David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist

Parentalia (day 2) — the period for appeasing the dead continued. 270 A.D. — traditional date for the beheading of Saint Valentine

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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== ‘Virgin’ frescoes emerge from Pompeii suburb https://phys.org/news/2026-02-virgin-frescoes-emerge-pompeii-suburb.html Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Announces Discovery of Archaeological Site in Jifna North of Ramallah – Sada News Agency https://www.sadanews.ps/en/news/275617.html Guides Protest and Threats Shake Pompeii Archaeological Site https://www.ilmattino.it/en/guides_protest_and_threats_shake_pompeii_archaeological_site-9355926.html Spotted with drones at the archaeological site of Fioccaglia (Avellino) the Forum and a hitherto unknown…

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Parentalia (day 1) — a festival for honouring/appeasing the dead began on this day with a number of signs: temples were closed, altars did not have fires burn on them, people were forbidden to get married, and magistrates set down the trappings of their office. Fornacalia (day 1) — this was actually a “feriae conceptivae”,…

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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them https://phys.org/news/2026-02-wheat-barley-rye-grew-farmers.html Archaeological Finds in Ancient Tyras Reveal What Life Was Like for a Roman Soldier on the Empire’s Frontier Archaeological Finds in Ancient Tyras Reveal What Life Was Like for a Roman Soldier on the Empire’s Frontier…

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11 B.C. — the future emperor Tiberius marries Julia, daughter of Augustus

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