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Archaeologists uncover 5,500-year-old ceremonial site in Jordan | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102325

Hidden for centuries: Archaeologists unearth ancient Roman water basin
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-hidden-centuries-archaeologists-unearth-ancient.html

New study suggests the ancient Egyptian plague of Akhetaten may not have happened
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-egyptian-plague-akhetaten.html

Lion-Head Stone Spout Channels Wine in New Bathonea Wine & Olive Oil Workshop Discovery – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/lion-head-stone-spout-channels-wine-in-new-bathonea-wine-olive-oil-workshop-discovery/

Archaeologists discover Roman settlement in Türkiye’s Adıyaman | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/archaeologists-discover-roman-settlement-in-turkiyes-adiyaman

Vineyards Unearthed in Marseille Reveal How Ancient Greeks Brought Winemaking to France – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/17/vineyards-marseille-ancient-greek-winemaking-france/

Gabii, new archaeological discoveries and prospects for opening by 2026
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/gabii-new-archaeological-discoveries-and-prospects-for-opening-by-2026

Archaeologists find chest full of Roman coins and precious jewelry – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/archaeologists-find-chest-full-of-roman-coins-and-precious-jewelry-histria/

Archaeologists Uncover Remains of Roman Soldiers in a 3rd-Century Well in Croatia – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-uncover-remains-of-roman-soldiers-in-a-3rd-century-well-in-croatia/

Grave of young woman dating to 2nd century discovered near village in Southeastern Bulgaria – History and religion
https://bnr.bg/en/post/102226437/grave-of-young-woman-dating-to-2nd-century-discovered-near-village-in-southeastern-bulgaria

Roman-Era Hospital Converted into Byzantine Church Found in Ancient Kaunos, Turkey – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/17/roman-era-hospital-byzantine-church-ancient-kaunos-turkey/

A parents’ angry letter – by Owen Rees – Our Ancient World
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/a-parents-angry-letter?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2470207&post_id=147026766&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Why Rome’s origin myth leaves more questions than answers | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/romulus-and-remus-rome-empire

Westmont College Puts Its Own Spin on ‘Antigone’ with ‘Antigonick’ – The Santa Barbara Independent

Westmont College Puts Its Own Spin on ‘Antigone’ with ‘Antigonick’

Braille for Ancient Languages | Blind Scholar

Braille for Ancient Languages

Classics honorary hosts annual Homer reading – Hillsdale Collegian
https://hillsdalecollegian.com/2025/10/classics-honorary-hosts-annual-homer-reading/

Ancient Coins Donated to University by Collector | News | UMass Lowell
https://www.uml.edu/news/stories/2025/ancient-coins.aspx

The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts | Open Culture

The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts

[AI?] Ancient Greek Genius: The Inventions and Discoveries That Shaped the World –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/10/17/ancient-greek-genius-the-inventions-and-discoveries-that-shaped-the-world/

Women in the ancient Greek world: history and historiography | The Journal of Hellenic Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-hellenic-studies/article/women-in-the-ancient-greek-world-history-and-historiography/41819B7DC4EA8E096FCBC6BEF8AEA872?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Carthaginian bronze coins from a hoard found off the coast of Tunisia | Libyan Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/libyan-studies/article/carthaginian-bronze-coins-from-a-hoard-found-off-the-coast-of-tunisia/6CD68F80B8698E12D99157393CA121BD?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Roman Times: Etruscan influence in metalworking of the Golasecca and Veneti cultures
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/10/etruscan-influence-in-metalworking-of.html

Roman Times: 7th century BCE Ivory depicting the “Sons of Tinia,” precursor to Castor and Pollux
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/10/7th-century-bce-ivory-depicting-sons-of.html

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

The triumph of the President | Blog post | Mary Beard

The triumph of the President

PaleoJudaica.com: Alexander the Great in Jerusalem?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/alexander-great-in-jerusalem.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The latest on the Heculaneum papyri
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-latest-on-heculaneum-papyri.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On Adam, Eve, Enkidu, and growing up
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-adam-eve-enkidu-and-growing-up.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721-705 BC)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-royal-inscriptions-of-sargon-ii.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Names Indices of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/complete-names-indices-of-royal.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’Europe de l’Est au Ier millénaire après J.-C. selon l’archéologie et la numismatique
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/leurope-de-lest-au-ier-millenaire-apres.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Perseus Digital Library News
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/perseus-digital-library-news.html

Decius. Ein roemischer Kaiser zwischen Tradition und Restauration – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Decius. Ein roemischer Kaiser zwischen Tradition und Restauration

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Underneath The Toga–Instant Classics – Apple Podcasts

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(28) When the Gods Fell Silent: The End of Mythology in Ancient Greece | Greek Mythology Final Episode – YouTube

Female Roles in Foundation Legends 2025 — Dr. Altay Coskun
https://www.altaycoskun.com/female-roles-2025
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CFP: Classical Association of the Canadian West (CACW) Conference 2026 – February 20-21, 2026 at MacEwan University (Extended Deadline – October 31) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cacw26ext/

Call for Papers: 10th Epigraphy.info Workshop in Graz (Austria), March 24th-26th 2026 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

Call for Papers: 10th Epigraphy.info Workshop in Graz (Austria), March 24th-26th 2026

University of Florida – Details – Assistant Professor in Mediterranean Archaeology
https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/537574/assistant-professor-in-mediterranean-archaeology

• c. 107 — martyrdom of Ignatius of Antioch
• c. 136 — martyrdom of Heron

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Northern Aegean Found to Be Earliest Producer of Commercial Amphorae – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/15/northern-aegean-found-earliest-producer-commercial-amphorae/

A Singular Statue of a Suid Discovered in the Ancient City of Gortyna in Crete

A Singular Statue of a Suid Discovered in the Ancient City of Gortyna in Crete

Archaeologists find chest full of Roman coins and precious jewelry – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/archaeologists-find-chest-full-of-roman-coins-and-precious-jewelry-histria/

Roman silver treasure unearthed near Borsum
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/roman-silver-treasure-unearthed-near-borsum/156151

Divers find Greco-Roman shipwreck carrying stacks of tableware – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/2000-year-old-adrasan-plate-greco-roman-shipwreck-with-tableware-still-stacked/

1,000 gold coins from 1st century discovered with a metal detector – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/over-1000-gold-coins-from-1st-century-bc-discovered-baddow-with-metal-detector/

1,800-year-old statue unearthed at Smyrna
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/1-800-year-old-statue-unearthed-at-smyrna-214687

[AI?] Roman bronze ‘ghost’ skeleton revealed as rare party favor | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-870475

Skeleton-filled well in Croatia likely holds remains of Roman soldiers, study finds | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/skeleton-filled-well-in-croatia-likely-holds-remains-of-roman-soldiers-study-finds

Remains of Seven Roman Soldiers Fallen in the Battle of Mursa in 260 CE Found in a Well in Croatia

Remains of Seven Roman Soldiers Fallen in the Battle of Mursa in 260 CE Found in a Well in Croatia

The Mystery of the Ancient Roman Gravestone Discovered in a Family’s Backyard Has Been Solved
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-mystery-of-the-ancient-roman-gravestone-discovered-in-a-familys-backyard-has-been-solved-180987515/

TURKEY: Rare Byzantine mosaic with Latin and Greek inscriptions unearthed in Merde (Mardin) in Tur Abdin – SyriacPress

TURKEY: Rare Byzantine mosaic with Latin and Greek inscriptions unearthed in Merde (Mardin) in Tur Abdin

Newly Deciphered Herculaneum Scroll Sheds Light on Ancient Greek Founder of Stoicism – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/15/deciphered-herculaneum-scroll-ancient-greek-founder-stoicism/

Multidisciplinary study of human remains from the 3rd century mass grave in the Roman city of Mursa, Croatia | PLOS One
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article%3Fid%3D10.1371/journal.pone.0333440

[AI?] Goodbye to myths—archaeologists discover a colossal Roman Empire stadium in Alanya that challenges everything we thought we knew about its architecture
https://unionrayo.com/en/roman-stadium-sport-discovery/

‘Cleopatra’s Last Temple’ Review: PBS’s Underwater Archaeology – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/cleopatras-last-temple-review-pbss-underwater-archaeology-250f56c5?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfnaqJR1r0uhXeBV4oS6z-pKk54Zxl7Y7PPnsNAwXUr-EsynEqDl1IK&gaa_ts=68f0dba3&gaa_sig=qsvUjCaQFLmndd5UpJg8z2P7XGErdwhvyWoPtDpZd3hwNzaGtsEV5haaHruS1yLntPuJwciCQD3iwHq72Qz7BQ%3D%3D

What Most People Get Wrong About Plato’s Most Famous Quote | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/plato-most-famous-quote-explained/

Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire? — Harvard Gazette

Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire?

What really happened to the Library of Alexandria? These are the theories. | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/who-burned-library-of-alexandria-egypt?loggedin=true&rnd=1760634356231

How Romans Crafted A Wine Dominance That Continues Today
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laynerandolph/2025/10/16/how-romans-crafted-a-wine-dominance-that-continues-today/

New documentary on the theft of the Parthenon Marbles – “Take the whole temple with the Carya… whatever they’re called – ProtoThema English

New documentary on the theft of the Parthenon Marbles – “Take the whole temple with the Carya… whatever they’re called

The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts | Open Culture

The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts

Literary Hub » Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time

Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time

Hekate by Nikita Gill review – the ancient Greek goddess works magic in this retelling | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/16/hekate-by-nikita-gill-review-the-ancient-greek-goddess-works-magic-in-this-retelling

Alexander the Great in Jerusalem – The Ancient Near East Today
https://anetoday.org/alexander-great-jerusalem/

The Death of Children in Ancient Israel | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/death-children-ancient-israel

150 years of German excavations in Olympia

150 years of German excavations in Olympia

Teaching Thursday: Roman History and Syme’s The Roman Revolution | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Thursday: Roman History and Syme’s The Roman Revolution

PaleoJudaica.com: More open-access volumes of Mesopotamian royal inscriptions
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/more-open-access-volumes-of.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Six new Aramaic inscriptions found in eastern Turkey, some erased
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/six-new-aramaic-inscriptions-found-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Bible Secrets Revealed on “The Forbidden Scriptures”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/bible-secrets-revealed-on-forbidden.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The guardian of Maaloula’s Aramaic
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-guardian-of-maaloulas-aramaic.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Viti, Ancient Greek and Latin in the linguistic context of the ancient Mediterranean
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/review-of-viti-ancient-greek-and-latin.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Mapping the Jews of Ancient Egypt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/mapping-jews-of-ancient-egypt.html

De Wagenmenner van Delfi – Mainzer Beobachter

De Wagenmenner van Delfi

De Kimmeriërs – Mainzer Beobachter

De Kimmeriërs

10 Locations from the Odyssey and Their Real-Life Counterparts | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/locations-odyssey-real-life/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: US War Loot Ends up in a Garden
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/10/us-war-loot-ends-up-in-garden.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Significant destruction of the archaeological record and serious corruption of the corpus of knowledge”.
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/10/significant-destruction-of.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Danger
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/danger.html

Announcing a new release of the Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact (A&A) Browser » Perseus Digital Library Updates

Announcing a new release of the Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact (A&A) Browser

Obituary for John Michael Fossey FSA, FRSC, RPA (February 25, 1943 – December 1, 2024) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/fosseyinmemoriam/

Obituary of Prof. Emeritus Gilbert Lawall : Department of Classics : UMass Amherst
https://www.umass.edu/classics/news/obituary-prof-emeritus-gilbert-lawall

In Memory of Dennis Trout (1953–2025) | Department of Classics
https://classics.wustl.edu/news/memory-dennis-trout-1953-2025

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Israel, Judah, and Neighboring Groups in the Books of Samuel: Textual and Historical Approaches. Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times VIII
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/israel-judah-and-neighboring-groups-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Eljon – Höchster: Eine Gottesbezeichnung im Pentateuch
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/eljon-hochster-eine-gottesbezeichnung.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Forgetting to Remember: Cultural Memory, Intertextuality, and Scribal Agency in the Hebrew Bible
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/forgetting-to-remember-cultural-memory.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kingmakers and Kingbreakers: Philistines, Arameans, and Historical Patterning in Samuel-Kings. Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times IX
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/kingmakers-and-kingbreakers-philistines.html

Eastern Europe in the 1st Millennium AD according to archaeology and numismatics | Spartokos read

L’Europe de l’Est au Ier millénaire après J.-C. selon l’archéologie et la numismatique

Emperadores y esclavos: algunos aspectos de la legislación imperial sobre esclavitud entre Trajano y los Severos – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Emperadores y esclavos: algunos aspectos de la legislación imperial sobre esclavitud entre Trajano y los Severos

Poteri al confine. Filarchi giudici re tra Impero romano e Barbaricum – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Poteri al confine. Filarchi giudici re tra Impero romano e Barbaricum

Erasure in late antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Erasure in late antiquity

Calpurnius Flaccus. Deklamationen – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Calpurnius Flaccus. Deklamationen

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15 INTERVIEW with Dr. Massimo Cè | TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis
https://tllpod.podbean.com/e/15-interview-with-dr-massimo-ce/

Virgil’s Aeneid: Ep. 5 Musa (S… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

Special Episode – Central Italy and the Emergence of Rome with Dr Francesca Fulminante – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Special Episode – Central Italy and the Emergence of Rome with Dr Francesca Fulminante

Citizenship in the Ancient Roman Empire | KPFA

Citizenship in the Ancient Roman Empire

111: The Seleucid Empire – The…–The Hellenistic Age Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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How to read ‘The School of Athens’ – a triumph of Renaissance art | Aeon Videos
https://aeon.co/videos/how-to-read-the-school-of-athens-a-triumph-of-renaissance-art

(38) Why Early Christians Gave Jesus a Magic Wand – YouTube

(38) Report on the 2025 excavation campaign at the archaeological site of Egnazia – YouTube

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ANE Today, 16 October 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-16-october-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=176053466&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Assistant Professor, Classics, College of Arts and Sciences Job Details | University of Cincinnati
https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Assistant-Professor%2C-Classics%2C-College-of-Arts-and-Sciences-OH-45201/1333514900/

The NIA Annual Meeting

The NIA Annual Meeting

Lecturer in Classics (R&T) at University of Glasgow
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB338/lecturer-in-classics-randt

Classical Association of Canada Conference 2026 | Queen’s University
https://www.queensu.ca/cac-conference-2026/

• c. 107 — martyrdom of Ignatius of Antioch
• c. 136 — martyrdom of Heron

• festival of Jupiter — all ides were sacred to Jupiter
• Rite of the ‘October Horse’ — one of the many rituals which makes the study of Roman religion so fascinating. On this day a race between two-horse chariots would be held in the Campus Martius, and the right hand horse of the victorious pair would be sacrificed by the flamen of Mars on an altar (in the Campus Martius, of course). After the sacrifice, people who lived in the Via Sacra neighbourhood would fight the people who lived in the Suburra for the right to the head. If the ‘via sacranites’ won, they’d display it on the Regia; if the Suburranites won, it would be displayed at the Turris Mamilia. Meanwhile, the cauda (tail – genitals) would be rushed to the Regia so the blood would drip on the sacred hearth; the Vestal Virgins also probably kept some of the blood for use at the Parilia on April 21.
• ludi Capitolini — a somewhat obscure day of games which was unique in its not being ‘public’ (in the sense of being put on by a magistrate) but rather the ballywick of a collegium of ‘Capitolini’. Not much is known about what went on at these games save that an old man wearing the bulla of of a young boy was paraded about and mocked; there were possibly competitions in boxing and running as well.
• 55 B.C. — death of Lucretius
• 70 B.C. — birth of Publius Vergilius Maro, a.k.a. Vergil, a.k.a Virgil
• 1999 — death of Don Fowler, fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and frequent contributor to the Classics list almost from its inception, among other things, of course