IN THE NEWS …
- Fake Cuneiform Seals Reveal How Unreadable Writing Became a Status Symbol in the Ancient Levant | Arkeonews
- Silver coin of Byzantine emperor Justinian I discovered at Gonio-Apsaros – Georgia Today
- France returns 23 Syrian treasures kept for 15 years due to severed ties | The Times of Israel
- Mysterious 3,700-Year-Old Decorated Reed Revealed in Judaean Desert Cave | Arkeonews
- Hannibal’s Alpine route may have been driven by his war elephants’ energy needs | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- Ancient mosaics, coins to go on display in new exhibit in northern Israel | The Jerusalem Post
- How messianic extremists are weaponizing Israeli archaeology | The Jerusalem Post
- Herculaneum: The House of Charred Furniture Reopens After Thirty Years
- The Mystery of Metsamor: A Unique 7th-Century BC Burial in Armenia Reconsiders the Role of Women in the Kingdom of Urartu
- The Original Tradwives of Ancient Rome – Archaeology
- Roman ship raised intact to the surface in Spain for the first time in history – AS USA
- How the Iron Age elite craved Roman luxuries, even before invasion
- Ancient hoplite’s helmet, commercial amphorae found in private hands | eKathimerini.com
- Kazakhstan’s Iron Age ‘Golden Man’ and Other Elite Scythians of Eurasia Inherited Their High Social Status, Ancient DNA Suggests
- Nine Newly Discovered Inscriptions Shed Light on Ancient Greek City of Akmoneia
- Roman’s remains found in Lincolnshire garden reburied
- Archaeologists May Have Been Wrong About Olive Oil for Decades, New Study Finds
ALSO OF INTEREST …
- How Do We Make the River ‘Roman’? Changing Depositional Patterns in the Middle Thames Valley | Britannia | Cambridge Core
- Conflict in the Lake District: The Attack on Ambleside Roman Fort | Britannia | Cambridge Core
- Brading Roman Villa: Evidence of a Late Roman Massacre? | Britannia | Cambridge Core
- The Law Against Long Hair in Rome in the Year 416: Why Did the Roman Empire Ban Manes?
- The Ancient Roman Trick That Made Pompeii’s Streets Glow After Dark – GreekReporter.com
- Everything You Need to Know about Greek Mythology | PBS | PBS
- The Acropolis in Focus: Stillman’s Pioneering Photographs of 1870 – GreekReporter.com
CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …
- Colossae: A Biblical City of the Classical World – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Piecing together a Victorian love story | Hub
RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS…
- Opinion | The Beautiful Truth About Helen of Troy – The New York Times
- A Guide to (Some of) Penelope’s 108 Suitors in “The Odyssey”
- Adapting ‘The Odyssey’ Is a Challenge of Mythic Scale. Why Do We Keep Returning to This Ancient Epic? – Georgetown University
- One quick question: Why can’t we stop telling the story of Odysseus? | WWU News | Western Washington University
- ‘The Odyssey’: A guide to the characters and actors playing them | AP News
- How Christopher Nolan’s Blockbuster Echoes the Timeless Oral Tradition of the ‘Odyssey’ | Davidson
- 6 ‘Odyssey’ Monsters and the Legends That Inspired Them | HISTORY
- Christopher Nolan makes ‘The Odyssey’: ‘The ultimate adventure story’ | AP News
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …
- (4) Aeneid VI.1-97 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
- Money For Nothing | Sphinx
- RRC 14/2, Image Research Notes – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Friday Friday, July 10, 2026 (On the Chud Vision of Roman History) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Alexander de Grote in Babylon (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Alexander de Grote in Babylon (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Noncanonical scriptures in the Enlightenment
- PaleoJudaica.com: The journey of the Great Isaiah Scroll
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ritual boundaries in late-antique magic
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Lost fragments of Fayum: Contextualising the Mummy Portrait at Ditsong Museum
FRESH PODCASTERY…
- Ancient Warfare Podcast AW417 – The Evolution of Tactics
STREAMING MEDIA…
- (339) Odyssey a Day! Odyssey 1.1-1.10 Ancient Greek. lyre. www.bettinajoydeguzman.com #odyssey #mythology – YouTube
- (340) Syria unveils archaeological treasures returned from France after 15 years – YouTube
- (340) Odyssey 1. Lines 1-9. Ancient Greek. Lyre. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Odyssey a Day – YouTube
- (340) Odyssey 1.1-10 ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα. Ancient Greek. Lyre. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
- (340) What Can Roman Homes Tell Us About Life TODAY? – YouTube
- The Gods of the Greek Pantheon | HISTORY
- (340) Fake Professor Jiang is BACK!!! – YouTube
- (344) The African Queen Who Stopped the Roman Legions – YouTube
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