ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~November 17, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Underground Tunnels of Ancient Etruscan City Veio Mapped for the First Time – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/17/etruscan-city-veio-underground-tunnels-mapped-first-time/

Ancient Greek City of Argilos Reveals Its Secrets With New Discoveries – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/17/ancient-greek-city-argilos-new-discoveries/

What Was the Hair Color of the Ancient Greeks? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/16/hair-color-ancient-greeks/

12,000-year-old clay figurine from Israel shows male goose mounting a squatting woman, according to archaeologists | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/extremely-rare-paleolithic-figurine-found-in-israel-depicts-a-goose-attempting-to-mate-with-a-woman

Department of Antiquities announces discovery of a Roman road passing through valleys near Tolmeita | The Libya Observer
https://libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/department-antiquities-announces-discovery-roman-road-passing-through-valleys-near-tolmeita

New Evidence Shows Arabia Was Not Only the Incense Highway—But an Ancient Scent Capital – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/new-evidence-shows-arabia-was-not-only-the-incense-highway-but-an-ancient-scent-capital/

Second-Largest Olive Oil Production Complex in the Roman Empire Discovered in Tunisia

Second-Largest Olive Oil Production Complex in the Roman Empire Discovered in Tunisia

Tamil Nadu archaeologists join excavations at Berenike in Egypt to trace ancient Mediterranean trade links – The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tamil-nadu-archaeologists-join-excavations-at-berenike-in-egypt-to-trace-ancient-mediterranean-trade-links/article70290712.ece

A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Inkwell Found in Portugal Contains a Technological Recipe That Shouldn’t Exist – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/a-2000-year-old-roman-inkwell-found-in-portugal-contains-a-technological-recipe-that-shouldnt-exist/

Late antique mosaics in Albania’s Berat shed light on shared heritage across Mediterranean – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/late-antique-mosaics-in-albanias-berat-shed-light-on-shared-heritage-across-mediterra-3210022

[AI?] Archaeologists uncover long-lost Temple of Zeus at Limyra | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-874041

Archaeologists Stunned by Lavish Assyrian-period Tomb in Northern Israel – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-10-24/ty-article-magazine/archaeologists-stunned-by-lavish-assyrian-period-tomb-in-northern-israel/0000019a-1618-d582-a39e-5efceef30000

Roman Odeon of Patras: Restored and reopening its doors – ProtoThema English

Roman Odeon of Patras: Restored and reopening its doors

Bronze Age Mycenaean Pottery Near Athens Acropolis Shows Rare Greek Artwork – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/17/mycenaean-bronze-age-pottery-athens-acropolis-rare-greek-artwork/

Rare sea withdrawal in northwest Türkiye reveals ancient harbor structures – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/rare-sea-withdrawal-in-northwest-turkiye-reveals-ancient-harbor-structures-3210001

Digital map brings ancient Roman roads to life – DW – 11/17/2025
https://www.dw.com/en/digital-map-brings-ancient-roman-road-network-to-life-itiner-e/a-74702919

The Lost War That Wiped Out 95% of the Ancient World | by Azanta | Write A Catalyst | Nov, 2025 | Medium
View at Medium.com

Pleasure is relative – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/pleasure-is-relative?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=179128195&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Louvre Museum Closes Gallery Housing Antiquities as Precaution
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/louvre-museum-closes-gallery-greek-antiquities-1234761958/

Rodin’s Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Travel to US for First Time
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/auguste-rodin-egyptian-collection-exhibition-nyu-isaw-1234761903/

How’s your paleography? Two pages from a medieval breviary – Roger Pearse

How’s your paleography? Two pages from a medieval breviary

Weekly Varia no. 156, 11/16/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 156, 11/16/25

Laudator Temporis Acti: Natural Resource Depletion
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/natural-resource-depletion.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Learning from Mistakes
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/learning-from-mistakes.html

PaleoJudaica.com: BAS 2025 Publication Awards
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/bas-2025-publication-awards.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Carpenter’s Son debuts in the USA
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-carpenters-son-debuts-in-usa.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Bronze Age ANE creation story?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-bronze-age-ane-creation-story.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les potiers gallo-romains de Sallèles d’Aude (Aude, France): Production et vie quotidienne
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/les-potiers-gallo-romains-de-salleles.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Domaine foncier en Gaule romaine: Statut de la terre et des hommes
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/domaine-foncier-en-gaule-romaine-statut.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’héritage d’Asklépios: Soigner par le geste en Grèce archaïque et classique
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/lheritage-dasklepios-soigner-par-le.html

Golden excess: art and the aesthetics of the incredible in Neronian Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Golden excess: art and the aesthetics of the incredible in Neronian Rome

Military Book Review The Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/2767#gsc.tab=0
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AUDIENDA
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To Live and Die at Late Bronze Age Yavne Yam, or, I Dream of a Gini with a Jar Full of Opium | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/to-live-and-die-at-late-bronze-age-yavne-yam-or-i-dream-of-gini-with-the-jar-full-of-opium/

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VIDENDA
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(425) Syria scrambles to find Roman statue thieves – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future | Studies in Classical Archaeology
https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.SCA-EB.5.143377&ref=pasts-imperfect.ghost.io

Prices, values, and equivalences of metals

Prices, values, and equivalences of metals

The fabric of Hellenic civic life in Alexandria

The fabric of Hellenic civic life in Alexandria

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xv kalendas decembres

  • ludi Plebeii (day 14) — the Jupiterfest is almost over
  • 9 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Vespasian
  • 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Alphaeus and Zacchaeus