• 29/30 A.D. — partial solar eclipse in the eastern Mediterranean which is sometimes associated with the crucifixion
• 62 A.D. — death of the satirist Aulus Persius Flaccus (source?)
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Felicissimus and Firmina
• 1977 — the discovery of a tomb believed to be that of Philip II of Macedon is announced
• 1998 — death of John Chadwick

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Antiquities and Museums: Roman-era tomb uncovered in al-Hara, Daraa countryside

Antiquities and Museums: Roman-era tomb uncovered in al-Hara, Daraa countryside

Excavations at Blaundos ancient city reveal stadium from Alexander the Great era – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/excavations-at-blaundos-ancient-city-reveal-stadium-from-the-era-of-alexander-the-gre-3210276

[AI?] Jerusalem stone quarries beneath modern city | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-874854

Roman engineering genius comes to life beneath the streets of ancient Ratiaria – History and religion
https://bnr.bg/en/post/102243540/roman-engineering-genius-comes-to-life-beneath-the-streets-of-ancient-ratiaria

Ancient Roman coffin disturbed by archaeologists for the first time in 1,700 years | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15314645/Ancient-Roman-sarcophagus-budapest.html

Europe-wide raids smash major antiquities trafficking ring | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/europe-wide-raids-smash-major-antiquities-trafficking-ring/news/

2,000-year-old skull found at Celtic fort was likely a ‘war trophy’ displayed by conquering Romans | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/archaeologists-discover-decapitated-head-the-romans-used-as-a-warning-to-the-celts

3,500-Year-Old Minoan Royal Road: Europe’s Oldest Paved Path – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/22/3500-years-old-minoan-road/

Ancient Curse Tablets Found in Athens Reveal Dark Side of Classical Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/23/ancient-curse-tablets-athens-well/

Greece’s Persephone and Rome’s Proserpina: How One Myth Changed Empires – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/22/greece-persephone-rome-prosepina/

The Monumental Greek Beauty of Berlin’s Pergamon Museum – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/23/greek-pergamon-museum-berlin/

Did the eruption that destroyed Pompeii happen in summer? A new study reopens the enigma
https://en.ara.cat/culture/did-the-eruption-that-destroyed-pompeii-happen-in-summer-new-study-reopens-the-enigma_1_5570653.html

Tang Museum Reveals Secrets of Ancient Mystery Religion – Saratoga TODAY newspaper

Tang Museum Reveals Secrets of Ancient Mystery Religion

The Boudican Revolt: When a British queen took on Rome | Sky HISTORY TV Channel
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-boudican-revolt-rome

‘Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s love of Ancient Rome hides a secret fascination with imperialism’
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/11/23/elon-musk-and-mark-zuckerberg-s-love-of-ancient-rome-hides-a-secret-fascination-with-imperialism_6747738_23.html

Braggart Soldier – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/braggart-soldier?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=179728366&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Better than our Fathers! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Better than our Fathers!

AI in the Classroom is a Social Problem – Noodlings

AI in the Classroom is a Social Problem

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part II: Hoplite Equipment, Hoplight or Hopheavy? – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part II: Hoplite Equipment, Hoplight or Hopheavy?

Feit en betekenis – Mainzer Beobachter

Feit en betekenis

PaleoJudaica.com: Festscrift for SEERI (Gorgias)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/festscrift-for-seeri-gorgias.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Bremmer, Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/bremmer-jews-pagans-and-christians-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sculpturo: Plateforme de recherche sur la sculpture romaine en Méditerranée
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/sculpturo-plateforme-de-recherche-sur.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani (CSIR)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-corpus-signorum-imperii-romani-csir.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Oxytone: The Bleeding Edge of Ancient Language
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/oxytone-bleeding-edge-of-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The “electronic Babylonian Library” (eBL) Platform
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-electronic-babylonian-library-ebl.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Relativism and the Frontiers of Empire: Critical Perspectives on Roman Soldiers, Communities and Military Landscapes
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/relativism-and-frontiers-of-empire.html
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Anima Latina 23.11.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/11/anima-latina-23-11-2025.html

Emperor Tiberius: Monster or Misunderstood? – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 22.11.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/11/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-22-11-2025.html

144. The two millennia of Roma… – Byzantium & Friends – Apple Podcasts

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(569) Return Nefertiti: Egypt renews claims while Germany cites fragility of bust – YouTube

(572) De philologia musica, cum Henrico de Corrigia – YouTube

(572) Why Ancient Greek is so hard… and how to fix it! – YouTube

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explorator 27.49 – Explorator

explorator 27.49

Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic, Thursday, December 4, 2025, 6:30 – 7:45 PM EST – Smithsonian Event | Smithsonian Institution
https://www.si.edu/events/detail?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D190828998

• ca. 101 — martyrdom (?) of Clement I

• c. 70 A.D. — martyrdom of Philemon and Apphia
• c. 117 A.D. — martyrdom of Cecilia

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2,000-year-old skull found at Celtic fort was likely a ‘war trophy’ displayed by conquering Romans | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/archaeologists-discover-decapitated-head-the-romans-used-as-a-warning-to-the-celts

Completion of the excavation at the site of Kofinou – Agios Herakleios and Menogeia – Limnes – Gov.cy
https://www.gov.cy/en/culture/completion-of-the-excavation-at-the-site-of-kofinou-agios-herakleios-and-menogeia-limnes/

Archaeologists Unearth Five Roman-Era Theater Masks in Turkey, Including Rare Portrait of a Philosopher
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/archaeologists-unearth-five-roman-era-theater-masks-in-turkey-including-rare-portrait-of-a-philosopher/

Preserved 3rd century mosaic excavated in Iznik
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/preserved-3rd-century-mosaic-excavated-in-iznik

Researchers Restore Long-Lost Greek Woman to the Bible After 2,000 Years – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/21/lost-greek-woman-bible/

Bulgaria Seizes Thousands of Looted Artifacts in Balkan Antiquities Bust | OCCRP
https://www.occrp.org/en/news/bulgaria-seizes-thousands-of-looted-artifacts-in-balkan-antiquities-bust

A 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-roman-sarcophagus-discovery-budapest-77a41fe190bbcc167b43d05141536f54

Identification of Pharaoh Sheshonq III’s Sarcophagus in Ancient Tanis Marks Major Archaeological Breakthrough

Identification of Pharaoh Sheshonq III’s Sarcophagus in Ancient Tanis Marks Major Archaeological Breakthrough

Traces of Ancient Opium Found in a 2,500-Year-Old Egyptian Vase Linked to ‘King of Kings’ Xerxes
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/opium-egyptian-vase-xerxes/

Canaanite Folk Worship at Megiddo – Biblical Archaeology Society

Canaanite Folk Worship at Megiddo

She married her brother, then he died. The monument to her grief was a Wonder of the Ancient World | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/travel/mausoleum-halicarnassus-bodrum-turkey

This mummy portrait isn’t from Roman Egypt – it was generated by AI
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251121-mummy-portrait-roman-egypt-fake-artificial-intelligence

Greek Mythology’s Enduring Influence on Modern Literature and Art – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/20/greek-mythology-influence-modern-literature-art/

Oh, the Sage You Could Be! – by Doug Bates
https://ataraxiaorbust.substack.com/p/oh-the-sage-you-could-be?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2723270&post_id=178685835&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Blog #113: Pannonians Abroad? New Evidence from a Roman Auxiliary Base in Central Turkey with Andrew L. Goldman – Peopling the Past

Blog #113: Pannonians Abroad? New Evidence from a Roman Auxiliary Base in Central Turkey with Andrew L. Goldman

The Left Thinks Western Civilization Itself Is ‘White Nationalist’
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/21/the-left-thinks-western-civilization-itself-is-white-nationalist/

Aristophanes would have loved Zohran Mamdani | The Spectator Australia

Aristophanes would have loved Zohran Mamdani

Gilbert W. Lawall – Concord Monitor

Gilbert W. Lawall

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Latin Sentence
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-latin-sentence.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Classical Education
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/classical-education.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Sign of Approbation
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/sign-of-approbation.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: 35 arrests in Bulgaria in a large art trafficking investigation
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/11/35-arrests-in-bulgaria-in-large-art.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: A Single Coin “Rewrites” German History?
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/11/coin-rewrites-german-history.html

Astyanax: A New Peer-Reviewed Undergraduate Journal of Classical Studies | Classics at Reading

Astyanax: A New Peer-Reviewed Undergraduate Journal of Classical Studies

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

PaleoJudaica.com: Civil Administration expropriating land around Sebastia
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/civil-administration-expropriating-land.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Pre-exilic linguistic dating of Isaiah 40-66?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/pre-exilic-linguistic-dating-of-isaiah.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Paleography of the Book of Kemyt
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-paleography-of-book-of-kemyt.html

Hand-modeled ceramics of the early nomads of the northern Black Sea region (9th – first half of the 7th century BC) | Spartokos read

Céramiques modelées à la main des premiers nomades de la région nord de la mer Noire (IXe – première moitié du VIIe siècle avant J.-C.)

1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline and Glynnis Fawkes (Princeton University Press, 2024) | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/1177-bc-a-graphic-history-of-the-year-civilization-collapsed-by-eric-h-cline-and-glynnis-fawkes-princeton-university-press-2024/385D921A421FBD7962510C9C5E3B1DA4?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Myths, Muses and Mortals. The Way of Life in Ancient Greece (W.) Furley Pp. ills, map. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. Cased, £25. ISBN: 978-1-78914-917-3. https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/myths-muses-and-mortals | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/myths-muses-and-mortals-the-way-of-life-in-ancient-greece-w-furley-pp-ills-map-london-reaktion-books-2024-cased-25-isbn-9781789149173-httpsreaktionbookscoukworkmythsmusesandmortals/89001B0F2CC31D74C7764AB242123DBC?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation Roosevelt Montás. Princeton University Press, 2021. 248 pp. Cased: ISBN 978-0-691-20039-2 (US $24.95) | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/rescuing-socrates-how-the-great-books-changed-my-life-and-why-they-matter-for-a-new-generation-roosevelt-montas-princeton-university-press-2021-248-pp-cased-isbn-9780691200392-us-2495/1444B95DBD50B664CD6876E00AE87E8D?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

The First Witches: Women of Power in the Classical World (A.H.) Prescott Pp xxii + 172, pls. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2025. Cased, £25. ISBN: 9781399038362 | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/first-witches-women-of-power-in-the-classical-world-ah-prescott-pp-xxii-172-pls-barnsley-pen-sword-books-2025-cased-25-isbn-9781399038362/F64E2172445E1C01BCFACECA9CE8B04D?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well Review of Susan Sauvé Meyer, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023) | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/how-to-flourish-an-ancient-guide-to-living-well-review-of-susan-sauve-meyer-princeton-princeton-university-press-2023/A1973DC5A2277B86C627386AFEBCD1B3?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity (E.) Gowers Pp. xvi + 170, b/w & colour ills. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. Paper, £30, US$ $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-41314-6. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-small-stuff-of-roman-antiquity/paper | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/small-stuff-of-roman-antiquity-e-gowers-pp-xvi-170-bw-colour-ills-oakland-ca-university-of-california-press-2025-paper-30-us-3495-isbn-9780520413146-httpswwwucpressedubooksthesmallstuffofromanantiquitypaper/5732326338F02887FD7CD60A560D9DCE?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Plato. How to talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers (A.) D’Angour (ed. Trans.) Pp. Xxxviii + 166. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. Cased, £14.99, US$17.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-25688-7. https://princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780961256887/how-to-talk-about-love | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/plato-how-to-talk-about-love-an-ancient-guide-for-modern-lovers-a-dangour-ed-trans-pp-xxxviii-166-princeton-nj-princeton-university-press-2025-cased-1499-us1795-isbn-9780691256887-httpsprincetonedubookshardcover9780961256887howtotalkaboutlove/8A993CF69BCCC079F5B78BC3AF1D6F94?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Gewalt in der Antike. Religiöse Ansätze zu ihrer Legitimierung und Delegitimierung – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Gewalt in der Antike. Religiöse Ansätze zu ihrer Legitimierung und Delegitimierung

Slavery and dependence in ancient Egypt: sources in translation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Slavery and dependence in ancient Egypt: sources in translation

Drawing lots: from egalitarianism to democracy in ancient Greece – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Drawing lots: from egalitarianism to democracy in ancient Greece

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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA384 – Did Hannibal and Scipio Africanus Really Meet?
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa384-did-hannibal-and-scipio-africanus-really-meet

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(525) Priscus and Verus: The Gladiators Who Both Won Their Freedom – YouTube

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Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference 2026 – TALOS AI4SSH

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference 2026

Import of Amphorae in the Western Pontic area (1st-7th c. AD)

Import of Amphorae in the Western Pontic area (1st-7th c. AD)

Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781541606470

The Romans by Edward Watts — Open Letters Review
https://openlettersreview.com/posts/the-romans-by-edward-watts

The Sound of Attic: The Fabric of Linguistic Imitation in Greek Imperial Texts | The Cambridge Classical Journal | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-classical-journal/article/sound-of-attic-the-fabric-of-linguistic-imitation-in-greek-imperial-texts/339CD76AF8B6D68A99FD96443FB5F404?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

The contribution of board games to vocabulary acquisition in the college Latin classroom | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/contribution-of-board-games-to-vocabulary-acquisition-in-the-college-latin-classroom/0EC0688357C4FCDBEFBFA8693CB9FA6A?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles