IN THE NEWS …

• 120 Roman-Era Inscriptions Found Deep in a Spanish Cave Point to a Mysterious Goddess Named ‘Domina’
• Ancient Roman firehouse may have been found near Rome’s famed Colosseum | Fox News
• Hyksos-era complex – The Past
• Marina el-Alamein tombs – The Past
• ‘A sucker born every minute’: The man who duped tourists with a fake Greek amphitheater | CNN
• Shipwrecked Wine Jars Discovered Near Sicily – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Türkiye probes 3,400-year-old Hittite structure at ancient Sapinuwa | Daily Sabah
• 5,500-year-old settlement traces unearthed in eastern Türkiye | Daily Sabah
• Mysterious 4,000-year-old tablet unearthed near Lake Garda
• Ancient Greek Elites Wore Jewelry Made From Space Metal, New Study Finds
• Archaeological dig returns to site of Roman villa in North Wales | University of Chester
• Two Bronze Age foals found buried beside an ancient burial mound
• Search for Napried wreck revives debate over Cyprus antiquities – Cyprus Inform

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• M’sia professor who said Romans learnt shipbuilding from Malays fired from university – Mothership.SG – News from Singapore, Asia and around the world

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• Dune 3 Already Confirmed Its Own Version Of The Odyssey’s Coolest Moment
• Draping, fluidity, and antiquity: the peplum trend is back in fashion

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (2) Aeneid XI.296-398 – by publius vergilius maro
• A new modern apocryphon – Scott Wolter and the “Yeshua Scroll in the Green Jar”
• Ancient Curse Tablets: Letters to the Dead | Veiled Antiquity
• Reflecting on Odyssey Book Club – CANE
• Weekly Varia no. 196, 08/23/26 – Noodlings
• Zes vragen aan Josine Schrickx – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Collins, Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on Huqoq at the Yigal Allon Center Museum
• PaleoJudaica.com: The MOTB DSS exhibit – final rotation
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SURA صورة – Unlocking the Photographic Archives of the Pioneering Years of Egyptology at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• 125: Ptolemaic Egypt – East Af…–The Hellenistic Age Podcast – Apple Podcasts

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (1107) Could We Have Misidentified Ithaca for 2,000 Years? – YouTube

LATINITAS …

• (1107) Latin speakers are making a big mistake – YouTube
• DE CONFLICTU IN ORIENTE MEDIO ET ICTIBUS MILITARIBUS IN IRANIA

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Rereading Plato’s Republic – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• The Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria: second sun and seventh wonder of antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review