ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 1, 2026

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LEGENDA
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Is This 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic the First Known Image of a Woman Fighting Wild Beasts in an Ancient Roman Arena?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/is-this-1800-year-old-mosaic-the-first-known-image-of-a-woman-fighting-wild-beasts-in-an-ancient-roman-arena-180988456/

Enigmatic Artifact Found in Hippos May Reveal Forgotten Stage in Baptism – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2026-04-01/ty-article/enigmatic-artifact-found-in-hippos-may-reveal-forgotten-stage-in-baptism/0000019d-449d-d905-a39d-d49f5b3c0000

Archaeologists probe sunken harbor remains at site that inspired Seferis poem | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1299835/archaeologists-probe-sunken-harbor-remains-at-site-that-inspired-seferis-poem/

Marine Excavations Uncover 2,600 Years of History in Aegean
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/01/marine-excavations-uncover-2600-years-of-history-in-aegean

Frankfurt Uncovers Its Oldest Known Roman Military Camp in Höchst Excavations – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/frankfurt-uncovers-its-oldest-known-roman-military-camp-in-hochst-excavations/

New finds reveal daily life of Roman soldiers in Ancient León
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/new-finds-reveal-daily-life-of-roman-soldiers-in-ancient-leon/157629

[paywalled] Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2520194-historians-dispute-link-between-drought-and-rebellion-in-roman-britain/

Archaeologists unearth bronze belts in Samnite tombs
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/archaeologists-unearth-bronze-belts-in-samnite-tombs/157626

Greek Police Officers Sentenced Over Antiquities Trafficking
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/01/greek-police-officers-sentenced-over-antiquities-trafficking

Major underwater discoveries off Karpathos and Kasos
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/major-underwater-discoveries-off-karpathos-and-kasos/157633

2,000-Year-Old Pompeii Ash Reveals Romans Burned Incense and Wine From Distant Lands | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/2-000-year-old-pompeii-ash-reveals-romans-burned-incense-and-wine-from-distant-lands-48901

Meet the rebels who destroyed an ancient Roman legion with guerrilla warfare | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/rebels-destroyed-ancient-roman-legion-guerrilla-warfare/

Hermione, the Overlooked Daughter of the Trojan War and Her Significance in Greek Mythology – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/01/hermione-greek-mythology-significance-role/

What Archaeologists Found While Searching for a Buried Second Sphinx in Egypt

What Archaeologists Found While Searching for a Buried Second Sphinx in Egypt

Ashes from Pompeii: incense burners, residue analyses and domestic cult practices | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ashes-from-pompeii-incense-burners-residue-analyses-and-domestic-cult-practices/CDE44811873BBC667EC3E7A19042EC62

Buried on the boundary: Interpreting Venta Icenorum’s enigmatic ditch deposits – The Past

Buried on the boundary: Interpreting Venta Icenorum’s enigmatic ditch deposits

Laying Out the Last Supper – Biblical Archaeology Society

Laying Out the Last Supper

Ephemeris ~ LEX NOVA HIEROSOLYMITANA
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2466

Shock a Cagliari: la scoperta archeologica è pesce d’aprile – Sardegna Sotterranea

Shock a Cagliari: la scoperta archeologica è pesce d’aprile

Context of Nemi Finds – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Context of Nemi Finds

Nemi Bibliography Round Up – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Nemi Bibliography Round Up

Hot For Teacher | Sphinx

Hot For Teacher

Who Was “Phanophis”? Unearthing Bar Hebraeus’s First King of Egypt – JASON COLAVITO
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/who-was-phanophis-unearthing-bar-hebraeuss-first-king-of-egypt

Taking Egypt out of the Israelites – The Temple Mount Sifting Project

Taking Egypt out of the Israelites

March 2026 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/march-2026-turkish-archaeology

Writing Wednesday: Revising the Introduction | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Writing Wednesday: Revising the Introduction

PaleoJudaica.com: The hand and arm of the Lord
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-hand-and-arm-of-lord.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Heat and Lust: Hesiod’s Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/heat-and-lust-hesiods-midsummer.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/man-in-middle-voice-name-and-narration.html

“Fatsa Cıngırt Kayası within the Pontic Coastal Settlements: An Assessment in the Light of Archaeological Data | Spartokos a lu

“Fatsa Cıngırt Kayası within the Pontic Coastal Settlements: An Assessment in the Light of Archaeological Data

Olbia Pontica after the Romans: late 3rd–early 5th centuries | Spartokos read

Olbia Pontica after the Romans : late 3rd–early 5th centuries

[paywalled] Book Review: ‘Son of Nobody,’ by Yann Martel – The New York Times

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AUDIENDA
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Gods in Epic Poetry – Ancient History 101 | Acast

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VIDENDA
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(473) What was a Roman tettina? – YouTube

(475) Could you open carry in Ancient Rome? DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(472) Was the Trojan Horse Actually an Earthquake? – YouTube

(472) When the Tiber Flooded in Ancient Rome – YouTube

(473) Briseis and the Women, Grieving: Iliad 19. Ancient Greek, lute, lyre, drum. Bettina Joy de Guzman. – YouTube

(473) Investigating Early Bronze Age Urbanism at Tall al-Handaquq South – by Dr. Hanna Erftenbeck – YouTube

(475) Could you open carry in Ancient Rome? DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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CfP: Reimagining Futures, Reinventing Pasts: Classical Antiquity and the Making of Imagined Worlds (AMPRAW 2026) – CRSN

CfP: Reimagining Futures, Reinventing Pasts: Classical Antiquity and the Making of Imagined Worlds (AMPRAW 2026)

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Roman Archaeology
https://www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?isPreview=Yes&jobid=3266

Project MUSE – Essays on Ancient Israel in Its Near Eastern Context
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/132399

SAM Newsletter April 2026
https://mailchi.mp/f6e2ed6686e8/sam-newsletter-april-2026?e=875f90a671

Nestor – April 2024 issue available
https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/pages/news/870-april-2024-issue-available-2

Greek Mythology Quiz
https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/greek-mythology-quiz-2026

The Odyssey release date: When Christopher Nolan’s take on the seminal story arrives in theaters | Popverse
https://www.thepopverse.com/movies-the-odyssey-release-date

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