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Sarcophagus with Garland Unearthed in Ancient City of Stratonikeia – GreekReporter.com

Sarcophagus with Garland Unearthed in Ancient City of Stratonikeia

[AI?]2,000-year-old garlanded sarcophagus found in City of Gladiators – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-851781

Archaeologists uncover Roman road, artifacts in Switzerland | Sacramento Bee
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/world/article305227281.html

Helicopters seized as ‘dangerous’ tours over Pompeii halted | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/pompeii-helicopters-seized-b2740608.html

Roman coin hoard discovered in Barton Bendish – The Past

Roman coin hoard discovered in Barton Bendish

Completion of the archaeological excavation at the Sanctuary of Apollon at Frangissa – Gov.cy
https://www.gov.cy/en/culture/completion-of-the-archaeological-excavation-at-the-sanctuary-of-apollon-at-frangissa/

Roman Chester: Excavating the CA archive – The Past

Roman Chester: Excavating the CA archive

Bite Marks on Ancient Skeleton Reveal First Physical Evidence of Roman Gladiators Fighting Lions
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bite-marks-on-ancient-skeleton-reveal-first-physical-evidence-of-roman-gladiators-fighting-lions-180986505/

Fairfax Times Events – The Trojan Women
https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/local-events/?_evDiscoveryPath=/event%2F3001522-the-trojan-women

UMW Latin Students Earn Top National Honors – News

UMW Latin Students Earn Top National Honors

Open Access Milestone for the DAI Athens Archive

Open Access Milestone for the DAI Athens Archive

54 Souidias: A History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

54 Souidias: A History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Historisme en grotemannengeschiedenis – Mainzer Beobachter

Historisme en grotemannengeschiedenis

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: 40 anni di scavi, ricerche e attività dell’Università degli Studi di Milano a Tarquinia: atti del convegno in omaggio a Maria Bonghi Jovino, Tarquinia 17-18 set-tembre 2022
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/40-anni-di-scavi-ricerche-e-attivita.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Organizzare il tempo. Fasti e calendari a Roma e nell’Italia romana
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/organizzare-il-tempo-fasti-e-calendari.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’ imperatore, San Michele Arcangelo e la spada. Dialoghi iconografici e strategie figurative a difesa di Costantinopoli
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/l-imperatore-san-michele-arcangelo-e-la.html

Creature Comforts! – CANE

Creature Comforts!

Laudator Temporis Acti: Short Prayer
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/short-prayer.html

Roman Times: Relieving stress with Pompeii building project by Givenni
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/04/relieving-stress-with-pompeii-building.html

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th April 2025 | Sphinx

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th April 2025

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th April 2025 | Sphinx

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th April 2025

PaleoJudaica.com: Guide to ethnographic passages by Pliny the Elder
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/guide-to-ethnographic-passages-by-pliny.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Ruzer, The Writings of the New Testament as Jewish Literature (Hebrew)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/review-of-ruzer-writings-of-new.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Perrin, Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds (Lexham)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/review-of-perrin-lost-words-and.html

Pumice, Parchment, and Papyrus | Variant Readings

Pumice, Parchment, and Papyrus

Art Institute of Chicago’s Jacques Schuhmacher on Provenance Research
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jacques-schuhmacher-art-institute-of-chicago-provenance-research-1234739950/

The world’s first museum was curated by a princess. A tour reveals the origins of the zodiac, calculus and writing
https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-first-museum-was-curated-by-a-princess-a-tour-reveals-the-origins-of-the-zodiac-calculus-and-writing-246876

A new chapter for the Parthenon Marbles? | Apollo Magazine
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/ae-stallings-interview-parthenon-marbles-elgin-frieze-frame-british-museum-interview/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=APBO%20%2020250424%20%20AL&utm_content=APBO%20%2020250424%20%20AL+CID_60f0a7f6d07d89bcc0876bb7282a5f31&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Apollo&utm_term=Poetic%20justice

The eastern Roman empire under the Severans. Old connections, new beginnings? – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The eastern Roman empire under the Severans. Old connections, new beginnings?

Epimenides of Crete – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Epiménide de Crète

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Finally, Some Evidence of the Pharaoh Necho at Megiddo, or, How to Excavate in the One Tiny Spot on Your Site That’s Sort of Undisturbed and Find Cool Things | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/finally-some-evidence-of-the-pharaoh-necho-at-megiddo-or-how-to-excavate-in-the-one-tiny-spot-on-your-site-that-s-undisturbed-and-find-cool-things/

So You Think You Know Sumeria?: Proverbs | RNZ
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/8tillate/audio/2018970622/so-you-think-you-know-sumeria-proverbs

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(358) Ancient Greek Sci-Fi?! – YouTube

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Latine Vertere: Latin Translation of Greek Texts in Ancient Rome | Department of Greek & Latin – UCL – University College London
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/events/2025/jun/latine-vertere-latin-translation-greek-texts-ancient-rome

Making the Implicit Explicit: Digital editions of ancient text-bearing objects | Digital Humanities Research Hub | School of Advanced Study | University of London
https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/events/making-implicit-explicit-digital-editions-ancient-text-bearing-objects

Moral Responsibility in Early Greek Thought Tickets, Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moral-responsibility-in-early-greek-thought-tickets-1338272662559?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Roman phallus found at frontier fortress
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/04/roman-phallus-found-at-frontier-fortress/155092

Pompeii quiz: How much do you know about the Roman town destroyed by Mount Vesuvius? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/pompeii-quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-the-roman-town-destroyed-by-mount-vesuvius

Roman coin hoard discovered in Barton Bendish – The Past

Roman coin hoard discovered in Barton Bendish

Finds Tray – Roman coin – The Past

Finds Tray – Roman coin

The Lion’s Den: When Big Cats Roamed Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com

The Lion’s Den: When Big Cats Roamed Ancient Greece

Arrian: The Biographer Who Preserved Alexander the Great’s Legacy – GreekReporter.com

Arrian: The Biographer Who Preserved Alexander the Great’s Legacy

Dozens of ancient artifacts seized in Greek island smuggling raid – Neos Kosmos

Dozens of ancient artifacts seized in Greek island smuggling raid

World’s Oldest Gym Membership Was Written in Greek 1,800 Years Ago – GreekReporter.com

World’s Oldest Gym Membership Was Written in Greek 1,800 Years Ago

Identity of the Occupants of the Tomb of Persephone in Vergina Revealed: They Are Not Philip II and His Wife

Identity of the Occupants of the Tomb of Persephone in Vergina Revealed: They Are Not Philip II and His Wife

(7) Scanning Herculaneum Scrolls at Scale
https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/scanning-herculaneum-scrolls-at-scale?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1454609&post_id=160598548&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

2,600-Year-Old Babylonian map from Iraq reveals ancient worldview – Iraqi News
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/ancient-iraq-babylonian-map-imago-mundi/

Treasure Hunter Claims to Find First Council of Nicaea’s Location, Demands $50 Million for Discovery – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/treasure-hunter-claims-to-find-first-council-of-nicaeas-location-demands-50-million-for-discovery/

Ancient Thracian gold hoard unearthed
https://iol.co.za/news/2012-11-09-ancient-thracian-gold-hoard-unearthed/

[old news]Rare fresco discovered in Pompeii shows type of woman who ‘breaks free from male order to dance freely, go hunting and eat raw meat in the mountains’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/rare-fresco-discovered-in-pompeii-shows-type-of-woman-who-breaks-free-from-male-order-to-dance-freely-go-hunting-and-eat-raw-meat-in-the-mountains/ar-AA1zRbYC?cvid=b3698c5cfc234a5e961d8ec15d2c50a5&ocid=mh14pn

Who Needs Empathy? Why Some White Nationalists Condemn Western Civilization – Pharos

Who Needs Empathy? Why Some White Nationalists Condemn Western Civilization

Who Were the Essenes? – Biblical Archaeology Society

Who Were the Essenes?

Determination of the origin of lead objects from Risan and Riječani (Montenegro) based on lead isotope analysis – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25001944

Camels and Cats on Cyprus?: The Revolt of Calocaerus « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Camels and Cats on Cyprus?: The Revolt of Calocaerus

Mabillon, the “Acta Sanctorum OSB”, and St Botolph – Roger Pearse

Mabillon, the “Acta Sanctorum OSB”, and St Botolph

Back to St Botolph – problems and sources for his Life (BHL 1428) – Roger Pearse

Back to St Botolph – problems and sources for his Life (BHL 1428)

The Big Wheel | Sphinx

The Big Wheel

Laudator Temporis Acti: Nothing More Unsightly Than Old Age
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/nothing-more-unsightly-than-old-age.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Ways of Zeus
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-ways-of-zeus.html

Muggenziften – Mainzer Beobachter

Muggenziften

Leverschouw – Mainzer Beobachter

Leverschouw

(7) The solider who wouldn’t go home – by Owen Rees
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/the-solider-who-wouldnt-go-home?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2470207&post_id=162109452&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

PaleoJudaica.com: Barton (ed.) Understanding the Hebrew Bible (OUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/barton-ed-understanding-hebrew-bible-oup.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Khan Festschrift (Open Book)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/khan-festschrift-open-book.html

The First Marathon Runner | Greek Myth Comix
https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/the-first-marathon-runner/

The Odyssey Adaptation Taking Over Paramount+ Ahead Of Christopher Nolan’s Movie
https://www.slashfilm.com/1843064/the-odyssey-adaptation-the-return-paramount-plus-christopher-nolan-movie/

Leicester’s Roman forum built from cardboard in a day
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxnpknx59no

Archaeological complex of the Didova Khata region | Spartokos read

Complexe archéologique de la région de Didova Khata

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Anima Latina 27.04.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/04/anima-latina-27-04-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 26.04.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/04/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-26-04-2025.html

diē vīcēsimō quīntō mēnsis Aprīlis — Nuntii Latini

diē vīcēsimō quīntō mēnsis Aprīlis

Episode A1 – The Four Quarters | THE ANCIENT WORLD

Episode A1 – The Four Quarters

Jason and the Argonauts – The Ancients | Acast

(54) Totam vitam discere (colloquium cum Catherina Hasher) by Satura Lanx – Latin language and literature for beginners

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(332) Give it to us Antigone!!!! – YouTube

(336) Sparta vs. Athens; Education and Women’s Rights Explored – YouTube

(336) Did Romulus really kill Remus? | Ovid explained in Latin (Fasti IV, 835-852) – YouTube

(336) “Follow the Roman Eagles” – Battle of Idistaviso, 16 AD – Lost Eagles (Part 3) – YouTube

(336) Archaeological Discovery of the Head of Augustus Caesar in Meroë Sudan – YouTube

(336) Totam vitam discere (cum Catherina Hasher) || Spoken Latin podcast (54) – YouTube

(336) Virgil: The Self-Sufficient Farmer – YouTube

(336) Pliny: A Day’s Hunting/ The Burdens of an Estate Owner – YouTube

(336) Horace Video – YouTube

(336) Cicero: Traditional Values – YouTube

(336) Ovid: A Rustic Festival Video – YouTube

(336) Livy: Cincinnatus Video – YouTube

(333) The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr. Paul M.M. Cooper (‪@FallofCivilizations‬) – YouTube

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Senior Curator: Mediterranean Antiquities – Job Opportunities – University of Cambridge
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51149/

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UC expert talks about lessons from Pompeii | University of Cincinnati
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2025/04/uc-expert-talks-about-lessons-from-pompeii.html

Catalan Pompeii found in Tarragona: 2,000 years, 8 hectares and 5,000 inhabitants

Catalan Pompeii found in Tarragona: 2,000 years, eight hectares and 5,000 inhabitants

Analysis of Early Iron Age / Classical period glass beads from Brili necropolis (Georgia) – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25001579

Tornos News | Knossos: 125 years since the excavations of Arthur Evans
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/51580-knossos-125-years-since-the-excavations-of-arthur-evans.html

Mini ice age was final death blow to Roman Empire, unusual rocks in Iceland suggest | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/mini-ice-age-was-final-death-blow-to-roman-empire-unusual-rocks-in-iceland-suggest

Inside the quest to digitally unroll ancient scrolls burnt by Vesuvius
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01087-y

Dozens of Ancient Herculaneum Scrolls on Brink of Being Revealed in Landmark Project – GreekReporter.com

Dozens of Ancient Herculaneum Scrolls on Brink of Being Revealed in Landmark Project

Metal detectorist finds ancient Roman coin hoard in Romania | Hilton Head Island Packet
https://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/world/article304963431.html

Mérida: A wealth of Roman heritage in the heart of Extremadura | Sur in English
https://www.surinenglish.com/lifestyle/travel/merida-wealth-roman-heritage-the-heart-extremadura-20250425144536-nt.html

Ancient Roman theater found under Croatia city hall: photos | Miami Herald
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article304978901.html

Becoming an expert: representation of women in Roman Britain – News – University of Liverpool
https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/25/becoming-an-expert-representation-of-women-in-roman-britain/

Archaeologists Uncover Unknown Minoan Ritual of Demolishing Tombs and Feasting – GreekReporter.com

Archaeologists Uncover Unknown Minoan Ritual of Demolishing Tombs and Feasting

Researchers uncover first skeletal evidence of gladiator bitten by lion in combat – Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/archaeology/archaeology-news/researchers-uncover-first-skeletal-evidence-of-gladiator-bitten-by-lion-in-combat/

Bite marks confirm gladiators fought lions at York
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/04/bite-marks-confirm-gladiators-fought-lions-at-york/155057

(7) Sing of Money and the Man – by Joel Christensen
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/sing-of-money-and-the-man?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1870284&post_id=162137406&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Lions and gladiators in Roman York | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/lions-and-gladiators-in-roman-york-blog-post

Constantine And His Father Were Proclaimed Gods By Their Contemporaries – The Historian’s Hut

Constantine And His Father Were Proclaimed Gods By Their Contemporaries

A Classical Insurgency – First Things

A Classical Insurgency

(288) NON AVRO SED FERRO: a graphic novel in LATIN | Interview with the Authors – YouTube

Contributor: What the ancient world can teach us about death – Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-24/death-afterlife-heaven-hell-egyptians-greeks-romans

Dozens of Ancient Artifacts Seized in Greek Island Smuggling Raid – The National Herald

Dozens of Ancient Artifacts Seized in Greek Island Smuggling Raid

The So-called Bust of Josephus | Variant Readings

The So-called Bust of Josephus

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Quintessentially Roman Trait
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-quintessentially-roman-trait.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Laws
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-laws.html

Teaching Thursday: Form and Function – Noodlings

Teaching Thursday: Form and Function

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Ostia mikveh, etc.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/more-on-ostia-mikveh-etc.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Satlow on AI and Word Similarity in the Talmud
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/satlow-on-ai-and-word-similarity-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Aramaic postdoc in Madrid
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/aramaic-postdoc-in-madrid.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Open-access titles from Project Muse
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/open-access-titles-from-project-muse.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Classics and Race: A historical reader
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/classics-and-race-historical-reader.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/everyday-communication-in-antiquity.html

The language of objects: deixis in descriptive Greek epigrams – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The language of objects: deixis in descriptive Greek epigrams

Christ the emperor: Christian theology and the Roman emperor in the fourth century AD – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Christ the emperor: Christian theology and the Roman emperor in the fourth century AD

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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA354 – Why did ancient armies have few ranged units compared to line infantry?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa354-why-did-ancient-armies-have-few-ranged-units-compared-to-line-infantry

Women In The Ancient World | KPFA

Women In The Ancient World

Mary Beard On The Emperors of Rome
https://radiowest.kuer.org/show/radiowest/2025-04-23/mary-beard-on-the-emperors-of-rome
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(288) Member Lecture: Myth and Marble—Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection – YouTube

(288) Plot Summary of OEDIPUS AT COLONUS by Sophocles (Ancient Greek Tragedy) – YouTube

(288) NON AVRO SED FERRO: a graphic novel in LATIN | Interview with the Authors – YouTube

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Research reveals first skeletal evidence of gladiator bitten by lion in Roman period
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-reveals-skeletal-evidence-gladiator-bitten.html

Bites on gladiator bones first evidence of combat with lion
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8v2063r19o

Roman Gladiator Remains Show First Proof of Human-Animal Combat | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/roman-gladiator-remains-show-first-proof-of-human-animal-combat/

MU-led study finds evidence of gladiator-animal combat in Roman period | Maynooth University
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/mu-led-study-finds-evidence-gladiator-animal-combat-roman-period

Italians spent thousands of years perfecting grape cultivation, ancient seeds show
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-italians-spent-thousands-years-grape.html

[AI?]Emperor Marcus Aurelius’ bridgehead fortress discovered along the Danube – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-851325

Lion mauled gladiator to death 1,800 years ago in Roman Britain, controversial study suggests | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/lion-mauled-gladiator-to-death-1-800-years-ago-in-roman-britain-controversial-study-suggests

Severe drought helped bring about ‘barbarian’ invasion of Roman Britain, study finds | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/severe-drought-helped-bring-about-barbarian-invasion-of-roman-britain-study-finds

Greek Police Dismantle Antiquities Smuggling Ring on Island of Crete – GreekReporter.com

Greek Police Dismantle Antiquities Smuggling Ring on Island of Crete

Antiquities Smuggling Ring Busted in Crete

Greek Senior Public Servant Arrested in High Profile Antiquities Smuggling Case in Crete

Celts Imported Greek Pottery, Olive Oil, and Wine 2,600 Years Ago – GreekReporter.com

Celts Imported Greek Pottery, Olive Oil, and Wine 2,600 Years Ago

[AI?]LiDAR uncovers lost capital of ancient Lyncestis in N. Macedonia – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-851332

[AI?]How Carthage spread Phoenician culture without genetic legacy – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-851331

Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange
https://www.mpg.de/24574685/0422-evan-phoenician-culture-spread-mainly-through-cultural-exchange-150495-x

Who Were the Carthaginians? Ancient DNA Study Reveals a Stunning Answer – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-04-23/ty-article/who-were-the-carthaginians-ancient-dna-study-reveals-a-stunning-answer/00000196-521f-d9e7-a3df-db7f869f0000

Dementia Was Rare in Ancient Greece, Study Finds – GreekReporter.com

Dementia Was Rare in Ancient Greece, Study Finds

American Academy In Rome Announces This Year’s Rome Prize Winners
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/04/23/american-academy-in-rome-announces-this-years-rome-prize-winners/

Lowering the Flag: Professor Emeritus Maurizio Gualtieri | The Quad
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/the-quad/2025/04/lowering-the-flag-professor-emeritus-maurizio-gualtieri.html

Reading Greek Tragedies Online: Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Reading Greek Tragedies Online: Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis

Understanding the Lost Wax Process: Step-by-Step | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/lost-wax-process/

Thinking About Joel Joneitz | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Thinking About Joel Joneitz

Ancient Cretans ‘Killed’ Their Tombs in Symbolic Feasts 4,000 Years Ago – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-cretans-killed-their-tombs-in-symbolic-feasts-4000-years-ago/

No restrooms, no retreat: How ancient armies battled their own waste
https://interestingengineering.com/military/how-ancient-armies-handled-waste?group=test_a

TogaGate: When Cultural Appreciation Becomes Cultural Anxiety – Whitman Wire

TogaGate: When Cultural Appreciation Becomes Cultural Anxiety

Laudator Temporis Acti: Martyrologies
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/martyrologies.html

Faits divers (38) – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (38)

More on the mikveh at Ostia and Other Jewish Materials | Variant Readings

More on the mikveh at Ostia and Other Jewish Materials

PaleoJudaica.com: Caviezel, Gibson, Passion of the Christ 2, and the fall of the angels?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/caviezel-gibson-passion-of-christ-2-and.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Punic lack of Levantine ancestry
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/more-on-punic-lack-of-levantine-ancestry.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Hybrid Lecture: Alexander the Great in Jerusalem and the Origins of the Alexander Romance
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/hybrid-lecture-alexander-great-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Why so many churches in the late-antique Levant?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/why-so-many-churches-in-late-antique.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Paradeigmata voluntatis 2: L’esperienza dell’Occidente
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/paradeigmata-voluntatis-2-lesperienza.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to Ca 1200 BC
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-aegean-and-cyprus-interaction.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Il corpo spezzato: Costruire e decostruire la figura umana nella tradizione funeraria egiziana
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/il-corpo-spezzato-costruire-e.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’anomalie nécessaire: Femmes dangereuses, idéologie de la polis et gynécophobie à Athènes
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/lanomalie-necessaire-femmes-dangereuses.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Il nome e il genere: Il dramma satiresco e il ‘quarto dramma’ nel teatro greco
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/il-nome-e-il-genere-il-dramma-satiresco.html

The Northeastern Azov Region in Scythian Antiquity: A Handbook | Spartokos read

La région nord-est d’Azov dans l’Antiquité scythe : un manuel

Stolen fragments: black markets, bad faith, and the illicit trade in ancient artefacts – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Stolen fragments: black markets, bad faith, and the illicit trade in ancient artefacts

Ancient and medieval thought on Greek enclitics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient and medieval thought on Greek enclitics

Porphyre. Lettre à Marcella – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Porphyre. Lettre à Marcella

Classics and Race | UCL Press
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/classics-and-race/

Vitruvius & the Warlords | Ingrid D. Rowland | The New York Review of Books

Vitruvius & the Warlords

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How an Empire Ends: Rome’s Gothic Immigrants – Ancient History Fangirl

How an Empire Ends: Rome’s Gothic Immigrants

Crassus vs Spartacus – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crassus-vs-spartacus/id850148806?i=1000704667308

The Birth of Indo-European – The Ancients | Acast

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(252) Dr Artemis Papatheodorou, “The Ottoman laws on antiquities in the 19th and early 20th centuries” – YouTube

(253) Pr. Paul Halstead, “The importance of olive growing and oil exports in Archaic-Classical Athens” – YouTube

(253) The First Greco-Persian War | Animated History Documentary – YouTube

(253) The Meroe Head of Augustus Lets You Look Into The Eyes of a Roman Emperor #ancientrelics – YouTube

(253) Retroversiones as a Pedagogical Approach | Lecture in LATIN | Vukašin Miljković – YouTube

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Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture: Palace and Town at Phaistos: a retrospective of research over the last twenty years | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/michael-ventris-memorial-lecture-palace-and-town-phaistos-a-retrospective-research-over-last

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The Tomb of Prince with a Monumental Pink Granite False Door Unearthed in Saqqara – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/the-tomb-of-prince-with-a-monumental-pink-granite-false-door-unearthed-in-saqqara/

Mystery of the ‘Dial of Destiny’ is SOLVED after 2,000 years: Scientists finally uncover the true use for the ancient device that inspired Indiana Jones | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14638267/mystery-dial-destiny-solved-indiana-jones.html

Classics department hosts evening of ‘new ancient Greek music’ – The Williams Record

Classics department hosts evening of ‘new ancient Greek music’

Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250423111750.htm

Most Phoenicians did not come from the land of Canaan, challenging historical assumptions | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/most-phoenicians-did-not-come-land-canaan-challenging-biblical-assumptions

3,000-Year-Old Necropolis Unearthed in Abu Dhabi
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/necropolis-unearthed-al-ain-abu-dhabi-1234739404/

‘Lost’ ancient capital where Alexander the Great’s grandmother was born may have just been uncovered | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-military-outpost-in-north-macedonia-might-be-birthplace-of-alexander-the-greats-grandmother

Archaeologists Unearth Rare Traces of the First Ancient Factory Dedicated to Purple Dye Production
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-rare-traces-of-the-first-ancient-factory-dedicated-to-purple-dye-production-180986482/

Treasures found in the UK indicate Thetford was Pagan until the fifth century
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-treasures-uk-thetford-pagan-century.html

Women from the Bronze Age already carried heavy loads on their heads, skeletal analysis finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-women-bronze-age-heavy-skeletal.html

Ancient tree rings reveal the hidden reason Rome’s grip on Britain failed
https://www.zmescience.com/science/history-articles/ancient-tree-rings-reveal-the-hidden-reason-romes-grip-on-britain-failed/

Celts Imported Greek Pottery, Olive Oil, and Wine 2,600 Years Ago – GreekReporter.com

Celts Imported Greek Pottery, Olive Oil, and Wine 2,600 Years Ago

Bite marks on York skeleton reveal first evidence of ‘gladiators’ fighting lions | Roman Britain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/23/bite-marks-on-york-skeleton-reveal-first-evidence-of-gladiators-fighting-lions

Evidence of Ancient Ritual to “Kill” the Dead and Destroy Their Tombs in a Final Feast 4,000 Years Ago Found in Crete

Evidence of Ancient Ritual to “Kill” the Dead and Destroy Their Tombs in a Final Feast 4,000 Years Ago Found in Crete

Conservators Are Puzzling Together Ancient Roman Murals Found in Hundreds of Pieces
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/conservators-are-puzzling-together-ancient-roman-murals-found-in-hundreds-of-pieces-180986477/

Greece Celebrates Return Of Parthenon Fragments, Ramps Up Pressure On British Museum

Greece Celebrates Return of Parthenon Fragments, Ramps Up Pressure on British Museum

Poetic and revolutionary: why Emily Wilson’s translations of Homer’s epics are my favourite – The Boar

Poetic and revolutionary: why Emily Wilson’s translations of Homer’s epics are my favourite

Classics Scholar at Holy Cross Receives Major Grant to Study Oral Poetics of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ | Holy Cross Magazine
https://news.holycross.edu/stories/classics-scholar-holy-cross-receives-major-grant-study-oral-poetics-homers-iliad

The Roman Colosseum Deconstructed: 3D Animation Reveals the Hidden Technology That Powered Rome’s Great Arena | Open Culture

The Roman Colosseum Deconstructed: 3D Animation Reveals the Hidden Technology That Powered Rome’s Great Arena

Spartan Wit Revisited: History’s Sharpest One-Liner – GreekReporter.com

Spartan Wit Revisited: History’s Sharpest One-Liner

Syllabus for “The Ancient World in Video Games” Course at UIUC (Fall 2025; Spring 2026) | Anchors Aweigh

Syllabus for “The Ancient World in Video Games” Course at UIUC (Fall 2025; Spring 2026)

Laudator Temporis Acti: Celebrate With Me
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/celebrate-with-me.html

Smithsonian Magazine Asks if Talos Was an Ancient A.I.-Powered Robot – JASON COLAVITO
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/smithsonian-magazine-asks-if-talos-was-an-ancient-ai-powered-robot

PaleoJudaica.com: BIAJS 2025 Student Essay Prize
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/biajs-2025-student-essay-prize.html

PaleoJudaica.com: MOTP2: Introduction to the Book of Giants
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/motp2-introduction-to-book-of-giants.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On Dalton, How Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/on-dalton-how-rabbis-became-experts.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bibliographie Papyrologique en ligne
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2017/05/bibliographie-papyrologique-en-ligne.html

‘Epic of the Earth’ by Edith Hall review | History Today
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/epic-earth-edith-hall-review

Unit cohesion and warfare in the ancient world: military and social approaches – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Unit cohesion and warfare in the ancient world: military and social approaches

Aristophanes fr. 305-391 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Aristophanes fr. 305-391

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(225) Bird Omens in #Ancient #Warfare #shorts #fyp #birdomens #ancientwarfare #military #tactical #war – YouTube

Alexander the Great in Jerusalem and the Origins of the Alexander Romance | Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology | University of Liverpool
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/events/ory-amitay-alexander-the-great/
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Dickinson Summer Greek Workshop 2025: Iphigenia in Tauris | Dickinson College Commentaries

Dickinson Summer Greek Workshop 2025: Iphigenia in Tauris