ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 29, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Meskalamdug’s Helmet: One of the world’s oldest helmets depicts a Mesopotamian prince’s man bun | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/meskalamdugs-helmet-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-helmets-depicts-a-mesopotamian-princes-man-bun

4,000-year-old handprint discovered on ancient Egyptian tomb offering | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/4-000-year-old-handprint-discovered-on-ancient-egyptian-tomb-offering

All the 20 squares material from Wolley’s Ur excavations : r/GameofUr

Before Rome, Before Greece: Anatolia’s Oldest Glass Revealed in Hittite Büklükale – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/before-rome-before-greece-anatolias-oldest-glass-revealed-in-hittite-buklukale/

Archaeologists Find ‘Missing’ Canaanite Stone Blade Factory in Southern Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-07-28/ty-article/archaeologists-find-missing-canaanite-stone-blade-factory-in-southern-israel/00000198-5116-d347-addf-57df35bb0000

“Extremely rare” bronze armor from Czechia turns out to be a Trojan War era artifact
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/extremely-rare-bronze-armor-from-czechia-turns-out-to-be-a-trojan-war-artifact/

Archaeologists Keep Finding Massive Shoes at an Ancient Roman Fort—and They Have No Idea Why They’re So Big
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-keep-finding-massive-shoes-at-an-ancient-roman-fort-and-they-have-no-idea-why-theyre-so-big-180987028/

Apollonia Pontica: The rise and fall of a Greek city – The Past

Apollonia Pontica: The rise and fall of a Greek city

How Ancient Athens Protected Its Precious Olive Groves – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/28/how-ancient-athens-protected-olive-groves/

Archaeologists uncover lavish Bronze Age burial of young woman in Greater Khorasan
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-archaeologists-uncover-lavish-bronze-age.html

Sardinia, three new Domus de Janas discovered in the archaeological complex of Sant’Andrea Priu
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/sardinia-three-new-domus-de-janas-discovered-in-the-archaeological-complex-of-sant-andrea-priu

The beach wasn’t always a vacation destination. For the ancient Greeks, it was a scary place
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-beach-wasnt-vacation-destination-ancient.html

AI helps Latin scholars decipher ancient Roman texts
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-ai-latin-scholars-decipher-ancient.html

What happened to Rome after the empire fell? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/what-happened-to-rome-after-the-empire-fell

Le nuove scoperte archeologiche nell’antica città romana di Suasa — UniboMagazine
https://magazine.unibo.it/archivio/2025/07/29/le-nuove-scoperte-archeologiche-nell2019antica-citta-romana-di-suasa

Rare Bronze Cauldron Unearthed in Ancient Greek City of Pergamon – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/28/bronze-cauldron-ancient-greek-city-pergamon/

1,400-year-old bronze cauldron discovery
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/07/1400-year-old-bronze-cauldron-discovery/155683

Engineers bring a 250-year-old mechanical painting of Mount Vesuvius to firey life | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/science/mount-vesuvius-moving-painting/

Digging deep for new insights into ancient societies | Yale News
https://news.yale.edu/2025/07/24/digging-deep-new-insights-ancient-societies

The Year of the Four, Five, Six Roman Emperors | History Today
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/year-four-five-six-roman-emperors

Athens Is Tapping a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Aqueduct To Help Survive a Megadrought
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/athens-is-tapping-a-2000-year-old-roman-aqueduct-to-help-survive-a-megadrought/

This Ancient Roman Artifact Is Also a 453 Million-Year-Old Fossil
https://gizmodo.com/this-ancient-roman-artifact-is-also-a-453-million-year-old-fossil-2000635837

[old news]Ancient Greek Girl Buried Wearing Ceramic Flower Wreath – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/29/ancient-greek-girl-buried-wearing-ceramic-flower-wreath/

[2507.15228] New Insights into the Nature and Orbital Motion of Aristotle’s Comet in 372 BC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15228

UK’s Brent Seales, global team secure Europe’s top research grant to digitally decode Herculaneum scrolls | UKNow
https://uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-s-brent-seales-global-team-secures-europe-s-top-research-grant-digitally-decode

Ukrainian Play “Caligula” to Shine at Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 | Ukraine news – #Mezha

Ukrainian Play “Caligula” to Shine at Dublin Theatre Festival 2025

Thassos Ancient Theater: A Triumphant Return After 14 Years of Silence – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/28/thassos-ancient-theater-opens/

3,500-year-old Hellenistic stoa emerges in Türkiye’s ancient city of Assos – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/3500-year-old-hellenistic-stoa-emerges-in-turkiyes-ancient-city-of-assos-3204756

Christopher Rowe (1944-2025) – Daily Nous

Christopher Rowe (1944-2025)

Off the beaten track | Blog Post | Mary Beard

Off the beaten track: tourist tips

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th July 2025 | Sphinx

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th July 2025

(10) Aeneid VIII.1-101 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-viii1-101-c88?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168991512&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(10) Aeneid VIII.102-199 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-viii102-199-04e?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168991654&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Department of Classical Studies wins prestigious outreach award | Classical Studies

Ulus Theatre to be Restored

PaleoJudaica.com: Three recently excavated shipwrecks at Tel Dor
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/three-recently-excavated-shipwrecks-at.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Bigtime grant for Heculaneum scrolls research
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/bigtime-grant-for-heculaneum-scrolls.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Vintage resurrection using Avdat’s pips
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/vintage-resurrection-using-avdats-pips.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Michael Satlow has a new book forthcoming
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/michael-satlow-has-new-book-forthcoming.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Syriac department opens at Mosul University
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/syriac-department-opens-at-mosul.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A late-antique synagogue in an Iberian town?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-late-antique-synagogue-in-iberian-town.html

Het sterfjaar van Nikolaas van Myra – Mainzer Beobachter

Het sterfjaar van Nikolaas van Myra

Ancient Myths, Modern Masculinities: Odysseus
https://theshelbiad.blogspot.com/2025/07/ancient-myths-modern-masculinities.html

Weekly Varia no. 140, 07/27/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 140, 07/27/25

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Qiryat Shemona (S): Fort and Village in the Hula Valley
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/qiryat-shemona-s-fort-and-village-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Bronze Age Cemetery at ꜤAra
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-bronze-age-cemetery-at-ara.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Yesodot: A Lodian, Wadi Rabah, Post-Ghassulian and Middle Bronze Age Site
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/yesodot-lodian-wadi-rabah-post.html

Edward Luttwak’s “The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire” – CANE

Edward Luttwak’s “The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire”

Ancient anchors from the collection of the National History Museum (late 2nd millennium BC – 3rd century AD) | Spartokos read

Ancres anciennes de la collection du Musée national d’histoire (fin IIe millénaire avant J.-C. – IIIe siècle après J.-C.)

The Uley tablets: Roman curse tablets from the Temple of Mercury at Uley – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Uley tablets: Roman curse tablets from the Temple of Mercury at Uley

Onomastique, société et identité culturelle en Lusitanie romaine / Onomástica, sociedad e identidad cultural en Lusitania romana (ADOPIA I) – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Onomastique, société et identité culturelle en Lusitanie romaine / Onomástica, sociedad e identidad cultural en Lusitania romana (ADOPIA I)

Religiöse Geheimniskommunikation in der Mittleren und Späten Römischen Republik – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Religiöse Geheimniskommunikation in der Mittleren und Späten Römischen Republik

Archaeological investigations in a Northern Albanian province: results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH) – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Archaeological investigations in a Northern Albanian province: results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH)

Plato: a civic life – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Plato: a civic life

Egyptian things: translating Egypt to early imperial Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Egyptian things: translating Egypt to early imperial Rome

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Podcast Season 4, Episode 12: Hopeful Futures for Archaeological Practice with Yannis Hamilakis – Peopling the Past

Podcast Season 4, Episode 12: Hopeful Futures for Archaeological Practice with Yannis Hamilakis

Expert in Residence: Louise O’Brien by The Classics Podcast
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/the-classics-podcast/episodes/Expert-in-Residence-Louise-OBrien-e35qp33

(10) The Odyssey Book 1: A Detailed Analysis – CSMFHT Writes
https://csmfht.substack.com/p/the-odyssey-book-1-a-detailed-analysis?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=1211085&post_id=169440194&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=play_card_post_title&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true

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(153) AI helps historians decipher ancient Roman texts – YouTube

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Classical Association Annual Conference 2026

Classical Association Annual Conference 2026