• 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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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 Roman reception hall with untouched mosaics in Türkiye – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/archaeologists-uncover-rare-late-roman-reception-hall-with-untouched-mosaics-in-turki-3211160

Archaeologists find intact 2,700-year-old room at Cyprus excavation site | in-cyprus.com
https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/local/archaeologists-intact-2700-year-old-room-cyprus-kition-bamboula/

New discoveries at Hadrian’s Wall are changing the picture of what life was like on the border of the Roman Empire | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/new-discoveries-at-hadrians-wall-are-changing-the-picture-of-what-life-was-like-on-the-border-of-the-roman-empire

Searchable Bronze Age site database could help answer key questions about ancient Anatolia
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-searchable-bronze-age-site-database.html

Archaeologists in France Dig Up a Jar Packed With Tens of Thousands of 1,800-Year-Old Roman Coins
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/archaeologists-in-france-dig-up-a-jar-packed-with-tens-of-thousands-of-1800-year-old-roman-coins/

A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-year-site-reveals-raw-ingredients.html#goog_rewarded

New Kition-Bamboula Findings Shed Light on Early Cyprus Settlement History – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/11/new-findings-kition-bamboula-shed-light-early-settlement-history-cyprus-larnaca/

2,500-Year-Old Greek Statue Found in Etruscan City of Vulci – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/09/greek-statue-etruscan-city-vulci/

New Pompeii discovery uncovers Ancient Roman slaves’ surprising diet | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/archaeology/pompeii-ancient-roman-slaves-food-diet-b2881765.html

New research re-examines Roman Empire’s leather economy
https://news.westernu.ca/2025/12/roman-empire-leather-economy/

ArtDependence | The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts repatriates 41 Antiquities to Türkiye
https://artdependence.com/articles/the-virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-repatriates-41-antiquities-to-tuerkiye/

Poland arrests Russian archaeologist wanted in Ukraine
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydz0j1yego

Spencer Alley: Venus
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2025/12/venus.html

Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV on the importance of Archaeology on the occasion of the Centenary of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (11 December 2025)
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/apost_letters/documents/20251211-nel-centenario-piac.html

Verona’s ancient Roman arena gets modern facelift for 2026 Games – ESPN
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/47274003/verona-ancient-roman-arena-gets-modern-facelift-2026-games

44 Best Greek Mythology Books of All Time, Librarians Share – Parade
https://parade.com/books/best-greek-mythology-books

Domitius Tullus—An Ancient Roman Scrooge Who Left A Posthumous Legacy Of Good Will – The Historian’s Hut

Domitius Tullus—An Ancient Roman Scrooge Who Left A Posthumous Legacy Of Good Will

Teaching Thursday: Thinking about Teaching Data | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Thursday: Thinking about Teaching Data

Middeleeuwse monsters – Mainzer Beobachter

Middeleeuwse monsters

The “Degraded Hasmonean Coins” – A Silent Witness to the Price of Brotherly Conflict – The Temple Mount Sifting Project

The “Degraded Hasmonean Coins” – A Silent Witness to the Price of Brotherly Conflict

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Bissing Link: The Collections and Network of Egyptologist F. W. von Bissing (1873–1956)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-bissing-link-collections-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Darstellung und Selbstdarstellung der kaiserlichen Familie im römischen Ägypten: Eine Untersuchung von Octavian-Augustus bis Hadrian (30 v. Chr.–138 n. Chr.)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/die-darstellung-und-selbstdarstellung.html

A Danubio ad Gothiam: The Christianization of the Northwest Black Sea in Late Antiquity | Spartokos has read

A Danubio ad Gothiam La christianisation du Nord-Ouest de la mer Noire dans l’Antiquité tardive

Eudoxe de Cnide. Témoignages et fragments – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Eudoxe de Cnide. Témoignages et fragments

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AUDIENDA
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Rise of King Herod – The Ancients | Acast

Special Episode – Camillus with Marc Hyden – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Special Episode – Camillus with Marc Hyden

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VIDENDA
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(191) Philologus iratus #6 | De Latinitate vaticana mortua et conculcata – YouTube

(191) Should You Read The Iliad or Odyssey First? (The Epic Cycle EXPLAINED) – YouTube

(192) Mummifying Alan: Egypt’s Last Secret – YouTube

(192) Ancient Greek Art Advent | Day 9 – YouTube

(192) FEATURES: New Technology Brings Pompeii Back To Life – YouTube

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ANE Today, 11 December 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-11-december-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=181086052&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Annual Selinunte Lecture 2025

Annual Selinunte Lecture 2025

• 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 ‘hill-dwellers’) which involved sacrifices on each of Rome’s seven hills.
• 287 — martyrdom of Fuscian (and others)
• 302 — martyrdom of Pontian

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New Pompeii discovery uncovers Ancient Roman slaves’ surprising diet | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/pompeii-ancient-roman-slaves-food-diet-b2881765.html

Country diary: An unlikely job for a farmer – preserving a roman fort | Heritage | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/10/country-diary-an-unlikely-job-for-a-farmer-preserving-a-roman-fort

Kition-Bamboula 2025 excavation completed

Kition-Bamboula 2025 excavation completed

A 2,000-Year-Old Pleasure Barge Resurfaces in Cleopatra’s Harbor, Telling Us of Life in Roman Egypt | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/a-2-000-year-old-pleasure-barge-resurfaces-in-cleopatra-s-harbor-telling-us-of-life-in-roman-egypt-48377

Archaeologists in France Dig Up a Jar Packed With Tens of Thousands of 1,800-Year-Old Roman Coins
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/archaeologists-in-france-dig-up-a-jar-packed-with-tens-of-thousands-of-1800-year-old-roman-coins/

Ancient Roman officers may have kept pet monkeys to highlight their status
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ancient-roman-officers-pet-monkeys.html

A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete
https://theconversation.com/a-2-000-year-old-building-site-reveals-the-raw-ingredients-for-ancient-roman-self-healing-concrete-271405

[old news]Man finds a pair of 2,000-year-old Roman swords in a field – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/man-finds-a-pair-of-2000-year-old-roman-swords-in-a-field/

New discoveries at Hadrian’s Wall are changing the picture of what life was like on the border of the Roman Empire | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/new-discoveries-at-hadrians-wall-are-changing-the-picture-of-what-life-was-like-on-the-border-of-the-roman-empire

Louvre denies reports of flood damage to Egyptian artefacts – Museums – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/558398.aspx

Monumental Section of 2nd-Century BCE Hasmonean Wall that Was Deliberately Demolished Discovered in Jerusalem

Monumental Section of 2nd-Century BCE Hasmonean Wall that Was Deliberately Demolished Discovered in Jerusalem

Anatolia’s only known ‘Good Shepherd’ Jesus fresco uncovered in Iznik, crafted in Roman style – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/anatolias-only-known-good-shepherd-jesus-fresco-uncovered-in-iznik-crafted-in-roman-s-3211092

D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of 43 Antiquities To The People Of Türkiye – Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of 43 Antiquities To The People Of Türkiye

Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact | Open Culture

Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact

Pliny the Elder’s ‘Natural History’ to Auction with $1.2m Estimate
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/pliny-elders-natural-history-auction-12m-estimate

A.H. Sayce and His Search for Biblical Peoples and Places in the Amarna Letters | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/ah-sayce-and-his-search-biblical-peoples-and-places-amarna-letters

The cast of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” talk Greek myths in the upcoming season | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/percy-jackson-cast-greeking-out-interview?loggedin=true&rnd=1765394552564

Winter Writing Wednesday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Winter Writing Wednesday

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Missing Epithet
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-missing-epithet.html

“Barbaren” in het Romeinse leger – Mainzer Beobachter

“Barbaren” in het Romeinse leger

Divine Plots and Human Plans: Reading Iliad 7 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Divine Plots and Human Plans: Reading Iliad 7

10 December 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/10-december-58-bce-from-cicero-at?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=181196325&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

PaleoJudaica.com: Assyrian inscriptions that mention Israelite kings
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/assyrian-inscriptions-that-mention.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’abolitio memoriae à Rome et dans le monde romain (Ier s. av. n. è.—IVe s. de n. è.)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/labolitio-memoriae-rome-et-dans-le.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Combattre les dieux: Le théomaque chez Nonnos de Panopolis
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/combattre-les-dieux-le-theomaque-chez.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Past Perfect? The Archaeologies of Mandate Palestine 1917–1948
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/past-perfect-archaeologies-of-mandate.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: De la matière à l’action: Aristote et le problème du vivant
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/de-la-matiere-laction-aristote-et-le.html

Early Christian writers in the West and the classical literary tradition: stylistic and literary perspectives – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Early Christian writers in the West and the classical literary tradition: stylistic and literary perspectives

Alatzomouri Pefka: a Middle Minoan IIB workshop making organic dyes – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Alatzomouri Pefka: a Middle Minoan IIB workshop making organic dyes

Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: a linguistic commentary and a comparative study – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: a linguistic commentary and a comparative study

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Virgil’s Aeneid: BONUS with Pr… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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(161) Archaeologist Debunks Ancient Civilisation Myths – YouTube

(162) Explore Domitian’s Villa amidst Papal Gardens in Castel Gandolfo! – YouTube

(162) Suicide Gaul in Palazzo Altemps, once decorated the Imperial Gardens of Sallust! – YouTube

(163) Jerusalem Archaeologists Unearth Maccabean Marvel – YouTube

(163) Ancient Greek Art Advent | Day 8 – YouTube

(163) Conference: A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Sparta and Macedonia – DAY 2 – YouTube

• The tribunes of the plebs would enter their office on this day during the Roman Republic.
• ca 300 A.D. — martyrdom of Carpophorus