• Parentalia (Day 7) — the period for honouring the dead continues
• 198 A.D. — death of emperor wannabe Clodius Albinus
• 1806 — death of Elizabeth Carter (Classicist who translated Epictetus)

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LEGENDA
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Archaeologists identify elders in Iron Age Israel through household artifacts
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-archaeologists-elders-iron-age-israel.html

The Princess of Bagicz: Dendrochronology settles debate over age of rare Roman-era wooden coffin
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-princess-bagicz-dendrochronology-debate-age.html

Archaeologists Unearthed a 2,200-Year-Old Bone. They Say It Could Be the First Direct Evidence of Hannibal’s Legendary War Elephants
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearthed-a-2200-year-old-bone-they-say-it-could-be-the-first-direct-evidence-of-hannibals-legendary-war-elephants-180988185/

Archaeologists Identify Previously Unknown Monumental Theater and Forum in Roman Irpinia – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-identify-previously-unknown-monumental-theater-and-forum-in-roman-irpinia/

Roman temple stones used in village houses
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-temple-stones-used-in-village-houses-219052

Were the Ancient Greeks Xenophobic? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/18/xenophobic-ancient-greeks/

Ancient Greeks Used Processed Ergot Fungus in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Study Finds – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/17/ancient-greeks-ergot-fungus-eleusinian-mysteries/

AI Transforms 50 Iconic Roman Figures into Modern-Day People – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/17/ai-roman-iconic-figures-modern-people/

The Assyrians Are Coming | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/assyrians-are-coming

Did the British Museum Remove Palestine From Its Displays?
https://hyperallergic.com/did-the-british-museum-remove-palestine-from-its-displays/

Israel orders seizure of land in northern West Bank, including key archaeological site
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-orders-seizure-of-land-in-northern-west-bank-including-key-archaeological-site/3833024

Where the word ‘Olympics’ comes from : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/18/nx-s1-5717092/winter-olympics-2026-word-of-week

How learning a “dead language” can make you a better programmer
https://www.howtogeek.com/why-learning-a-dead-language-can-make-you-a-better-programmer/

The Colosseum gets a modern makeover – but critics are unimpressed | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-15569945/The-Colosseum-gets-modern-makeover-critics-unimpressed.html

Enslaved Scribes and the New Testament – Biblical Archaeology Society

Enslaved Scribes and the New Testament

The Graeco-Roman museum in Alexandria – The Past

The Graeco-Roman museum in Alexandria

Laudator Temporis Acti: Shouting for Joy
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/shouting-for-joy.html

Pythagoras’ Revolutionary Olympic Boxing Revenge – The Historian’s Hut

Pythagoras’ Revolutionary Olympic Boxing Revenge

Erasistratus Discovers The Love Of Antiochus For Stratonice, By Edward Francis Burney (c. 1760–1848) – The Historian’s Hut

Erasistratus Discovers The Love Of Antiochus For Stratonice, By Edward Francis Burney (c. 1760–1848)

Faits divers (48) – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (48)

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Museum Admits to Mislabelling Heritage Objects since May 1948 (UPDATED)
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/british-museum-admits-to-mislabelling.html

Augustus’ Tokens – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Augustus’ Tokens

Country Feedback | Sphinx

Country Feedback

Writing Wednesday: Two Abstracts | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Writing Wednesday: Two Abstracts

PaleoJudaica.com: The Cairo Codex of the Prophets: digital edition
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-cairo-codex-of-prophets-digital.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Pitting public vs. private property in the Talmud
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/pitting-public-vs-private-property-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the newly-found ancient stone workshop in Jerusalem
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/more-on-newly-found-ancient-stone.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Africam defendere: Byzantinische Fortifikationen in der nordafrikanischen Region Thugga im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/africam-defendere-byzantinische.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Creditor defuncti: Zur Forderungsdurchsetzung nach dem Tod des Schuldners im klassischen römischen Recht
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/creditor-defuncti-zur.html

The pioneer kingdoms of Macedon and Qin: a triumph of the periphery – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.27/

Sicilia archeologica vista dal cielo: dalla preistoria all’età romana – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.26/

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(34) Ancient Coin Podcast with Aaron Berk – Episode 75! – YouTube

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Save The Date! Antiquity in Media Studies Event (February 28th) – Register Now – The Classical Association of Canada

Save The Date! Antiquity in Media Studies Event (February 28th) – Register Now

Professor of Greek | Ralston College
https://www.ralston.ac/employment-opportunities/professor-of-greek-2026

• Parentalia (Day 7) — the period for honouring the dead continues
• 198 A.D. — death of emperor wannabe Clodius Albinus
• 1806 — death of Elizabeth Carter (Classicist who translated Epictetus)

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Ancient assembly building to be restored
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-assembly-building-to-be-restored-219012

The Chemical Formula of the Ancient Greeks’ “Magic Elixir” Discovered: A Study Reveals the Hallucinogenic Secret of the Eleusinian Mysteries

The Chemical Formula of the Ancient Greeks’ “Magic Elixir” Discovered: A Study Reveals the Hallucinogenic Secret of the Eleusinian Mysteries

Greece to return small group of Egyptian antiquities | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1295583/greece-to-return-small-group-of-egyptian-antiquities/

On This Day: Howard Carter opens King Tut’s burial chamber | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-886857

First Solid Evidence of Hannibal’s Infamous War Elephants Discovered in Spain : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/first-solid-evidence-of-hannibals-infamous-war-elephants-discovered-in-spain

Inside the life of an antiquities collector – Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Inside the life of an antiquities collector

An Animated Introduction to the Antikythera Mechanism: The World’s First Analog Computer from Ancient Greece | Open Culture

An Animated Introduction to the Antikythera Mechanism: The World’s First Analog Computer from Ancient Greece

Researchers crack the rules of unknown Roman board game

Researchers crack the rules of unknown Roman board game

The ‘Greek Villa’ on Epstein’s Island: Classical Design in a Dark Legacy
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/02/17/greek-villa-epstein-island

The Digital “Kidnapping” of the Marbles – tovima.com

The Digital “Kidnapping” of the Marbles

Boston musical “Penelope” allows audiences hear story of Odysseus from his wife’s point of view – CBS Boston
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-musical-penelope-odysseus-wife/

The Anti-Empathy Movement & the End of the Iliad | by Maximus Planudes | Feb, 2026 | Medium
https://planudes.medium.com/the-anti-empathy-movement-the-end-of-the-iliad-d77470865a8c

The Plague | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

The Plague

(18) A volcano scorched these Roman scrolls — can AI recover their text?
https://www.understandingai.org/p/a-volcano-scorched-hundreds-of-roman

How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color
https://hyperallergic.com/how-white-elites-drained-ancient-art-of-its-color/

Laudator Temporis Acti: Speaking Latin at Home
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/speaking-latin-at-home.html

De olifanten van Hannibal – Mainzer Beobachter

De olifanten van Hannibal

PaleoJudaica.com: Caesarea aqueduct to be repaired
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/caesarea-aqueduct-to-be-repaired.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Muraoka obituary
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/muraoka-obituary.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Psychology, Qoheleth, and Plato?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/psychology-qoheleth-and-plato.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/chroma-ancient-sculpture-in-color.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek WordNet
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/greek-wordnet.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Almanach archéologique (Donetsk)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/almanach-archeologique-donetsk.html

Almanach archéologique (Donetsk) | Spartokos a lu

Almanach archéologique (Donetsk)

Misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda in Greek historiography – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.25/

Daimôn: modalités de l’action des dieux en Grèce ancienne – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.24/
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Carl P. E. Springer’s “The Latin Poetry of Martin Luther” (Ad Navseam, Episode 211) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/carl-pe-springers-the-latin-poetry-of-martin-luther-ad-navseam-episode-211/

Odysseus: Trickster King Part … – Greek Mythology Retold – Apple Podcasts

Odysseus: Trickster King Part … – Greek Mythology Retold – Apple Podcasts

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VIDENDA
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(106) Lo scavo della villa di Poppea apre al pubblico, ogni giovedì dalle 10,30 alle 12 – Arianna Spinosa – YouTube

(107) Remembering Colin Renfrew: a life’s work in the Cyclades and beyond – YouTube

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Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates, Friday 20th February 2026 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates, Friday 20th February 2026

Threads of Prestige
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/agenta/threads-of-prestige/

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 17 February 2026

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 17 February 2026

• Parentalia (Day 5) — the period for appeasing the dead continued
• Quirinalia — festival honouring the namesake of the Quirinal hill, the Sabine divinity Quirinus, who was later identified with Romulus. Little else is known about the festival.
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Donatus and 80+ others near Venice
• 1776 — Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire