ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 22, 2025

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Was Talos, the Bronze Automaton Who Guarded the Island of Crete in Greek Myth, an Early Example of Artificial Intelligence?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/was-talos-the-bronze-automaton-who-guarded-the-island-of-crete-in-greek-myth-an-early-example-of-artificial-intelligence-180986467/

Archaeologists Unearth Roman Horse Cemetery With 100 Skeletons
https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-unearth-roman-horse-cemetery-with-100-skeletons-2000592203

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

Ancient artifacts found in Dimona home by police – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-850951

Hundreds of artifacts, some nearly 2,800 years old, seized from suspected looter | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-artifacts-some-nearly-2800-years-old-seized-from-suspected-looter/

Archaeologists find UAE’s first major Iron Age necropolis
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/04/archaeologists-find-uaes-first-major-iron-age-necropolis/155034

From priestesses to prostitutes: New exhibition uncovers the lives of women in Pompeii | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/04/22/from-priestesses-to-prostitutes-new-exhibition-uncovers-the-lives-of-women-in-pompeii

Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism May Actually Be a Toy, Study Says : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-antikythera-mechanism-may-actually-be-a-toy-study-says

Ancient Egyptian inscription uncovered in Jordan – Egypt Independent

Ancient Egyptian inscription uncovered in Jordan

‘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

Blue Eyes and Light Hair? Experts Question New Mycenaean Woman Reconstruction – GreekReporter.com

Blue Eyes and Light Hair? Experts Question New Mycenaean Woman Reconstruction

Cleveland Museum of Art agrees to transfer ownership of ancient statue to Libya – cleveland.com
https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2025/04/cleveland-museum-of-art-agrees-to-transfer-ownership-of-ancient-statue-to-libya.html

“A Good Guy.” Professor Barbara Weiden Boyd Recalls Former Classmate Pope Francis | Bowdoin College
https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/04/a-good-guy-professor-barbara-weiden-boyd-recalls-former-classmate-pope-francis-i.html

The Shape of Power | TLS
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/the-shape-of-power-blog-post

The Tomb and Body of Alexander the Great: New Clues from an Egyptologist | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/locating-tomb-body-alexander-great-clues-egyptologist/

Scrappy Thinking Tuesday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Scrappy Thinking Tuesday

Art Shouldn’t Get A Free Nudity Pass Just Because It’s Art
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/22/art-shouldnt-get-a-free-nudity-pass-just-because-its-art/

Meet the woman who initiated Socrates in the philosophy of love | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/meet-the-woman-who-initiated-socrates-in-the-philosophy-of-love?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f639e20eca-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-39282928e4-71963652

A Review on Trojan Women | The Cor Chronicle

A Review on Trojan Women

Lost Ancient Cities That No One Has Ever Found – Tales of Times Forgotten

Lost Ancient Cities That No One Has Ever Found

DE FRANCISCO PONTIFICE
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2429

Despotes hippon – Mainzer Beobachter

Despotes hippon

PaleoJudaica.com: Antiquities seized in Dimona
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/antiquities-seized-in-dimona.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Nancy Lapp (1930–2025)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/nancy-lapp-19302025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Permanent Hebrew Bible Lectureship at KCL
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/permanent-hebrew-bible-lectureship-at.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Text, Layout, and Medium: Documents from the Greco-Roman World between Epigraphy and Papyrology
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/text-layout-and-medium-documents-from.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Comunicazioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» – 15
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/comunicazioni-dellistituto-papirologico.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Literary Papyri from the Bodleian Library and Other Collections (P.Lit.Var.)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/literary-papyri-from-bodleian-library.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: OrientLab Inclusive Archaeology
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/orientlab-inclusive-archaeology.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/international-congress-on-archaeology.html

Book Review: “Lawless Republic,” by Josiah Osgood | Foreign Affairs
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/lawless-republic-rise-cicero-and-decline-rome

Visions of the future in Roman frontier kingdoms 100 BCE-100 CE – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Visions of the future in Roman frontier kingdoms 100 BCE-100 CE

Milestones: Nancy Lapp (1930–2025) – Biblical Archaeology Society

Milestones: Nancy Lapp (1930–2025)


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Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles (Ad Navseam, Episode 181) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/ad-navseam-episode-181/

Live from Mount Olympus | Theseus & Ariadne 1: “No tributes have ever returned to Athens…”
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_361_15fcfd28-839f-49d5-bdeb-9b7b9c76bae3&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FLiveFromMountOlympus
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(204) Webinar: Latin Curricula for Younger Learners | Paideia Institute – YouTube

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Research Associate (Fixed Term) – Job Opportunities – University of Cambridge
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51031/

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 21, 2025

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Ancient Greek Philosophers Brought to Life by AI – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Greek Philosophers Brought to Life by AI

Ancient artifacts found in Dimona home by police – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-850951

University of Cambridge study says severe drought caused invasion
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq7r99ng3o

The Oldest Semicircular Classroom in the Greek World Unearthed in Sicily – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/the-oldest-semicircular-classroom-in-the-greek-world-unearthed-in-sicily/

Poppaea Sabina: The Life and Afterlife of a Roman Empress | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/book/59912

Roman Villa in Spain Yields More Than 4,000 Painted Wall Fragments

Roman Villa in Spain Yields More Than 4,000 Painted Wall Fragments

Archaeological Museum of Thera to Reopen with Landmark Show on Women of the Cyclades – tovima.com

Archaeological Museum of Thera to Reopen with Landmark Show on Women of the Cyclades

[AI?]Archaeologists discover tomb of Fifth Dynasty prince Weser Khaf Ra at Sa – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-850739

[AI?]Ancient Ptolemaic statue returns to Libya after decades – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-850741

Ramses III inscription discovered in Jordan’s Wadi Rum
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/04/ramses-iii-inscription-discovered-in-jordans-wadi-rum/155028

[AI?]Inscription of Pharaoh Ramses III discovered in southern Jordan – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-850782

Changing the Thinking on Early Christianity: Ascetic in Chains Was Likely a Woman – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-04-20/ty-article-magazine/changing-the-thinking-on-early-christianity-ascetic-in-chains-was-likely-a-woman/00000196-5338-d1c7-a3b7-5ffa7e880000

Fierce Females of Antiquity Featured in New Books – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/fierce-females-of-antiquity-featured-in-new-books/

İzmir museum presents thematic exhibits
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/izmir-museum-presents-thematic-exhibits-208294

The Ancient Greek Myth That Inspired Lord of the Rings Author J.R.R. Tolkien – GreekReporter.com

The Ancient Greek Myth That Inspired Lord of the Rings Author J.R.R. Tolkien

Greece’s Own Mount Rushmore—Made with Parthenon Sculptures – tovima.com

Greece’s Own Mount Rushmore—Made with Parthenon Sculptures

Phryne: The Ancient Greek Courtesan Who Disrobed For Her Freedom – GreekReporter.com

Phryne: The Ancient Greek Courtesan Who Disrobed For Her Freedom

In Memoriam: Kenneth F. Happe ’58, Associate Professor Emeritus, Classics | Holy Cross Magazine
https://news.holycross.edu/stories/memoriam-kenneth-f-happe-58-associate-professor-emeritus-classics

Secret Messages of Pharaoh Ramesses II Discovered on the Obelisk in Paris’s Place de la Concorde

Secret Messages of Pharaoh Ramesses II Discovered on the Obelisk in Paris’s Place de la Concorde

PaleoJudaica.com: Syriac text-excerpting and the Talmud?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/syriac-text-excerpting-and-talmud.html

PaleoJudaica.com: First review of MOTP2
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/first-review-of-motp2.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Jesus’ crucifixion and a lunar eclipse?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/jesus-crucifixion-and-lunar-eclipse.html

Weekly Varia, no. 127, 04/20/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia, no. 127, 04/20/25

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavations at Karkemish IV. The Neo-Assyrian Well in Area C
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/excavations-at-karkemish-iv-neo.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: An Ingenious Excuse
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/an-ingenious-excuse.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Leofrancus Nutat
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/leofrancus-nutat.html

Actes du musée archéologique de Batoumi | Spartokos a lu

Actes du musée archéologique de Batoumi

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(177) Recently-discovered sculptures headline new exhibit about Pompeii’s women – YouTube

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Head of the John Miller Burnam, UCL Classics Librarian Job Details | University of Cincinnati
https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Head-of-the-John-Miller-Burnam%2C-UCL-Classics-Librarian-OH-45201/1281640300/

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 20, 2025

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[AI?]Geological Evidence Ties Ice Age to Roman Empire’s Collapse – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-850742

[AI?]Inscription of Pharaoh Ramses III discovered in southern Jordan – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-850782

[AI?]Ancient Ptolemaic statue returns to Libya after decades – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-850741

Stone giants and fairy houses: the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia explains the unknown Sardinian prehistory.
https://en.ara.cat/misc/the-300-kilogram-boxer-who-survived-the-destruction-of-the-carthaginians_1_5352847.html

Secrets of the Ancient Walls: 1,700-Year-Old Roman Altar Unearthed at Vuçak Castle in Kosovo – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/secrets-of-the-ancient-walls-1700-year-old-roman-altar-unearthed-at-vucak-castle-in-kosovo/

Excavating Freud’s extensive collection of antiquities | Mumbai News – The Times of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/excavating-freuds-extensive-collection-of-antiquities/articleshow/120427566.cms

Meet Anatolia’s Tziampo: Forgotten bodyguard of Roman emperors – Türkiye Today

Meet Anatolia’s Tziampo: Forgotten bodyguard of Roman emperors

Are these Roman remains in Colchester Britain’s earliest church?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0z4p4py1mo

Foreign Policymakers Can Learn Lessons From the Stoic Philosophers

What the Stoic Philosophers Can Teach Today’s Policymakers

(PDF) AI & Antiquity – Journal of Teaching and Technology in Ancient Studies (ai-antiquity.org)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390929300_AI_Antiquity_-_Journal_of_Teaching_and_Technology_in_Ancient_Studies_ai-antiquityorg

The Edithorial: Review of Dan Mendelsohn’s Translation of the ODYSSEY
https://edithorial.blogspot.com/2025/04/review-of-dan-mendelsohns-translation.html

How do hagiographical texts get composed? Folcard tells us – Roger Pearse

How do hagiographical texts get composed? Folcard tells us

The Ansermet Affair: Untangling a Swiss Dealer’s Role in the Global Antiquities Trade ~ ARCAblog
https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-ansermet-affair-untangling-swiss.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: An Ancient Atrocity
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/an-ancient-atrocity.html

Een Etruskische hydra – Mainzer Beobachter

Een Etruskische hydra

De Paasdatum in Oost en West (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Paasdatum in Oost en West (1)

De Paasdatum in Oost en West (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Paasdatum in Oost en West (2)

De Paasdatum in Oost en West (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Paasdatum in Oost en West (3)

PaleoJudaica.com: Unruly Books (T&T Clark)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/unruly-books-t-clark.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Easter 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/easter-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Dochhorn (ed.), Parabiblica Aethiopica (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/dochhorn-ed-parabiblica-aethiopica-mohr.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Idea
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/idea.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Katalog der Militaria aus Vindonissa – GPV XIV
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/katalog-der-militaria-aus-vindonissa.html
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Anima Latina 20.04.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/04/anima-latina-20-04-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 19.04.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/04/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-19-04-2025.html

diē duodēvīcēsimō mēnsis Aprīlis — Nuntii Latini

diē duodēvīcēsimō mēnsis Aprīlis

The Odyssey, Book 22: parts 11, 12, 13, 14, 14 (finale) | Greek Myth Comix
https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/the-odyssey-book-22-parts-11-12-13-14-14-finale/

3702 – The battle of Abritus, AD 251 (part 1) – The History Network

3702 – The battle of Abritus, AD 251 (part 1)

3702 – The battle of Abritus, AD 251 (part 2) – The History Network

3702 – The battle of Abritus, AD 251 (part 2)

The Praetorian Guard: Rise to Power – The Ancients | Acast

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(160) Ancient Iberian Warfare | Complete Animated Documentary – YouTube

(160) Secrets of Christ’s Tomb | SPECIAL | National Geographic – YouTube

(160) Jesus wasn’t buried in the Garden Tomb – YouTube

(160) The Krypteia – Sparta’s Secret Police DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(160) Siege of Syracuse, 213-212 BC – Hannibal (Part 21) – Second Punic War – YouTube

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ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 18, 2025

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Ancient Egyptian Town Discovered Near Alexandria | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/ancient-egyptian-town-discovered-near-alexandria/

Tomb of prince Waser-If-Re unearthed in Saqqara – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/544833/Antiquities/Ancient-Egypt/Tomb-of-prince-WaserIfRe-unearthed-in-Saqqara.aspx

Forgery and Fiscal Fraud in Iudaea and Arabia on the Eve of the Bar Kokhba Revolt: Memorandum and Minutes of a Trial before a Roman Official (P.Cotton) | TYCHE – Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik
https://tyche.univie.ac.at/index.php/tyche/article/view/9224

Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-extreme-drought-contributed-barbarian-invasion.html

[AI?]Who killed Jesus? It wasn’t the Jews, writes a scholar of Roman law – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-850634

How the Greek Language Helped Spread Jesus’ Gospels – GreekReporter.com

How the Greek Language Helped Spread Jesus’ Gospels

Archaeologists uncover Iron Age hub for prized purple dye in Israel
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-archaeologists-uncover-iron-age-hub.html

Antikythera Mechanism’s intricate gears: Simulations of ancient astronomical device reveal potential jamming issues
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-antikythera-mechanism-intricate-gears-simulations.html

Exceptional Iron Age Artifacts Discovered at Celtic Necropolis in France – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/exceptional-iron-age-artifacts-discovered-at-celtic-necropolis-in-central-france/

Ancient quarry under Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem yields new clues in ongoing excavation | Catholic News Agency
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/263377/ancient-quarry-under-holy-sepulcher-yields-new-clues-in-ongoing-excavation

Roman Painted House in Dover reopens for the Easter holiday
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq80e7n379ko

Hundreds of Looted Ancient Artifacts Confiscated From the Black Market Are Now on Display in Naples
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hundreds-of-looted-artifacts-confiscated-from-the-black-market-are-now-on-display-in-naples-180986443/

Pompeii hosts an exhibition on the condition of women and the role of women in the ancient city of Vesuvius
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitions/pompeii-hosts-an-exhibition-on-the-condition-of-women-and-the-role-of-women-in-the-ancient-city-of-vesuvius

In Memoriam: Maurizio Gualtieri, 1941-2025 | History, Classics, and Religion
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/history-classics-religion/news-and-events/events_and_news/2025/april/maurizio-gualtieri-in-memoriam.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on that Iron-Age dye factory at Shiqmona
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/more-on-that-iron-age-dye-factory-at.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the Rephaim
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/on-rephaim.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Guggenheim Fellowship for Annette Yoshiko Reed
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/guggenheim-fellowship-for-annette.html

(7) Rediscovering Homeric Women – by Joel Christensen
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/rediscovering-homeric-women?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1870284&post_id=161566829&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

The Encyclopaedia Aethiopica and the “Nine Saints” – Roger Pearse

The Encyclopaedia Aethiopica and the “Nine Saints”

The Odyssey, Book 22 parts 9&10 | Greek Myth Comix
https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/the-odyssey-book-22-parts-910/

De beelden uit Ain Ghazal – Mainzer Beobachter

De beelden uit Ain Ghazal

James R. Davila and Richard Bauckham, eds. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 2: More Noncanonical Scriptures – Reading Acts

James R. Davila and Richard Bauckham, eds. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 2: More Noncanonical Scriptures

Archéologues – chercheurs de la steppe du Bas-Bug. Livre trois | Spartokos a lu

Archéologues – chercheurs de la steppe du Bas-Bug. Livre trois

[paywalled] Fulvia — portrait of a woman on fire
https://www.ft.com/content/2b324c4d-6696-4f85-8960-aac0a01aebb0

Amnesty and reconciliation in late fifth-century Athens: the rule of law under restored democracy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Amnesty and reconciliation in late fifth-century Athens: the rule of law under restored democracy


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(7) Disruptive Transfers of Power
https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/disruptive-transfers-of-power?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=752411&post_id=160817537&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=play_card_post_title&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA353 – Who were ancient scouts?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa353-who-were-ancient-scouts

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(124) Plot Summary Of OEDIPUS THE KING (Oedipus Rex by Sophocles) – YouTube

(125) The Greco-Roman Origins of the Eucharist – YouTube

(125) Roman Legion vs Macedonian Phalanx: Who Won? #rome #roman #phalanx #macedonian #military #tactical – YouTube

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 17, 2025

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British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds | Roman Britain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/17/british-rebellion-against-roman-legions-caused-by-drought-research-finds

Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-extreme-drought-contributed-barbarian-invasion.html

Excavation in Sudan shows Roman Empire wasn’t as mighty as it claimed | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2477096-excavation-in-sudan-shows-roman-empire-wasnt-as-mighty-as-it-claimed/

Archaeologists uncover Iron Age hub for prized purple dye in Israel
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-archaeologists-uncover-iron-age-hub.html

Archaeologists Discover a Roman Castellum on the Banks of the Danube, the First Found in Austria

Archaeologists Discover a Roman Castellum on the Banks of the Danube, the First Found in Austria

New Virgil and Leopardi tomb park unveiled | ANSA.it
https://www.ansa.it/amp/english/news/2025/04/17/new-virgil-and-leopardi-tomb-park-unveiled_25440371-748f-4442-a21c-d4abc8391829.html

Ancient Greek Amphora ‘Looted’ in Italy Pulled From Sale by London Gallery – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Greek Amphora ‘Looted’ in Italy Pulled From Sale by London Gallery

The Oxford Comma: An ode to the classics – The Tufts Daily
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/04/the-oxford-comma-an-ode-to-the-classics&ct=ga&

Ancient Theater at Tlos to Host Performances for the 1st Time After 2,000 Years – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Theater at Tlos to Host Performances for the 1st Time After 2,000 Years

How The White Lotus, Star Trek: Discovery, and The Sopranos all used the same Greek Mythology reference
https://www.soapcentral.com/shows/how-the-white-lotus-star-trek-discovery-the-sopranos-used-greek-mythology-reference

[AI?]Mystery stone head found under Rome’s Via Latina may depict Roman deity – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-850287

[AI?]Stuttgart Regional Council reveals largest Roman horse cemetery in South – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-850433

Archaeologists claim IP rights to ancient Roman dodecahedron – Boing Boing

Archaeologists claim IP rights to ancient Roman dodecahedron

John Ma named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow — Columbia University Department of Classics
https://classics.columbia.edu/news/2025/4/15/john-ma-named-a-2025-guggenheim-fellow

Archaeologists May Have Just Found the Site of Jesus’s Tomb
https://www.yahoo.com/news/archaeologists-may-just-found-jesus-120000278.html

Too Busy to Train? Here’s How Ancient Greeks and Romans Stayed Fit – Even With Demanding Jobs, Long Days, and Zero Tech

Too Busy to Train? Here’s How Ancient Greeks and Romans Stayed Fit – Even With Demanding Jobs, Long Days, and Zero Tech

Archaeologists Uncover 4,000 Mural Fragments Dating to 2nd Century
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/4000-mural-fragments-uncovered-villajoyosa-spain-1234738882/

Antikythera mechanism: Ancient computer’s gears may not have been able to turn | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2476675-ancient-computers-gears-may-not-have-been-able-to-turn/

Qatari sheikh wins case against Phoenix Ancient Art over allegedly forged antiquity – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/17/qatari-sheikh-wins-case-over-allegedly-forged-antiquity-and-provenance

Roman-era Patara lighthouse restored to its former glory | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/roman-era-patara-lighthouse-restored-to-its-former-glory

Theater Emory’s ‘Lysistrata’ emasculates masculinity – The Emory Wheel
https://www.emorywheel.com/article/2025/04/theater-emory-s-lysistrata-emasculates-masculinity

[paywalled] The Roman Way to Trash a Republic – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/rome-senators-republic-augustus/682469/

Laudator Temporis Acti: Misplaced Modifier
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/misplaced-modifier.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Locus Desperatus?
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/locus-desperatus.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Things Get Worse Daily
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/things-get-worse-daily.html

Efese – Mainzer Beobachter

Efese

De Tiber – Mainzer Beobachter

De Tiber

Teaching Thursday: Attendance | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Thursday: Attendance

PaleoJudaica.com: Webinar on Cleopatra and Zenobia in the Talmuds
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/webinar-on-cleopatra-and-zenobia-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Is Mark a Jewish or Gentile work?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/is-mark-jewish-or-gentile-work.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Prof. Meir Lubetski (1938-2025)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/prof-meir-lubetski-1938-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Summer School of Oriental Language
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/summer-school-of-oriental-language.html

PaleoJudaica.com: John van Seters (1935-2025)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/john-van-seters-1935-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: van der Toorn, Israelite Religion (Yale)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/van-der-toorn-israelite-religion-yale.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Where does the Bible say to celebrate Passover? It’s complicated.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/where-does-bible-say-to-celebrate.html

(7) The Oracle At Delphi Foreshadows Our Future With AI
https://historyphilosophyaction.substack.com/p/the-oracle-at-delphi-foreshadows?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1543976&post_id=161345513&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Römische Kleinfunde aus Holz aus dem Legionslager Vindonissa – GPV XX
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/romische-kleinfunde-aus-holz-aus-dem.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Christlich-jüdische Momente des Neuen Testaments: Exegetische und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Studien – zu verschiedentlich als antijudaistisch eingeschätzten Texten
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/christlich-judische-momente-des-neuen.html

(7) 17 April 58 BCE: From Cicero (near Tarentum) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/17-april-58-bce-from-cicero-near?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=161496840&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Euripides and quotation culture – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Euripides and quotation culture

Sanctuaries and experience: knowledge, practice and space in the ancient world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Sanctuaries and experience: knowledge, practice and space in the ancient world

(7) Pasts Imperfect (4.17.25)
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-41725?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=342873&post_id=161004077&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(7) ANE Today, 17 Apr 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-17-apr-2025?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=q7tlq&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Episode 160 – The Fall of Veii: Part Three – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History brought you by smart ladies

Episode 160 – The Fall of Veii: Part Three

John the Baptist – The Ancients | Acast

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(101) Did the Romans pay Taxes? – History of Rome DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(102) The Origin and Development of Humanistic Studies | Lecture in LATIN | Terence Tunberg – YouTube

(104) City of Rome 2025 | The Roman tuffs revisited: local stone for the Eternal City – YouTube

(104) City of Rome 2025 | Hostile design: Reassessing Romanarchitecture and urbanism – YouTube

(104) Beyond the colonies. The Roman sanctuary of Monte Rinaldo – YouTube

(104) “ESSERE DONNA NELL’ANTICA POMPEI” – YouTube

(104) The Contemporary Contempt for Literature | Lecture in LATIN | Patrick Owens | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube