IN THE NEWS …

• Looting of Yemen’s Antiquities Surges in Houthi-Controlled Areas
• Roman coins among finds along East West Rail route
• Sirolo: A burial complex featuring a princely tomb and the remains of a chariot has been discovered in the Picene necropolis
• Ancient Herculaneum scroll read for the first time after nearly 2,000 years | Archaeology News Online Magazine
• Someone buried 40,000 Roman coins 1,700 years ago and never returned. Then archaeologists uncovered the hidden treasure | – The Times of India
• Kykeon Mystery of Eleusis May Have Scientific Basis – tovima.com
• Repatriation of a Cypriot antiquity from the UK
• Roman ship raised intact to the surface in Spain for the first time in history – AS USA
• Rome: The frescoes in the François Tomb are now part of Italy’s national heritage
• Bronze Age village with 52 huts and Roman baths uncovered at Italy’s Case Pente site | Archaeology News Online Magazine
• Towering Bronze Laocoön Sells for $18.1 Million at Sotheby’s, Demolishing Estimate

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• Ancient Rome’s ‘Google Maps’ is here and working: Omnesviae | Euronews
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• Oligarchy’s Ancient Origins by Matt Simonton – Project Syndicate
• In 2023, scientists scanned a charred Herculaneum scroll and reopened a library buried by Vesuvius | – The Times of India
• Ancient Roman garum is the condiment serious chefs are quietly putting on everything | Health | grandrapidsmn.com

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• Harriet and Michael Flower transfer to emeritus status | Princeton Classics
• Clarkson University Professor Collaborates with Archaeologists in Spain to Investigate Galician Roman Saltworks | Clarkson University

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• 4 Biggest The Odyssey Controversies Explained

AT THE MUSEUMS …

• Rome in Coins: A major exhibition spread across three venues in the capital traces over 2,000 years of history

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• Disfiguring the Fallow Earth: Introducing Iliad 24 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• End of the Season Work | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
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• (3) Aeneid V.104-200 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• Telemachus And Eucharis, By Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin (c. 1790-1870) – The Historian’s Hut
• PaleoJudaica.com: Did Joseph have a wife (wives?) before Mary?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Turbo footnotes in the Victorian era
• PaleoJudaica.com: The first complete French translation of the Talmud
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sprachwissenschaftliche und kulturhistorische Reflexionen: Festschrift zu Ehren von Jörg Klinger
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Libri greci e greco-copti nel monachesimo egiziano
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gender and Iconography in Antiquity: Femininities, Masculinities, Ambiguities, and Beyond in the Ancient Levant, Near East, and Mediterranean
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Corpus of Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant. Volume VI: Lachish, Lod, Lohamei HaGeta’ot

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• Mesopotamia and the Making of …–Classical Wisdom Speaks – Apple Podcasts
• The Flood Myth – The Ancients | Acast

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (157) Greek Literature Professors React to The Odyssey Trailer | The Movie vs The Book – YouTube
• (157) Who was Marcus Aurelius? #ancienthistory #marcusaurelius #anceinthistoryguy – YouTube
• (158) Cow-eyed women in ancient Greece – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS …

• Why Homer has lasted 3,000 years (and will last 3,000 more)
• New Histories of Archaic Greece: The Launch of the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World
• Storage in the Eastern and Southeastern Carpathians, 1st–6th Centuries AD | Spartokos a lu