Rites in honour of Tellus, the earth goddess which perhaps included a lectisternium (a ‘dinner party’ at which images of the god(s) would ‘dine’ with participants) in honour of Ceres. 405 B.C. — battle of Aegospotami (by one reckoning) 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Lucy of Syracuse 1783 — Death of Samuel Johnson

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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== Italy arrests 34 ‘tomb raiders’ suspected of looting archaeological sites | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-arrests-34-tomb-raiders-suspected-looting-archaeological-sites-2025-12-12/ ‘They had not been seen ever before’: Romans made liquid gypsum paste and smeared it over the dead before burial, leaving fingerprints behind, new research finds | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/they-had-not-been-seen-ever-before-romans-made-liquid-gypsum-paste-and-smeared-it-over-the-dead-before-burial-leaving-fingerprints-behind-new-research-finds Archaeologists uncover Hellenistic goddess head revealing Türkiye’s Metropolis sculpture…

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Rites in honour of Consus on the Aventine Hill; this possibly relates to a restoration of a temple of Consus by Augustus. 404 B.C. — death of Darius II ‘Nothus’ (according to one reckoning) 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Dionysia 287 A.D. — martyrdom of Crescentius

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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== Unknown Alphabet in Dead Sea Scrolls Has Been Cracked, Scholar Says – Archaeology https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-12-11/ty-article-magazine/unknown-alphabet-in-dead-sea-scrolls-has-been-cracked-scholar-says/0000019b-0d44-df61-a7fb-4dd7f07b0000 Hellenistic-era goddess sculpture head unearthed in western Türkiye https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/hellenistic-era-goddess-sculpture-head-unearthed-in-western-turkiye/3768801 Video. Archaeologists uncover intact section of ancient Jerusalem wall from Hanukkah era | Euronews https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/12/10/archaeologists-uncover-intact-section-of-ancient-jerusalem-wall-from-hanukkah-era Roman urbanism was bad for health, new study confirms https://phys.org/news/2025-12-roman-urbanism-bad-health.html Archaeologists uncover rare Late…

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Agonalia — the fourth and final occurrence of this festival in the Roman calendar; like all instances, the Rex Sacrorum would sacrifice a ram in the Regia, but on this occasion, the sacrifice was apparently in honour of Sol Indiges. Septimontium — a somewhat obscure festival apparently originally only celebrated by the ‘montani’ (i.e. the…

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