IN THE NEWS …

• Ancient name of city of Perperikon was Pergamum, archaeologists claim – Radio Bulgaria in English
• Archaeologists Unearth a Complete Roman Window Grille, Nails and All at Augusta Raurica, the Oldest Colony on the Rhine
• 2,300-Year-Old Shipwreck Reveals Rare Pottery and Sailors’ Personal Belongings Off Croatia | Arkeonews
• 2,000-Year-Old Engineering Marvel Built to Supply Jerusalem Under Hasmonean Kings Unearthed | Arkeonews
• Roman coins revive ancient legend of emperor’s Pembrokeshire camp – The Pembrokeshire Herald
• Egypt’s Fayoum mummy portraits to travel abroad for first time after restoration
• Northern Iberia abandoned its fortified Iron Age settlements around 400 BCE, then took far longer to rebuild | Archaeology News Online Magazine
• ‘Extremely rare’ Roman coins auctioned after discovery by metal detectorist

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• Did the Roman Empire really end at the Rhine? 5 misconceptions about the northern Limes – News – Utrecht University
• 1,300-Year-Old Byzantine Bread With Greek Inscription Unearthed in Turkey – GreekReporter.com
• What Is the Bar-Kokhba Revolt? – Biblical Archaeology Society

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

Mary Beard is right to expose Christopher Nolan’s sanitised Odyssey

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Why aren’t Torah scrolls vocalized?
• Weekly (not)Varia no. 203, 10/11/26 – Noodlings
• On CANEPress: Greek-English Pocket Dictionary – CANE
• Een ouderwetse Tacfarinas – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Raja & Seland (eds.), Palmyra, the Roman empire, and the third century crisis
• PaleoJudaica.com: A new section of Jerusalem’s Lower Aqueduct uncovered
• PaleoJudaica.com: Israel Museum: “Tiny Footprints: Childhood in the Ancient Land of Israel”
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aytas Mevkii/Islamlar in the Elmali Basin, Turkey: A Multi-Period Sepulchral Site in Northern Lycia
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The ‘Telemachus’ Complex’: Becoming Good Heirs on the Tragic Stage

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• Long After the Labyrinth – a p…–Visualising War and Peace – Apple Podcasts

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (59) Under the Bay of Naples: The Sunken Roman Port History Forgot – YouTube

LATINITAS …

• GAIUM LICOPPE FATIS CONCESSISSE

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Découverte de l’ancienne cité de Patrasus | Spartokos a lu
• Isocrates: Peri tou zeugous. An encomium of Alcibiades – Bryn Mawr Classical Review