• 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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(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

• ludi compitales — day three of a moveable festival which might occur anytime between Saturnalia and January 5. It was largely a rural occasion involving woollen dolls being made to represent each free member of the household (simple woollen balls would be used to represent slaves) being hung up on the eve of the festival, presumably as offerings to the Lares. There would also follow more formal sacrifices at the compita (places where two farm paths crossed).
• 1906 — birth of Kathleen Kenyon (excavatrix of Jericho)

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[questionable headline]Archaeologists uncover ancient Roman city that holds strongest physical evidence supporting the Bible | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15409359/ancient-Roman-city-physical-evidence-Bible.html

[old news]Rare Photo Taken on 1895 Athens Roof Terrace Brought to Light – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/03/photo-1895-athens-roof-terrace/

Yes — Camels Really Lived in Basel During the Roman Era! – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/yes-camels-really-lived-in-basel-during-the-roman-era/

Horror of Life on Roman Frontier Revealed in Gut-Wrenching Study : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/horror-of-life-on-roman-frontier-revealed-in-gut-wrenching-study

Rare Intact Etruscan Tomb in Italy Discovered by International Baylor-led Archaeological Research Team | Media and Public Relations | Baylor University
https://news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2025/rare-intact-etruscan-tomb-italy-discovered-international-baylor-led-archaeological

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/

Hellenistic Etruria: how the Greeks influenced Etruscan art, religion and society
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/works-and-artists/hellenistic-etruria-how-the-greeks-influenced-etruscan-art-religion-and-society

Rare Medieval Seal with Roman Chariot Gemstone Discovered in Essex, southeast England – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/rare-medieval-seal-with-roman-chariot-gemstone-discovered-in-essex-southeast-england/

The Dark Secret Behind the Ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/04/secret-ancient-odeon-herodes-atticus-athens/

New study rewrites the origins of the Macedonian kingdom, dating Alexander the Great’s dynasty to the 6th century BCE | Archaeology News Online Magazine
https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/new-study-rewrites-the-origins-of-the-macedonian-kingdom/

Greek God Hermes Statue Found in AncientCity of Laodicea – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/03/greek-god-hermes-statue-ancient-city-laodicea/

Is the Costume Controversy in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Actually Fair?
https://collider.com/christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-costume-controversy/

Princeton’s ‘champion of anti-racism in classics’ to leave for Arizona State U. | The College Fix

Princeton’s ‘champion of anti-racism in classics’ to leave for Arizona State U.

Ephemeris ~ DE VENETIOLA Inpetus nocturnus a Civitatibus Coniunctis
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2456

Jerome, Letter 93 – online in English – Roger Pearse

Jerome, Letter 93 – online in English

If You Tolerate This… | Sphinx

If You Tolerate This…

December Reading Notes – Noodlings

December Reading Notes

Spencer Alley: Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2026/01/antiquarum-statuarum-urbis-romae.html

Vragen rond de jaarwisseling (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

Vragen rond de jaarwisseling (3)

De Dame van Elche – Mainzer Beobachter

De Dame van Elche

PaleoJudaica.com: Urtext and Variance (Peeters)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/urtext-and-variance-peeters.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Arielli, The Dead Sea (Yale)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/arielli-dead-sea-yale.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Relations et interactions culturelles dans la région circumpontique
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/relations-et-interactions-culturelles.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Marginalization and Marginal Groups in Byzantium: Prostitutes, Actors, and Tavernkeepers
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/marginalization-and-marginal-groups-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Fashioning Immortality: Comparative Studies in Three Pindaric Odes
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/fashioning-immortality-comparative.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Modern Hammurapi: An Old Babylonian King in Imperial Germany
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-modern-hammurapi-old-babylonian.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/time-of-textiles-in-ancient-greece.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Das Erfassen von Zeit im Kontext der Vergangenheit: Zu den Anfängen der hethitischen historischen Erzählungen
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/das-erfassen-von-zeit-im-kontext-der.html

Cultural relations and interactions in the circumpontic region | Spartokos has read

Relations et interactions culturelles dans la région circumpontique

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Anima Latina 04.01.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/01/anima-latina-04-01-2026.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 03.01.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/01/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-03-01-2026.html

Episode A8 – Who Was King | THE ANCIENT WORLD

Episode A8 – Who Was King

Rise of Christianity – The Ancients | Acast

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(346) How One Bodyguard Almost Took Over the Roman Empire – YouTube

(351) Auld Lang Syne in Latin! Happy New Year! Fēlīcem Annum Novum! – YouTube

(352) The Life-Changing Lessons of Stoicism – YouTube

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explorator 28.01 ~ January 4, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.01 ~ January 4, 2026

• ludi compitales — day two of a moveable festival which might occur anytime between Saturnalia and January 5. It was largely a rural occasion involving woollen dolls being made to represent each free member of the household (simple woollen balls would be used to represent slaves) being hung up on the eve of the festival, presumably as offerings to the Lares. There would also follow more formal sacrifices at the compita (places where two farm paths crossed).
• 1785 — birth of Jacob Grimm