• 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)

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A66 Penrith Roman burial site could hold more ancient secrets
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1lz799gmj5o

Sassanid-Era Inscription Linked to Royal Festival Discovered Near Persepolis – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/sassanid-era-inscription-linked-to-royal-festival-discovered-near-persepolis/

Smashed by ISIS, a 2,700-year-old carving may have been the earliest-known depiction of Jerusalem | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/smashed-by-isis-a-2700-year-old-carving-may-have-been-the-earliest-known-depiction-of-jerusalem/

Why is the discovery of Roman carriage fitting in Essex important?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17zp8pl0pjo

Roman mosaic returns to Cotswolds after over 200 years | Oxford Mail
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25793048.roman-mosaic-returns-cotswolds-200-years/

(21) Castle throws Roman-style party for Emperor Hadrian
https://www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/castle-throws-roman-style-party-for

The Shackled Men of Phaleron: This is what the space that will host the major archaeological find will look like – Photos – ProtoThema English

The Shackled Men of Phaleron: This is what the space that will host the major archaeological find will look like – Photos

A 2,300-Year-Old Thracian Inscription Reveals the Man King Seuthes III Could Not Lose – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/a-2300-year-old-thracian-inscription-reveals-the-man-king-seuthes-iii-could-not-lose/

2,500 years ago, people in Bulgaria ate dog meat at feasts and as a delicacy, archaeological study finds | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-500-years-ago-people-in-bulgaria-ate-dog-meat-at-feasts-and-as-a-delicacy-archaeological-study-finds

The Greek City That Was the Ceramic Center of the Ancient World – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/24/greek-city-klazomenai-ceramic-center-ancient-world/

Archestratus: The Ancient Greek Chef and His Secrets of Gastronomy – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/25/archestratus-and-the-secrets-of-ancient-greek-gastronomy/

Chilling Graffiti Found in an Ancient Greek Prison – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/24/graffiti-ancient-prison-greece/

The Ancient Greek Democracy Myths Politicians Love – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/24/myths-ancient-greek-democracy-politicians/

New details on the night Alexander the Great set Persepolis on fire- Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/new-details-about-the-night-alexander-the-great-set-persepolis-on-fire/

Ephemeris ~ DE GROENLANDIA
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2458

Long before the ancient Roman empire, a rival superpower looked set for supremacy | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-history/long-before-the-ancient-roman-empire-a-different-rival-superpower-looked-destined-for-supremacy/

Anton Fackelmann and the formation of the papyrus collection at Duke University | Roberta Mazza

Anton Fackelmann and the formation of the papyrus collection at Duke University

24 January AD 126 – A small Serapeum is consecrated in Thebes to Hadrian on his 50th birthday (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

24 January AD 126 – A small Serapeum is consecrated in Thebes to Hadrian on his 50th birthday (#Hadrian1900)

How do we decline the Latin word “pascha”?

How do we decline the Latin word “pascha”?

Felicem diem natalem, Hadriane! FOLLOWING HADRIAN

Felicem diem natalem, Hadriane! 🎂

Fireside Friday, January 23, 2025 (On the Cowardice of the Statue PfPs) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, January 23, 2025 (On the Cowardice of the Statue PfPs)

Weekly Varia, no. 166, 01/25/26 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia, no. 166, 01/25/26

Chinese filosofie (2) Het “hemels mandaat” – Mainzer Beobachter

Chinese filosofie (2) Het “hemels mandaat”

Toerist in Alicante – Mainzer Beobachter

Toerist in Alicante

Toerist in Cartagena (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

Toerist in Cartagena (1)

PaleoJudaica.com: Clines, Hebrew Philology, Hebrew Lexicography (Sheffield Phoenix/SBL)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/clines-hebrew-philology-hebrew.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Gradel & Pedersen, The Lost Novel of King Solomon and the Demons (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/gradel-pedersen-lost-novel-of-king.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ur 1922-2022: Papers Marking the Centenary of Sir Leonard Woolley’s First Season of Excavations at Ur
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/ur-1922-2022-papers-marking-centenary.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Way of Horus: Kingship and Transition in the Contendings of Horus and Seth / Cesta Hora: Panství a přechodová symbolika ve Sporu Hora a Sutecha
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-way-of-horus-kingship-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Serving the Gods: Artists, Craftsmen, Ritual Specialists in the Ancient World
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/serving-gods-artists-craftsmen-ritual.html

Frieze Frame: Two Centuries of a Multi-faceted Debate Over the Parthenon Marbles – tovima.com

Frieze Frame: Two Centuries of a Multi-faceted Debate Over the Parthenon Marbles

Military Book Review Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/2798#gsc.tab=0

Classicism & Other Phobias by Dan-el Padilla Peralta | Book review

Fugitive reading

The Performance Reception of Greek Tragedy in Ancient Theatres by Sebastiana Nervegna

On the world stage

The Diver of Paestum by Tonio Hölscher | Book review | Nigel Spivey

Taking the plunge

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Anima Latina 25.01.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/01/anima-latina-25-01-2026.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 24.01.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/01/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-24-01-2026.html

Xerxes the Great – The Ancients | Acast

diē vīcēsimō tertiō mēnsis Iānuāriī — Nuntii Latini

diē vīcēsimō tertiō mēnsis Iānuāriī

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(891) Rome Without an Emperor – YouTube

(892) Dumuzi’s Dream and Dumuzi’s Demons — a world first film in ancient Sumerian language – YouTube

(892) Battle at Rome’s Gates: Colline Gate, 82 BC – Sulla’s Civil War (Part 3) – YouTube

(892) Historical Tyrants: Herod the Great | Middle Eastern History – YouTube

(893) The Sea of Homer: Live Discussion with Emily Wilson – YouTube

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explorator 28.04 ~ January 25, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.04 ~ January 25, 2026

Integrated portable spectroscopy for the analysis of Roman mosaics from Marroquíes Altos, Jaén, Spain | npj Heritage Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-026-02339-4

Experiencing the last days of Pompeii through silent cinema | Faculty of Arts and Humanities
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/experiencing-last-days-pompeii-through-silent-cinema

Sementivae or Paganalia (day 2) — 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)
41 A.D. — recognition of Claudius as emperor by the senate
98 A.D. — death of Nerva (?)
275 A.D. — murder of Aurelian (according to one reckoning, which I don’t think is correct … comments welcome)