• 1656 B.C. — traditional date for the start of the Great Flood (according to one calculation)
• 285 B.C. — Ptolemy II Philadelphus ascends the throne of Egypt as co-ruler with Ptolemy I(by one reckoning)
• 188 A.D. — martyrdom of Eustachius/Placidus (in a bronze bull!)
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Justus of Trieste
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Victorinus of Pettau
• 315 A.D. — martyrdom of Carterius and his companions (soldiers under Licinius)

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LEGENDA
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French archaeologists uncover ‘vast Roman burial area’ with cremation graves ‘fed’ by liquid offerings | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/french-archaeologists-uncover-vast-roman-burial-area-with-cremation-graves-fed-by-liquid-offerings

Archaeologists Discover A Large Roman Bakery That Supplied An Ancient Mining City In Spain

Archaeologists Discover A Large Roman Bakery That Supplied An Ancient Mining City In Spain

Wooden sculpture depicting Hercules found in ancient refuse pit
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/wooden-sculpture-depicting-hercules-found-in-ancient-refuse-pit/156272

Herculaneum, Roman sideboard restored after ninety years of silence
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/herculaneum-roman-sideboard-restored-after-ninety-years-of-silence

Large semicircular structure discovered in Herakleia: ancient city theater surfaces
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/large-semicircular-structure-discovered-in-herakleia-ancient-city-theater-surfaces

Scoperta unica a Vulci: venuta alla luce una testa di kore, raro capolavoro fuori dalla Grecia
https://www.viterbotoday.it/attualita/testa-kore-vulci-scoperta-1-novembre-2025.html

There Was a Fox in Bethsaida – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-11-02/ty-article-magazine/there-was-a-fox-in-bethsaida/0000019a-4400-dec4-a7db-f7f3f7680000

Why the Parthenon Sculptures Belong in Athens –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/02/why-the-parthenon-sculptures-belong-in-athens/

Pressure intensifies on Britain to return the Rosetta Stone after new museum opens in Egypt | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15249941/Pressure-intensifies-Britain-return-Rosetta-Stone-museum-Egypt.html

2,000-Year-Old Durotriges Tribe Discovery in Dorset Unveils Possible Human Sacrifice Ritual – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2000-year-old-durotriges-tribe-discovery-in-dorset-unveils-possible-human-sacrifice-ritual/

Major exhibition brings unprecedented loans of Roman antiquities to the U.S.
https://artdaily.com/news/186963/Major-exhibition-brings-unprecedented-loans-of-Roman-antiquities-to-the-U-S–

Inquest finds Roman brooch uncovered in Urswick is treasure | The Westmorland Gazette
https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/25584107.inquest-finds-roman-brooch-uncovered-urswick-treasure/

Hidden passage of emperors opened at the Colosseum : NPR
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5589745

Opinion: Cicero’s Rome, political violence, and a warning for America

Opinion: Cicero’s Rome, political violence, and a warning for America

Macedonian Tomb Mystery Deepens: Where Is King Philip II Buried? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/02/macedonian-tomb-mystery-king-philip-ii-buried/

October 2025 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/october-2025-turkish-archaeology

Why and in what ways did the Roman empire exploit its natural resources?  – Retrospect Journal

Why and in what ways did the Roman empire exploit its natural resources? 

5,000-year old ‘cultic space’ discovered in Iraq dates to time of the world’s first cities | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/5-000-year-old-cultic-space-discovered-in-iraq-dates-to-time-of-the-worlds-first-cities

Ancient City of Sardis Unveils Secrets in Landmark 65-Year Harvard–Cornell Project – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/01/ancient-city-sardis-secrets-landmark-harvard-cornell-project/

Narona – An Ode to Roman Glory in Southern Dalmatia – Total Croatia

Narona – An Ode to Roman Glory in Southern Dalmatia

Areas of early Roman Wroxeter revealed on Attingham Estate – The Past

Areas of early Roman Wroxeter revealed on Attingham Estate

American Harpist Performs the Oldest Song in the World in Ancient Greek – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/01/oldest-song-ancient-greek/

Roman Times: A Matriarchal Society That Sacrificed Women? The Disturbing Truth About Britain’s Celtic Tribes
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-matriarchal-society-that-sacrificed.html

Did Sulla’s dictatorship amount to a restoration of the Republic, or its demise?  – Retrospect Journal

Did Sulla’s dictatorship amount to a restoration of the Republic, or its demise? 

Cato the Younger and the Strangest Stoic Paradox
https://ataraxiaorbust.substack.com/p/cato-the-younger-and-the-strangest?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2723270&post_id=177788434&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Stoic advice on how to deal with the malevolent spirits which haunt your new home
https://allancienthistory.substack.com/p/stoic-advice-on-how-to-deal-with?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1000549&post_id=177676924&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

From Politics to Poetics: Repairing Achaean Politics in Iliad 2 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

From Politics to Poetics: Repairing Achaean Politics in Iliad 2

Major Themes for Reading and Teaching the Iliad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Major Themes for Reading and Teaching the Iliad

You cannot trust the footnotes in English translations of German handbooks! – Roger Pearse

You cannot trust the footnotes in English translations of German handbooks!

Priest, Farmer, or Ladies’ Man? The Extraordinary Case Study of Heqankaht
https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/priest-farmer-or-ladies-man-the-extraordinary?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=752411&post_id=176454397&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Heidi Klum was Medusa for Halloween. See the photos. – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heidi-klum-halloween-costume-2025-medusa-photos-pictures/

Laudator Temporis Acti: What a Pity
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-pity.html

October Reading Notes – Noodlings

October Reading Notes

National Geographic x The Partial Historians – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

National Geographic x The Partial Historians

PaleoJudaica.com: Baker, Why a ”New Testament”? (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/baker-why-new-testament-brill.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Jassen, Violence, Power, and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls (CUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/jassen-violence-power-and-society-in.html

De jongeling van Naïn – Mainzer Beobachter

De jongeling van Naïn

Poëzie: Keizer Titus – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Keizer Titus

Naar de dokter – Mainzer Beobachter

Naar de dokter

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Steingefäße des 3. und 2. Jtsd. v. Chr. aus der Siedlung Elephantine/Assuan. Befundanalyse und Interpretation
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/steingefae-des-3-und-2-jtsd-v-chr-aus.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Akkadische Logogramme
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/akkadische-logogramme.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Stele und Legende: Untersuchungen zu den keilschriftlichen Erzählwerken über die Könige von Akkade
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/stele-und-legende-untersuchungen-zu-den.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Keramik der 1. bis 6. Dynastie auf Elephantine. Katalog der Formen und ihrer chronologischen Einordnung
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/keramik-der-1-bis-6-dynastie-auf.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die doppelte Aphrodite – alt und neu bei griechischen Kultbildern
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/die-doppelte-aphrodite-alt-und-neu-bei.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Von der bronzezeitlichen Geschichte zur modernen Antikenrezeption
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/von-der-bronzezeitlichen-geschichte-zur.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Post-Old Kingdom Pottery from the J-Trenches at Buto
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-post-old-kingdom-pottery-from-j.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Kinderbestattungen von Elephantine. Untersuchungen zu Kleinkindbestattungen aus der Siedlung und aus dem Friedhof von Elephantine
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/die-kinderbestattungen-von-elephantine.html

The relations between the Bilsk Hillfort and Greek Settlements on the Black Sea in the second half of the 7th – the 4th Century BC | Spartokos read

The relations between the Bilsk Hillfort and Greek Settlements on the Black Sea in the second half of the 7th – the 4th Century BC

Excavations in the Roman Legionary Fortress at Caerleon: the Priory Field store building – The Past

Excavations in the Roman Legionary Fortress at Caerleon: the Priory Field store building

Magic in Roman Britain – The Past

Magic in Roman Britain

Project MUSE – Mythologizing Performance
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/93914
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Did Lost Civilizations Really … – The Michael Shermer Show – Apple Podcasts

Anima Latina 02.11.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/11/anima-latina-02-11-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 01.11.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/11/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-01-11-2025.html

Ancient History Podcast – The World of Homer
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-history-podcast-the-world-of-homer
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VIDENDA
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(29) Revenge for Teutoburg – Germanicus Strikes Back – Roman History – YouTube

(29) Familia vere Latina, cum Marina Stephanoque – YouTube

(29) The Dark Mystery of the Agora Bone Well from Athens – YouTube

(29) lectūra quattuordecima: i-stem Nouns; Ablative of Means, Accompaniment, & Manner (LTN 101) – YouTube

(29) Did John Copy the Other Gospels? | Bart Ehrman vs. Mark Goodacre, Face to Face on the Bible – YouTube

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explorator 27.46 ~ November 2, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.46 ~ November 2, 2025