IN THE NEWS …

• Rare mother-of-pearl seal highlights movement of goods and ideas across Assyrian empire | The Times of Israel
• Ancient ‘magical’ tablet with spells to harm enemies discovered | The Independent
• Ancient curse tablet bears rare Greek inscription with binding spell intended to harm enemies
• Rhodes Unveils Ancient Shipyards and Secret Palace Grounds Closed to the Public for 75 Years
• Rare 1,800-Year-Old River God Mosaic Discovered in Ancient Aspendos – Arkeonews
• A Greek Temple Sank Into a Swamp 2,500 Years Ago. It Just Emerged.
• New Archaeological Finds at Greece’s Mieza Point to Alexander the Great’s Education Under Aristotle – GreekReporter.com
• Remains of a Large Hellenistic Temple Discovered in Northern Albania in an Ancient and Lost Illyrian City
• Hellenistic temple unearthed in northern Albania by archaeologists
• Archaeologists Uncover the Largest Roman Bathhouse Ever Found in the Netherlands – GreekReporter.com
• West Bank archaeology conference unearths controversy as politics takes center stage | The Times of Israel
• Italy Returns Seized Loot to Greece While Backing Parthenon Marbles Campaign – GreekReporter.com
• AI and Robotics Reconstruct Ancient Pompeii Frescoes – GreekReporter.com
• Ancient Roman Villa With Preserved Mosaics and Painted Walls Unearthed Near Rome – GreekReporter.com
• New Scientific Findings about School where Aristotle Taught Alexander the Great – The National Herald

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• Teasing the Temple in the Dead Sea Scrolls – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Pasts Imperfect (6.18.26)

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• Classics professor wins national award | University of Winnipeg News
• Senior thesis spotlight: A classics major applies modern criminology to accounts of ancient Roman bandits

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS…

• Return to the Colosseum: Ridley Scott Drops Huge Hint Over Paul Mescal’s Future
• How real is the Cyclops in ‘The Odyssey’?

AT THE MUSEUMS…

• Greece of the Romans, Rome of the Greeks: Acropolis Museum Hosts Major New Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art from Italy

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (5) Aeneid III.102-208 – by publius vergilius maro
• Three Things Thursday: Reading Edition | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• A small toot of my own horn | Classically Inclined
• The ASOR–Israel Antiquities Authority Special Relationship, & the Exclusion of Palestinians – EVERYDAY ORIENTALISM
• Achilles’ Wicked Deeds: Framing Human Sacrifice in Iliad 23 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Eilandvis – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: The glorious imaginary Temple(s) in the Dead Sea Scrolls
• PaleoJudaica.com: A mother-of-pearl, Indo-Pacific, Assyrian amulet-seal, oh my!
• PaleoJudaica.com: A contentious West Bank archaeology conference in Jerusalem
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La ceramica di produzione locale di Selinunte: Nascita ed evoluzione
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archibab 6. Archives paléo-babyloniennes : 150 ans de publication et d’études (1872-2022)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Entangled Africa: Intra-African Relations Between Rain Forest Mediterranean from Around 4,000 BCE to 1,500 CE

FRESH PODCASTERY …

• Secrets of Forgotten Pharaohs – Classical Wisdom Speaks – Apple Podcasts
• Boudica and the Iceni – The Ancients | Acast
• Why Did The Roman Empire Collapse? – Dan Snow’s History Hit | Acast

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (506) Is THIS the true end of Odysseus’s story!? – YouTube
• (508) What did Emperor Hadrian do? – YouTube
• (512) Sing Wrath, Goddess. Menin Aeide Theia. Iliad 1. Ure Museum Greek Archaeology. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
• (512) Delphic Paean to Apollo by Athenaeus. Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. Bettina Joy de Guzman. – YouTube
• (512) The Odyssey | Fantastic Voyage – YouTube
• (512) What was the Lelantine War? #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #ancient war – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS …

• Correspondance de Petre Alexandrescu 1991-2009 | Spartokos a lu
• Polybius. Book 8 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review