=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== 2,000-Year-Old Roman Murals Reveal a Surprisingly Advanced Painting Technique | Discover Magazine https://www.discovermagazine.com/2-000-year-old-roman-murals-reveal-a-surprisingly-advanced-painting-technique-48959 A Whorl Apart: the journey of a terracotta textile tool from Bronze Age Troy to Dublin – Trinity News A Whorl Apart: the journey of a terracotta textile tool from Bronze Age Troy to Dublin 4,000-year-old clay tablets inscribed…

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ludi Cereri continue (day 4)– games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C. Fordicidia — an obvious fertility ritual in which a pregnant cow would be sacrificed to the earth goddess Tellus 421 B.C. — Peace of Nikias brings the first phase of the Peloponnesian war (a.k.a. the Archidamian War) to…

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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== Tomb restoration completed – Heritage – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1207/565929/AlAhram-Weekly/Heritage/Tomb-restoration-completed.aspx Ancient work by ‘lost’ philosopher who inspired Plato and Aristotle is uncovered in Egypt | News Tech | Metro News 2,000-year-old work by ‘lost’ philosopher who inspired Plato and Aristotle is uncovered in Egypt Greece moves to protect 19 ancient…

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ludi Cereri continue (day 3) — games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C. 69 A.D. — first battle at Bedriacum; the forces of emperor wannabe Vitellius eventually would defeat the forces of emperor wannabe Otho 73 A.D. — mass suicide at Masada (?) 195 A.D. — Julia Domna, wife of…

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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== Roman soldiers in Slovakia might have lived way better than we thought – The Slovak Spectator https://spectator.sme.sk/culture-and-lifestyle/c/roman-soldiers-in-slovakia-might-have-lived-way-better-than-we-thought Idol of Pomos: A 5,000-year-old fertility figurine from Cyprus that wears a miniature version of herself on a necklace | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/idol-of-pomos-a-5-000-year-old-fertility-figurine-from-cyprus-that-wears-a-miniature-version-of-herself-on-a-necklace Temple of the god Pelusium discovered in Sinai: a shrine rewrites the…

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