IN THE NEWS … A 1,500-Year-Old Tax Scandal in Western Anatolia Reveals Corruption in the Late Roman Empire | Arkeonews The Emperor’s Revenge? Roman Villa Bones Hint at a Fourth-Century Massacre in Britain | Arkeonews Rare sculptures of Asklepios and Telesphoros unearthed in Turkey Archaeologists discover high-status Roman villa and bathhouse in Devon Giugliano (Naples):…

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IN THE NEWS … Egypt uncovers 18 tombs, golden tongues amid remains of ancient coastal city | The Jerusalem Post Archaeologists Discover a 3,200-Year-Old Ceremonial Kitchen in Azerbaijan, Unique in the Caucasus | Arkeonews Roman villa unearthed in Devon holds westernmost mosaic in Roman Britain | Fox News Scattered Roman bones point to potential fourth-century…

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Greek Reporter is suggested today was the day for the battle of Thermopylae: Molon Labe: Anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) … I’ve got it down as August 11, but given the vagaries of calendars and assorted people’s reckoning, it’s a possibility

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IN THE NEWS … Oldest Roman library in Iberia identified at villa near Córdoba Israel’s Solomon’s Pools at center of biblical heritage battle | Fox News Gaza: 220 Archaeological sites destroyed, 20,000 artifacts missing Ancient Shipwreck Discovered Off Andros Island – tovima.com Bronze Votive Offerings to Goddess Uni Found in Ancient Etruscan Well at Kainua,…

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rites in honour of Salus on the Quirinal Hill 465 B.C. — Xerxes I murdered by Artabanus (source?) 244 B.C. — Brundisium becomes a Latin colony ca. 79 B.C. — birth of Tullia, daughter of Marcus Tullius Cicero 1540 — birth of Joseph Justus Scaliger

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