IN THE NEWS …

• Fingerprints of Artisans and Officials Discovered on the Backs of Clay Seals from Ancient Jerusalem
• Archaeologists Discover Early Bronze Age Settlement in Southern Georgia – Caspianpost.com
• Ancient cemetery from Iron Age, Parthian era discovered in northern Iran – Tehran Times
• More than Twenty Bases of Votive Statues Found Still in Their Original Position at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Frangissa, Cyprus
• Excavation campaign at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Frangissa
• Uncovering the lives of rock doves in Hala Sultan Tekke
• West Bank, Gaza antiquities bill breaks Israel’s international obligations – legal official | The Times of Israel
• Knesset committee postpones vote on controversial West Bank and Gaza antiquities bill | The Times of Israel
• Luxembourg Gold Coins Founded: 141 gold coins found in a Luxembourg field reveal a lost Roman secret buried for 1,700 years | World News – The Times of India
• Alexandria Beyond Its Lighthouse – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Türkiye backs Greece on Elgin Marbles dispute as UNESCO issues landmark call to Britain – Türkiye News
• A New Generation Takes up the Cause to Reunite the Parthenon Marbles – tovima.com

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• Bead net funerary shroud: A 2,500-year-old beaded veil from Egypt depicting the deceased’s transformation into Osiris | Live Science
• 9,000-Year-Old Canhasan May Hold a Missing Clue to the Origins of Çatalhöyük’s Symbolic World – Arkeonews

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE,..

• A little more on the lost “De baptismo” of Melito of Sardis in Coptic
• Urban Satire: Juvenal 3 – Antigone
• Greek Idioms and Sappho on CANEPress – CANE
• Weekly Varia no. 183, 05/24/26 – Noodlings
• De ladder van Hawkes – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Dead
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Kind of Cake
• PaleoJudaica.com: Was the Great Isaiah Scroll originally two independent “Isaiah” scrolls?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lost books or just misplaced?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Does West Bank and Gaza antiquities bill violate Israel’s international agreements?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire: Part IV. Supplement and Indexes
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ugly Productions: An Aesthetics of Greek Drama
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Catullus: the complete poetry
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Roman Glass from Karanis found by the University of Michigan Archaeological Expedition in Egypt, 1924-29

STREAMING MEDIA…

• (62) The Odyssey Book 1 Lines 1–21 sung | Restored Archaic Greek | Greek History – YouTube
• (62) The Odyssey Discourse Is Embarrassing – YouTube
• (62) Decidere | Spoken Latin Podcast (68) – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• In Pompeii, the dawn of Christianity – Il Sole 24 ORE

CFPS, CONFERENCES, AND ONLINE TALKS…

• Sparta and the Peloponnese at War