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Ancient tombs, shrine to Hercules found in Rome dig | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-884500

Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe

Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe

Man arrested in Piraeus for possession of 4th century BC marble antiquity | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1293464/man-arrested-in-piraeus-for-possession-of-4th-century-bc-marble-antiquity/

Two adjoining temples with altars, a unique religious complex in the northern Iberian Peninsula, discovered at the Iron Age site of Peña del Castro

Two adjoining temples with altars, a unique religious complex in the northern Iberian Peninsula, discovered at the Iron Age site of Peña del Castro

The Roman Road Reconnecting Ancient and Medieval Rhodes – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/26/roman-road-reconnecting-ancient-medieval-rhodes/

Is this the world’s oldest alphabet? | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/syria-oldest-alphabet?loggedin=true&rnd=1769457969444

Unlocking the Sacred Landscape of Roman Nida | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Unlocking the Sacred Landscape of Roman Nida

Allegations of antiquities theft in Gaza: 17,000 artefacts missing | Jordan Times
https://jordantimes.com/news/local/allegations-of-antiquities-theft-in-gaza-17000-artefacts-missing

Varna Gold: Humanity’s first gold jewelry was found in a cemetery with a gold ‘penis sheath’ | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/varna-gold-humanitys-first-gold-jewelry-was-found-in-a-cemetery-with-a-gold-penis-sheath

Babylonian Texts Complicate Bible’s Image of Nebuchadnezzar – Biblical Archaeology Society

Babylonian Texts Complicate Bible’s Image of Nebuchadnezzar

(20) January 57 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium?) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/january-57-bce-from-cicero-at-dyrrachium

New Year’s E-mail – Round Three | Classically Inclined

New Year’s E-mail – Round Three

Roman Times: From Ritual Wheels to War Machines: The Rise of Chariots from Tell Agrab to Kadesh
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2026/01/from-ritual-wheels-to-war-machines-rise.html

Dawn, Reestablishing Space and Time: Beginning Iliad 11, Again – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Dawn, Reestablishing Space and Time: Beginning Iliad 11, Again

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the (proposed) drawing of Hezekiah in Sennacherib’s palace
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/more-on-proposed-drawing-of-hezekiah-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Baden, Lost in Translation
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/review-of-baden-lost-in-translation.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Still more on the AI redating of 4QDanielc
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/still-more-on-ai-redating-of-4qdaniel-c.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Onomasticon Search tool for Greek and Latin onomastics dictionaries
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/onomasticon-search-tool-for-greek-and.html

Contextualizing imperial disruption and upheavals and their associated research challenges – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.25/

Der Senat im frühen Rom. Die Entwicklung des Ratsgremiums von der Königszeit bis zur lex Ovinia – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.24/

Propertius and the Virgilian sensibility: elegy after 19 BC – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.23/
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A Prehistoric Figurine of Problematic Possibilities, or Or, Mythogram for Mother Goose | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/a-prehistoric-figurine-of-problematic-possibilities-or-or-mythogram-for-mother-goose/

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(924) Hatshepsut’s immortalised journey to Punt #ancientegypt – YouTube

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Crake Doctoral Fellowship in Classics, Mount Allison University (Deadline February 27) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/crake2026/

Archaeometric characterisation of materials and techniques in Roman wall painting: the Domus of Salvius in Cartagena, Spain | npj Heritage Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-02198-5

Phaedrus – CANE

Phaedrus

• Sementivae or Paganalia (day ?) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident with Paganalia, which also obviously has some rural aspect to it. It appears to have been a two-day festival with an interval of seven days between (corrections on this welcome … my sources seem muddled on this one)
• 66 A.D. — perihelion of what would eventually be called Halley’s comet (possibly mentioned in Josephus; less possibly mentioned in Suetonius)
• 97 A.D. — martyrdom of Timothy
• 1721 — death of Pierre Daniel Huet (editor of the Delphi Classics)