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Margam park Roman villa find could be ‘Port Talbot’s Pompeii’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk8j1gkxelo

Tumba Madžari Great Mother: A boxy goddess figurine from North Macedonia designed to protect Stone Age houses 7,800 years ago | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/tumba-madzari-great-mother-a-boxy-goddess-figurine-from-north-macedonia-designed-to-protect-stone-age-houses-7-800-years-ago

Archaeologists Unearth Ancient War Trumpet That Once Struck Fear in the Hearts of Enemies on the Battlefield
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-war-trumpet-that-once-struck-fear-in-the-hearts-of-enemies-on-the-battlefield-180987975/

Erotic Symbolism on a Potter’s Tool? Rare 5th Century BC Bone Stylus Found in Sicily – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/erotic-symbolism-on-a-potters-tool-rare-5th-century-bc-bone-stylus-found-in-sicily/

Roman Bone Box with No Known Parallels Discovered in Broadway Grave – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/roman-bone-box-with-no-known-parallels-discovered-in-broadway-grave/

Israeli archaeologists’ new project traces ancient pottery | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-883130

Astounding discovery made after restoring the Molinete sitella – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/archaeologists-make-astounding-discovery-after-restoring-the-molinete-sitella/

The Hidden Role of Women in Agriculture in Ancient Greece and Rome – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/12/women-agriculture-ancient-greece-rome/

Did the War Between Atlantis and the Greeks Really Happen? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/11/war-atlantis-greeks/

Behold Shatner as Alexander the Great in failed 1963 pilot – Boing Boing

Behold Shatner as Alexander the Great in failed 1963 pilot

7 of the Most Famous Buildings in Ancient Greece | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/famous-buildings-ancient-greece/

Sad News: Gabriel Barkay z”l… – Archaeological Projects and Discussions with Aren Maeir

Sad News: Gabriel Barkay z”l…

Huqoq Excavation Consortium receives $1.6 million grant from U.S. Department of State – North Texas e-News
https://www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_144328.shtml

The Ancient Roman Guide to Building Your Personal Library
https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/the-ancient-roman-guide-to-building-your-personal-library?triedRedirect=true

The Passing of Dr. Gabriel Barkay – The Temple Mount Sifting Project

The Passing of Dr. Gabriel Barkay

Weekly Varia no. 164, 01/11/26 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 164, 01/11/26

Plough Monday – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Plough Monday

Laudator Temporis Acti: Low Earning Degrees
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/01/low-earning-degrees.html

De verledens van Spanje (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

De verledens van Spanje (1)

De verledens van Spanje (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

De verledens van Spanje (2)

De verledens van Spanje (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

De verledens van Spanje (3)

PaleoJudaica.com: The Roman army at Megiddo
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-roman-army-at-megiddo.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Erich von Däniken, 1935-2026
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/erich-von-daniken-1935-2026.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Gabriel Barkay, 1944-2026
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/gabriel-barkay-1944-2026.html

‘Marcus Aurelius’ by William O. Stephens | Book Review – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/marcus-aurelius-review-the-mind-and-the-sword-ae7799b8?st=onCrwY&reflink=article_email_share
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Dear Judah, This is Not a Bill, Except It Really Is, Signed, Assyria; or, The Iron Age Tax Man Cometh | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/dear-judah-this-is-not-a-bill-except-it-really-is-signed-assyria-or-the-iron-age-tax-man-cometh/

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(546) Why the Colosseum Needed a New Pavement – YouTube

(548) Reading the Ancient Library from Herculaneum with Digital Unrolling – Richard Janko – YouTube

(548) The most Roman of Roman cities – YouTube

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REMINDER: Seeking Nominations for the Elaine Fantham Award in Public Engagement (Deadline February 15) | Call for Nominations – Elaine Fantham Award for Public Engagement in Classical Studies (Deadline: February 15) – The Classical Association of Canada

REMINDER: Seeking Nominations for the Elaine Fantham Award in Public Engagement (Deadline February 15) | Appel de candidatures – Prix Elaine Fantham pour la mobilisation du public en Études classiques (date limite: 15 février)

IG XIV New Edition – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

IG XIV New Edition

CALL FOR PAPERS: Boston University Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference 2026 – CANE
https://caneweb.org/call-for-papers-boston-university-classical-studies-graduate-student-conference-2026/

• 49 B.C. — Caesar crosses the Rubicon (yet another suggestion).
• c. 230 A.D. — martyrdom of Tatiana in Rome
• c. 302 A.D. — martyrdom of Arcadius in Mauretania

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Roman soldier’s tomb accidentally unearthed after 2,000 years – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/roman-soldiers-flaccus-tomb-accidentally-unearthed-after-2000-years/

Ancient Greek Temple Discovered Filled with Gold Jewels
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a69967371/ancient-greek-temple-gold-and-jewels-discovery/

Unique 1,850-Year-Old Roman Thermal Structure Unearthed in Antalya’s Ancient City of Myra – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/unique-1850-year-old-roman-thermal-structure-unearthed-in-antalyas-ancient-city-of-myra/

Monumental tomb discovered in Turkey might be of royal from King Midas’ kingdom | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/monumental-tomb-discovered-in-turkey-might-be-of-royal-from-king-midas-kingdom

Gold Roman Fidelity Ring: A 2,000-Year-Old Symbol of Love Discovered in Bulgaria – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/gold-roman-fidelity-ring-a-2000-year-old-symbol-of-love-discovered-in-bulgaria/

Children in the Ancient (and Present-day) Near East – The Ancient Near East Today

Children in the Ancient (and Present-day) Near East

An Update on the Supposed Discovery of Nefertiti’s Tomb » Explorersweb

An Update on the Supposed Discovery of Nefertiti’s Tomb

U.S. University Against Plato – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/u-s-university-against-plato/

David Pollio Obituary | December 26, 2025 | The Virginian-Pilot

David Michael John Pollio

‘What Does Wrath Mean?’: Victor Davis Hanson Reveals The Moment He Knew He Had To Quit Teaching
https://www.tampafp.com/what-does-wrath-mean-victor-davis-hanson-reveals-the-moment-he-knew-he-had-to-quit-teaching/

Did Nolan Use a Feminist ‘Woke’ Translation for Odyssey Movie?
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/10/did-nolan-use-a-feminist-woke-translation-for-odyssey-movie/?amp

Archaeologists Recreate the Taste of Ancient Roman Wine – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/10/ancient-roman-wine-taste/

Twilight of Gods or Idols: The Bacchae Review – The Boar

Twilight of Gods or Idols: The Bacchae Review

How Ancient Greek Became the World’s Lingua Franca | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/how-ancient-greek-became-worlds-lingua-franca/

Dolon and Achilles | Dolon AS Achilles: Politics and Iliad 10 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Dolon and Achilles | Dolon AS Achilles: Politics and Iliad 10

Looting Matters: Authenticity and Cycladic figures
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2026/01/authenticity-and-cycladic-figures.html

Looting Matters: Looking Ahead: 2026
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2026/01/looking-ahead-2026.html

Fronto on Coins and Portraiture – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Fronto on Coins and Portraiture

Battle on Horseback – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Battle on Horseback

The Despot and The Emperor’s Image – Liv Mariah Yarrow

The Despot and The Emperor’s Image

A Little Friday Pedagogy Talk – Noodlings

A Little Friday Pedagogy Talk

Collections: Hoplite Wars: Part IVa, The Status of Hoplites – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars: Part IVa, The Status of Hoplites

Laudator Temporis Acti: Charity
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/01/charity.html

Ephemeris ~ PERSIA POPULI MOTU INFLAMMATUR
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2457

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “It’s incredibly sad and disappointing that anyone would choose to exploit Lincolnshire’s rich heritage in this way.”
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/01/its-incredibly-sad-and-disappointing.html

Het joodse tweegodendom – Mainzer Beobachter

Het joodse tweegodendom

Viatorinus – Mainzer Beobachter

Viatorinus

PaleoJudaica.com: Muraoka, The Psalms of Solomon (Peeters)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/muraoka-psalms-of-solomon-peeters.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Dhont (ed.), T&T Clark Handbook of Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/dhont-ed-t-clark-handbook-of.html

Carthage: A New History by Eve MacDonald — Open Letters Review
https://openlettersreview.com/posts/carthage-a-new-history-by-eve-macdonald

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Anima Latina 11.01.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/01/anima-latina-11-01-2026.html

Medea – The Ancients | Acast

Aftermyth: An Interview with Tracy Wolff

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 10.01.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/01/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-10-01-2026.html

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(508) How Rome Finally Defeated Hannibal – YouTube

(508) Coins Found in a Cave? Why The Huckabee Story Isn’t Archaeology News – YouTube

(509) Fear Factor: Battle of Faventia 82 BC – Sulla’s Civil War (Part 2) – YouTube

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explorator 28.02 ~ January 11, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.02 ~ January 11, 2026

Reading the Odyssey – Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/courses/new-york/reading-the-odyssey-6/?utm_campaign=wp_book_club&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

Investigating the manufacture, trade, and economy of Roman leather via multi-analytical approaches | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/archaeology/research/research-directory/material-worlds/investigating-manufacture-trade-and-economy-roman-leather-multi-analytical-approaches

• 49 B.C. — Caesar crosses the Rubicon (according to some sources)
• 69 A.D. — emperor-for-a-little-while-and-not-much-longer Galba adopts Lucius Calpurnius Piso

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La scoperta dell’acquedotto romano di Padova

A caccia dell’acquedotto romano perduto: il ritrovamento a Padova all’Arzeron della Regina

Rare ‘Smiling Medusa’ Unearthed in Ancient City Founded by Greek Queen Amastris
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/09/rare-smiling-medusa-unearthed-in-ancient-city-founded-by-greek-queen-amastris

An exceptional ceramic stylus from the 5th century BC discovered intact in the ancient Greek city of Gela in Sicily

An exceptional ceramic stylus from the 5th century BC discovered intact in the ancient Greek city of Gela in Sicily

Massive Roman Military-Industrial Complex Discovered in Northern England on the River Wear – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/massive-roman-military-industrial-complex-discovered-in-northern-england-on-the-river-wear/

Temple of the Sun Discovered at Abusir – Biblical Archaeology Society

Temple of the Sun Discovered at Abusir

A Mystical Healing Complex from the Archaic Period Later Transformed into a Roman Necropolis Discovered in Ancient Tenea in Greece

A Mystical Healing Complex from the Archaic Period Later Transformed into a Roman Necropolis Discovered in Ancient Tenea in Greece

Greek Archeologists Discover Amazing 3,000-Year-Old Burial Pit
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/09/greek-archeologists-discover-amazing-3000-year-old-burial-pit

Rare Roman coin reveals historical details about the third century AD in Libya

Rare Roman coin reveals historical details about the third century AD in Libya

Detectorist who ‘dug up Roman brooch’ actually bought it on eBay
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly544d1eg1o

The U.S. Repatriated Seven Ancient Artifacts to Egypt
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/united-state-returned-7-ancient-artifacts-egypt-mummified-fish-falcon-head-1234769242/

Ancient Greeks and Their Reciprocal Relationship with Animals – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/09/ancient-greek-relationship-animals/

War Music | Blog post | Mary Beard

War Music

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Human Sacrifice and the Death of Antinous – JASON COLAVITO
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/human-sacrifice-and-the-death-of-antinous

Selvans? – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Selvans?

Sling bullets got me out of bed – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Sling bullets got me out of bed

ADKIKA, DIKE and BIA | Greek Myth Comix
https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/adkika-dike-and-bia/

Romeinse ogen – Mainzer Beobachter

Romeinse ogen

PaleoJudaica.com: Day Festschrift (T&T Clark)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/day-festschrift-t-clark.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Paul the “Prancer?”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/paul-prancer.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Bar-Asher & Brown, Light is Sown (OUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/bar-asher-brown-light-is-sown-oup.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/stealing-from-gods-temple-robbery-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die ägyptische Schriftkultur in Nubien im Neuen Reich
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/die-agyptische-schriftkultur-in-nubien.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Amphores des VIe-IIIe siècles avant J.-C. provenant des collections du Musée central de Tauride et du Musée des antiquités de Théodosia
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/amphores-des-vie-iiie-siecles-avant-j-c.html

Amphorae from the 6th-3rd centuries BC from the collections of the Central Museum of Tauris and the Museum of Antiquities of Theodosia | Spartokos read

Amphores des VIe-IIIe siècles avant J.-C. provenant des collections du Musée central de Tauride et du Musée des antiquités de Théodosia

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Forgers and Critics: Anthony Grafton and the History of Faking It (Ad Navseam, Episode 206) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/forgers-and-critics-anthony-grafton-and-the-history-of-faking-it-ad-navseam-episode-207/

(480) The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert | John Lee – YouTube

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA391 – Bridging the Hellespont
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa391-bridging-the-hellespont

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(480) King Tut’s Tomb: The Discovery That Sparked a Global Power Struggle | HISTORY This Week – YouTube

(480) Eric H. Cline | Love, War, and Diplomacy in Canaan during the Amarna Age – YouTube

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Roman Fake News?

Roman Fake News?

Training the Next Generation of Digital Classicists

Training the Next Generation of Digital Classicists

Deposition in Water: A Practice and its Problems

Deposition in Water: A Practice and its Problems

One Collective Find from around Valandovo

One Collective Find from around Valandovo