• 164 B.C. — death of Antiochus Epiphanes (according to one reckoning)
• 1 B.C. — departure of Gaius Caesar to the east (?)
• 275 A.D. — death of Aurelian (according to one reckoning, which doesn’t seem right)

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Newly Discovered Roman Sanctuary in Frankfurt Secures Over €1 Million for International Research Project – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/newly-discovered-roman-sanctuary-in-frankfurt-secures-over-e1-million-for-international-research-project/

Unlocking the sacred landscape of Roman Nida
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2026/01/28/unlocking-the-sacred-landscape-of-roman-nida/

Discovery of monumental sacred lake at Karnak
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/01/discovery-of-monumental-sacred-lake-at-karnak/156860

Hidden oracle of Apollo awaits restoration
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hidden-oracle-of-apollo-awaits-restoration-218268

Archaeologists Uncover Elite Tombs at Bronze Age Harbor City in Cyprus – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/27/elite-tombs-bronze-age-harbor-city-cyprus/

The Carthaginian Elephant in the Oppidum: New Archaeological Evidence of War Elephants in the Second Punic War – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/the-carthaginian-elephant-in-the-oppidum-new-archaeological-evidence-of-war-elephants-in-the-second-punic-war/

Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe

Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe

A Massive Second Temple–Era Quarry and a 2,000-Year-Old Key Unearthed in Jerusalem – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/a-massive-second-temple-era-quarry-and-a-2000-year-old-key-unearthed-in-jerusalem/

In ancient Mesopotamia, what was a ziggurat?
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ancient-mesopotamia-ziggurat.html

How Did Ancient Greeks Spent Their Leisure Time? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/27/ancient-greeks-leisure-time/

The Lion’s Den: When Big Cats Roamed Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/27/the-lions-den-when-big-cats-roamed-greece-video/

Man arrested in Piraeus for possession of 4th century BC marble antiquity | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1293464/man-arrested-in-piraeus-for-possession-of-4th-century-bc-marble-antiquity/

5,000-Year-Old Rock Art in Sinai Reveals Egypt’s First Expansion
https://colombiaone.com/2026/01/27/rock-art-sinai-reveals-egypt-first-expansion/

Portraits of Livia Drusilla and the Welfare of the Roman State | Garstang Museum of Archaeology

Portraits of Livia Drusilla and the Welfare of the Roman State

New edited book on sanctuaries in the Danubian provinces | Roman religion

New edited book on sanctuaries in the Danubian provinces

The Plot to Kill Paul – Acts 23:6-22 – Reading Acts

The Plot to Kill Paul – Acts 23:6-22

Ishtar Temple Built Nearly 5,000 Years Ago Reveals Origins of Sacred Architecture – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/28/ishtar-temple-sacred-architecture/

Drought’s gift: 11,000-year-old T-shaped stone ruins resurface in southeastern Türkiye – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/droughts-gift-11000-year-old-t-shaped-stone-ruins-resurface-in-southeastern-turkiye-3213650

Could the Great Pyramid Be Far Older Than We Thought? A New Study Says Yes – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/could-the-great-pyramid-be-far-older-than-we-thought-a-new-study-says-yes/

Long before Cleopatra, another female pharaoh redefined ancient Egyptian power | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-egypt/female-pharaoh-before-cleopatra-ancient-egyptian-power/

Weird Roman Laws That Shaped Ancient Citizens | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/weird-roman-laws-that-shaped-ancient-citizens/

The Mystery Of The “Lava Treasure” Found By Two Brothers Searching For Sea Urchins | IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/in-1985-two-brothers-searching-for-sea-urchins-found-a-priceless-haul-of-roman-treasure-82356

Daniel Mendelsohn’s Odyssey – the enduring appeal of Greek myth
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0128/1555226-daniel-mendelsohns-odyssey-the-enduring-appeal-of-greek-myth/

Ann Harnwell Ashmead Obituary (2026) – Haverford, PA – Chadwick & McKinney Funeral Home, Inc.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/ann-ashmead-obituary?id=60634570

Greek Mythology and its Magical Adaptations in Manga and Anime – Anime News Network
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2026-01-28/greek-mythology-and-its-magical-adaptations-in-manga-and-anime/.223071

Classics Department to put on Plautus’ ‘Casina’ play in original Latin – The Baylor Lariat

Classics Department to put on Plautus’ ‘Casina’ play in original Latin

Cate Blanchett to star in new production ‘Electra / Persona’ | London Theatre
https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/cate-blanchett-to-star-in-new-production-electra-persona

(20) January 57 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium?) to Metellus Nepos (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/january-57-bce-from-cicero-at-dyrrachium-dfc

PaleoJudaica.com: “Passover” in Latin
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/passover-in-latin.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Thousands of antiquities missing in Gaza
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/thousands-of-antiquities-missing-in-gaza.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Still more on those 3rd-millennium alphabetic (?) inscriptions
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/still-more-on-those-3rd-millennium.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Another blogger visits Cartagena
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/another-blogger-visits-cartagena.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Carthaginian elephant bone at Cordoba? Plus C-14 dating reflections.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-carthaginian-elephant-bone-at-cordoba.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Zarghamee, Myth and history in ancient Persia
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/review-of-zarghamee-myth-and-history-in.html

AWOL – Crises (Staseis) and Changes (Metabolai): Athenian Democracy in the Making
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/crises-staseis-and-changes-metabolai.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Caulonia tra Crotone e Locri: Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Firenze 30 maggio-1 giugno 2007
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/caulonia-tra-crotone-e-locri-atti-del.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/la-policromia-dei-monochromata-ricerca.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Artefacts, roots, networks: endangered archeology and trafficking of archaeological objects: The economic and social context of illicit trafficking in archeological goods
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/artefacts-roots-networks-endangered.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archisowar
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/archisowar.html

The Quest for John the Baptist – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Quest for John the Baptist

The scientific sublime in imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.30/

A social and cultural history of the Hellenistic world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.29/

Was ist Zeit? Altertumswissenschaftliche Aufsätze – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.28/

Myth and history in ancient Persia: the Achaemenids in the Iranian tradition – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.27/

Reading Quintilian: didactic authority in the Institutio Oratoria – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.26/
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Bench-stable butyllithium & secrets of Pompeii’s limescale | Podcast | Chemistry World
https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/bench-stable-butyllithium-and-secrets-of-pompeiis-limescale/4022826.article

(969) From Novice to Primus Palus: How Gladiators Trained – YouTube

(969) Are Egyptian artefacts in museums priceless treasures—or just ancient pieces of a puzzle? – YouTube

You Can’t Be Cirrus: Aristophanes Clouds, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 208) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/ad-navseam-episode-208/
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(969) Why are there artifacts of feet in the Etruscan Gallery? – YouTube

(969) Explore Ocriculum: Rome’s Forgotten River Port – YouTube

(969) New Jericho Evidence? What the Excavations Actually Say – YouTube

(972) Cleopatra’s Procession (Clip) | Cleopatra (1963) | TCM – YouTube

(973) The Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius – YouTube

(976) Historian Reacts to EPIC: The Musical (Ocean Saga) – YouTube

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Art Crime Research Opportunities: 28 January 2026

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 28 January 2026

Pliny the Elder’s discourse on Roman gold mining: The ecological approach of his gold metaphor and the personification of Nature | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-06556-x

Teaching Professor (Assistant, Associate, or Full)
University of Notre Dame: College of Arts & Letters: Classics
https://apply.interfolio.com/

(20) Antiquipop – La lettre de février 2025
https://antiquipop.substack.com/p/antiquipop-la-lettre-de-fevrier-2025

• 98 A.D. — dies imperii of Trajan
• 198 A.D. — festival in celebration of Severus‘ victory over the Parthians; possibly concurrent: dies imperii of Caracalla

• 6 A.D. — dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux by the future emperor Tiberius
• 98 A.D. — death of Nerva (?)
• ca. 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Devota
• 1887 — birth of Carl Blegen, future excavator of Pylos (etc.)

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Ancient tombs, shrine to Hercules found in Rome dig | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-884500

Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe

Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe

Man arrested in Piraeus for possession of 4th century BC marble antiquity | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1293464/man-arrested-in-piraeus-for-possession-of-4th-century-bc-marble-antiquity/

Two adjoining temples with altars, a unique religious complex in the northern Iberian Peninsula, discovered at the Iron Age site of Peña del Castro

Two adjoining temples with altars, a unique religious complex in the northern Iberian Peninsula, discovered at the Iron Age site of Peña del Castro

The Roman Road Reconnecting Ancient and Medieval Rhodes – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/26/roman-road-reconnecting-ancient-medieval-rhodes/

Is this the world’s oldest alphabet? | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/syria-oldest-alphabet?loggedin=true&rnd=1769457969444

Unlocking the Sacred Landscape of Roman Nida | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Unlocking the Sacred Landscape of Roman Nida

Allegations of antiquities theft in Gaza: 17,000 artefacts missing | Jordan Times
https://jordantimes.com/news/local/allegations-of-antiquities-theft-in-gaza-17000-artefacts-missing

Varna Gold: Humanity’s first gold jewelry was found in a cemetery with a gold ‘penis sheath’ | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/varna-gold-humanitys-first-gold-jewelry-was-found-in-a-cemetery-with-a-gold-penis-sheath

Babylonian Texts Complicate Bible’s Image of Nebuchadnezzar – Biblical Archaeology Society

Babylonian Texts Complicate Bible’s Image of Nebuchadnezzar

(20) January 57 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium?) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/january-57-bce-from-cicero-at-dyrrachium

New Year’s E-mail – Round Three | Classically Inclined

New Year’s E-mail – Round Three

Roman Times: From Ritual Wheels to War Machines: The Rise of Chariots from Tell Agrab to Kadesh
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2026/01/from-ritual-wheels-to-war-machines-rise.html

Dawn, Reestablishing Space and Time: Beginning Iliad 11, Again – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Dawn, Reestablishing Space and Time: Beginning Iliad 11, Again

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the (proposed) drawing of Hezekiah in Sennacherib’s palace
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/more-on-proposed-drawing-of-hezekiah-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Baden, Lost in Translation
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/review-of-baden-lost-in-translation.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Still more on the AI redating of 4QDanielc
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/still-more-on-ai-redating-of-4qdaniel-c.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Onomasticon Search tool for Greek and Latin onomastics dictionaries
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/onomasticon-search-tool-for-greek-and.html

Contextualizing imperial disruption and upheavals and their associated research challenges – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.25/

Der Senat im frühen Rom. Die Entwicklung des Ratsgremiums von der Königszeit bis zur lex Ovinia – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.24/

Propertius and the Virgilian sensibility: elegy after 19 BC – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.23/
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A Prehistoric Figurine of Problematic Possibilities, or Or, Mythogram for Mother Goose | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/a-prehistoric-figurine-of-problematic-possibilities-or-or-mythogram-for-mother-goose/

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(924) Hatshepsut’s immortalised journey to Punt #ancientegypt – YouTube

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Crake Doctoral Fellowship in Classics, Mount Allison University (Deadline February 27) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/crake2026/

Archaeometric characterisation of materials and techniques in Roman wall painting: the Domus of Salvius in Cartagena, Spain | npj Heritage Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-02198-5

Phaedrus – CANE

Phaedrus