ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ February 26, 2026

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LEGENDA
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Bottarone Urn restored: original colors of 2400-year-old Etruscan grooms resurfaced
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/bottarone-urn-restored-original-colors-of-2400-year-old-etruscan-grooms-resurfaced

Rare Roman “pigs” found in Welsh farm
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/rare-roman-pigs-found-in-welsh-farm/157123

Tomb plate belonging to a centurion of the First Italic Legion discovered at Nove
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/tomb-plate-belonging-to-a-centurion-of-the-first-italic-legion-discovered-at-nove/157128

Salona’s Gate of Death: New Discoveries at Croatia’s Ancient Roman Arena – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/salonas-gate-of-death-new-discoveries-at-croatias-ancient-roman-arena/

[FWIW] Major ancient sarcophagus discovered in heart of Dubrovnik | Croatia WeekCroatia Week

Major ancient sarcophagus discovered in heart of Dubrovnik

[old news]Mysterious Stone in US Backyard Turned Out to Be an Archaeological Treasure : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-stone-in-us-backyard-turned-out-to-be-an-archaeological-treasure

This Legionnaires’ Fitness Test Turned Ancient Romans Into the Ultimate Hybrid Athletes
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a70511221/ancient-roman-training/

Saving Gaza’s Cultural Heritage Amid War: The Courage of Local Guardians – The Palestine Exploration Fund

Saving Gaza’s Cultural Heritage Amid War: The Courage of Local Guardians

Babies weren’t supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise. | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/babies-werent-supposed-to-be-mourned-in-the-roman-empire-these-rare-liquid-gypsum-burials-prove-otherwise

Ancient City of Salona in Croatia Reveals 2,000-Year-Old Hidden Tunnel – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/26/ancient-city-salona-croatia-hidden-tunnel/

[source???] Ancient Greeks Used Rosemary Crowns to Biohack Memory – Science Confirms Cognitive Boost
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/02/26/rosemary-memory-boost-ancient-greeks-biohacking

A study by the UAB demonstrates for the first time how the Romans exploited gold mines in the Catalan Pyrenees
https://en.ara.cat/culture/they-demonstrate-how-the-romans-exploited-gold-mines-in-the-pyrenees_1_5661073.amp.html

Back to in-person work? Classics professor offers tips on office humor
https://as.cornell.edu/news/back-person-work-classics-professor-offers-tips-office-humor

How White Nationalists Weaponize Ancient Greece and Rome – The River Newsroom

How White Nationalists Weaponize Ancient Greece and Rome

If Not Here, Where? | The University of Chicago Divinity School
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/if-not-here-where

Building Rome in a Couple Days: Erecting a Painted Portico in Alésia | The EXARC Journal
https://exarc.net/issue-2025-3/mm/building-rome-couple-days

AI Scores 3% on the Hardest Test Humans Could Write – NeuroEdge

AI Scores 3% on the Hardest Test Humans Could Write

Why ancient wisdom is the ultimate shield against modern noise – Monocle

Why ancient wisdom is the ultimate shield against modern noise

Inscriptions of a Doctor and Historian | Variant Readings

Inscriptions of a Doctor and Historian

Laudator Temporis Acti: Learning Greek
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/learning-greek.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Upgrading the Aramaic Language Heritage Museum in Jabadeen, Syria
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/upgrading-aramaic-language-heritage.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Preview of “Listen to the Sibyl”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/preview-of-listen-to-sibyl.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Did Philo Allude to Sadducees and Pharisees?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/did-philo-allude-to-sadducees-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/master-of-game-competition-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le Caucase et la région circumpontique dans l’Antiquité : matériaux, recherches et hypothèseséd.
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/le-caucase-et-la-region-circumpontique.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/victim-of-muses-poet-as-scapegoat.html

The Caucasus and the Circumpontic Region in Antiquity: Materials, Research, and Hypotheses (ed.) | Spartokos has read

Le Caucase et la région circumpontique dans l’Antiquité : matériaux, recherches et hypothèseséd.

Cause and explanation in ancient philosophy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.38/

Cursus honorum: pathways to rank and power in the Roman republic – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.37/
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AUDIENDA
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BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, The Roman Arena
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qj85

Alexander the Great | Lord of Asia – The Ancients | Acast

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VIDENDA
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(273) Professor Barbara BorgVia Appia, Mile Three:Tracing Ethno-Religious Minorities in Imperial Rome – YouTube

(271) How Civilisation Came Back From Collapse (ft. Eric Cline) – YouTube

(271) How Much Of The Odyssey Was Based In Reality? – YouTube

(272) Historian Reacts To EPIC: The Musical (Wisdom Saga) – YouTube

(275) CCA South. Carlos Noreña. Roman, Han, Tang Empires. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube

(275) Mary Beard, Q and A from Latin students. How do Classics benefit the public? Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Between Death, Memory, and Identity