IN THE NEWS …

• Project Revives Mycenaean Legacy at “Archontiki” on Greece’s Psara – GreekReporter.com
• Paul’s Lost Words Recovered – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Daunian kyathos: A 2,700-year-old ceramic cup from Italy decorated with an exuberant-looking, bug-eyed fellow | Live Science
• Tombs, coffin cache and mummified cats
• Sea of Galilee dig may reveal home of Jesus’ apostles, archaeologist says
• Beneath the Western Wall, a hidden Jerusalem is revealed
• How ancient seeds are rewriting the history of biblical-era trade with Arabia | The Times of Israel
• Ancient settlement with weaving workshop and longhouses uncovered in Germany gravel pit | Archaeology News Online Magazine
• A Pompeii Victim Fleeing Vesuvius May Finally Have an Identity: A Roman Doctor – Arkeonews
• Pompeii victim identified as Roman physician killed while fleeing Vesuvius eruption | Archaeology News Online Magazine
• ‘Extremely rare’ 2,000-year-old bread loaf unearthed at Roman legionary camp

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• Study Reveals What Caused the Rise and Collapse of Roman Anatolia – GreekReporter.com
• Ancient Greek Shields Struck Fear Into Enemy – GreekReporter.com
• Is the Biblical Book of Daniel a Forgery From Alexander the Great’s Era? – GreekReporter.com
• Phaeacians, the Mysterious Civilization That Lived on Greece’s Island of Corfu – GreekReporter.com
• Treasure Trove: What a ceramic floor tile tells us about an ancient Roman army
• 2,200 years ago Rome got caught in the Thucydides Trap. The result transformed the ancient world | HistoryExtra

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS…

• Elliot Page’s Rumored Character in ‘The Odyssey’ May Be Elpenor, Not Achilles
• Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Lupita Nyong’o’s Dual Role Explained—From Helen Of Troy To Clytemnestra – IMDb

ANCIENT DRAMA …

• The Huntington’s ‘Oedipus el Rey’ is a singular and sharp retelling of a Greek tragedy | WBUR News

AT THE MUSEUMS…

• The Remaining Body: an Etruscan Urn on Display at the Archaeological | inItaly | True Italian Experience – inItaly
• Nerly in Bremen: the restoration that revealed the Aqua Claudia and an | inItaly | True Italian Experience – inItaly

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE,..

• What Do You Do With a Problem Like Achilles?
• Jimmy Corsetti Releases Video Accusing Zahi Hawass of Crimes and Cover-Ups – JASON COLAVITO
• FIEC Blog: Caelum and Ouranós summer courses
• Weekly Varia no. 182, 05/17/26 – Noodlings
• Introducing Iliad 21 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: The languages of Achaemenid-Hellenistic Central Asia
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on Jerusalem’s mystery tunnel
• PaleoJudaica.com: Notes on the latest Enoch Seminar
• PaleoJudaica.com: Nelson, Jesus’ Physical Appearance (T&T Clark)

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• Seeing the Writing on the Wall at Pompeii (Thanks to New Photographic Techniques), or, More Graffiti about Sex and Gladiators | This Week in the Ancient Near East

STREAMING MEDIA…

• (134) The New History Of The Picts – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Review: In the Shadow of Vesuvius – CANE
• Julian Augustus: Platonism, myth, and the refounding of Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

CFPS, CONFERENCES, AND ONLINE TALKS…

• Honouring Hyakinthos and Apollo at Amykles