• Floralia (day 4)
• 65 A.D. — death of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus … a.k.a. Lucan (by one reckoning)
• 304 A.D. — beginning of Diocletianic persecutions under Galerius
• 311 A.D. — Edict of Toleration of Galerius
• 1936 — death of A.E. Housman

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[paywalled] Archaeologists Found a Sacred Egyptian Amulet in an Ancient Spanish Tomb
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a71128552/egyptian-scarab-tomb-spain/

Ancient Roman toilets in Bulgaria reveal early spread of intestinal parasites | Archaeology News Online Magazine
https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/roman-toilets-in-bulgaria-intestinal-parasites/

For centuries these dazzling Roman bowls were misread—until chemical traces exposed an unexpected maker
https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-centuries-dazzling-roman-bowls-misread.html

1,900-year-old souvenir cup featuring Hadrian’s Wall and Roman forts discovered in Spain | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1-900-year-old-souvenir-cup-featuring-hadrians-wall-and-roman-forts-discovered-in-spain

The Eetionian Gate: Piraeus’ Ancient Fortress Being Expanded – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/28/eetionian-gate-piraeus-ancient-fortress/

Scientists Identify the Use of Massive 1,000-Liter Roman Vessels Unearthed at Ostia, Italy – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/27/massive-roman-vessels-ostia-italy/

Pontius Pilate’s True Role Misunderstood for Nearly 2,000 Years Due to a Single Historical Line – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/28/pontius-pilates-true-role/

Hellenism and the Rise of Rome: How Greek Culture Shaped the Roman Empire – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/28/hellenism-rise-rome-greek-culture-shaped-roman-empire/

[old news]Manuscript Reveals Battle Between Greeks and Goths at Thermopylae – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/28/ancient-text-reveals-epic-battle-between-greeks-and-goths-at-thermopylae/

University of Glasgow – University news – 42 lost pages of the new testament manuscript discovered
https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1263245_en.html

Lost Pages of St Paul Letters Discovered Hidden on Ancient Greek Codex – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/27/lost-pages-letters-st-paul-ancient-greek-codex/

Greece Recovers 26 Antiquities from US in Latest Repatriation | GTP Headlines
https://news.gtp.gr/2026/04/27/greece-recovers-26-antiquities-from-us-in-latest-repatriation/

French researcher cracks 4,000-year-old Elamite script from Iran – France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/french-researcher-cracks-4-000-year-old-script-from-iran

When Cypriot Jews Revolted Against Rome – Biblical Archaeology Society

When Cypriot Jews Revolted Against Rome

The Enigma of Munigua, the Spectacular Roman City with the Largest Terrace Sanctuary Outside Italy

The Enigma of Munigua, the Spectacular Roman City with the Largest Terrace Sanctuary Outside Italy

[old news]A Stolen Headless Statue Has Finally Returned Home After 58 Years
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a71151939/stolen-headless-statue-case/

[wtf?]Meet The Enarees, The Transgender Priestesses Of Scythia Who Advised Royalty And Served A Snake-Legged Goddess | IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/the-enarees-were-a-group-of-badass-trans-priestesses-who-predated-socrates-83314

What Roman Politics Teaches Us About Modern Marketing 04/28/2026
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/414655/what-roman-politics-teaches-us-about-modern-market.html%3Fedition%3D142432

Fragments of Homer’s Iliad Found Buried with Roman-Era Mummy | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/fragments-of-homer-s-iliad-found-buried-with-roman-era-mummy-49030

Two more women bring harassment claims to Cambridge professor
https://thetab.com/2026/04/28/two-more-women-claim-they-were-sexually-harassed-by-esteemed-cambridge-university-professor

Dan Davis to lead underwater survey of ancient Roman harbor in Greece | Luther College

Dan Davis to lead underwater survey of ancient Roman harbor in Greece

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Excavation-Permit Flaunting Archaeologist Goes Free
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/04/excavation-permit-flaunting.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Wheels of British “Justice” Once More Grind Slowly when Antiquities and the Establishment are Involved
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-wheels-of-british-justice-once-more.html

The library at Mashhad / Mašhad / Meshed in Iran

The library at Mashhad / Mašhad / Meshed in Iran

Laudator Temporis Acti: Conservatism
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/conservatism.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Plato and Aristotle
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/plato-and-aristotle.html

Na de slag bij Gaugamela – Mainzer Beobachter

Na de slag bij Gaugamela

PaleoJudaica.com: “Syria: From Symbol to Letter” Exhibition
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/syria-from-symbol-to-letter-exhibition.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Lilith art exhibition
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/lilith-art-exhibition.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Were the Temple lavers celestial chariots and did Josiah remove them?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/were-temple-lavers-celestial-chariots.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Perseus News: Updates to the Scaife Viewer: Dictionaries, Commentaries, and a preliminary interface redesign
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/perseus-news-updates-to-scaife-viewer.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/women-leaders-in-ancient-synagogue.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Symposion 2024: Comunicazioni sul diritto greco ed ellenistico (Milano, 2–4 settembre 2024). Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Milano, 2.–4. September 2024)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/symposion-2024-comunicazioni-sul.html

Living with justice: a philosophical study of Porphyry’s On Abstinence – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.37/

Identities in antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.36/

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Slavery in Roman Society – Ancient History 101 | Acast

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How archaeology turns political in the West Bank – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-archaeology-turns-political-in-the-west-bank/

(100) Most Feared Spartan Warrior in Ancient Greece (S1) | History’s Greatest Warriors – YouTube

(101) Activity and Rest: The Power of Silence in Speech | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEL | John James – YouTube

(101) Happiness in Leisure | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | Joanna Thornhill – YouTube

(101) When Spectacle Turns Violent: The Riot of 59 AD in Pompeii – YouTube

(101) Prandium Latinum: A Productive Approach | Robert Conn | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

(101) Why Rome Failed to Conquer Iran – Ancient History DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

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Profiling Cleopatra. A pshychological history

Profiling Cleopatra. A pshychological history

Participating in the 2026 Landscape Archaeology fieldwork in Avdira

Participating in the 2026 Landscape Archaeology fieldwork in Avdira

Two lectures on recent discoveries in Crete

Two lectures on recent discoveries in Crete

Project MUSE – Roman Religion and Roman Empire
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/128324

• ludi Florales … a.k.a. Floralia (day 3) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who presided over (of course) flowers and their blossoms
• ca 65 A.D. — martyrdom of Torpes of Pisa
• 259 A.D. — martyrdom of Agapius at Citra (along with quite a few others)

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Digital reconstruction unveils face of ancient Pompeii man using AI | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/italy-pompeii-artificial-intelligence-reconstruction-victims-vesuvius-2b1b4c944f4285a10699b3f3053fe8a6

Archaeologists at Pompeii use AI to reconstruct the face of a man killed in the volcano’s eruption
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-ran-vesuvius-coins-lamp-mortar.html#goog_rewarded

Archaeologists discover over 100 ancient game boards in Ptolemais ruins in Libya | The Libya Observer
https://libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/archaeologists-discover-over-100-ancient-game-boards-ptolemais-ruins-libya

Location, location, location: How the Nile helped an ancient Sudanese city thrive for centuries | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1125571

New Discoveries at 12,000-Year-Old Karahantepe: Human Statues, Animal Carvings, and Surprising Diet Uncovered – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/new-discoveries-at-12000-year-old-karahantepe-human-statues-animal-carvings-and-surprising-diet-uncovered/

The Debate That Reveals How the Roman Empire Operated on Its Frontiers: Was Pontius Pilate a Procurator or a Prefect?

The Debate That Reveals How the Roman Empire Operated on Its Frontiers: Was Pontius Pilate a Procurator or a Prefect?

Newly Excavated Egyptian Tomb Sheds Light on Greco-Roman Era
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/greco-roman-period-egyptian-tomb-found-homer-iliad-1234782762/

[wtf?]Greece’s Mysterious Ancient Pyramid and “Sphinx” in Laconia – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/27/greece-mysterious-ancient-pyramid-sphinx-laconia/

Sparta: The Queen Who Gave Her Name to One of Ancient Greece’s Most Powerful Cities – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/27/sparta-queen-name-ancient-greek-city/

Keynote Speaker of Homer Day at University of Waterloo Explores Why Ancient Epic Still Matters – IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star
https://www.indystar.com/press-release/story/62824/keynote-speaker-of-homer-day-at-university-of-waterloo-explores-why-ancient-epic-still-matters/

War, its costs and consequences: Homer’s ‘Iliad’ continues to speak to us – ABC Religion & Ethics
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/war-cost-consequence-critique-homer-iliad-sydney-theatre-company/106610448

Dan Davis to lead underwater survey of ancient Roman harbor in Greece | Luther College

Dan Davis to lead underwater survey of ancient Roman harbor in Greece

Sarah Rey, historian: ‘The far right loves antiquity, which never asked for it’
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/04/27/sarah-rey-historian-the-far-right-loves-antiquity-which-never-asked-for-it_6752890_23.html

Greece Recovers 26 Antiquities from US in Latest Repatriation | GTP Headlines
https://news.gtp.gr/2026/04/27/greece-recovers-26-antiquities-from-us-in-latest-repatriation/

Updates to the Scaife Viewer: Dictionaries, Commentaries, and a preliminary interface redesign » Perseus Digital Library Updates

Updates to the Scaife Viewer: Dictionaries, Commentaries, and a preliminary interface redesign

De muren van Babylon – Mainzer Beobachter

De muren van Babylon

PaleoJudaica.com: What do women contribute to making babies?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/what-do-women-contribute-to-making.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Another “ancient” Hebrew manuscript in Turkey
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/another-ancient-hebrew-manuscript-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Top Ten Discoveries Related to Ezra and Nehemiah
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/top-ten-discoveries-related-to-ezra-and.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Niehoff, Philo of Alexandria: Every Good Man is Free (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/niehoff-philo-of-alexandria-every-good.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SERMONES. Satiren zur Gegenwart Lateinisch und Deutsch
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/sermones-satiren-zur-gegenwart.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Angelo Clareno et la transmission des Pères grecs en Occident: Traduction, circulation et réception d’un corpus de textes inédits
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/angelo-clareno-et-la-transmission-des.html

A companion to Aristophanes – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.35/
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Apollo & Artemis: Trailer – Live from Mount Olympus – Apple Podcasts

Dragon Slayer–Live from Mount Olympus – Apple Podcasts

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(52) Archaeologists use AI to generate image of Pompeii victim – YouTube

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Limited-Term Appointment in Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, Trent University – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2026/04/trentlta2026/

• ludi Florales … a.k.a. Floralia (day 2) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in
• 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who presided over (of course) flowers and their blossoms
• 12 B.C. — consecration of the signum et ara Vestae on the Palatine; it was a shrine built by Augustus as pontifex maximus to house the palladium (maybe) which Aeneas brought from Troy
• 32 A.D. — birth of the future emperor-for-a-little-while Otho
• 1st century — martyrdom of Aphrodisius and companions in what would become Languedoc
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Pollio in Pannonia