IN THE NEWS …
- A snake-headed vessel hints at a mysterious Roman cult
- Researchers Develop Method to Tell Authentic Artifacts from Fakes
- An Egyptian Tomb’s 4,000-Year-Old False Door Reveals How the Living Honored the Dead | Discover Magazine
- Ancient Smyrna excavations reveal rare wall paintings and previously unknown rooms
- Colchester fossil gives glimpse into Roman world
- Roman town in Germany was abandoned after only two generations, archaeologists find | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- Surprising Ingredients Discovered in Ancient Egyptian Paint: Animal Glues, Chicken Egg, and Sesame and Moringa Proteins
- Burnham reverses course on Parthenon sculptures: From “Return them without conditions” to “it’s a matter for the British Museum” – ProtoThema English
- Phanagoria Emerges as the Birthplace of Winemaking in Russia – Popular Archeology
- Archaeological mission uncovers ancient residential complex and wine press at Memphis
- More Than 22,000 Ancient Artifacts Seized in Florida – The New York Times
- Roman statues from the 2nd century A.D., including those of Emperor Hadrian and his wife Sabina, found in the ancient Greek city of Kibyra
ALSO OF INTEREST …
- August 2026 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
- “The bride is beautiful.” A red-figure wedding alabastron from the Oppermann collection | Antiquity at the BnF
- Scientists Reveal the Deadliest Weapon of the Bronze Age – GreekReporter.com
CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …
- ‘Odyssey’ Translator Emily Wilson Is Starting Over After Calling Christopher Nolan’s Blockbuster Film ‘Abysmal’
- Why Emily Wilson Is Translating Homer’s Odyssey Again – GreekReporter.com
RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …
ANCIENT DRAMA …
AT THE MUSEUMS …
- Fragment of Roman mosaic ‘thought lost forever’ to go on show
- ISAW presents: Cursed! The Power of Magic in the Ancient World
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …
- (2) Aeneid XII.216-310 – by publius vergilius maro
- Roman Economy and Taste | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- (2) August, Augustus, and the Sun – by Agnes Crawford
- Was Ares the patron god of Sparta? – Bad Ancient
- Kiwi Hellenist: And the word was God (John 1.1)
- Social War Hoards – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Library of Alexandria: What Was Actually Lost | Veiled Antiquity
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Dilettantes
- Livia Augusta – Mainzer Beobachter
- Een bezoek aan Kalkriese – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: How did Dr. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson change his mind?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Virtus et Humanitas (Waxmann)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Using Viscous Remnant Magnetization to detect forged ceramics
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Perseus News: In praise of the open digital classics ecosystem
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