IN THE NEWS …

• Technician cracks 1,600-year-old mystery to replicate Roman masterpiece | News | The University of Sheffield
• The Island That Gave Copper Its Name Had a 3,600-Year-Old Port City that Received Goods From Sardinia, the Baltic and India During the Bronze Age
• Completion of excavation season at Marchello archaeological site
• Research around ancient Abdera in Greece
• Archaeologists discover major Roman roadside station
• Hattusa in Black and White: 120 Years of Excavations at the Hittite Capital | Arkeonews
• Roman house and possible temple unearthed in ancient city of Forum Julii
• Study offers new clues on Malta’s mysterious cart ruts
• Archaeologists Uncover Bronze Age Defences at Ancient Cyprus Site – Greek City Times
• Archaeologists may have just found the world’s oldest shipwreck | ScienceDaily
• A Roman Inscription Nearly 16 Feet Long Was Found Reused in Southeastern Spain Roman Baths
• Roman coins revive ancient legend of emperor’s Pembrokeshire camp – Herald.Wales
• Roman “Ghost Shipwreck” Rediscovered Off Italy After 67 Years – GreekReporter.com

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• A New Discovery Offers a Glimpse into the World of the Hittites—in Their Own Words | National Geographic
• Greek Expectations: Why Are Young Chinese Scholars Studying Western Classics?
• Biblical Archaeology Society – All Roads Lead to Byzantium?
• Ancient Skulls Found in Greece Reveal Evidence of Advanced Surgical Procedures – GreekReporter.com
• Ancient Romans Saved Their Urine For A Surprisingly Clever Reason – AOL
• Hidden in the Spanish Pyrenees, the traces of a Roman gold rush: miners used water to move about 2 million cubic meters of earth – Futura-Sciences

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• Obituary for Edward M. Bradley – CANE

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• Elon Musk’s AI-generated The Odyssey draws ridicule after first seven-minute episode released | The Independent
• ‘Pure garbage’: Elon Musk’s AI-generated ‘The Odyssey’ clip ridiculed online | Euronews
• Elon Musk’s Grok Releases First AI-Generated “Odyssey” Episode

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (2) Some highlights of a jaunt to the Bay of Naples
• Spencer Alley: Arcadia Illustrated
• FIEC Blog: FIEC Congress 2031 – call for candidacies
• OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Klawans on Forgeries and Authentication
• Weekly Varia no. 205, 10/25/26 – Noodlings
• Judeans: Celsus on Jesus adherents as followers of a bandit and criminal (mid-second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Zes vragen aan Alexander Smarius – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Injustice
• PaleoJudaica.com: Who was God talking to at creation and why?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Eisenstock, The Talmud Chronicles
• PaleoJudaica.com: Nicosia, Excerpting History in the Syriac World (open access, De Gruyter/Brill)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Victims of Violence from the early Roman fort Velsen 1 (Netherlands): Scenarios for a cold case review

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (458) Alexander the Greats Army | Warriors of History | Animated History Documentary – YouTube
• (458) 80% of this Roman City is Underwater – YouTube
• (458) Healing in the Ancient World: Medicine, Magic & Asclepius | Masterclass – YouTube
• (458) What Did Ancient Statues Smell Like? – YouTube
• (458) The Chorus in Aristophanes’ Frogs – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Scythie mineure. La fin de l’Antiquité et les premiers siècle du Moyen Âge | Spartokos a lu
• ‘Medea’ by Edith Hall | Book Review – WSJ
• Cycladic art: the Leonard N. Stern collection on loan from the Hellenic Republic – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Stranger-kingship in antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review