IN THE NEWS …

• 1,500-Year-Old Mosaic Room Unearthed in Ancient Smyrna in Western Türkiye | Arkeonews
• Ancient bladder stone surgery tool discovered at Bulgarian Roman city
• Ministry announces several major new discoveries at Marina Alamein
• Summer festival revives worship of Ancient Greek deities at Mount Olympus – France 24
• Homer’s Ithaca – the homeland of Odysseus – was not an island
• 3,000-Year-Old Bones Reveal How Ancient Greeks Cremated Their Dead – GreekReporter.com
• Elite families ruled nomadic Scythian society 2,500 years ago, DNA analysis reveals | Live Science
• Archaeologists resume study of Roman fortress Castra Martis in Bulgaria’s Kula – Radio Bulgaria in English
• Roman Sling Bullets Reveal Forgotten Battle at English Fort – GreekReporter.com
• The discovery of an abandoned defective ingot leads to the uncovering of a Roman-era lead smelting workshop in Germany
• Ancient Tree Rings Reveal Timeline of Lost Bronze Age Palace in Greece – GreekReporter.com
• Geophysical Survey Reveals Ancient Greek Military Camp in Uzbekistan – GreekReporter.com

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• explorator 28.27 ~ July 5, 2026 – Explorator
• The Death of Ancient Greek Philosopher Anaxarchus Still Astonishes Historians to This Day – GreekReporter.com
• Elgin Marbles Restitution: The Case for Returning Them to Athens
• Mindblowing Ancient Roman underwater city | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines
• Beyond the Busts: Unveiling Alexander the Great’s True Face – GreekReporter.com
• Did Ancient Greeks Reach the Pacific? The Theory of Greek-Polynesian Linguistic Ties – GreekReporter.com
• America at 250: How Ancient Greece Shaped the United States – GreekReporter.com
• Ancient DNA Reveals Key Ingredient in Greco-Roman Garum Sauce – GreekReporter.com
• New Details Emerge About the Basilica of Vitruvius: Initial Investigations in Fano Have Been Completed
• 23 Years Later, Legendary Creator’s Most Underrated Series Confirms New Physical Release Ahead of Anime Debut – ComicBook.com

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• Mary Beard, historian: ‘There is a deeply far-right appropriation of the classics’ | Culture | EL PAÍS English

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• The Best Translation Of The Odyssey To Read Before Christopher Nolan’s New Movie Releases

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• “As If He Were Going to His Death”: Priam and Katabasis in Iliad 24 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• (3) Aeneid V.315-423 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• (3) Aeneid V.424-518 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• Was Homer’s Ithaca an Island? – Antigone
• Habits and Deliberation – Noodlings
• Collections: On the Declaration of Independence – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• How Medieval Britons Remembered the Fall of Roman Britain | TheCollector
• Why Were the Fiercest Roman Gladiators Vegetarian? | TheCollector
• Petrus in Rome (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Petrus in Rome (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Faits divers (55) mopperblog – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Cover, Philo of Alexandria, On the Change of Names (SBL/Brill)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Knight-Messenger, The Place of Court Tales in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature (T&T Clark)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Audio-Visual Roman Women: Gender, History and Screen Media
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Impaired Consciousness in Ancient Medical Texts
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Egyptian Women’s Database

FRESH PODCASTERY …

• Anima Latina 05.07.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
• The Trojan War – The Ancients | Acast
• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 04.07.2026 – Vatican News

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (230) The Origins of Rome #ancienthistory #ancientrome #ancienthistoryguy – YouTube
• (230) Indian White Elephant in Ancient Rome – https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00491IZZ8 – YouTube
• (230) Can we now finally read the ancient Herculaneum Scrolls? #archaeology #AncientRome – YouTube
• (233) Manuscript spotlight: The Herculaneum scroll burned by Vesuvius…but saved by technology – YouTube
• (232) Italy displays paintings from an ancient Etruscan tomb, its latest cultural acquisition – YouTube
• (233) The Golden Tomb Hidden Beneath the Pyramids – YouTube
• (233) Anatomy of the Ancient Egyptian Soul: The Akh
  – YouTube
• (233) The Archaic Period of Greece #AncientGreece #ancienthistory #ancienthistoryguy – YouTube
• (234) An artist who captured the entire ‘Odyssey’ in one painting |#SHORTS| National Gallery – YouTube
• (234) Paul Cartledge | Pericles: Statesman, Demagogue, Eccentric – YouTube