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Newly Discovered Roman Sanctuary in Frankfurt Secures Over €1 Million for International Research Project – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/newly-discovered-roman-sanctuary-in-frankfurt-secures-over-e1-million-for-international-research-project/

Unlocking the sacred landscape of Roman Nida
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2026/01/28/unlocking-the-sacred-landscape-of-roman-nida/

Discovery of monumental sacred lake at Karnak
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/01/discovery-of-monumental-sacred-lake-at-karnak/156860

Hidden oracle of Apollo awaits restoration
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hidden-oracle-of-apollo-awaits-restoration-218268

Archaeologists Uncover Elite Tombs at Bronze Age Harbor City in Cyprus – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/27/elite-tombs-bronze-age-harbor-city-cyprus/

The Carthaginian Elephant in the Oppidum: New Archaeological Evidence of War Elephants in the Second Punic War – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/the-carthaginian-elephant-in-the-oppidum-new-archaeological-evidence-of-war-elephants-in-the-second-punic-war/

Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe

Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe

A Massive Second Temple–Era Quarry and a 2,000-Year-Old Key Unearthed in Jerusalem – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/a-massive-second-temple-era-quarry-and-a-2000-year-old-key-unearthed-in-jerusalem/

In ancient Mesopotamia, what was a ziggurat?
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ancient-mesopotamia-ziggurat.html

How Did Ancient Greeks Spent Their Leisure Time? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/27/ancient-greeks-leisure-time/

The Lion’s Den: When Big Cats Roamed Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/27/the-lions-den-when-big-cats-roamed-greece-video/

Man arrested in Piraeus for possession of 4th century BC marble antiquity | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1293464/man-arrested-in-piraeus-for-possession-of-4th-century-bc-marble-antiquity/

5,000-Year-Old Rock Art in Sinai Reveals Egypt’s First Expansion
https://colombiaone.com/2026/01/27/rock-art-sinai-reveals-egypt-first-expansion/

Portraits of Livia Drusilla and the Welfare of the Roman State | Garstang Museum of Archaeology

Portraits of Livia Drusilla and the Welfare of the Roman State

New edited book on sanctuaries in the Danubian provinces | Roman religion

New edited book on sanctuaries in the Danubian provinces

The Plot to Kill Paul – Acts 23:6-22 – Reading Acts

The Plot to Kill Paul – Acts 23:6-22

Ishtar Temple Built Nearly 5,000 Years Ago Reveals Origins of Sacred Architecture – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/28/ishtar-temple-sacred-architecture/

Drought’s gift: 11,000-year-old T-shaped stone ruins resurface in southeastern Türkiye – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/droughts-gift-11000-year-old-t-shaped-stone-ruins-resurface-in-southeastern-turkiye-3213650

Could the Great Pyramid Be Far Older Than We Thought? A New Study Says Yes – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/could-the-great-pyramid-be-far-older-than-we-thought-a-new-study-says-yes/

Long before Cleopatra, another female pharaoh redefined ancient Egyptian power | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-egypt/female-pharaoh-before-cleopatra-ancient-egyptian-power/

Weird Roman Laws That Shaped Ancient Citizens | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/weird-roman-laws-that-shaped-ancient-citizens/

The Mystery Of The “Lava Treasure” Found By Two Brothers Searching For Sea Urchins | IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/in-1985-two-brothers-searching-for-sea-urchins-found-a-priceless-haul-of-roman-treasure-82356

Daniel Mendelsohn’s Odyssey – the enduring appeal of Greek myth
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0128/1555226-daniel-mendelsohns-odyssey-the-enduring-appeal-of-greek-myth/

Ann Harnwell Ashmead Obituary (2026) – Haverford, PA – Chadwick & McKinney Funeral Home, Inc.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/ann-ashmead-obituary?id=60634570

Greek Mythology and its Magical Adaptations in Manga and Anime – Anime News Network
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2026-01-28/greek-mythology-and-its-magical-adaptations-in-manga-and-anime/.223071

Classics Department to put on Plautus’ ‘Casina’ play in original Latin – The Baylor Lariat

Classics Department to put on Plautus’ ‘Casina’ play in original Latin

Cate Blanchett to star in new production ‘Electra / Persona’ | London Theatre
https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/cate-blanchett-to-star-in-new-production-electra-persona

(20) January 57 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium?) to Metellus Nepos (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/january-57-bce-from-cicero-at-dyrrachium-dfc

PaleoJudaica.com: “Passover” in Latin
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/passover-in-latin.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Thousands of antiquities missing in Gaza
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/thousands-of-antiquities-missing-in-gaza.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Still more on those 3rd-millennium alphabetic (?) inscriptions
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/still-more-on-those-3rd-millennium.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Another blogger visits Cartagena
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/another-blogger-visits-cartagena.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Carthaginian elephant bone at Cordoba? Plus C-14 dating reflections.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-carthaginian-elephant-bone-at-cordoba.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Zarghamee, Myth and history in ancient Persia
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/review-of-zarghamee-myth-and-history-in.html

AWOL – Crises (Staseis) and Changes (Metabolai): Athenian Democracy in the Making
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/crises-staseis-and-changes-metabolai.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Caulonia tra Crotone e Locri: Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Firenze 30 maggio-1 giugno 2007
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/caulonia-tra-crotone-e-locri-atti-del.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/la-policromia-dei-monochromata-ricerca.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Artefacts, roots, networks: endangered archeology and trafficking of archaeological objects: The economic and social context of illicit trafficking in archeological goods
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/artefacts-roots-networks-endangered.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archisowar
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/archisowar.html

The Quest for John the Baptist – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Quest for John the Baptist

The scientific sublime in imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.30/

A social and cultural history of the Hellenistic world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.29/

Was ist Zeit? Altertumswissenschaftliche Aufsätze – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.28/

Myth and history in ancient Persia: the Achaemenids in the Iranian tradition – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.27/

Reading Quintilian: didactic authority in the Institutio Oratoria – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.26/
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Bench-stable butyllithium & secrets of Pompeii’s limescale | Podcast | Chemistry World
https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/bench-stable-butyllithium-and-secrets-of-pompeiis-limescale/4022826.article

(969) From Novice to Primus Palus: How Gladiators Trained – YouTube

(969) Are Egyptian artefacts in museums priceless treasures—or just ancient pieces of a puzzle? – YouTube

You Can’t Be Cirrus: Aristophanes Clouds, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 208) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/ad-navseam-episode-208/
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(969) Why are there artifacts of feet in the Etruscan Gallery? – YouTube

(969) Explore Ocriculum: Rome’s Forgotten River Port – YouTube

(969) New Jericho Evidence? What the Excavations Actually Say – YouTube

(972) Cleopatra’s Procession (Clip) | Cleopatra (1963) | TCM – YouTube

(973) The Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius – YouTube

(976) Historian Reacts to EPIC: The Musical (Ocean Saga) – YouTube

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Art Crime Research Opportunities: 28 January 2026

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 28 January 2026

Pliny the Elder’s discourse on Roman gold mining: The ecological approach of his gold metaphor and the personification of Nature | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-06556-x

Teaching Professor (Assistant, Associate, or Full)
University of Notre Dame: College of Arts & Letters: Classics
https://apply.interfolio.com/

(20) Antiquipop – La lettre de février 2025
https://antiquipop.substack.com/p/antiquipop-la-lettre-de-fevrier-2025

• 98 A.D. — dies imperii of Trajan
• 198 A.D. — festival in celebration of Severus‘ victory over the Parthians; possibly concurrent: dies imperii of Caracalla

• 6 A.D. — dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux by the future emperor Tiberius
• 98 A.D. — death of Nerva (?)
• ca. 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Devota
• 1887 — birth of Carl Blegen, future excavator of Pylos (etc.)

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Ancient tombs, shrine to Hercules found in Rome dig | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-884500

Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe

Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe

Man arrested in Piraeus for possession of 4th century BC marble antiquity | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1293464/man-arrested-in-piraeus-for-possession-of-4th-century-bc-marble-antiquity/

Two adjoining temples with altars, a unique religious complex in the northern Iberian Peninsula, discovered at the Iron Age site of Peña del Castro

Two adjoining temples with altars, a unique religious complex in the northern Iberian Peninsula, discovered at the Iron Age site of Peña del Castro

The Roman Road Reconnecting Ancient and Medieval Rhodes – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/26/roman-road-reconnecting-ancient-medieval-rhodes/

Is this the world’s oldest alphabet? | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/syria-oldest-alphabet?loggedin=true&rnd=1769457969444

Unlocking the Sacred Landscape of Roman Nida | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Unlocking the Sacred Landscape of Roman Nida

Allegations of antiquities theft in Gaza: 17,000 artefacts missing | Jordan Times
https://jordantimes.com/news/local/allegations-of-antiquities-theft-in-gaza-17000-artefacts-missing

Varna Gold: Humanity’s first gold jewelry was found in a cemetery with a gold ‘penis sheath’ | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/varna-gold-humanitys-first-gold-jewelry-was-found-in-a-cemetery-with-a-gold-penis-sheath

Babylonian Texts Complicate Bible’s Image of Nebuchadnezzar – Biblical Archaeology Society

Babylonian Texts Complicate Bible’s Image of Nebuchadnezzar

(20) January 57 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium?) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/january-57-bce-from-cicero-at-dyrrachium

New Year’s E-mail – Round Three | Classically Inclined

New Year’s E-mail – Round Three

Roman Times: From Ritual Wheels to War Machines: The Rise of Chariots from Tell Agrab to Kadesh
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2026/01/from-ritual-wheels-to-war-machines-rise.html

Dawn, Reestablishing Space and Time: Beginning Iliad 11, Again – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Dawn, Reestablishing Space and Time: Beginning Iliad 11, Again

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the (proposed) drawing of Hezekiah in Sennacherib’s palace
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/more-on-proposed-drawing-of-hezekiah-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Baden, Lost in Translation
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/review-of-baden-lost-in-translation.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Still more on the AI redating of 4QDanielc
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/still-more-on-ai-redating-of-4qdaniel-c.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Onomasticon Search tool for Greek and Latin onomastics dictionaries
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/onomasticon-search-tool-for-greek-and.html

Contextualizing imperial disruption and upheavals and their associated research challenges – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.25/

Der Senat im frühen Rom. Die Entwicklung des Ratsgremiums von der Königszeit bis zur lex Ovinia – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.24/

Propertius and the Virgilian sensibility: elegy after 19 BC – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.23/
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A Prehistoric Figurine of Problematic Possibilities, or Or, Mythogram for Mother Goose | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/a-prehistoric-figurine-of-problematic-possibilities-or-or-mythogram-for-mother-goose/

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(924) Hatshepsut’s immortalised journey to Punt #ancientegypt – YouTube

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Crake Doctoral Fellowship in Classics, Mount Allison University (Deadline February 27) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/crake2026/

Archaeometric characterisation of materials and techniques in Roman wall painting: the Domus of Salvius in Cartagena, Spain | npj Heritage Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-02198-5

Phaedrus – CANE

Phaedrus

• Sementivae or Paganalia (day ?) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident with Paganalia, which also obviously has some rural aspect to it. It appears to have been a two-day festival with an interval of seven days between (corrections on this welcome … my sources seem muddled on this one)
• 66 A.D. — perihelion of what would eventually be called Halley’s comet (possibly mentioned in Josephus; less possibly mentioned in Suetonius)
• 97 A.D. — martyrdom of Timothy
• 1721 — death of Pierre Daniel Huet (editor of the Delphi Classics)