ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ February 19, 2026

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LEGENDA
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Storms reveal rare 2,000-year-old footprints on Scottish beach
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-storms-reveal-rare-year-footprints.html

Egyptian-Chinese mission uncovers new clues to King Apries’ temple in Mit Rahina – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/562666.aspx

2,500-year-old ‘primitive prosthetic’ found on jaw of mummified Scythian woman who survived complex jaw surgery | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-500-year-old-primitive-prosthetic-found-on-jaw-of-mummified-scythian-woman-who-survived-complex-jaw-surgery

Father, daughter find bronze scale pan in ancient Sussiya | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-887267

‘Cursed!’: Toledo Museum of Art to host exhibit exploring the power of ancient magic in the Mediterranean world | wtol.com
https://www.wtol.com/article/entertainment/arts/cursed-toledo-museum-of-art-exhibit-power-of-magic-in-ancient-world/512-c3a6c8e7-b297-490e-b03f-32b2ca30e41d

Ancient Roman bottles contained traces of fecal matter : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5718375/ancient-roman-medicine-fecal-history

Prof. Ready offers fanfic framing for Euripides’ Orestes — The Kenyon Collegian

Prof. Ready offers fanfic framing for Euripides’ Orestes

Recording your own books | Blog post | Mary Beard

Recording your own books

Poseidon, Divine Hypocrite: Impersonation and Interpretation in Iliad 13 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Poseidon, Divine Hypocrite: Impersonation and Interpretation in Iliad 13

From the Heart of Jerusalem to the People of Iran: A Sassanid Treasure in the Soil of the Temple Mount – The Temple Mount Sifting Project

From the Heart of Jerusalem to the People of Iran: A Sassanid Treasure in the Soil of the Temple Mount

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ukraine: Fifth Century Disc Brooch Seized by Police
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/ukraine-fifth-century-disc-brooch.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ukraine: Police in Vinnytsia Seize Metal Detectorist’s Loot AFTER He’d Destroyed a ‘Princely Grave’
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/police-in-vinnytsia-prevented-illegal.html

What is a Sycophant? | Greek Myth Comix
https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/what-is-a-sycophant/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Evacuating Ukraine’s Ancient Stone Guardians
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/evacuating-ukraines-ancient-stone.html

‘People are in awe’: exhibition unveils ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead | Exhibitions | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/19/book-of-the-dead-exhibition-brooklyn-museum-ancient-egypt

Even the best writing about science recalls ancient myths
https://theconversation.com/even-the-best-writing-about-science-recalls-ancient-myths-272269

Teaching Thursday: Reading Difficult Books | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Thursday: Reading Difficult Books

Sara M. Koenig, The Ten Commandments through the Ages – Reading Acts

Sara M. Koenig, The Ten Commandments through the Ages

PaleoJudaica.com: Onomastic politics and What did Second Temple-era Jews call the Land of Israel?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/onomastic-politics-and-what-did-second.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Water Supply and Management Systems in the Western Mediterranean: Construction and Operation
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/ancient-water-supply-and-management.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Umm al-Quwain 2: A Neolithic settlement and graveyard in the United Arab Emirates
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/umm-al-quwain-2-neolithic-settlement.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Daughters of the Sun: Small Human Images in Megalithic Iberia, 4th-3rd Millennium BC
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/daughters-of-sun-small-human-images-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Edition osirianischer Ritualtexte auf fragmentarischen späthieratischen Papyri der Tempelbibliothek von Tebtynis
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/edition-osirianischer-ritualtexte-auf.html

Sixty-six toilets and urinals in the ancient city of Rome: sanitary, urbanistic, and social agency – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.28/
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AUDIENDA
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Who’s Afraid of Lupercalia?–Instant Classics – Apple Podcasts

Episode 170 – The Gallic Sack of Rome – Part 5 – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Episode 170 – The Gallic Sack of Rome – Part 5

The Fall of Persia | Alexander the Great – The Ancients | Acast

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VIDENDA
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(70) How Parthia Beat Roman Legions – YouTube

(71) Minoan Pithos, Palace of Minos, Knossos – YouTube

(71) Elizabeth Irwin on Polycrates’ ring: fate and the reader – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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ANE Today, 19 February 2026 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-19-february-2026

Ancient Egypt Magazine 153 – The Past