Hodie est Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 9 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Comb made from human skull found among A14 artefacts – BBC News
- Comb made from human skull may have been used in Iron Age rituals | Live Science
- Châlons-en-Champagne: the Customs mobile scanner is at the service of archaeologists
- Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago, shows study
- Scoperta una tomba di coppia. Lui e lei. 30enni vissuti 3200 anni fa. Sepolti insieme nel letto, sull’oro – Stile Arte
- Mysterious Grave for a Couple Discovered in Armenia – ARTnews.com
- Inscription bearing Persian King Darius the Great’s name discovered – The Jerusalem Post
- Hiker discovers 2,500-year-old ancient receipt from reign of Purim king’s father | The Times of Israel
- Ancient Roman ‘spike defenses’ made famous by Julius Caesar found in Germany | Live Science
- Roman ‘dry cleaners’ shop uncovered along Pompeii street | Miami Herald
- Capo Bove. Il georadar rivela strutture – forse romane – sepolte sotto questo prato – Stile Arte
- Crime in Art Law: Digitalisation, Trafficking, Destruction
- Archaeological survey sheds new light on Sassanid architecture – Tehran Times
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In Case You Missed It
- As good as gold … why toothpicks and hair locks are the new treasure | Kate Mavor | The Guardian
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Fresh Bloggery
- Egyptian perspectives: Oracles of the Lamb and the Potter on Greco-Macedonians and other foreigners (third-second centuries BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Late Antique Mining on Cyprus | Archaeology of the Mediterranean WorldLaudator Temporis Acti: The Body Politic
- MASSIVE Redbubble shops sale! | Greek Myth Comix
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Live Free or Die
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality
- Glory and Worthless Wealth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: (u)Mzantsi Classics: Dialogues in Decolonisation from Southern Africa
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television
- Celtic figurine, now with hinged phallus action! – The History Blog
- At What Age Did Ancient Greek Women Typically Marry? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Alchaudonios de Arabier – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: CBA Closes its Archaeology Discussion List
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ostracon mentioning Darius I found at Lachish
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: When One Is Old
- February 2023 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
- Champollion and the Gaul. On a mysterious Eauze inscription | Antiquity at the BnF
- MARGINALIA: All About That JCL Motto: A Keynote Address
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- The Largest Theater in Ancient Asia Minor Rediscovered – Pergamon Micro-Region
- Book Club | March 2023: Speeches of Demosthenes – The Kosmos Society
Other Blog-like Publications
- Steel was already used in Europe 2900 years ago
- Evidence of steel tools being used in Europe during Late Bronze Age
- Longest hieratic papyrus on display in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum
- March 1st | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
- Golden necklaces discovered in Bronze Age tomb
- New discoveries at Roman Pompeii
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Central Asian tin in a Late Bronze Age shipwreck at the bottom of Mediterranean raises questions like, “who brought the tin thousands of kilometers west from what’s now Uzbekistan,” and “who’s tin was it when the boat sank.” Ok, they’re not questions like, “what is best in life” or “are you going to eat that sandwich” but they’re what we’ve got.
Salt! Homer, Plato, Plutarch, Pliny and Livy all wrote about it in various forms. Life saving, literally we can’t survive without salt our bodies won’t function. Preserving in more than one ways, giving us the chance to have food in the lean harsh winters… Delicious in so many ways. And yet not known too well, commonly misunderstood, and with many myths attached to it. Let’s explore the deep, ancient and fascinating history of salt!
Matt Lewis continues his Mystery Month on Gone Medieval with another tantalising enigma of the Middle Ages – possibly the most mysterious manuscript that exists anywhere in the world. Carbon-dated to the early 15th century, the Voynich manuscript is hand-written in an unknown script, embellished with illustrations and diagrams, showing people, fantastical plants and astrological symbols. Yet the origins, authorship, and purpose of the manuscript continue to baffle experts, which have even included British codebreakers from both World War I and World War II. Matt finds out more from Raymond Clemens, Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at Yale University.
This week, Amber is recovering from a nasty cold that has left her normally dulcet tones extremely froggy. So we’ve made lemons out of that germy lemonade (ew, sorry). It’s an episode about the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the common cold! Learn how to tell if a skeleton had the sniffles, figure out if there are ghosts in your colon, uncover the great Vitamin C scam, and more!
Roel Konijnendijk joins us to talk all things Ancient Greek, but more specifically the battle of Plataea during the second Persian war.
On the 1st March 2013, something momentous happened. We published our first episode of the Partial Historians podcast! Clearly, this is an event akin to Hannibal crossing the Alps or the expulsion of the kings. Well, perhaps not quite. But it certainly changed our lives forever in ways that we could not imagine. Therefore, we decided to mark the occasion by getting together and discussing our Top Ten Moments from the Roman Republic thus far. We hope you enjoy our chat about the Republic as much as we have enjoyed making this show for the past ten years….
Birgül explains about her work using microscopic plant remains to understand life in ancient western Asia. What are phytoliths and how do we find them? How can such microscopic evidence tell us about building use, for example? And where do they sit in the archaeological toolkit?
Fresh Youtubery
- 49. Numerian – What’s That Smell? – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
- Cleopatra’s Needle – The Harrowing Journey from Alexandria to London – YouTube | Dig it With Raven
- Ancient Greek Theatre For Modern Veterans: PETER MEINECK On The Need For Military Voices In Academia – YouTube | Moan Inc.
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Stephen R.L. Clark, Cities and thrones and powers: towards a Plotinian politics. Brooklyn: Angelico Press, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Christopher A. Faraone, Sofia Torallas Tovar, Greek and Egyptian magical formularies, vol. I: text and translation. California classical studies, 9. Berkeley: California Classical Studies, 2022.
Exhibition Related Things
- Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality | The Past
- The Capitoline Museums’ New Republican Rome Archaeology Exhibition | Art & Object
- Celtic coin hoard exhibition opens at La Hougue Bie – BBC News
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- The character of the cemetery at Phaleron
- “Dorian” “Civic” Dining? Rethinking the Syssition on Crete and at Sparta
- The long journey of the house mouse from central Asia to the western Mediterranean
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Lecturer (Doctoral Schedule) – Classical and Oriental Studies Hunter College
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Nestor – March 2023 issue available
- 4 Battles From Alexander the Great’s Legendary Persian Campaign
- Ancient Romans Used “Magic” To Keep Restless Spirits Down, Bizarre Grave Suggests | IFLScience
Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a year of strife and arguing.
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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