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Repatriation of Cypriot antiquities from the United Kingdom – Gov.cy
https://www.gov.cy/en/culture/repatriation-of-cypriot-antiquities-from-the-united-kingdom/

Huge array of ancient artefacts returned to Cyprus from UK | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/12/09/huge-array-of-ancient-artefacts-returned-to-cyprus-from-uk/

Excavations at Kition-Bamboula for this season conducted by the French archaeological mission completed – Gov.cy
https://www.gov.cy/en/culture/excavations-at-kition-bamboula-for-this-season-conducted-by-the-french-archaeological-mission-completed/

The Ancient Story Behind ‘The Return’, Explained
https://movieweb.com/the-return-the-odyssey-story-explained/

Archaeologists unearth late Ptolemaic artifacts in Egypt’s Alexandria-Xinhua
https://english.news.cn/20241209/f492c1e359134578a7ff5e876bfba869/c.html

Public structures from 4th century BC discovered in northern Iraq – Iraqi News
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/public-structures-from-4th-century-bc-discovered-in-northern-iraq/

Statue Possibly Representing Cleopatra VII and Numerous Coins Featuring Her Effigy Found at the Temple of Taposiris Magna, West of Alexandria

Statue Possibly Representing Cleopatra VII and Numerous Coins Featuring Her Effigy Found at the Temple of Taposiris Magna, West of Alexandria

A Shipwreck from the 6th Century BC, Stone and Iron Anchors, Found Off the Southern Coast of Sicily

A Shipwreck from the 6th Century BC, Stone and Iron Anchors, Found Off the Southern Coast of Sicily

‘Barbarians’ May Have Been Inspired by Opium When Attacking Rome, Study Suggests – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2024-12-08/ty-article-magazine/germanic-warriors-who-stormed-rome-were-stoned-out-of-their-gills-study-suggests/00000193-a661-d6c1-a5fb-f7e3978d0000

Roman scutum: An 1,800-year-old shield dropped by a Roman soldier who likely died in battle | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/roman-scutum-an-1-800-year-old-shield-dropped-by-a-roman-soldier-who-likely-died-in-battle

Marble statue found in Athens during works to lay gas pipes | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1255789/marble-statue-found-in-athens-during-works-to-lay-gas-pipes/

Study finds first cave pearls containing archaeological artifacts in ancient Jerusalem tunnel
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-cave-pearls-archaeological-artifacts-ancient.html

Opulent statuettes found in Roman domus excavations
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/12/opulent-statuettes-found-in-roman-domus-excavations/154090

A 2,000-year-old Roman grave belonging to soldier Flaccus unearthed in Netherlands – Arkeonews

A 2,000-year-old Roman grave belonging to soldier Flaccus unearthed in Netherlands

Roman Soldier Flaccus’ Tomb Discovered in the Netherlands, Dating to the Late 1st Century BCE

Roman Soldier Flaccus’ Tomb Discovered in the Netherlands, Dating to the Late 1st Century BCE

Grave of Roman soldier unearthed in Heerlen
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/12/grave-of-roman-soldier-unearthed-in-heerlen/154074

Identity known: Roman grave is that of soldier Flaccus

Identity known: Roman grave is that of soldier Flaccus

Ancient Mesopotamians felt happiness in liver, anger in feet – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-832449

Archaeology breakthrough as 2,000-year-old coin solves mystery of ‘fake’ Roman Emperor | UCL News – UCL – University College London
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/headlines/2024/dec/archaeology-breakthrough-2000-year-old-coin-solves-mystery-fake-roman-emperor

Secrets of Abandoned 2,700-Year-Old City Revealed by New Discovery – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/secrets-abandoned-2700-year-old-city-revealed-new-discovery-1997599

1,500-year-old Anglo-Saxon burial holds a ‘unique’ mystery — a Roman goblet once filled with pig fat | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-500-year-old-anglo-saxon-burial-holds-a-unique-mystery-a-roman-goblet-once-filled-with-pig-fat

Naples: Professor at the Orientale identifies precious Etruscan mirror – Agenzia Nova
https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/napoli-docente-dellorientale-identifica-prezioso-specchio-etrusco/

Discovery and Identification of a Rare Etruscan Mirror
https://www.ilmattino.it/en/discovery_and_identification_of_a_rare_etruscan_mirror-8528799.html?next_page=2

A heroon with intact tombs filled with luxurious jewels and lions sculpted in Pentelic marble, found in the ancient Greek city of Ripes in Achaea

A heroon with intact tombs filled with luxurious jewels and lions sculpted in Pentelic marble, found in the ancient Greek city of Ripes in Achaea

Just in time for Christmas? Sarcophagus possibly belonging to Saint Nich – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-832452

How Hadrian Aqueduct is saving Athens amid climate change – Türkiye Today

How Hadrian Aqueduct is saving Athens amid climate change

Archaeologists wary over Egypt’s Giza plateau ‘upgrade’ plans
https://www.newarab.com/news/archaeologists-wary-over-egypts-giza-plateau-upgrade-plans

Chester’s Saturnalia parade brings Roman flair to festive season finale | Deeside.com
https://www.deeside.com/chesters-saturnalia-parade-brings-roman-flair-to-festive-season-finale/

Ancient Egyptian Coffin Painting Did Not Predict Marge Simpson | Snopes.com
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/painting-egypt-coffin-marge-simpson/

The Worst Part of a Plague: Despair – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Worst Part of a Plague: Despair

Romans (and Greeks) in Washington | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/romans-and-greeks-in-washington-blog-post-mary-beard

Autism and Classical Myth: Who picks the apple? The hero or… something else? Announcing this blog’s monstrous turn
https://myth-autism.blogspot.com/2024/12/who-picks-apple-hero-or-something-else.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Credit and Blame
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/credit-and-blame.html

No, it’s still not “Lysistrata time” – by Donna Zuckerberg
https://donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/no-its-still-not-lysistrata-time?publication_id=2108238&post_id=151928474&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Don’t cancel Aristotle – we need his ideas to hone ours | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/dont-cancel-aristotle-we-need-his-ideas-to-hone-ours

Learning for Reading
https://latinum.substack.com/p/learning-for-reading?publication_id=3282716&post_id=152822092&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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The Mesopotamian Map of Mystery, Or, From Babylon to the Boondocks and Back Again, Hopefully | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/the-mesopotamian-map-of-mystery-or-from-babylon-to-the-boondocks-and-back-again-hopefully/

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AWOL – The Ancient World Online: OCIANA: Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2015/11/ociana-online-corpus-of-inscriptions-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Amarna’s Leatherwork: Part I. Preliminary analysis and catalogue
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/amarnas-leatherwork-part-i-preliminary.html

Call for Papers: Revista Vivesiana, Journal of Humanism and Renaissance (10) 2025 – The Classical Association of Canada

Call for Papers: Revista Vivesiana, Journal of Humanism and Renaissance (10) 2025

Post-doctoral Fellowships in Critical Classical Studies (Department of Classics, Brown University) – The Classical Association of Canada

Post-doctoral Fellowships in Critical Classical Studies (Department of Classics, Brown University)

The Modernity of Minoan Art

The Modernity of Minoan Art

Facing down the furies: suicide, the ancient Greeks, and me – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Facing down the furies: suicide, the ancient Greeks, and me

Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity

From photography to 3D models and beyond: visualizations in archaeology – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

From photography to 3D models and beyond: visualizations in archaeology

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Rare Roman coin featuring Brutus up for auction in Geneva
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241206-rare-roman-coin-featuring-brutus-up-for-auction-in-geneva

2,000-year-old Roman tomb found in the Netherlands: photos | Miami Herald
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article296634499.html

Tiny spoons could have measured out ancient Roman drugs, researchers suggest — but evidence is sparse | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/tiny-spoons-could-have-measured-out-ancient-roman-drugs-researchers-suggest-but-evidence-is-sparse

Italian Authorities Bust International Antiquities Trafficking Network

Italian Authorities Bust International Antiquities Trafficking Network

Archaeologists uncover Roman-era eggs, Tuscany style, from the bottom of – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-832109

Archaeologists Uncover Gateway To Ancient Greek Temple Alongside The Nile In Egypt

Archaeologists Uncover Gateway to Ancient Greek Temple Alongside the Nile in Egypt

Research Sheds Light on Ancient Greek and Roman Houses at Darazya, Egypt – GreekReporter.com

Research Sheds Light on Ancient Greek and Roman Houses at Darazya, Egypt

Archaeologists discover Roman era winery in Spain – Decanter

Archaeologists discover Roman era winery in Spain

Danish Museum Returns Bronze Head of Roman Emperor to Turkey

Danish Museum Returns Bronze Head of Roman Emperor to Turkey

The Greeks do not have a moral right to the Elgin Marbles and if we ‘loan’ them, they will never come back | The Standard
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/elgin-marbles-british-museum-greece-loan-parthenon-b1198035.html

UK Won’t Stop Parthenon Marbles Loan, but British Museum Says Agreement Not Near
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/parthenon-marbles-uk-greece-agreement-loan-1234725959/

‘Gladiator II’ Historical Accuracy Reviewed: What a Historian Says About the Film’s Roman Setting
https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-film-history/historian-has-seen-the-new-gladiator-film-and-he-is-not-that-impressed/2437685

“Gladiator II” Letterboxd Reviews
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ravenishak/gladiator-2-letterboxd-reviews

Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I

The World of An Altar of Indignities – Part IV – Food and Dining in Roman Society |

The World of An Altar of Indignities – Part IV – Food and Dining in Roman Society

XII Reasons Roman Numerals Are Better Than Arabic Numerals | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/xii-reasons-roman-numerals-are-better-than-arabic-numerals?utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Humor_120624&bxid=5c1c5b2d6780894dab11fc1d&cndid=55376098&esrc=bx_multi2nd_dailyext

Cleopatra’s Nose – JSTOR Daily

Cleopatra’s Nose

About the earliest state institutions uncovered in Iraq

About the earliest state institutions uncovered in Iraq

What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate” | Open Culture

What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”

German Archaeologists Discovered the Iconic Bust of Nefertiti in an Ancient Egyptian Sculptor’s Studio. Find Out Why Their Discovery Is Now One of Archaeology’s Most Controversial | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/german-archaeologists-discovered-the-iconic-bust-of-nefertiti-in-an-ancient-egyptian-sculptors-studio-find-out-why-their-discovery-is-now-one-of-archaeologys-most-controversial-180985565/

Fit for an emperor? Excavating a monumental building in Roman Carlisle – The Past

Fit for an emperor? Excavating a monumental building in Roman Carlisle

New ‘Odyssey’ Adaptation Criticized For Dropping Original’s Group Dance Scene Ending – The Onion

New ‘Odyssey’ Adaptation Criticized For Dropping Original’s Group Dance Scene Ending

A Trojan Woman – King’s Head Theatre, London – The Reviews Hub

A Trojan Woman – King’s Head Theatre, London

Claudian’s Battle of the Giants – Antigone

Claudian’s Battle of the Giants

J. A. Giles, “Complete works of Bede” – links to all the volumes – Roger Pearse

J. A. Giles, “Complete works of Bede” – links to all the volumes

The politics of coloured statues | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/the-politics-of-coloured-statues-blog-mary-beard

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Saying
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-saying.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Skein of Fate
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-skein-of-fate.html

Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Quick Hits and Varia

Plotinus. Ennead I.5: On Whether Well-Being Increases with Time – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Plotinus. Ennead I.5: On Whether Well-Being Increases with Time

Forgery beyond deceit: fabrication, value, and the desire for ancient Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Forgery beyond deceit: fabrication, value, and the desire for ancient Rome

Plutarch. Moral Works. Volume XV, Part 3: Treatises 73-75. Three Treatises Against Epicurus – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Plutarque. Oeuvres morales. Tome XV, 3e partie: traités 73-75. Trois traités contre Épicure

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Matsangou, The Manichaeans of the Roman east
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/review-of-matsangou-manichaeans-of.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Reviews of the Reagan Library’s DSS exhibition
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/reviews-of-reagan-librarys-dss.html
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), with Bill Farley – Movies We Dig

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), with Bill Farley

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SIMA – Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology

About

LatinNOW publications – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

LatinNOW publications

Call for papers: Literatures without Borders – Literatures without Borders

Call for papers: Literatures without Borders

New Voices on the Polis
https://newvoicesonthepolis.wordpress.com/

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Italian Authorities Bust International Antiquities Trafficking Network

Italian Authorities Bust International Antiquities Trafficking Network

El Alamein’s ruins offer a glimpse into Greco-Roman civilization and a significant WWII battle
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-el-alamein-glimpse-greco-roman.amp

1st century CE underground cisterns discovered in Egypt, alongside WWII vestiges | Archaeology News Online Magazine

1st century CE underground cisterns discovered in Egypt, alongside WWII vestiges

Spectacular bronze statues and coins found at San Casciano dei Bagni hot springs in Tuscany | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Spectacular bronze statues and coins found at San Casciano dei Bagni hot springs in Tuscany

Spectacular finds at San Casciano dei Bagni

Spectacular finds at San Casciano dei Bagni

British Museum Chief Says Parthenon Marbles Deal With Greece Still Distant – Greek City Times

British Museum Chief Says Parthenon Marbles Deal with Greece Still Distant

British Museum Chairman Doubts Stolen Parthenon Marbles Return Deal – The National Herald

British Museum Chairman Doubts Stolen Parthenon Marbles Return Deal

‘If a firman had ever existed…’ | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1255309/if-a-firman-had-ever-existed/

Greeks still sceptical Britain will return Parthenon Marbles
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241205-greeks-still-sceptical-britain-will-return-parthenon-marbles

‘Gladiator II’ Has Neither Strength Nor Honor – The Hoya

‘Gladiator II’ Has Neither Strength Nor Honor

We might feel love in our fingertips —- but did the Ancient Mesopotamians? | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241204113643.htm

Review: ‘The Return,’ Starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche – The New York Times

Rare gold ‘Brutus’ coin minted after Julius Caesar’s murder is up for auction | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/rare-gold-brutus-coin-minted-after-julius-caesars-murder-is-up-for-auction

The Modern-Day Fight for Ancient Rome | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/the-modern-day-fight-for-ancient-rome

Phryne of Thespiae by Laura McClure | Book review
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/classics/greek/phryne-of-thespiae-laura-mcclure-book-review-daisy-dunn

Legion: life in the Roman army – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Legion: life in the Roman army

Sophonisba in Early Modern literature – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Sophonisba in Early Modern literature

Parole et geste dans la tragédie grecque: à la lumière des trois ‘Électre’ – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Parole et geste dans la tragédie grecque: à la lumière des trois ‘Électre’

The Injustice of Justice’s “Slow Grind” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Injustice of Justice’s “Slow Grind”

Fit for an emperor? Excavating a monumental building in Roman Carlisle – The Past

Fit for an emperor? Excavating a monumental building in Roman Carlisle

Pasts Imperfect (12.5.24)
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151973471

Burning Issues in Classics – Open Textbook Library
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/1736

New UD Faculty Starts Latin Conversation Hour | The Cor Chronicle

New UD Faculty Starts Latin Conversation Hour

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Terracottas From South Italy and Sicily In the J. Paul Getty Museum
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/ancient-terracottas-from-south-italy.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gematon: Living and Dying in a Kushite Town on the Nile, Volume IV: Bioarchaeology
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/gematon-living-and-dying-in-kushite.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/revelation-and-material-religion-in.html

Roman Times: Interpreting Roman frescos – it’s all in the details!!
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/12/interpreting-roman-frescos-its-all-in.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Untimely Moralizing
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/untimely-moralizing.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Dreams
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/dreams.html

PaleoJudaica.com: AJR reviews Hamori, God’s Monsters
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/ajr-reviews-hamori-gods-monsters.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A MOOC on ancient Israel
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-mooc-on-ancient-israel.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Candida Moss to head the Anchor Yale Bible Series
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/candida-moss-to-head-anchor-yale-bible.html

43 BCE?: To Octavian from Cicero – by Tate – e-pistulae
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/43-bce-to-octavian-from-cicero?publication_id=944078&post_id=152579826&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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TCP does Roman History: Josephus Introduction by The Classics Podcast

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ISAC Short Class: How to become an Art Historian Class Five – YouTube

Odysseus: Historicity, Inspirations and Themes from Ancient Greece – YouTube

Jane Ellen Harrison and the Winnowing Fan: A Foray into Early Ethnographic Classics – YouTube

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Conventiculum Dickinsoniense 2025 | Dickinson College Commentaries

Conventiculum Dickinsoniense 2025

Visiting Assitant Professor of Classics job with Kenyon College | 37760693
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37760693/visiting-assitant-professor-of-classics/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=1659&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20241205_jobtitle

Warwick Ancient Drama Festival – University of Warwick
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/dramafestival/

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Elgin Marbles Repatriation Deal “Close,” Says Former Greek Advisor – Greek City Times

Elgin Marbles Repatriation Deal “Close,” Says Former Greek Advisor

British Museum chief says Marbles deal with Greece ‘some distance’ away
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241204-british-museum-chief-says-marbles-deal-with-greece-some-distance-away

The Greeks do not have a moral right to the Elgin Marbles and if we “loan” them, they will never come back | The Standard
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/elgin-marbles-british-museum-greece-loan-b1198035.html

PM pushes for sculptures’ homecoming | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1255272/pm-pushes-for-sculptures-homecoming/

Athens shouldn’t get the marbles | The Critic Magazine
https://thecritic.co.uk/marble-run/

British Museum ‘still some distance’ from a deal with Greece on the Elgin Marbles, Osborne says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/elgin-marbles-george-osborne-british-museum-b2658845.html

The right reason to give back the Elgin marbles | The Spectator
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-right-reason-to-give-back-the-elgin-marbles/

The Roman maritime Villa of Sant Gregori in B | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1066937

Revealing Roman Britain: the Worcestershire Conquest hoard | Institute of Archaeology – UCL – University College London
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/news/2024/dec/revealing-roman-britain-worcestershire-conquest-hoard

Spectacular Bronze Statues and Thousands of Coins Found in the Etruscan-Roman Sanctuary of San Casciano dei Bagni

Spectacular Bronze Statues and Thousands of Coins Found in the Etruscan-Roman Sanctuary of San Casciano dei Bagni

Bronze snakes and perfectly intact eggs among treasures found at ancient Italian thermal spa | Heritage | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/dec/04/bronze-snakes-and-perfectly-intact-eggs-among-treasures-found-at-ancient-italian-thermal-spa

Burnt wood found at England site may have hidden Roman well | Miami Herald
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article296502084.html

Archaeologists discover new secrets hidden in Italy’s warm mud baths | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/san-casciano-bagni-spa-roman-b2658631.html

Roman Era Barbarians Carried Tiny Spoons That May Have Helped in Battle : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/roman-era-barbarians-carried-tiny-spoons-that-may-have-helped-in-battle

Excavations uncover evidence for the emergence and rejection of the earliest state institutions in Iraq
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-excavations-uncover-evidence-emergence-earliest.html

Structures Found in Iraq Reveal the Deliberate Collapse of One of the First Centralized Governments Over 5,000 Years Ago

Structures Found in Iraq Reveal the Deliberate Collapse of One of the First Centralized Governments Over 5,000 Years Ago

5,000-year-old artifacts in Iraq hint at mysterious collapse of one of the world’s 1st governments | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/5000-year-old-artifacts-in-iraq-hint-at-mysterious-collapse-of-one-of-the-worlds-1st-governments

Girl, 12, Discovers 3,500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Amulet: ‘Exciting’ – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/girl-discovers-3500-year-old-ancient-egyptian-amulet-exciting-1995378

A New Subway System in Greece Is Decorated With the Artifacts Unearthed During Its Construction | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-new-subway-system-in-greece-is-decorated-with-the-artifacts-unearthed-during-its-construction-180985571/

Ancient Roman tile workshop discovered in Corsica, France | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Ancient Roman tile workshop discovered in Corsica, France

Joe Goodkin’s “Blues of Achilles:” Homeric Tradition Comes to Conn | The College Voice

Joe Goodkin’s “Blues of Achilles:” Homeric Tradition Comes to Conn

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aedes ad Danuvium : initiatives publiques et privées dans le phénomène constructif dans les provinces de Dacie et de Mésie Inférieure (Ier-IIIe siècles après J.-C.)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/aedes-ad-danuvium-initiatives-publiques.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Burning Issues in Classics
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/12/burning-issues-in-classics.html

Ancient texts reveal how Mesopotamian humans experienced emotions in their bodies
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-ancient-texts-reveal-mesopotamian-humans.html

Large subterranean cisterns among new discoveries at Darazya
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/12/large-subterranean-cisterns-among-new-discoveries-at-darazya/154044

Archaeologists uncover a mysterious stone tablet in Georgia that contains an unknown language – and it’s like NOTHING seen before | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14156501/mysterious-stone-tablet-Georgia-language.html

Archaeologists Found 1,600-year-old Burials of Noble Women and Gold Jewelry in the Mountains of Crimea – Arkeonews

Archaeologists Found 1,600-year-old Burials of Noble Women and Gold Jewelry in the Mountains of Crimea

‘Gladiator II’: Researchers parse ancient Roman fact from Hollywood fiction | Penn State University
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/gladiator-ii-researchers-parse-ancient-roman-fact-hollywood-fiction

Pat Barker dives into the first part of Aeschylus’ Oresteia – The Spectator World

Pat Barker dives into the first part of Aeschylus’ Oresteia

The Ten Lost Tribes – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Ten Lost Tribes

A Many-Headed Song and Human Happiness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

A Many-Headed Song and Human Happiness

Did the New Testament influence the text of the Greek Old Testament? – Roger Pearse

Did the New Testament influence the text of the Greek Old Testament?

A Magnificent Drama – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/a-magnificent-drama?publication_id=1877109&post_id=152534351&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

BMCR 2024.12.04 Devecka on Matsangou, The Manichaeans of the Roman east: Manichaeism in Greek anti-Manichaica and Roman imperial legislation
https://mailchi.mp/bmcreview.org/bmcr-20241204-devecka-on-matsangou-the-manichaeans-of-the-roman-east-manichaeism-in-greek-anti-manichaica-and-roman-imperial-legislation?e=9e94ddbf3a

BMCR 2024.12.03 Andreassi on Roubineau, DeBevoise, and Mitsis, The dangerous life and ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
https://mailchi.mp/bmcreview.org/bmcr-20241203-andreassi-on-roubineau-debevoise-and-mitsis-the-dangerous-life-and-ideas-of-diogenes-the-cynic?e=9e94ddbf3a

BMCR 2024.12.02 Ranger on Tambakaki, Brill’s companion to classical reception and modern world poetry
https://mailchi.mp/bmcreview.org/bmcr-20241202-ranger-on-tambakaki-brills-companion-to-classical-reception-and-modern-world-poetry?e=9e94ddbf3a

PaleoJudaica.com: Herod Agrippa II’s aqueous banqueting cave?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/herod-agrippa-iis-aqueous-banqueting.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 222
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2024/12/biblical-studies-carnival-222.html

Three questions for classics professor, cancer patient Julie Hruby
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/learning-innovation/2024/12/04/three-questions-classics-professor-cancer-patient

47th International Mediterranean Survey (IMS) Workshop – DAİstanbul

47th International Mediterranean Survey (IMS) Workshop

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Myths and Legends / Greek Myths: Hades, Too

Roman Saturnalia – Dan Snow’s History Hit | Acast

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Advent/Diabetes #etymology – YouTube

Uncovering Stars in an Egyptian Temple: The New Sky over Esna – YouTube

La dieta dei bambini a Pompei – dott. Valentina Giacometti, Università della Campania L. Vanvitelli – YouTube

La dieta degli abitanti di Pompei– dott. Simona Altieri, Università della Campania L. Vanvitelli – YouTube

Le risorse alimentari a Pompei– dott. Maria Rosa Di Cicco, Università della Campania L. Vanvitelli – YouTube

La mobilità a Pompei – dott. Noemi Mantile, Università della Campania L. Vanvitelli – YouTube

Live Fundraiser Walk in Rome! – YouTube

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LEGENDA

Bronze statues, coins and ancient eggs found in Tuscan thermal baths | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/bronze-statues-coins-ancient-eggs-found-tuscan-thermal-baths-2024-12-03/

Tuscany: Archaeological Treasure Associated With Divination Resurfaces – La Voce di New York
https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2024/12/03/tuscany-archaeological-treasure-associated-with-divination-resurfaces/

Archaeologists Uncovered a Tile Workshop From the First Century in Corsica – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-uncovered-a-tile-workshop-from-the-first-century-in-corsica/

Treasure trove of Roman coins found during construction in U.K. – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roman-coins-worcestershire-conquest-hoard-found-england/

Rare 3,600-year-old fabric fragments found in Turkey: photos | Rock Hill Herald
https://www.heraldonline.com/news/nation-world/world/article296450219.html

Barbarian warriors in Roman times used stimulants in battle, findings suggest
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-barbarian-warriors-roman.html

206 priceless archaeological, heritage sites destroyed by Israel in Gaza: Palestinian official
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/206-priceless-archaeological-heritage-sites-destroyed-by-israel-in-gaza-palestinian-official/3412008

1,600-year-old burials in Crimea hold gold and silver jewelry from ‘rich women’ | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-600-year-old-burials-in-crimea-hold-gold-and-silver-jewelry-from-rich-women

Archaeologists find a vaulted structure beneath earthquake rubble
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/12/archaeologists-find-a-vaulted-structure-beneath-earthquake-rubble/154027

Elgin Marbles: UK-Greece deal on Parthenon Sculptures ‘close’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8y97x8xm0o

UK’s Starmer hosts Greek leader but says Parthenon Marbles are not on the agenda | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/uk-greece-starmer-mitsotakis-parthenon-marbles-2940980b132e506e87f93401fcc3bca8

Starmer rules out talks with Greek PM over Elgin Marbles | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/elgin-marbles-greece-returned-keir-starmer-b2657796.html

Talks over return of Parthenon marbles to Athens are ‘well advanced’ | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/dec/02/talks-over-return-of-parthenon-marbles-to-athens-are-well-advanced

Why Are the Ancient Greeks Everywhere Again? — Ancient Greece Renaissance 2024
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a62805533/ancient-greece-trend-2024/

Painting Materials of Ancient Greek Ephesus Came From Spain, Study Finds – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2024/12/03/painting-materials-ancient-greek-city-ephesus-spain/

What was working class life like in ancient Rome? – Futurity
https://www.futurity.org/working-class-life-ancient-rome-roman-empire-3259292/

Submerged Wonders: Six Ancient Cities in the Mediterranean – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2024/12/02/ancient-cities-submerged-mediterranean-greece-atlantis/

I am an article about the speaking objects of ancient Greece | Psyche Ideas
https://psyche.co/ideas/i-am-an-article-about-the-speaking-objects-of-ancient-greece

Baffled by a liturgical psalter – Roger Pearse
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2024/12/03/baffled-by-a-liturgical-psalter/

Scriptorium Press – A New Series of Translations of Hagiographical Texts – Roger Pearse
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2024/12/03/scriptorium-press-a-new-series-of-translations-of-hagiographical-texts/

Teaching Tuesday: Teaching Greek History | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/teaching-tuesday-teaching-greek-history/

Caesar in Obulco – Mainzer Beobachter
https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2024/12/03/caesar-in-obulco/

Laudator Temporis Acti: Unbearable
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/unbearable.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Desire for Revenge
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2024/12/desire-for-revenge.html

My Day Job – an ask – Liv Mariah Yarrow
https://livyarrow.org/2024/12/03/my-day-job-an-ask/

AUDIENDA

Roman Times: Emphasizing duty, loyalty, and reverence for the gods in the triclinium of a Greek freedman who has transformed into a Roman citizen

https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/12/emphasizing-duty-loyalty-and-reverence.html

Geography by Strabo | National Review

https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-great-books/geography-by-strabo/>

VIDENDA

Battle of Salamis 480 BC – A detailed account – The fight for Greece – YouTube

NOTANDA

Trent University Department of Anthropology – HYBRID Sessional Position(s) – REPOST (New Deadline: Dec 9) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2024/12/trentsessional2/

Zoë Sarbanes Pappas Senior Fellowship at the Gennadius Library – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2024/12/sarbanespappas25/

Call for Applications: Torre Mordillo Archaeological Field School (Deadline: January 20) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2024/12/tmap2025/

Celebrating Recent Work by Classics Department Chair John Ma — Columbia University Department of Classics
https://classics.columbia.edu/news/2024/12/3/celebrating-recent-work-by-classics-department-chair-john-ma

Prestigious grant awarded for new research project bringing together Greek, Roman and Egyptian education – News
https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/classics-ancient-history-religion-and-theology/prestigious-grant-awarded-for-new-research-project-bringing-together-greek-roman-and-egyptian-education/