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Monumental Roman basin hidden for 2,000 years unearthed near Rome | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251202052222.htm

Shepherd sparks Türkiye’s latest archaeological breakthrough | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/shepherd-sparks-turkiyes-latest-archaeological-breakthrough/

A Rare 2,000-Year-Old Roman Sun Hat From Cleopatra’s Egypt Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/roman-era-sun-hat-egypt/

Ancient dirty dishes reveal decades of questionable findings
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ancient-dirty-dishes-reveal-decades.html

Hoard of Persian gold found after being buried for 2,400 years – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/treasure-hoard-of-persian-gold-found-had-been-buried-for-2400-years/

November 2025 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/november-2025-turkish-archaeology

Three coin hoards found in northern France

Three coin hoards found in northern France

Byzantine-Era mosaic discovered in Midyat
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/12/byzantine-era-mosaic-discovered-in-midyat/156523

Rare Roman silver ring discovered at Northumberland site | Hexham Courant
https://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/25653367.rare-roman-silver-ring-discovered-northumberland-site/

The research project for the reassembly of fragmented frescoes using an “intelligent robot” comes to an end | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1107962

The first Bible map

The first Bible map

Can the US Avoid the Sallust Snare? – The National Interest
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-the-us-avoid-the-sallust-snare

Türkiye’s most extensive fake-artifact exhibition opens in Diyarbakir – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/turkiyes-most-extensive-fake-artifact-exhibition-opens-in-turkiyes-diyarbakir-3210661

This UK City Celebrates the Ancient Roman Festival of Saturnalia, Complete With a Roman Legion Parade
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/chester-celebrates-roman-saturnalia-chrismas-rep/

Female gladiators shocked the ancient Roman world — but not for the reason you think | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ancient-gladiators-female-role-and-reality/

Ancient Roman Grave Goods Suggest Military Officers Kept Pet Monkeys That Had Pets Of Their Own | IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/roman-military-officers-had-pet-monkeys-and-the-pet-monkeys-had-pet-piglets-81764

How Ancient Greek Mythology Foreshadowed Modern Prosthetics – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/02/ancient-greek-mythology-modern-prosthetics/

What ancient Athens teaches us about debate – and dissent – in the social media age
https://theconversation.com/what-ancient-athens-teaches-us-about-debate-and-dissent-in-the-social-media-age-270100

ROM appoints Kate Cooper as first Nick Mirkopoulos Associate Curator of Ancient Greece & Rome | Royal Ontario Museum
https://www.rom.on.ca/news-releases/rom-appoints-kate-cooper-first-nick-mirkopoulos-associate-curator-ancient-greece-rome

Thanksgiving 2025: A Mythological Puzzle from Trimalchio – CANE

Thanksgiving 2025: A Mythological Puzzle from Trimalchio

Laudator Temporis Acti: Philologists
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/philologists.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/when-democracy-breaks-studies-in.html

Kim Bowes, Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Kim Bowes, Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent

The Shield of Aeneas: Memory and History in Virgil’s “Aeneid” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Shield of Aeneas: Memory and History in Virgil’s “Aeneid”

Women are gross – cosi’s odyssey
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/women-are-gross?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=991656&post_id=177963000&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

The Romans in Copenhagen | Blog post | Mary Beard

The Romans in Copenhagen

Het einde van Valerianus – Mainzer Beobachter

Het einde van Valerianus

Alexander de Grote in Egypte (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in Egypte (2)

Faits divers (44): de wetenschap in het nieuws – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (44): de wetenschap in het nieuws

Good Advice (That You Just Can’t Take) | Sphinx

Good Advice (That You Just Can’t Take)

Weekly Varia no. 158, 11/30/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 158, 11/30/25

Victory! Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa Saved – The Classical Association of Canada

Victory! Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa Saved

Structure and Stories: Reading Iliad 6 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Structure and Stories: Reading Iliad 6

PaleoJudaica.com: Another review of Perrin, Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/another-review-of-perrin-lost-words-and.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The last Hasmonean princess
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-last-hasmonean-princess.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Josephus Christianus project
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-josephus-christianus-project.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Many-Minded Man: The “Odyssey,” Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-many-minded-man-odyssey-psychology.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mythologizing Performance
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/mythologizing-performance.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/script-and-society-social-context-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New History of the Peloponnesian War
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-history-of-peloponnesian-war.html

Today’s Christians Can Learn from Yesterday’s Pagans – Christianity Today

Today’s Christians Can Learn from Yesterday’s Pagans

Il mito di Atreo e Tieste nella tragedia greca frammentaria di V secolo a.C. – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Il mito di Atreo e Tieste nella tragedia greca frammentaria di V secolo a.C.

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Ancient History Hound: Tacfarinas with Dr Jo Ball
https://ancientblogger.libsyn.com/tacfarinas-with-dr-jo-ball

The Ancient History of the Hor… – Ancient History Fangirl – Apple Podcasts

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(817) Ancient Rome Live is live! – YouTube

(818) Origins of Gladiatorial Combat – YouTube

Why We Needed a New Translation of Homer’s Odyssey | With Emily Wilson | Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/video/the-story-of-homers-odyssey/-351015

(818) The results of archaeological Excavations at Tell Es-Sukhnah, Zarqa Area”, by Dr. Nabil Ali – YouTube

(818) The Hawara Hoax: Joe Rogan’s UFO in the Egyptian Labyrinth⁉️ Debunking UnchartedX – YouTube

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Nestor – December 2025 issue available
https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/pages/news/853-december-2025-issue-available

Ancient Sparta

Ancient Sparta

• c. 255 A.D. — martyrdom of Hippolytus
• c. 256 A.D. — martyrdom of Aurelia and Paulina
• 259 A.D. — martyrdom of Pontian
  … a little cluster from the persecution under Valerian

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New discoveries reveal Tell Abraq’s role in ancient Persian Gulf trade
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-discoveries-reveal-abraq-role-ancient.html#goog_rewarded

Roman sun hat: A ‘very rare’ 1,600-year-old brimmed cap that may have protected a Roman soldier from Egyptian sandstorms | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/roman-sun-hat-a-very-rare-1-600-year-old-brimmed-cap-that-may-have-protected-a-roman-soldier-from-egyptian-sandstorms

‘Enter the arena’: Roman restoration project reveals secret ‘Commodus Passage’ in Colosseum | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/12/01/enter-the-arena-roman-restoration-project-reveals-secret-commodus-passage-in-colosseum

Roman inkwell discovery reveals advanced ink chemistry 300 years earlier than expected | Chemistry World
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/roman-era-ink-reveals-surprising-chemical-complexity/4022595.article

Mapping the Luwian Lands: How 483 Forgotten Settlements Are Redrawing the Map of the Bronze Age – Popular Archeology
https://popular-archaeology.com/article/mapping-the-luwian-lands-how-483-forgotten-settlements-are-redrawing-the-map-of-the-bronze-age/

Che emozione! Una statuetta romana emerge durante una “battuta” per detectoristi. Come si svolgono questi incontri? Come si suddividono le proprietà dei reperti? Quali accordi devono essere raggiunti con i proprietari dei terreni?
https://www.stilearte.it/statuetta-romana-minerva-ritrovamento-metal-detectives-group/

Roman military helped bring cats to Europe | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/environment/roman-military-cats-domestication-europe/

How the World’s Oldest Library Survived an Empire’s Fall
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/huge-library-of-ashurbanipal-2709162

The Spartan-Persian Peace Treaty That Destroyed Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/01/spartan-persian-peace-treaty-destroy-ancient-greece/

Forgotton Women of History: Tomyris of the Massagetae
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/30/2356152/-Forgotton-Women-of-History-Tomyris-of-the-Massagetae

Universität zu Köln: Union of Academies funds long-term project to investigate papyri
https://www.uni-koeln.de/en/university/news/news/news-detail/union-of-academies-funds-long-term-project-to-investigate-papyri

Ancient dirty dishes reveal decades of questionable findings | Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ancient-dirty-dishes-reveal-decades-questionable-findings

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Biblical Hebrew
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/12/cognitive-linguistic-approaches-to.html

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Greek Paleography Course
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/12/greek-paleography-course.html

Martha Graham & Greek Myth in Review – CRSN
https://classicalreception.org/martha-graham-greek-myth-in-review/

Zwölf Tage im Jahr: 27ten Dezember 2025 | Sphinx
https://thesphinxblog.com/2025/12/01/zwolf-tage-im-jahr-27ten-dezember-2025/

Cyber Monday: One-Click Download from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/cyber-monday-one-click-download-from-the-digital-press-at-the-university-of-north-dakota/

Poëzie: Keizer Domitianus – Mainzer Beobachter
https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2025/12/01/poezie-keizer-domitianus/

Ephemeris ~ TURBO ORIENTALIS Nuntius a Taprobane
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2451

New Co-Authored Publication – Data Visualization! Quantification! Roman Intervention in the Greek East! Oh my! – Liv Mariah Yarrow
https://livyarrow.org/2025/12/01/new-co-authored-publication-data-visualization-quantification-roman-intervention-in-the-greek-east-oh-my/

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Rosenblum, Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/review-of-rosenblum-forbidden-3000-year.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Dream divination in the Exagoge of Ezekiel
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/dream-divination-in-exagoge-of-ezekiel.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Who goads God in the Aqedah?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/who-goads-god-in-aqedah.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Access to Cuneiform Texts (CDLI-ACT) – the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative in Arabic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/access-to-cuneiform-texts-cdli-act.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Josephus Christianus: The Reception of Josephus in Greek Christian Literature (2nd – 15th Cent. CE)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/josephus-christianus-reception-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SLaVEgents: Enslaved persons in the making of societies and cultures in Western Eurasia and North Africa, 1000 BCE – 300 CE
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/slavegents-enslaved-persons-in-making.html
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Does Anybody at Iron Age Arad Really Know What Time It Is? Or, If You Can Write the Weekly Invoices, Can You Write the Bible? | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/does-anybody-at-iron-age-arad-really-know-what-time-it-is-or-if-you-can-write-the-weekly-invoices-can-you-write-the-bible/

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(786) AI Robot System Helps Archaeologists Restore Fragmented Pompeii Frescoes in Major Breakthrough | APT – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ENYdOvNF6I

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Graduate Study Opportunity (MA), Department of Classics, University of Manitoba – “Editing Plato: new critical editions of the fifth, sixth and seventh tetralogies” – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/12/umanma2026/

SAM Newsletter December 2025
https://mailchi.mp/8aa53f3f3b5b/sam-newsletter-december-2025?e=

Call for papers- Women Archaeologists and War – EFA
https://www.efa.gr/call-for-papers-women-archaeologists-and-war/

• rites in honour of Neptune (connected with an altar rededication or a temple dedication?)
• rites in honour of Pietas near the Circus Flaminius (not much known about this one, apparently)
• 147 A.D. — Annia Galeria Faustina, wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, is given the title of Augusta

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Section of Hadrian’s Wall discovered at Drumburgh – The Past

Section of Hadrian’s Wall discovered at Drumburgh

Strada romana di 2000 anni fa nel centro storico di Cosenza
https://www.cosenzachannel.it/societa/strada-romana-di-2000-anni-fa-nel-cuore-del-centro-storico-di-cosenza-aejvygv4

Excavation season concludes at Perre with new Roman-era finds
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavation-season-concludes-at-perre-with-new-roman-era-finds-216255

8,500-Year-Old Mirror Unearthed at Canhasan in Central Türkiye – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/8500-year-old-mirror-unearthed-at-canhasan-in-central-turkiye/

Death among the Durotriges – The Past

Death among the Durotriges

The last-minute fight to save Gaza’s ancient archaeological treasures
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2025/11/30/the-last-minute-fight-to-save-gaza-s-ancient-archaeological-treasures_6747984_117.html

5 Must-Visit Ancient Theaters in Mainland Greece | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/ancient-theaters-mainland-greece/

Ancient Greeks Engineered a Divine Light Show Inside the Parthenon, Oxford Study Reveals
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/29/parthenon-sunrise-athena-light-effect

New robotic system supports archaeologists | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-876739

Medea in Joburg: Ancient Greek tragedy meets modern SA realities at The Market Theatre | News24
https://www.news24.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/arts/medea-in-joburg-ancient-greek-tragedy-meets-modern-sa-realities-at-the-market-theatre-20251128-1118

Derveni Papyrus Found in Greece: Europe’s Oldest Book – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/30/derveni-papyrus-greece-europe-oldest-book/

It’s Time for AP Greek: Initiative to Bring AP Greek Language & Culture to U.S. Schools – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/its-time-for-ap-greek-initiative-to-bring-ap-greek-language-culture-to-u-s-schools/

Why Is the Royal Navy So Obsessed with Ancient Greece? – The National Interest
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-royal-navy-so-obsessed-with-ancient-greece-ps-113025

New Views of the Kingdom of Pylos – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/new-views-of-the-kingdom-of-pylos/

Pharaonic Ambitions: Obelisks in Rome – by Agnes Crawford
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/pharaonic-ambitions-obelisks-in-rome?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=508757&post_id=180192003&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Does Homer Make Sh*t up? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Does Homer Make Sh*t up?

29 November 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium) to his family (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/29-november-58-bce-from-cicero-at-5cf?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=180224826&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

29 November 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/29-november-58-bce-from-cicero-at?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=180223758&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

1831 reports and other varia – Liv Mariah Yarrow

1831 reports and other varia

The Art of Slow Writing – Noodlings

The Art of Slow Writing

Sint-Charbel – Mainzer Beobachter

Sint-Charbel

Exhibition in Rome showcases Ancient Greek treasures – Wanted in Rome
https://www.wantedinrome.com/whatson/exhibition-in-rome-showcases-ancient-greek-treasures.html

PaleoJudaica.com: De Vos, The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition (CUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/de-vos-pseudo-clementine-tradition-cup.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Ezra and Nehemiah According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation (Gorgias)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/ezra-and-nehemiah-according-to-syriac.html

Ancient weapons from the Hermitage Museum collection | Spartokos has read

Armes anciennes de la collection du Musée de l’Ermitage

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Anima Latina 30.11.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/11/anima-latina-30-11-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 29.11.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/11/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-29-11-2025.html

Decoding the Dead Sea Scrolls … – Unscrolled – Apple Podcasts

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(752) This country has more pyramids than Egypt #history – YouTube

(753) Alexander the Great’s Egypt 3: Ptolemy Triumphant | Egyptian History – YouTube

(753) De immersionibus subaquaneis (aliisque multis), cum Anna Martin – YouTube

(753) Nero, the most infamous of all Roman Emperors – YouTube

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explorator 27.50 ~ November 30, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.50 ~ November 30, 2025

Intelligenza artificiale e papirologia. La collezione fiorentina e i papiri di Ercolano – La Colombaria
https://www.colombaria.it/intelligenza-artificiale-e-papirologia-la-collezione-fiorentina-e-i-papiri-di-ercolano/