• ludi Plebeii (day 9) – the Jupiterfest continues

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Ancient Roman-era statues stolen from Syria national museum | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/syria-national-museum-broken-into-artifacts-stolen-9.6974583

Thieves steal ancient gold from Syria’s national museum, sources say
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251111-thieves-steal-ancient-gold-from-syria-s-national-museum-sources-say

5,000-year-old carbonized barley grains from Early Bronze Age discovered in eastern Türkiye
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/5-000-year-old-carbonized-barley-grains-from-early-bronze-age-discovered-in-eastern-turkiye/3740474

Archaeologists Uncover New Details of Hellenistic Military Settlement at Pyla-Vigla, Cyprus – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/11/archaeologists-hellenistic-military-settlement-pyla-vigla-cyprus/

Ancient harbor discovered underwater in Perinthos
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-harbor-discovered-underwater-in-perinthos-215583

U.S. Returns 36 Stolen Artifacts to Egypt After Major Recovery Effort
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/36-relics-return-egypt-from-us-new-york-2710981

Ancient Rome’s Roads Might Have Been Almost Twice as Long as Researchers Previously Thought
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-romes-roads-might-have-been-almost-twice-as-long-as-researchers-previously-thought-180987671/

Ancient Christian mosaic unearthed at traditional birthplace of Abraham
https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/science/ancient-christian-mosaic-unearthed-at-traditional-birthplace-of-abraham/

Oxford archives show how Englishmen uncovered Tutankhamun
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyld28d0x3o

Before recent decision to phase it out, Latin was taught in Rochester Public Schools for more than a century – Post Bulletin | Rochester Minnesota news, weather, sports
https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/before-recent-decision-to-phase-it-out-latin-was-taught-in-rochester-public-schools-for-more-than-a-century

Crete: Spearfisherman Finds ‘Ancient Bust’ on Seabed – Turns Out It’s a Diving Prop –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/11/crete-spearfisherman-fake-ancient-bust/

A touch of Egypt in a Pompeii fast food kitchen

A touch of Egypt in a Pompeii fast food kitchen

Ancient Roman Hall in Hungary May Explain Mysterious Death of Emperor Valentinian
https://colombiaone.com/2025/11/10/ancient-roman-hall-hungary-mysterious-death-emperor-valentinian/

[AI?] Egyptian bowl tests may show last meal before Pompeii | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-873435

How To Sink A Theory: Inside The Academic Takedown Of Malaysia’s Roman Shipbuilding Claim

How To Sink A Theory: Inside The Academic Takedown Of Malaysia’s Roman Shipbuilding Claim

Frosinone, new discoveries and enhancement work for Roman baths on the Cosa River
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/frosinone-new-discoveries-and-enhancement-work-for-roman-baths-on-the-cosa-river

Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
https://hyperallergic.com/1056159/nearly-intact-roman-shipwreck-rests-just-six-feet-beneath-mallorca-waters/

The Stones of Herod’s Temple Reveal Temple Mount History – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Stones of Herod’s Temple Reveal Temple Mount History

Elon Musk donates $1M to archaeology project for Ancient Rome research | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/elon-musk-backs-pivotal-archaeology-initiative-says-ai-could-help-rewrite-history-books-ancient-rome

The Algorithmic Presidency
https://hyperallergic.com/1050277/the-algorithmic-donald-trump-presidency/

9 Movies That Capture the Essence of Greek Tragedies | No Film School
https://nofilmschool.com/modern-greek-tragedy-movies

‘Ecstasy’ production staged at Covellite | Around The Web | wvnews.com
https://www.wvnews.com/news/around_the_web/states/ecstasy-production-staged-at-covellite/article_6128b1fa-df2e-5db1-9fbe-480ad17a307d.html

Reading and Teaching Homer: Some practical advice – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Reading and Teaching Homer: Some practical advice

Callimachus on the Walls | Variant Readings

Callimachus on the Walls

Heads on coins | Blog post | The TLS

Heads on coins

Looting Matters: Further returns to Greece from the Met
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/further-returns-to-greece-from-met.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Come Live With Me and Be My Love
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/come-live-with-me-and-be-my-love.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Another defense of Ge’ez
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/another-defense-of-geez.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Mandean baptismal festival in Texas
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-mandean-baptismal-festival-in-texas.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Yosefa Raz’s “Weak prophecy”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/yosefa-razs-weak-prophecy.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Persons of Ancient Athens
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2010/03/enhancing-persons-of-ancient-athens.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tacitus On Line
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/tacitus-on-line.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les stèles puniques de Carthage au musée du Louvre: Des offrandes à Tanit et à Baal Hammon
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/les-steles-puniques-de-carthage-au.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Marmor Numidicum: Karten
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/marmor-numidicum-karten.html

Chasing the idea of completeness: great book collections in the Roman world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Chasing the idea of completeness: great book collections in the Roman world

Dire remedies: a social history of healthcare in classical antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Dire remedies: a social history of healthcare in classical antiquity

Imagines urbis: literarische Raumwahrnehmung der Stadt Rom im ersten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Imagines urbis: literarische Raumwahrnehmung der Stadt Rom im ersten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert

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Classical Summer School | American Academy in Rome
https://www.aarome.org/apply/2026-classical-summer-school

• ludi Plebeii (day 8) — the Jupiterfest continues
• 109 A.D. — the emperor Trajan stages a naumachia
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Athenodorus

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Explore Tutankhamun’s tomb through the excavation records of Howard Carter and his team in the 1920s | Tutankhamun Spatial Archive
https://tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/

Unearthing the Birthplace of the Alphabet: Archaeologists Return After 14 Years of Silence – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/unearthing-the-birthplace-of-the-alphabet-archaeologists-return-after-14-years-of-silence/

Discovery in the Judean Desert Reveals a Widespread Practice of Forging Royal Purple Garments in Ancient Rome

Discovery in the Judean Desert Reveals a Widespread Practice of Forging Royal Purple Garments in Ancient Rome

Anomalies in Giza pyramid may indicate an unknown entrance | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/anomalies-in-giza-pyramid-may-indicate-an-unknown-entrance

Ram-shaped teapot from ancient Canaanite cult discovered near ancient city of Armageddon | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ram-shaped-teapot-from-ancient-canaanite-cult-discovered-near-ancient-city-of-armageddon

Merit’s wig: A 3,400-year-old Egyptian headpiece smoothed down with ancient homemade hair gel | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/merits-wig-a-3-400-year-old-egyptian-headpiece-smoothed-down-with-ancient-homemade-hair-gel

A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian king: the message behind a new statue in Tehran
https://theconversation.com/a-roman-emperor-grovelling-to-a-persian-king-the-message-behind-a-new-statue-in-tehran-269367

Another Bronze Age Temple in Kuwait – Biblical Archaeology Society

Another Bronze Age Temple in Kuwait

A 5,000-Year-Old Canaanite Wine Press Has Been Discovered in Israel
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-5000-year-old-canaanite-wine-press-has-been-discovered-in-israel-180987669/

Ancient Trireme to Be Displayed in New Greek Museum – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/10/ancient-trireme-greek-museum/

The Ancient Greek Water-Organ: World’s Oldest Keyboard Instrument – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/10/ancient-greek-water-organ-sounds-again-at-acropolis-museum/

Humanity Can Still Learn From ‘The Father Of History’
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/10/humanity-can-still-learn-from-the-father-of-history/

New Documentary Says Parthenon Sculptures Stolen in “Greatest Heist in Art History” – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/09/new-film-prove-parthenon-sculptures-stolen/

Calling bullshit on “The Marbles” | Mario Trabucco della Torretta | The Critic Magazine
https://thecritic.co.uk/calling-bullshit-on-the-marbles/

Ephemeris ~ NUNTIUS BOREOAMERICANUS Novus praefectus
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2448

Modern staging of the immortal “Aeneid” at the ICCM
https://kyiv1.com/en/modernova-inscenizaciya-bezsmertnoi-eneidy-v-mckm/

Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/thucydides-melian-dialogue/

Make Better Choices: You ARE Odysseus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Make Better Choices: You ARE Odysseus

Another Greek Mythological Puzzle – CANE

Another Greek Mythological Puzzle

Weekly Varia, no. 155, 11/09/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia, no. 155, 11/09/25

Hair – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Hair

PaleoJudaica.com: Schiffman on “The Saga of Masada”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/schiffman-on-saga-of-masada.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Interview with Ra’anan Boustan
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/interview-with-raanan-boustan.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Supplement zu: R wie in: Reproduzierbar
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/supplement-zu-r-wie-in-reproduzierbar.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Geochemische Untersuchungen an Dachterrakotten
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/geochemische-untersuchungen.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Itiner-e
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2018/05/itiner-e-gazetteer-of-roads.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Landscape of Surveillance: code and data
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-landscape-of-surveillance-code-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tagebücher und Ergebnisse der C14-Daten von Boğazköy Ḫattuša
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/tagebucher-und-ergebnisse-der-c14-daten.html

The online library of the National History Museum of Sofia | Spartokos has read

La bibliothèque en ligne du Musée d’Histoire nationale de Sofia

Archaeology of the Mediterranean during late antiquity and the middle ages – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Archaeology of the Mediterranean during late antiquity and the middle ages

Images in transition: the southern Levant and its imagery between Near Eastern and Greek traditions – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Images in transition: the southern Levant and its imagery between Near Eastern and Greek traditions

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(250) A Bronze Age Pompeii in Greece – YouTube

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CFP: Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia (Deadline December 15) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/aigsc2026cfp/

Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (American Society of Papyrologists) | Society for Classical Studies
https://www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/culture%C2%A0and%C2%A0society%C2%A0-greek-roman-and-byzantine%C2%A0egypt-american-society-papyrologists

Archaeological Research Funding Opportunities at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Various Deadlines) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/ascsaarchfunds2026/

• ludi Plebeii (day 7) — the festival in honour of Jupiter continues
• 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Trypho (maybe … maybe not)
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Tiberius
• 1870 — birth of Michael Rostovtzeff (author of The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire and the Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World among other things)