• c. 255 A.D. — martyrdom of Hippolytus
• c. 256 A.D. — martyrdom of Aurelia and Paulina
• 259 A.D. — martyrdom of Pontian
  … a little cluster from the persecution under Valerian

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New discoveries reveal Tell Abraq’s role in ancient Persian Gulf trade
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-discoveries-reveal-abraq-role-ancient.html#goog_rewarded

Roman sun hat: A ‘very rare’ 1,600-year-old brimmed cap that may have protected a Roman soldier from Egyptian sandstorms | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/roman-sun-hat-a-very-rare-1-600-year-old-brimmed-cap-that-may-have-protected-a-roman-soldier-from-egyptian-sandstorms

‘Enter the arena’: Roman restoration project reveals secret ‘Commodus Passage’ in Colosseum | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/12/01/enter-the-arena-roman-restoration-project-reveals-secret-commodus-passage-in-colosseum

Roman inkwell discovery reveals advanced ink chemistry 300 years earlier than expected | Chemistry World
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/roman-era-ink-reveals-surprising-chemical-complexity/4022595.article

Mapping the Luwian Lands: How 483 Forgotten Settlements Are Redrawing the Map of the Bronze Age – Popular Archeology
https://popular-archaeology.com/article/mapping-the-luwian-lands-how-483-forgotten-settlements-are-redrawing-the-map-of-the-bronze-age/

Che emozione! Una statuetta romana emerge durante una “battuta” per detectoristi. Come si svolgono questi incontri? Come si suddividono le proprietà dei reperti? Quali accordi devono essere raggiunti con i proprietari dei terreni?
https://www.stilearte.it/statuetta-romana-minerva-ritrovamento-metal-detectives-group/

Roman military helped bring cats to Europe | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/environment/roman-military-cats-domestication-europe/

How the World’s Oldest Library Survived an Empire’s Fall
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/huge-library-of-ashurbanipal-2709162

The Spartan-Persian Peace Treaty That Destroyed Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/01/spartan-persian-peace-treaty-destroy-ancient-greece/

Forgotton Women of History: Tomyris of the Massagetae
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/30/2356152/-Forgotton-Women-of-History-Tomyris-of-the-Massagetae

Universität zu Köln: Union of Academies funds long-term project to investigate papyri
https://www.uni-koeln.de/en/university/news/news/news-detail/union-of-academies-funds-long-term-project-to-investigate-papyri

Ancient dirty dishes reveal decades of questionable findings | Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ancient-dirty-dishes-reveal-decades-questionable-findings

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Biblical Hebrew
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/12/cognitive-linguistic-approaches-to.html

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Greek Paleography Course
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/12/greek-paleography-course.html

Martha Graham & Greek Myth in Review – CRSN
https://classicalreception.org/martha-graham-greek-myth-in-review/

Zwölf Tage im Jahr: 27ten Dezember 2025 | Sphinx
https://thesphinxblog.com/2025/12/01/zwolf-tage-im-jahr-27ten-dezember-2025/

Cyber Monday: One-Click Download from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/cyber-monday-one-click-download-from-the-digital-press-at-the-university-of-north-dakota/

Poëzie: Keizer Domitianus – Mainzer Beobachter
https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2025/12/01/poezie-keizer-domitianus/

Ephemeris ~ TURBO ORIENTALIS Nuntius a Taprobane
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2451

New Co-Authored Publication – Data Visualization! Quantification! Roman Intervention in the Greek East! Oh my! – Liv Mariah Yarrow
https://livyarrow.org/2025/12/01/new-co-authored-publication-data-visualization-quantification-roman-intervention-in-the-greek-east-oh-my/

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Rosenblum, Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/review-of-rosenblum-forbidden-3000-year.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Dream divination in the Exagoge of Ezekiel
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/dream-divination-in-exagoge-of-ezekiel.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Who goads God in the Aqedah?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/who-goads-god-in-aqedah.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Access to Cuneiform Texts (CDLI-ACT) – the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative in Arabic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/access-to-cuneiform-texts-cdli-act.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Josephus Christianus: The Reception of Josephus in Greek Christian Literature (2nd – 15th Cent. CE)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/josephus-christianus-reception-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SLaVEgents: Enslaved persons in the making of societies and cultures in Western Eurasia and North Africa, 1000 BCE – 300 CE
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/slavegents-enslaved-persons-in-making.html
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Does Anybody at Iron Age Arad Really Know What Time It Is? Or, If You Can Write the Weekly Invoices, Can You Write the Bible? | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/does-anybody-at-iron-age-arad-really-know-what-time-it-is-or-if-you-can-write-the-weekly-invoices-can-you-write-the-bible/

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(786) AI Robot System Helps Archaeologists Restore Fragmented Pompeii Frescoes in Major Breakthrough | APT – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ENYdOvNF6I

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Graduate Study Opportunity (MA), Department of Classics, University of Manitoba – “Editing Plato: new critical editions of the fifth, sixth and seventh tetralogies” – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/12/umanma2026/

SAM Newsletter December 2025
https://mailchi.mp/8aa53f3f3b5b/sam-newsletter-december-2025?e=

Call for papers- Women Archaeologists and War – EFA
https://www.efa.gr/call-for-papers-women-archaeologists-and-war/

• rites in honour of Neptune (connected with an altar rededication or a temple dedication?)
• rites in honour of Pietas near the Circus Flaminius (not much known about this one, apparently)
• 147 A.D. — Annia Galeria Faustina, wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, is given the title of Augusta

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Section of Hadrian’s Wall discovered at Drumburgh – The Past

Section of Hadrian’s Wall discovered at Drumburgh

Strada romana di 2000 anni fa nel centro storico di Cosenza
https://www.cosenzachannel.it/societa/strada-romana-di-2000-anni-fa-nel-cuore-del-centro-storico-di-cosenza-aejvygv4

Excavation season concludes at Perre with new Roman-era finds
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavation-season-concludes-at-perre-with-new-roman-era-finds-216255

8,500-Year-Old Mirror Unearthed at Canhasan in Central Türkiye – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/8500-year-old-mirror-unearthed-at-canhasan-in-central-turkiye/

Death among the Durotriges – The Past

Death among the Durotriges

The last-minute fight to save Gaza’s ancient archaeological treasures
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2025/11/30/the-last-minute-fight-to-save-gaza-s-ancient-archaeological-treasures_6747984_117.html

5 Must-Visit Ancient Theaters in Mainland Greece | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/ancient-theaters-mainland-greece/

Ancient Greeks Engineered a Divine Light Show Inside the Parthenon, Oxford Study Reveals
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/29/parthenon-sunrise-athena-light-effect

New robotic system supports archaeologists | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-876739

Medea in Joburg: Ancient Greek tragedy meets modern SA realities at The Market Theatre | News24
https://www.news24.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/arts/medea-in-joburg-ancient-greek-tragedy-meets-modern-sa-realities-at-the-market-theatre-20251128-1118

Derveni Papyrus Found in Greece: Europe’s Oldest Book – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/30/derveni-papyrus-greece-europe-oldest-book/

It’s Time for AP Greek: Initiative to Bring AP Greek Language & Culture to U.S. Schools – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/its-time-for-ap-greek-initiative-to-bring-ap-greek-language-culture-to-u-s-schools/

Why Is the Royal Navy So Obsessed with Ancient Greece? – The National Interest
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-royal-navy-so-obsessed-with-ancient-greece-ps-113025

New Views of the Kingdom of Pylos – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/new-views-of-the-kingdom-of-pylos/

Pharaonic Ambitions: Obelisks in Rome – by Agnes Crawford
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/pharaonic-ambitions-obelisks-in-rome?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=508757&post_id=180192003&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Does Homer Make Sh*t up? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Does Homer Make Sh*t up?

29 November 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium) to his family (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/29-november-58-bce-from-cicero-at-5cf?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=180224826&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

29 November 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/29-november-58-bce-from-cicero-at?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=180223758&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

1831 reports and other varia – Liv Mariah Yarrow

1831 reports and other varia

The Art of Slow Writing – Noodlings

The Art of Slow Writing

Sint-Charbel – Mainzer Beobachter

Sint-Charbel

Exhibition in Rome showcases Ancient Greek treasures – Wanted in Rome
https://www.wantedinrome.com/whatson/exhibition-in-rome-showcases-ancient-greek-treasures.html

PaleoJudaica.com: De Vos, The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition (CUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/de-vos-pseudo-clementine-tradition-cup.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Ezra and Nehemiah According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation (Gorgias)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/ezra-and-nehemiah-according-to-syriac.html

Ancient weapons from the Hermitage Museum collection | Spartokos has read

Armes anciennes de la collection du Musée de l’Ermitage

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Anima Latina 30.11.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/11/anima-latina-30-11-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 29.11.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/11/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-29-11-2025.html

Decoding the Dead Sea Scrolls … – Unscrolled – Apple Podcasts

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(752) This country has more pyramids than Egypt #history – YouTube

(753) Alexander the Great’s Egypt 3: Ptolemy Triumphant | Egyptian History – YouTube

(753) De immersionibus subaquaneis (aliisque multis), cum Anna Martin – YouTube

(753) Nero, the most infamous of all Roman Emperors – YouTube

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explorator 27.50 ~ November 30, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.50 ~ November 30, 2025

Intelligenza artificiale e papirologia. La collezione fiorentina e i papiri di Ercolano – La Colombaria
https://www.colombaria.it/intelligenza-artificiale-e-papirologia-la-collezione-fiorentina-e-i-papiri-di-ercolano/

• 406 B.C. — death of Euripides (by one reckoning)
• 147 A.D. — birth of Annia Galeria Faustina, the daughter of the emperor-to-be Marcus Aurelius
• 1817 — birth of Theodor Mommsen, Nobel prize winning ancient historian