-ancient-battlefield
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(126) Snitches get stitches – YouTube

(126) Ancient Greek Hours, NOT Roman: Koine’s Surprising Way To Tell Time – YouTube

(126) Sacred Band of Thebes #shorts #fyp #thebes #sacredband #egypt #documentary #history #ancient #greece – YouTube

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Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Roman Archaeology at University of Birmingham
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/images/employer-logos/medium/45.gif?1532708452

War in the Ancient World International Conference (WAWIC) 2025 | College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences | UMN Duluth
https://cahss.d.umn.edu/departments/history-political-science-international-studies/history/wawic

Reconstructing a timber and mudbrick building at Malia

Reconstructing a timber and mudbrick building at Malia

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Archaeologists Reveal Ancient Throne Room Relief Depicting King and Gods – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-ninevah-north-palace-kuyunjik-assyrian-king-relief-2072253

De Re Coquinaria: 1,500-year-old cookbook reveals secrets of ancient Roman society | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/food-and-drink/ancient-roman-cookbook-recipes-b2750947.html

Massive stone carving of Assyrian king surrounded by gods discovered in Iraq | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/quite-enigmatic-rare-stone-carving-of-assyrian-king-surrounded-by-gods-discovered-in-iraq

Tomb thought to hold Alexander the Great’s father actually found to contain remains of young woman and six infants | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/alexander-the-great-tomb-woman-greece-aigai-b2751516.html

Macedonian Tomb Mystery Deepens: Where Is King Philip II Buried? – GreekReporter.com

Macedonian Tomb Mystery Deepens: Where Is King Philip II Buried?

African figurines found in Israel reveal unexpected cultural connections
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/05/african-figurines-found-in-israel-reveal-unexpected-cultural-connections/155233

[AI?]African figurines illuminate Early Christian life in the Negev, Israel – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854075

[AI?]Mini black juglets reveal Iron Age burial in Jerusalem cemetery – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854082

Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work

Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work

Nenikikamen: Cinema’s First Epic in Ancient Greek and Old Persian – GreekReporter.com

Nenikikamen: Cinema’s First Epic in Ancient Greek and Old Persian

Rare ancient Roman ring unearthed in Lincolnshire ditch | Bellingham Herald
https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article306426736.html

130 years of the Austrian excavation at Ephesos
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/media/news-archive/news-detail/130-jahre-oesterreichische-grabung-ephesos

Did British Soldiers Plunder Greece’s Amphipolis Tomb in 1916? – GreekReporter.com

Did British Soldiers Plunder Greece’s Amphipolis Tomb in 1916?

Greece to Restore the Monumental Sculpture of the Lion of Amphipolis – GreekReporter.com

Greece to Restore the Monumental Sculpture of the Lion of Amphipolis

Hispania, the engine of Roman imperial wealth: a fresh look at the economy of antiquity – Current events – University of Barcelona
https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/economia-hispania

The Story Behind the “Greek Foot” and Its Medical Explanation – GreekReporter.com

The Story Behind the “Greek Foot” and Its Medical Explanation

Kourion archaeological site visitor centre closes for renovation until December 2025 | in-cyprus.com

Kourion archaeological site visitor centre to close for seven months

Kathleen Coleman awarded new Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education  — Harvard Gazette

Kathleen Coleman awarded new Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education 

The Joys of Discovering the Roman Underground, From the Colosseum to What’s Beneath the Trevi Foundation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-joys-of-discovering-the-roman-underground-from-the-colosseum-to-whats-beneath-the-trevi-foundation-180986626/

How Trump’s “Emergency” Powers Could Become Permanent | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/195218/trump-emergency-powers-become-permanent

A Strange Loop’s John-Andrew Morrison Will Star in Off-Broadway Revival of Medea of the Laundromat | Playbill
https://playbill.com/article/a-strange-loops-john-andrew-morrison-will-star-in-off-broadway-revival-of-medea-of-the-laundromat

Medea UK Premiere at The Coronet Theatre Reimagines Euripides Through a Japanese Lens – Theatre Weekly

Medea UK Premiere at The Coronet Theatre Reimagines Euripides Through a Japanese Lens

Archaeologist Panos Valavanis dies at 71

Archaeologist Panos Valavanis dies at 71

Amathous-West Terrace Exploration Project

Amathous-West Terrace Exploration Project

Metal Guru | Sphinx

Metal Guru

A Room of One’s Own? | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/a-room-of-ones-own-blog-post

Poëzie: Een zwaan – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Een zwaan

De antieke watermolen – Mainzer Beobachter

De antieke watermolen

Laudator Temporis Acti: Abstract Gods
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/abstract-gods.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Opposites
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/opposites.html

Three Things Thursday: On Traveling | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Three Things Thursday: On Traveling

Act 2 Scene 4 of the second part of ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ by Christopher Marlowe (Greek iambic trimeters) | Permessus

Act 2 Scene 4 of the second part of ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ by Christopher Marlowe (Greek iambic trimeters)

PaleoJudaica.com: Lag B’Omer 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/lag-bomer-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Guide to ethnographic passages by Diodoros of Sicily
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/guide-to-ethnographic-passages-by.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Greek Ezekiel papyrus on display in Madrid
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/greek-ezekiel-papyrus-on-display-in.html

(12) Pasts Imperfect (5.15.25)
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-51525?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=342873&post_id=162641918&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(12) ANE Today, 15 May 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-15-may-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=163560682&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

AWOL – TJenseits von Pharsalos: Untersuchungen zu Heterotopie und Dialogizität in Lucans Bellum Civile
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/jenseits-von-pharsalos-untersuchungen.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Death Imagined: Ancient Perceptions of Death and Dying
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/death-imagined-ancient-perceptions-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History: Approaches and Case Studies
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/harnessing-horses-from-prehistory-to.html

Working in Ancient Greece in the Archaic and Classical Periods (8th–4th Centuries BC) I | Spartokos read

Travailler en Grèce ancienne aux époques archaïque et classique (VIIIe – IVe siècles av. n.è.) I

Freedom and power in classical Athens – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Freedom and power in classical Athens

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Episode 161 – ¿Por Qué No Los Dos? – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Episode 161 – ¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

The Last Roman Emperors – The Ancients | Acast

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(100) Diane Rayor | Translating Sappho and Tragedy – YouTube

(100) “Musical” Logic in Plato’s Creation Myths | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | Oliver Whetstone – YouTube

(100) FROGS Summary (Aristophanes Ancient Greek Comedy) – YouTube

(101) Zahi Hawass on Joe Rogan? Show me the photos! Flint Dibble reaction – YouTube

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From Archaeology to Art Market, Transforming Provenance Research: Ten Years of Unveiling Cyrenaican Funerary Sculptures – British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies

From Archaeology to Art Market, Transforming Provenance Research: Ten Years of Unveiling Cyrenaican Funerary Sculptures

The Towers and the “Cyclopean” Stone World of the Western Mediterranean Islands in the Bronze Age | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/towers-and-cyclopean-stone-world-western-mediterranean-islands-bronze-age-0

The 42nd Annual Walton Lecture on Byzantium as Roman, Greek and Christian, May 20 – The National Herald

The 42nd Annual Walton Lecture on Byzantium as Roman, Greek and Christian, May 20

Head of the John Miller Burnam, UCL Classics Librarian Job Details | University of Cincinnati
https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Head-of-the-John-Miller-Burnam%2C-UCL-Classics-Librarian-OH-45201/1281640300/

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Relief of King Ashurbanipal With Assyrian Gods Unearthed in Ancient Nineveh – GreekReporter.com

Relief of King Ashurbanipal With Assyrian Gods Unearthed in Ancient Nineveh

[AI?]Excavation in Paros reveals unfinished Aphrodite sculptures – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-853889

[AI?]Earthquake reveals Roman theater beneath Croatian townhall – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-853888

A gladiator helmet valued at 3 million euros was returned to Bulgaria ᐉ News from Fakti.bg – Bulgaria | ФАКТИ.БГ
https://fakti.bg/en/bulgaria/971028-varnaha-na-balgaria-gladiatorski-shlem-koito-se-ocenava-na-3-mln-evro

Ancient 1,500-Year-Old African Figurines Unearthed in Israel’s Negev Desert | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | David Israel | 16 Iyyar 5785 – Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | JewishPress.com
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/ancient-1500-year-old-african-figurines-unearthed-in-israels-negev-desert/2025/05/14/

City of David ancient road connecting ancient Mikveh to Temple unveiled – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-853835

How the humble chestnut traced the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250513-what-chestnuts-reveal-about-the-roman-empire

Burgh Castle Roman fort named among UK’s best castles | Great Yarmouth Mercury
https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/25160467.burgh-castle-roman-fort-named-among-uks-best-castles/

Hagia Sophia restoration to protect 1,500-year-old Unesco ‘masterpiece’ | Turkey | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/14/hagia-sophia-restoration-works-istanbul-earthquakes

Step Into a Painstakingly Recreated 3D Model of the Parthenon, Now Restored to Its Ancient Glory
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/step-into-painstakingly-recreated-3d-model-parthenon-now-restored-to-its-ancient-glory-180986621/

De Re Coquinaria: 1,500-year-old cookbook reveals secrets of ancient Roman society | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/ancient-roman-cookbook-recipes-b2750947.html

Ancient Roman Epitaphs Show How Much They Loved Their Dogs

Ancient Roman Epitaphs Show That Family Dogs Were Deeply Loved Even Thousands of Years Ago

Were the Sea Peoples Greeks Who Returned From the Trojan War to Find Ruin? – GreekReporter.com

Were the Sea Peoples Greeks Who Returned From the Trojan War to Find Ruin?

Wood from India, made in Africa: 6th century figurines found in Christian tombs in Israel | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/wood-from-india-made-in-africa-6th-century-figurines-found-in-christian-tombs-in-israel/

US Repatriates Ancient Artifacts to Egypt, Among Them Gold Masks – GreekReporter.com

US Repatriates Ancient Artifacts to Egypt, Among Them Gold Masks

By Shoving a Bed Frame Against the Door, This Pompeii Family Tried to Survive Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/by-shoving-a-bed-frame-against-the-door-this-pompeii-family-tried-to-survive-mount-vesuvius-eruption-180986608/

New Study Reconstructs Sound of Ancient Greek Music with Exact Tuning and Intonation – GreekReporter.com

New Study Reconstructs Sound of Ancient Greek Music with Exact Tuning and Intonation

This piece of LEGO antiquity takes Ideas back 2,000 years

This piece of LEGO antiquity takes Ideas back 2,000 years

(12) drinking beer with crazy straws and enslaved readers as the AI of antiquity
https://donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/drinking-beer-with-crazy-straws-and?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2108238&post_id=163425937&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(12) Florals? For Spring? – cosi’s odyssey
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/florals-for-spring?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=991656&post_id=162749305&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Can China rescue the classics? – UnHerd
https://unherd.com/2025/05/can-china-rescue-the-classics/

Oedipus at Colonus/Electra review – a double shot of Sophocles in Sicily | Theatre | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/may/14/oedipus-at-colonus-electra-review-greek-theatre-syracuse-sicily

I Was Already Pumped For The Odyssey, But This Early Insight Into Christopher Nolan’s Production Has Managed To Raise My Expectations
https://screenrant.com/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-production-update-raise-expectations/

Reviving Aristophanes at Pompeii
https://www.ilmattino.it/AMP/en/reviving_aristophanes_at_pompeii-8835777.html

Ancient Greco-Roman Sculptures Featured Colors—And Scents
https://www.history.com/articles/ancient-greek-roman-statues-color-scents

Marcus Tullius Cicero – The Historian’s Hut

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Apollo And The Dragon Python, designed by Nicolas Bertin (1668-1736) and Robert Bonnart (1652-1729+) – The Historian’s Hut

Apollo And The Dragon Python, designed by Nicolas Bertin (1668-1736) and Robert Bonnart (1652-1729+)

Laudator Temporis Acti: Inborn Traits
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/inborn-traits.html

Hannibal en hannibalisme aan de Rhône – Mainzer Beobachter

Hannibal en hannibalisme aan de Rhône

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Treasure Hoard Unearthed in Czech forest on Hiking Trip
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/05/treasure-hoard-unearthed-in-czech.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: European Dilemma: Awkward When you Find Stuff you can’t just Slip in Your Pocket
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/05/european-dilemma-awkward-when-you-find.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Norton Disney Dodecahedron PAS Public Record LIN-BC9890
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/05/norton-disney-dodecahedron-pas-public.html

From Iraq, Graham Hancock Announces New Book on Mesopotamian Mysteries – JASON COLAVITO
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/from-iraq-graham-hancock-announces-new-book-on-mesopotamian-mysteries

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: (A)synchronic (Re)actions: Crises and Their Perception in Hittite History
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/asynchronic-reactions-crises-and-their.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Caesarea Maritima, Volume I: Herod’s Circus and related Buildings Part 1: Architecture and stratigraphy
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/caesarea-maritima-volume-i-herods_14.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Jerusalem: Excavations in the Tyropoeon Valley (Giv‘ati Parking Lot), Volume I
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/jerusalem-excavations-in-tyropoeon_14.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Trotter on Consolatory Rhetoric in Hellenistic Judaism
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/trotter-on-consolatory-rhetoric-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: DSS photo essay
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/dss-photo-essay.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Judeo-Persian Pentateuch based on Targum Onkelos
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-judeo-persian-pentateuch-based-on.html

Plato’s political thought – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Plato’s political thought

The magister equitum in the Roman Republic: the evolution of an extraordinary magistracy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The magister equitum in the Roman Republic: the evolution of an extraordinary magistracy

Michael Kulikowski · Only one of them had elephants: Hannibal and Scipio
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/michael-kulikowski/only-one-of-them-had-elephants
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76. Tina Greenfield: Zooarchaeology in Mesopotamia – Thin End of the Wedge | Podcast on Spotify

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(71) What are ancient cylinder seals? – YouTube

(71) Love a man who prioritises his beauty sleep – YouTube

(71) The Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptian Artists – YouTube

(72) Last Remnant of the Spartan Dialect #shorts #fyp #history #sparta #hellas #greece #ancient #military – YouTube

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Emperor Worship in the Greek East

Emperor Worship in the Greek East

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference – TALOS Artificial Intelligence for Humanities and Social Sciences

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference

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Archaeologists uncover monumental relief of King Ashurbanipal in ancient city of Nineveh
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-archaeologists-uncover-monumental-relief-king.html

Archaeologists Discover Lost Egyptian Tomb Hidden Behind False Door – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/arachaeologists-ancient-egyptian-tomb-saqqara-false-door-2070886

Ancient Roman baths transformed into early Christian church unearthed near Rome | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Ancient Roman baths transformed into early Christian church unearthed near Rome

Ancient Israelites were more worldly than their insular Judean cousins, study shows | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-israelites-were-more-worldly-than-their-insular-judean-cousins-study-shows

Name diversity sheds light on ancient societies | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1083261

Remarkably Preserved Bronze Age Urns, Thousands of Years Old, Unearthed in Germany – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/remarkably-preserved-bronze-age-urns-thousands-of-years-old-unearthed-in-germany/

Late Bronze Age settlement dating back 3,000 years uncovered amid road work: ‘Important discovery’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/lifestyle/late-bronze-age-settlement-dating-back-3000-years-uncovered-amid-road-work-important-discovery/

By Shoving a Bed Frame Against the Door, This Pompeii Family Tried to Survive Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/by-shoving-a-bed-frame-against-the-door-this-pompeii-family-tried-to-survive-mount-vesuvius-eruption-180986608/

Evidence of a Roman ritual with pig jaws found among remains of a legionary camp

Evidence of a Roman ritual with pig jaws found among remains of a legionary camp

Roman-Era Mosaic And Intact Cistern Unearthed In Ancient Greek City Of Syedra

Roman-Era Mosaic and Intact Cistern Unearthed in Ancient Greek City of Syedra

Roman Era Mosaic Unearthed in Illegal Excavation Near Zile Castle – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/roman-era-mosaic-unearthed-in-illegal-excavation-near-zile-castle/

Signs of human activity from first millenium BC found at Limassol site | Cyprus Mail
https://www.cyprus-mail.com/2025/05/13/signs-of-human-activity-from-first-millenium-bc-found-at-limassol-site

Ancient Roman Wooden Water Pipe Made From Hollow Tree Trunks Unearthed Beneath a Street in Belgium
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-roman-wooden-water-pipe-made-from-hollow-tree-trunks-unearthed-beneath-a-street-in-belgium-180986606/

Türkiye’s Prusias ad Hypium reveals Apollo, Medusa and secrets of Roman entertainment – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/turkiyes-prusias-ad-hypium-reveals-apollo-medusa-and-secrets-of-roman-entertainment-3201383

Cultural Institutions Face Inflection Point Over Provenance and Theft | Observer

Hidden Liabilities: How Rare Manuscripts Threaten Institutional Reputations

U.S. returns parts of queen’s temple, ancient gold coin and other rare smuggled artifacts to Egypt, officials say – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-returns-rare-smuggled-artifacts-egypt/

[AI?]Egypt recovers queen Hatshepsut relics antiquities from the US – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-853748

ArtDependence | Egypt recovers 25 looted Antiquities
https://www.artdependence.com/articles/egypt-recovers-25-looted-antiquities/

163 Treasures From King Tut’s Tomb Arrive at the Grand Egyptian Museum

163 Treasures From King Tut’s Tomb Arrive at the Grand Egyptian Museum

Secrets of ancient Egypt’s military history uncovered in Sinai
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/r1pydyaeex

[AI?]Metal detectorist finds 1,469 ancient Roman silver coins in Romania – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-853749

New Study Reveals How the Antikythera Mechanism Tracked Solar Motion – GreekReporter.com

New Study Reveals How the Antikythera Mechanism Tracked Solar Motion

Ancient sculpture workshop on Paros reveals new rooms and artifacts | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1269608/ancient-sculpture-workshop-on-paros-reveals-new-rooms-and-artifacts/

Completion of the first excavation season at the site of Amathous – West terrace exploration project – Gov.cy
https://www.gov.cy/en/culture/completion-of-the-first-excavation-season-at-the-site-of-amathous-west-terrace-exploration-project/

The Day Constantinople Was Officially Declared the ‘New Rome’ – GreekReporter.com

The Day Constantinople Was Officially Declared the ‘New Rome’

Greeks To Produce Film On The Battle Of Marathon In Ancient Greek

Greeks to Produce Film on the Battle of Marathon in Ancient Greek

Roman Times: Ancient slingers: The power of a simple stone
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/05/ancient-slingers-power-of-simple-stone.html

Roman Times: Ancient slingers: The power of a simple stone
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/05/ancient-slingers-power-of-simple-stone.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Classical Art and Ancient India: Proceedings of the Workshop Held in Oxford, 21-22 March 2023
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/classical-art-and-ancient-india.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Iron and the Iron Age: The Introduction of Iron in Europe and Western Asia
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/iron-and-iron-age-introduction-of-iron.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Papiri da Tebtynis pubblicati dal Seminario di Papirologia dell’Università di Parma (P.Tebt. VI)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/papiri-da-tebtynis-pubblicati-dal.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A new excavation at Samaria/Sebastia
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-new-excavation-at-samariasebastia.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Social inferences from the ancient Hebrew onomasticon
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/social-inferences-from-ancient-hebrew.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the Cairo Geniza
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/on-cairo-geniza.html

Summer Research Leave, Part 1 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Summer Research Leave, Part 1

Sint-Servaas – Mainzer Beobachter

Sint-Servaas

I Get The Sweetest Feeling | Sphinx

I Get The Sweetest Feeling

Laudator Temporis Acti: Unmanliness
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/unmanliness.html

In search of the ancient Bosphorus. For the 150th anniversary of MI Rostovtsev | Spartokos read

À la recherche de l’ancien Bosphore. Pour le 150e anniversaire de M.I. Rostovtsev

Homer as a cultural horizon – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Homer as a cultural horizon

Languages and communities in the late-Roman and post-imperial western provinces – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Languages and communities in the late-Roman and post-imperial western provinces

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AUDIENDA
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Podcast Season 4, Episode 3: Communities on Display: Re-Centering Egyptian Voices with Heba Abd el Gawad – Peopling the Past

Podcast Season 4, Episode 3: Communities on Display: Re-Centering Egyptian Voices with Heba Abd el Gawad

Live from Mount Olympus | Theseus and Ariadne | Onassis Foundation
https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-podcasts/live-from-mount-olympus-main/theseus-and-ariadne

diē duodecimō mēnsis Māiī — Nuntii Latini

diē duodecimō mēnsis Māiī

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VIDENDA
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(43) Excuses of a toddler – YouTube

(43) Ostia Antica: The late antique domus of Cupid and Psyche! – YouTube

(43) Exploring Ostia Antica today! – YouTube

(43) Symbolism of the skene (stage-building) in Euripides’ Bacchae, PART 1 – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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PhD position in Greek and/or Latin Literature (1.0 FTE) (V25.0276) | Job opportunities | University of Groningen
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000BB2P

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference – TALOS Artificial Intelligence for Humanities and Social Sciences

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference

2025-2026 Brock University Sessional Positions (6 Fall, 4 Winter) – Deadline May 26th – The Classical Association of Canada

2025-2026 Brock University Sessional Positions (6 Fall, 4 Winter) – Deadline May 26th

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Man stumbles across hoard of priceless coins while out for walk
https://nypost.com/2025/05/11/world-news/man-stumbles-across-hoard-of-priceless-coins-while-out-for-walk/

Iranian Archaeologists Uncover Prehistoric And Early Metallurgy Sites In Central Kerman Plain – Iran Front Page
https://ifpnews.com/iranian-archaeologists-prehistoric-early-metallurgy-sites-kerman/

Archaeologists begin exploration of recently discovered Roman town
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/05/archaeologists-begin-exploration-of-recently-discovered-roman-town/155200

Archaeological treasure in Düzce being uncovered
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeological-treasure-in-duzce-being-uncovered-209051

Ancient Roman Wooden Water Pipe Made From Hollow Tree Trunks Unearthed Beneath a Street in Belgium
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-roman-wooden-water-pipe-made-from-hollow-tree-trunks-unearthed-beneath-a-street-in-belgium-180986606/

The Unlikely Return of Stoicism – Word on Fire
https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/the-unlikely-return-of-stoicism/

Inside the world’s largest archeology museum – the Grand Egyptian Museum in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/may/12/grand-egyptian-museum-picturesInside the world’s largest archeology museum – the Grand Egyptian Museum in pictures | Environment | The Guardian

Famous tomb said to hold Alexander the Great’s father actually contains younger man, a woman and 6 babies, study finds | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/famous-tomb-said-to-hold-alexander-the-greats-father-actually-contains-younger-man-a-woman-and-6-babies-study-finds

Israel kicks off transformation of biblical Sebastia into archaeological park – JNS.org
https://www.jns.org/israel-kicks-off-transformation-of-biblical-sebastia-into-archaeological-park/

Archaeology or justification? How Israel’s excavations shape political landscape in Palestine – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/middle-east/archaeology-or-justification-how-israels-excavations-shape-political-landscape-in-pal-3201213

How the Mines of Laurion Changed Ancient Athens and the World – GreekReporter.com

How the Mines of Laurion Changed Ancient Athens and the World

Türkiye’s Lagina Hecate Sanctuary excavations unveil city gate and shops – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/lagina-hecate-sanctuary-excavations-unveil-city-gate-and-shops-3201328

Historic mosaic unearthed in Zile reveals Türkiye’s ancient past | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/historic-mosaic-unearthed-in-zile-reveals-turkiyes-ancient-past/news

The Parthenon Was Once Illuminated by Dazzling Tricks of Light, New Study Finds

The Parthenon Was Once Illuminated by Dazzling Tricks of Light, New Study Finds

Egypt recovers 25 looted antiquities from New York – Foreign Affairs – Egypt – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/546114/Egypt/Egypt-recovers–looted-antiquities-from-New-York.aspx

Pompeii’s Most Fascinating Finds of the Decade—So Far

Pompeii’s Most Fascinating Finds of the Decade—So Far

Crafting the Perfect ‘Republic’ – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/crafting-the-perfect-republic-55817eec?mod=arts-culture_feat1_reviews_pos1

Ancient Three Fortresses: Layered Defense on Egypt’s Eastern Border at Tell Abu Saifi – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-three-fortresses-layered-defense-on-egypts-eastern-border-at-tell-abu-saifi/

Gladiator II: Legacy of Rome
https://www.ilmessaggero.it/en/gladiator_ii_legacy_of_rome-8829580.html

The Odyssey: Everything We Know About The Christopher Nolan Movie
https://www.slashfilm.com/1855278/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-movie-details/

Classical Renewal by Research – First Things

Classical Renewal by Research

Trojan Women: How Epic Theater Exposes 2,500 Years of Brutality

Trojan Women: How Epic Theater Exposes 2,500 Years of Brutality

Experimental archaeology sheds light on Bronze Age art | University of Cincinnati
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2025/05/experimental-archaeology-sheds-light-on-bronze-age-art.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bet Yerah: The Early Bronze Age Mound, Volume II: Urban Structure and Material Culture, 1933–1986 Excavations
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/bet-yerah-early-bronze-age-mound-volume.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bet Dagan: Intermediate Bronze Age and Mamluk-Period Cemeteries, 2004–2005 Excavations
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/bet-dagan-intermediate-bronze-age-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gamla III: The Shmarya Gutmann Excavations 1976–1989: Finds and Studies, Part 1
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/gamla-iii-shmarya-gutmann-excavations_12.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Caesarea Maritima, Volume I: Herod’s Circus and Related Buildings, Part 2: The Finds
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/caesarea-maritima-volume-i-herods.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bet She’an III: Nysa-Scythopolis: The Southern and Severan Theaters, Part 1: The Stratigraphy and Finds
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/bet-shean-iii-nysa-scythopolis-southern_11.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bet She’an III: Nysa-Scythopolis: The Southern and Severan Theaters: Part 2: The Architecture
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/bet-shean-iii-nysa-scythopolis-southern.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gamla III: The Shmarya Gutmann Excavations 1976–1989: Finds and Studies: Part 2
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/gamla-iii-shmarya-gutmann-excavations.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ‘Akko II: The 1991–1998 Excavations: The Early Periods
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/akko-ii-19911998-excavations-early.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Who was the Teacher of Righteousness?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/who-was-teacher-of-righteousness.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Gupta on the Old Testament Apocrypha
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/gupta-on-old-testament-apocrypha.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the Testament of Solomon
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/on-testament-of-solomon.html

Romeins Lyon – Mainzer Beobachter

Romeins Lyon

Weekly (not)Varia, no. 130, 05/11/25 – Noodlings

Weekly (not)Varia, no. 130, 05/11/25

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Ezekiel Papyrus in Madrid
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/05/ezekiel-papyrus-in-madrid.html

Cicero. Fragmentary speeches – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Cicero. Fragmentary speeches

Religion romaine et esclavage au Haut Empire: Rome, Latium et Campanie – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Religion romaine et esclavage au Haut Empire: Rome, Latium et Campanie

Artificial intelligence in Greek and Roman epic – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Artificial intelligence in Greek and Roman epic

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Versus: The Cimbrian War II by Deep into History

Prof. Dame Sue Black, Forensic Scientist: Classics & Careers by The Classics Podcast
https://creGetting Blood From a Stone (Arrowhead), Or, Waging Peace, Unsuccessfully, in the Neolithic? | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/getting-blood-from-a-stone-arrowhead-or-waging-peace-unsuccessfully-in-the-neolithic/ators.spotify.com/pod/profile/the-classics-podcast/episodes/Prof–Dame-Sue-Black–Forensic-Scientist-Classics–Careers-e328cf3

Getting Blood From a Stone (Arrowhead), Or, Waging Peace, Unsuccessfully, in the Neolithic? | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/getting-blood-from-a-stone-arrowhead-or-waging-peace-unsuccessfully-in-the-neolithic/

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(19) Nice try. – YouTube

(19) L’Œuvre en Scène : La sépulture de Thaïs d’Antinoé conservée au musée du Louvre – YouTube

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Funded MA Studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University | Classical Studies

Funded MA Studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University

Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture: Palace and Town at Phaistos: a retrospective of research over the last twenty years | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/michael-ventris-memorial-lecture-palace-and-town-phaistos-a-retrospective-research-over-last

Ancient Colores and Modern Emplotment | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/ancient-colores-and-modern-emplotment