IN THE NEWS …

• Findings in Lisbon reveal the aromatic plants and woods used in funeral pyres, and the first evidence of myrtle in a cremation context across the Roman Empire
• Headless Figurines Found at Kanlıtaş Höyük in Türkiye Reveal an 8,000-Year-Old Neolithic Closing Ritual – Arkeonews
• Nearly 2,000-Year-Old Rare Roman Mosaic Made with Two Techniques Unearthed Beneath Soissons – Arkeonews
• Princely Celtic tomb dating back over 2,000 years discovered in Germany
• Newly Discovered Temple of the Sun to Be the Focus of This Summer’s Excavations at Perperikon – По света и у нас – БНТ Новини
• Inside the ancient sanctuary of Sequana, at the source of the Seine
• This Rare, Intricate Brooch Represents the Roman Empire’s Long, Disjointed Attempt to Conquer Scotland
• 2,200-Year-Old Roman Basilica Found Near Rome Reveals Rare Painted Female Head – GreekReporter.com

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• Premiere of ‘The Woman Behind Elgin’ Draws Spotlight to the Parthenon Marbles Debate – tovima.com
• The Romans drew penises all over Hadrian’s Wall
• Alexander the Great Dies in Babylon: June 10, 323 BC
• Did Ancient Greek Hero Odysseus Travel to Ireland? – GreekReporter.com
• Did the Mycenaeans Have Temples? – GreekReporter.com
• Greek Custodian Used To Be Demigod Back In Home Country – The Onion

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• News – Announcing the 2027 AIA Gold Medal Winner: James C. Wright – Archaeological Institute of America

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS…

• We’d Bet on This ‘Odyssey’ Trojan Horse Popcorn Bucket
• Sleeping Roman statue approved for park in Stevenage
• I am Emperor Caligula, and Even I Think the White House UFC Event Is a Bit Much – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

AT THE MUSEUMS…

• The restored Torso of Leghorn, a large bronze from the Medici collections, returns to the Archaeological Museum of Florence

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE…

• (7) Aeneid II.1-104 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• Roman Times: After the Eagles Left: The Last Romans at the Edge of Empire
• Roman Times: Diana’s Curse, Meleager’s Glory: The Boar as Elite Symbol in Imperial Rome
• Roman Times: Power, Prestige, and Bronze: Elite Horsemanship in Pre-Etruscan Italy
• The Forgotten Roman Wars for the Conquest of Scotland | TheCollector
• An Early Roman Magistrate at Caere – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Whose Teeth?! Dental Prosthetics and Enslavement – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• De Romeinse Provence (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: What do the Phoenician inscriptions say?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Did the Phoenicians give us democracy?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Frontier of the Roman Province of Raetia
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: MediterrÁneo Antiguo. El legado del Próximo Oriente y Egipto

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• Disability in Ancient Greece – Ancient History 101 | Acast
• Sennacherib’s Throne Room of Doom, or Hezekiah Can See His House from Here | This Week in the Ancient Near East

STREAMING MEDIA…

• (249) Stealing Israel’s History: Archaeologists Battle Almost Daily to Prevent Looters at Ancient Sites – YouTube
• (250) This 1,700-Year-Old Song Is the Oldest Christian Music We Have – YouTube
• (250) The Ancient Greeks loved romance novels too! #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #romancebooks – YouTube
• (251) The Last Meal of Emperor Commodus – YouTube
• (252) Learn Latin the way the Ancient Greeks did! – YouTube
• The rare casket that reveals Ancient Rome’s extreme wealth

BOOK REVIEWS…

• The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry By Michael B. Cosmopoulos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2025. Pp. 370. ISBN 978-1-009-58288-9 (hardcover) £35. | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 0, No 0
• Roman Architecture By Janet DeLaine. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024. Pp. 276. ISBN 978-0-19-284212-1 (paperback) €23.60. | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 0, No 0
• Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art Edited by Nathaniel B. Jones, Milette Gaifman, and Jaś Elsner (Yale Classical Studies 40). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2025. ISBN 9781009505789 (hardcover) €125. | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 0, No 0
• Nomoi: soziale Normen und Gesetze der griechischen Welt bis 450 v. Chr. – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• A commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses – Bryn Mawr Classical Review