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Boudica’s horn of horror: Iron Age treasures unearthed in Norfolk include a battle trumpet to inspire warriors during combat | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15438693/Remarkable-hoard-Iron-Age-battle-trumpet.html

‘Extraordinary’ Roman era bone box found in Worcestershire town
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74vm30wrlyo

Massive Roman grave revealed in Penrith A66 excavation
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1lzvg2532mo

Significant New Archaeological Findings in Tenea, Greece – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/significant-new-archaeological-findings-in-tenea-greece/

Protective “Solomon’s Knot” mosaic uncovered in ancient Smyrna
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/01/protective-solomons-knot-mosaic-uncovered-in-ancient-smyrna/156706

Did Ancient Greeks Cheat the Romans With Knock-Off Wine? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/07/ancient-greeks-crete-cheat-romans-wine/

A Complete Byzantine Monastery Discovered Beneath the Desert Sands of Southern Egypt

A Complete Byzantine Monastery Discovered Beneath the Desert Sands of Southern Egypt

Completion of the archaeological excavation at Agios Georgios, Pegeia – Gov.cy
https://www.gov.cy/en/culture/completion-of-the-archaeological-excavation-at-agios-georgios-pegeia/

Offerton Roman factory ‘hidden in plain sight’ on River Wear
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv54yvevd9o

Huckabee Takes Grandkids to West Bank Settlement for Archaeological Tour, Finding ‘Amazing Ancient Coins’ – Israel News
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-01-06/ty-article/.premium/huckabee-family-discovers-ancient-coins-on-west-bank-settlement-archaeological-tour/0000019b-93bf-dd67-a9ff-9bbf08120000

When did Mount Vesuvius erupt? Experts can’t seem to agree. | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mount-vesuvius-eruption-pompeii?loggedin=true&rnd=1767812768465

The Amateur Archaeologist Who Found the Wrong Troy

The Amateur Archaeologist Who Found the Wrong Troy

Writing Wednesday: The Kiln, Come Context, and a Conclusion | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Writing Wednesday: The Kiln, Come Context, and a Conclusion

Venezuela and Rome | Blog post | Mary Beard

Venezuela and Rome

David, King of Love  | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/david-king-love

The Roman Army at Armageddon – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Roman Army at Armageddon

The Heavenly Antinous – The lost constellation from the Almagest – Ancient World Magazine
https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/heavenly-antinous-lost-constellation-almagest/

New Funding from the NEH for a Digital Edition of Aristotle’s Poetics » Perseus Digital Library Updates

New Funding from the NEH for a Digital Edition of Aristotle’s Poetics

What surface ceramics reveal about cultures and connections – Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2026/01/what-surface-ceramics-reveal-about-cultures-and-connections/

NYU Undergrads Developed Egyptian Hieroglyph Recognition Applications at ArchaeoHack 2025 — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/archaeohack-2025

In Attempt To Smear Trump The Left Is Butchering Ancient History
https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/07/in-an-attempt-to-smear-trump-the-left-is-butchering-ancient-history/

[wtf?]Were the Odyssey’s Cyclopes Actually Minoans? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/06/odyssey-cyclopes-minoans/

Spencer Alley: Roman Heads
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2026/01/roman-heads.html

Alexander de Grote in Alexandrië – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in Alexandrië

PaleoJudaica.com: Huckabee family finds ancient coins & stuff in West Bank caves
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/huckabee-family-finds-ancient-coins.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Reviewlet of MacDonald, Carthage: A New History
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/reviewlet-of-macdonald-carthage-new.html

PaleoJudaica.com: ‘Atiqot Volume 119 (2025)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/atiqot-volume-119-2025.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Missing Evidence in the Study of Ancient Cultures: Methodological Reflections and Case Studies on Fragmentary Sources
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/missing-evidence-in-study-of-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/favissa-past-archaeological-excavation.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: In aller Vielfalt: Geschlechter, Sexualitäten, Beziehungsformen im Neuen Testament und seinen Kontexten
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/in-aller-vielfalt-geschlechter.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Happy New Year and happy seventeenth birthday to AWOL
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/happy-new-year-and-happy-sixteenth.html

Painting Pompeii: Painters, Practices, and Organization, by Francesca Bologna | American Journal of Archaeology
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740029?utm_source=Archaeological+Institute+of+America&utm_campaign=e8f041d664-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_16_11_36_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-894de77e7c-215971384&mc_cid=e8f041d664&mc_eid=693126d49d

Archaeology of Colour: Technical Art History Studies in Greek and Roman Painting and Polychromy, edited by Hariclia Brecoulaki | American Journal of Archaeology
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740027?utm_source=Archaeological+Institute+of+America&utm_campaign=e8f041d664-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_16_11_36_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-894de77e7c-215971384&mc_cid=e8f041d664&mc_eid=693126d49d

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Episode A8 – Who Was King – The Ancient World – Apple Podcasts

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(435) Archaeology in Action: The Shape of Punic Cities – YouTube

(435) Duelists and Boxers: Unique Gladiator Types You Never Knew – YouTube

Last Roman Gladiator Arena Unearthed In Switzerland – video Dailymotion

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Professor who died in Mass. house fire remembered as ‘brilliant and loving’ – masslive.com
https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/01/professor-who-died-in-mass-house-fire-remembered-as-brilliant-and-loving.html

Prof. Stephen Hodkinson, ‘Spartan Warriors? Modern Myths and Ancient Realities’ « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Prof. Stephen Hodkinson, ‘Spartan Warriors? Modern Myths and Ancient Realities’

CCC 2026: Cooperate, contain, confront

CCC 2026: Cooperate, contain, confront

CCC 2026: Children of a Lesser God?

CCC 2026: Children of a Lesser God?

FIEC Blog: Inaugural meeting of the Center for Studies of Ancient Mediterranean Music (CEMAM)
https://fiecnet.blogspot.com/2026/01/inaugural-meeting-of-center-for-studies.html

• 43 B.C. — dies imperii (officially) of Octavian
• ?? A.D. — the future emperor Tiberius becomes one of the VIIvir epulonum

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Ancient clay cylinders provide first foundation text documenting Nebuchadnezzar II’s restoration of the ziggurat of Kish
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ancient-clay-cylinders-foundation-text.html#goog_rewarded

New Study Rewrites Origins of Alexander the Great’s Kingdom of Macedon – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/06/new-study-origins-alexander-great-kingdom-macedon/

US Ambassador Huckabee’s family finds ancient coins | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-882466

A 2,300-Year-Old Helmet from the Punic Wars Pulled From the Sea Tells the Story of the Battle That Made Rome an Empire
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/roman-helmet-punic-wars-redo/

Alluvium-covered Myra to see theater restoration in 2026
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/alluvium-covered-myra-to-see-theater-restoration-in-2026-217489

Archaeologists Discover ‘Sumptuous’ Frescoes at Ancient Villa Preserved by Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-sumptuous-frescoes-at-ancient-villa-preserved-by-mount-vesuvius-eruption-180987951/

Step inside a Roman home, and you might be surprised by what you find | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/step-inside-a-roman-home/

Beyond the podcast: Pompeii | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/beyond-the-podcast-pompeii/

King’s College Revives Greek Play Tradition With Aristophanes
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/06/kings-college-revives-greek-play-tradition-with-aristophanes

Trump’s “Don-roe” Doctrine: The Thucydides Lessons the White House Cannot Ignore – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/trump-thucydides-lessons-white-house-cannot-ignore/

Spencer Alley: Pergamon Altar Frieze
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2026/01/pergamon-altar-frieze.html

A few good things to do in SF if you’re feeling retraumatized by the SCS
https://donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/a-few-good-things-to-do-in-sf-if?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2108238&post_id=183596304&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

You think you’ve got mummy issues? – cosi’s odyssey
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/you-think-youve-got-mummy-issues?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=991656&post_id=181214304&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Everyday Orientalism turns 10 in 2026 and we have some news – EVERYDAY ORIENTALISM

Everyday Orientalism turns 10 in 2026 and we have some news

The festive epigraphist – with books and crafts – The VIEWS project

The festive epigraphist – with books and crafts

CETEGVS, Cethegus (?) – Liv Mariah Yarrow

CETEGVS, Cethegus (?)

Arthur: “D.W. Tale Spins” (1999) – Animated Antiquity

Arthur: “D.W. Tale Spins” (1999)

Weekly varia no. 163, 01/04/26 – Noodlings

Weekly varia no. 163, 01/04/26

Boeotia III: Some Unboxing Notes | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Boeotia III: Some Unboxing Notes

Jerome, Letter 94 – online in English

Jerome, Letter 94 – online in English

Egypte ontdekken – Mainzer Beobachter

Egypte ontdekken

Vragen rond de jaarwisseling (4) – Mainzer Beobachter

Vragen rond de jaarwisseling (4)

PaleoJudaica.com: Armstrong Institute: 2025 biblical archaeology top ten
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/armstrong-institute-2025-biblical.html

PaleoJudaica.com: ‘Phoenician Identity in the Making’ Research Workshop
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/phoenician-identity-in-making-research.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Temple Mount cedar beams exposed to the elements?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/temple-mount-cedar-beams-exposed-to.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Free online Ancient Language Textbooks
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/free-online-ancient-language-textbooks.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Secret Mark timeline
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-secret-mark-timeline.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on Shaphan Ben Azaliah
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/more-on-shaphan-ben-azaliah.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Falerii Novi: The Ground-Penetrating Radar survey of the Roman town
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/falerii-novi-ground-penetrating-radar.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Boeotia Project, Volume III: Hyettos. The origins, florescence and afterlife of a small Boeotian city
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/boeotia-project-volume-iii-hyettos.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Interdisciplinary Egyptology
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-open-access-journal.html

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Anima Latina 06.01.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/01/anima-latina-06-01-2026.html

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Enormous Roman Mosaic In Turkey – video Dailymotion

(411) A ~Very ~ Brief History of the SIRENS – YouTube

(411) The Top 20 Archaeological Discoveries of 2025 Part 1 – YouTube

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Nestor – January 2026 issue available
https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/pages/news/858-january-2026-issue-available

Conference: Greek currency that was counterfeited, imitated, and copied | Antiquity at the BnF

Conférence : La monnaie grecque falsifiée, imitée, recopiée

• 1822 — birth of Heinrich Schliemann (excavator of Troy, Mycenae)

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Egypt’s Karnak Temple may have risen from water like a creation myth | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251228074502.htm

Protective Solomon’s Knot mosaic unearthed in Türkiye’s ancient city of Smyrna – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/protective-solomons-knot-mosaic-unearthed-in-turkiyes-ancient-city-of-smyrna-3212422?s=1

British Museum Seeks Treasure Hunter to Recover Stolen Antiquities
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-treasure-hunter-stolen-antiquities-recovery-2734597

Antiquities Authority: Intensive efforts to recover smuggled Iraqi treasures » Iraqi News Agency
https://ina.iq/en/local/44614-antiquities-authority-intensive-efforts-to-recover-smuggled-iraqi-treasures.html

How a playful literary hoax illuminates Classical queerness | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness

King’s Greek Play 2026 Announced: Clouds | Mirage News
https://www.miragenews.com/kings-greek-play-2026-announced-clouds-1597396/

Trump’s “Don-roe” Doctrine: The Thucydides Lessons the White House Cannot Ignore – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/trump-thucydides-lessons-white-house-cannot-ignore/

Thermopylae Reimagined: A Memorial Fit for the 21st Century – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/thermopylae-memorial-proposal/

Not Just the Father of History: Herodotus as the First Social Anthropologist – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/herodotus-first-social-anthropologist/

Odysseus the destroyer? Christopher Nolan’s new Odyssey adaptation revives an ancient moral question
https://theconversation.com/odysseus-the-destroyer-christopher-nolans-new-odyssey-adaptation-revives-an-ancient-moral-question-270312

Before Christopher Nolan, The Coen Brothers Made An Odyssey Movie (Without Even Reading It)
https://www.slashfilm.com/2062479/christopher-nolan-coen-brothers-the-odyssey-movie-oh-brother-where-art-thou/

The Story of Carthage Isn’t Necessarily What the Romans Committed to History
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-carthage-isnt-necessarily-what-romans-committed-history-180987841/

[paywalled] Why Authors Can’t Let Go of Greek Myths – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/01/the-way-to-colonos-kay-cicellis-sophocles-book-review/685414/

Links to the Vallarsi edition of the works of St Jerome (1734-1742) – Roger Pearse

Links to the Vallarsi edition of the works of St Jerome (1734-1742)

Night Raids and Gimmick Episodes: Learning to Love Iliad 10 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Night Raids and Gimmick Episodes: Learning to Love Iliad 10

Laudator Temporis Acti: Streams
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/01/streams.html

PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: New Year 2026!
https://panoplyclassicsandanimation.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-year-2026.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Amheida IV: ʿAin el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Latin Antique Site in Egypt’s Western Desert
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/amheida-iv-ain-el-gedida-2006-2008.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Links to the Vallarsi edition of the works of St Jerome (1734-1742)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/links-to-vallarsi-edition-of-works-of.html
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Stephen Fry says Odysseus is a hero for our times | The Sunday Magazine | On Demand | CBC Listen
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-57-the-sunday-magazine/clip/16190061-stephen-fry-says-odysseus-hero-times

BBC Audio | The Today Podcast | Can Donald Trump Be Compared To Julius Caesar? (Your Radical Questions with Tom Holland)
https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0mpbrwl

A Podcast about Rome: Episode 28: The Aqua Alexandrina
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/a-podcast-about-rome-episode-28-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=508757&post_id=183550854&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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VIDENDA
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(383) I Traveled the Via Appia — Here Are 5 Places You Need to See! – YouTube

(383) Decoding the Pyramid Statues of King Menkaure – YouTube

(383) The Bronze Age Greek Kingdom You’ve Never Heard Of – YouTube

(383) Catullus 5: da mi basia mille – YouTube

(383) Ovid Advice to a rejected lover: Ars Amatoria 1.469-478 – YouTube

(383) Seneca Changing morals: De Beneficiis 3.16 – YouTube

(383) Horace Finished with love: Odes 3.26 – YouTube

(383) Martial The Power of Love: Epigrams 1.62 – YouTube

(383) Pliny To Calpurnia Hispulla, his wife’s aunt: Letters 4.19 – YouTube

(383) Catullus 85: odi et amo – YouTube

(383) Martial An Enigma: Epigrams 12.46 – YouTube

(383) Catullus 8: miser Catulle – YouTube

(383) Catullus 70: mulier mea – YouTube

(383) Cicero a Family Matter (ad Atticum 5.1) – YouTube

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Multi-analytical study of shaping firing and painted inscriptions in a Roman Titulus Pictus amphora | npj Heritage Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-02279-5

Replacing Archaeologists with AI – Biblical Archaeology Society

Replacing Archaeologists with AI

Call for Papers — Land and Power in the Later Roman World – Land and loyalty

Call for Papers — Land and Power in the Later Roman World

Woodworking in the Roman Imagination – Call for Papers

Events

‘Phoenician Identity in the Making’ Research Workshop of The Israel Science Foundation | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies
https://iias.huji.ac.il/event/phoenician-identity-making-research-workshop-israel-science-foundation