IN THE NEWS …

• Large part of Roman bathhouse found intact during excavations in Nijmegen | NL Times
• Athens Man Arrested Over Alleged Illegal Possession and Sale of Antiquities – tovima.com
• A Smuggler Tried to Sell Ancient Coins. It Didn’t Go as Planned.
• Archaeologists Uncover Rare Assyrian Artifact in Central Israel – Archaeology
• Rare Late Roman Sarcophagus Discovered in Cavtat – The Dubrovnik Times
• Rare cultic stone from Israelite mansion may testify to King Hezekiah’s biblical reform | The Times of Israel
• A second sealed and intact Etruscan tomb discovered in San Giuliano just one year after the first find
• Torre del Greco, major discoveries at Villa Sora: frescoes, capitals, and more come to light
• ‘Wondrous’ Roman busts unearthed in ancient winepress in northern Israel | The Times of Israel
• ! Murcia Today – Roman Archaeological Discovery Delays Lorca High-speed Rail Works One Year On
• Bulgarian Archaeologists Uncover Possible Artemis Statue Remains at Heraclea Sintica – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
• Lavish Roman villa discovered outside Rome’s walls may have been frequented by Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius | Live Science
• Dalla terra di Barbarano riemerge la bellezza. Aperta tomba intatta

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• The Global Thucydides database is online
• Synagogues Jesus and Mary Magdalene Knew – Biblical Archaeology Society
• The Daily Dump: Social Life in Ancient Roman Latrines – Archaeology
• The Stunning Trojan War Mosaic Found in England – GreekReporter.com
• The Magnificent Ancient Greek Theaters of Messene and Sicyon – GreekReporter.com
• Mystery Over the Lashed Ancient Satyr Unveiled in Athens – GreekReporter.com
• Pain relief in ancient Egypt – Part 1: plant-based remedies – The Past
• Is the Island of Ithaca in ‘The Odyssey’ a Real Place? | HISTORY
• Who was the first transgender person?
• Did the Romans Ever Reach Iceland?

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS…

• How The Odyssey film is highlighting ‘shrinking’ access in Warwickshire for pupils to the Classics
• How 3D printing revived Roman Britain’s most popular board game
• Tom Hiddleston & Disney’s Pompeii: Out Of Time Lands Official Trailer & Release Date

ANCIENT DRAMA …

• Why a 2 400-year-old Greek tragedy is so relevant to South Africa today

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE…

• (5) Aeneid II.706-804 – by publius vergilius maro
• Odysseus’ Catastrophic Encounter With Aeolus the Keeper of the Winds | TheCollector
• Roman Times: Fecunditas, Castitas, Gravitas: The Herculaneum Woman as a Visual Formula for Roman Female Virtue (2nd Century CE)
• Another two sermons of St Augustine discovered: on the Witch of Endor
• The 1412 inventory of the manuscripts of Amelungsborn Abbey
• Ten Theses On Not Leaving Academia | Sphinx
• Het Verre Westen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Rather Strange Object
• PaleoJudaica.com: Was there a real Tower of Babel?
• PaleoJudaica.com: The first (bad) book on an apocryphal gospel?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Scrolls or unidentified rectangular objects?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les lamelles de Styra. Nouvelle édition avec étude paléographique, dialectologique et onomastique

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• Apollo & Artemis 6: “The seed …–Live from Mount Olympus – Apple Podcasts

STREAMING MEDIA…

• (438) Why Sparta Beat Athens – The Fall of the Empire – Peloponnesian War – YouTube
• What animal deities reveal about Cleopatra’s fading power
• (440) Fall of the Roman Republic | Part 2 | Gaius Gracchus – YouTube
• (445) The Parthenon, Acropolis – YouTube
• (452) Erased History: Temple of Serapis On The Quirinal Hill – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Reading Conflict in the Babylonian Talmud: Behind The Fragility of the Mind — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
• Al di qua delle Colonne d’Ercole. Scoperta e rappresentazioni del Mediterraneo – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• The Greek superpower: Sparta in the self-definitions of Athenians – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

CFPS, CONFERENCES, AND ONLINE TALKS…

• 14th International Congress of Egyptologists, July 2027