• 4004 B.C. — 9.00 a.m. … according to Bishop Ussher, God created the universe
• 50 B.C. — the ‘Civil War’ between Pompey and Caesar began (not sure where this one comes from)

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‘Illegal’ metal detectorist found a huge hoard of Roman treasure in Germany — and kept it hidden for 8 years | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/illegal-metal-detectorist-found-a-huge-hoard-of-roman-treasure-in-germany-and-kept-it-hidden-for-8-years

Pompeii, a domus with a tower? A hypothesis based on “digital archaeology” developed by the Park and the Humboldt University of Berlin: the models are thought to be the villas of the super-rich     – Pompeii Sites
https://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/pompeii-a-domus-with-a-tower-a-hypothesis-based-on-digital-archaeology-developed-by-the-park-and-the-humboldt-university-of-berlin/

Archaeologists Discover 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Military Fortress in the Sinai Desert
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-3500-year-old-egyptian-military-fortress-in-the-sinai-desert-180987542/

The story behind the Roman altar found at Malaga’s Sagrario Church | Sur in English
https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/malaga-city/the-story-behind-the-roman-altar-found-sagrario-church-20251016114942-nt.html#goog_rewarded

Rare Circular Roman Tomb Unearthed in Bavaria, Germany – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/21/circular-roman-tomb-bavaria-germany/

1,500-Year-Old Mosaic with Greek Inscription Unearthed in Sanliurfa, Turkey – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/20/mosaic-greek-inscription-unearthed-turkey/

Elon Musk donates $1 million for archaeological sites in Rome
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon-musk-donates-1-million-for-archaeological-sites-in-rome

Ancient Roman City Yields Huge 2,200-Year-Old Water Basin
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-roman-water-basin-architecture-gabii-2702170

Roman fort found on occupied Kerch Peninsula
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/roman-fort-found-on-occupied-kerch-peninsula/156186

Bench is found in Pompeii where citizens sought help and work – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/bench-is-found-in-pompeii-where-citizens-sought-work-and-political-help-over-2000-years-ago/

Greece Blasts British Museum’s Glitzy Gala Held in Parthenon Marbles Gallery: ‘Offensive’
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-pink-ball-parthenon-marbles-greece-backlash-2702374

Tutankhamun Tomb perfectly stable and sound: Egypt’s antiquities ministry – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/555333.aspx

In Catonem: Reject the Spirit of Cato
https://stanfordreview.org/in-catonem-reject-the-spirit-of-cato/

Pro Catone: Recovering Cato’s Spirit of Republican Virtue
https://stanfordreview.org/pro-catone-recovering-catos-spirit-of-republican-virtue/

Zeno of Citium: From ancient Larnaca to the world of philosophy | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/10/20/zeno-of-citium-from-ancient-larnaca-to-the-world-of-philosophy

The ingenious Roman invention that sparked the ancient empire’s obsession with luxury | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ancient-invention-symbol-of-luxury/

Trump Is Using ‘Classical Architecture’ as ‘A Dog Whistle for White Nationalists’ – TPM – Talking Points Memo
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-classical-architecture-triumphal-arch-white-house-ballroom

Savannah’s Ancient Roman Statuary Story | Savannah Magazine

Ōtium Owner Finds Her Vibe Tribe 

Is Athena Named After Athens, or Vice Versa? – Tales of Times Forgotten

Is Athena Named After Athens, or Vice Versa?

The Curious Family Categorization System Of The Ancient God, El – The Historian’s Hut

The Curious Family Categorization System Of The Ancient God, El

The Meeting Of Diogenes Of Sinope And Alexander The Great, Engraved By Quirin Mark (1753–1811) After Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) – The Historian’s Hut

The Meeting Of Diogenes Of Sinope And Alexander The Great, Engraved By Quirin Mark (1753–1811) After Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)

Is Celebrating Ancient Greek Legacy White Supremacy? European Scholars Respond – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/21/ancient-greece-white-supremacy/

How Hollywood turned archaeologists into adventurers, treasure hunters – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-hollywood-turned-archaeologists-into-adventurers-treasure-hunters-3208746

Did Rome and Carthage sign 1985 peace treaty for wars that began more than 2,000 years earlier? | Snopes.com
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rome-carthage-peace-treaty/

A Walk in the Imperial Fora | Variant Readings

A Walk in the Imperial Fora

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Dead, Then and Now
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-dead-then-and-now.html

The End of Painful Signs, Redux – by Joel Christensen
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/the-end-of-painful-signs-redux?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1870284&post_id=176689498&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Returning to Painful Signs: Posts on the Iliad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Returning to Painful Signs: Posts on the Iliad

Returning to Painful Signs: Posts on the Iliad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Returning to Painful Signs: Posts on the Iliad

Two Thing Tuesday: Esoteric Orientalism and Reparative Reading | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Two Thing Tuesday: Esoteric Orientalism and Reparative Reading

PaleoJudaica.com: On marine archaeology
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-marine-archaeology.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Late-antique Greek mosaic inscription excavated at Edessa
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/late-antique-greek-mosaic-inscription.html

PaleoJudaica.com: What is the agenda of the Aramaic DSS?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/what-is-agenda-of-aramaic-dss.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Beyond Death: Beliefs, Practice, and Material Expression
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/beyond-death-beliefs-practice-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Torregarcía, Purpura y Agua: Aplicación Histórica de Metodología No Invasiva en una Officina Purpuraria en el Litoral Almeriense (España)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/torregarcia-purpura-y-agua-aplicacion.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Corinth Excavations
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/corinth-excavations.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Princeton University joins Nomisma LOD cloud
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/princeton-university-joins-nomisma-lod.html

Religion and the making of Roman Africa: votive stelae, traditions, and empire – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Religion and the making of Roman Africa: votive stelae, traditions, and empire

Rescatando a Helena: caracterización de Helena en la tragedia homónima de Eurípides – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Rescatando a Helena: caracterización de Helena en la tragedia homónima de Eurípides

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The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part IX (Ad Navseam, Episode 198) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/the-golden-age-of-the-classics-in-america-by-carl-richard-part-ix-ad-navseam-episode-198/

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(116) CULTURE. HOUSE OF THE TIASO: LOST POMPEII REVIVED IN 3D – YouTube

(117) City of Rome | Simulacrum Molis Hadriani. Interpreting the Mausoleum of Hadrian in High Renaissance – YouTube

(117) No Stone Left Unturned: Archaeogaming, Archives, Audiences – YouTube

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Jon D. Mikalson Assistant Professor of Classics
https://apply.interfolio.com/172896

Iphigenia | Faculty of Arts and Humanities
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/classics/events/classical-play/iphigenia

PhD opportunities in Classics and Ancient History at Warwick

PhD opportunities in Classics and Ancient History at Warwick

DAI Hauskolloquium about the oldest temple of Olympia

DAI Hauskolloquium about the oldest temple of Olympia

• 1558 – death of Julius Caesar Scaliger

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‘It’s really an extraordinary story,’ historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/its-really-an-extraordinary-story-historian-steven-tuck-says-of-the-romans-he-tracked-who-survived-the-ad-79-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius

‘People made it out of the cities alive’: Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/people-made-it-out-of-the-cities-alive-tracing-the-survivors-of-pompeii-and-herculaneum-2-000-years-after-vesuvius-erupted

1,500-year-old mosaic discovered beneath historic mill in Türkiye | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/1500-year-old-mosaic-discovered-beneath-historic-mill-in-turkiye/news

Perhaps the domus in Pompeii also had towers: new digital archaeology research
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/perhaps-the-domus-in-pompeii-also-had-towers-new-digital-archaeology-research

Discovery sheds light on the origins of Roman monumental architecture
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/discovery-sheds-light-on-the-origins-of-roman-monumental-architecture/156174

Discovery Suggests That the House of the Thiasos and Other Domus in Pompeii May Have Had Observation Towers

Discovery Suggests That the House of the Thiasos and Other Domus in Pompeii May Have Had Observation Towers

[old news]Hoard of 2,000-Year-Old Roman Silver Coins Discovered in Germany – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/20/hoard-roman-silver-coins-discover-germany/

Archaeological discovery sheds light on early Christian life
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/science/archaeologists-uncover-ancient-bishops-bathhouse/

Türkiye prepares basilica in Iznik for Pope Leo’s first overseas visit
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/turkiye-prepares-basilica-in-iznik-for-pope-leos-first-overseas-visit/3721690

Olympia excavations: A milestone | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1284113/olympia-excavations-a-milestone/

Byzantine Synagogue Uncovered in the Golan – Biblical Archaeology Society

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Excavations resume at ancient Finziade (Agrigento), last Greek foundation in Sicily
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/excavations-resume-at-ancient-finziade-agrigento-last-greek-foundation-in-sicily

5th-century Greek inscribed mosaic discovered at Urfa Castle – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/5th-century-greek-inscribed-mosaic-discovered-at-urfa-castle-3208645

Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery
https://theconversation.com/pharaohs-in-dixieland-how-19th-century-america-reimagined-egypt-to-justify-racism-and-slavery-266665

‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology to win US support for goals | Israel | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/israel-archaeology-jerusalem-history-us

Heist Aftershock: Securing the Louvre’s Priceless Greek Masterpieces – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/20/securing-louvre-greek-masterpieces-heist/

Greece Slams British Museum for “Insulting” Gala Amid Parthenon Marbles – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/20/greece-slams-british-museum-insulting-gala-dinner-amid-parthenon-marbles/

Laudator Temporis Acti: What Is Worth Knowing
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/what-is-worth-knowing.html

Weekly Varia no. 152, 10/19/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 152, 10/19/25

Etruskische goden – Mainzer Beobachter

Etruskische goden

PaleoJudaica.com: In defense of Ge’ez
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/in-defense-of-geez.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Is Allegro’s mushroom Jesus back in fashion?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/is-allegros-mushroom-jesus-back-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Grand Egyptian Museum’s grand opening
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/grand-egyptian-museums-grand-opening.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archäologisches Tagebuch der Olympia-Grabung: Grabungskampagne IV, 1878–1879
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/archaologisches-tagebuch-der-olympia_20.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Colour & Space. Interfaces of Ancient Architecture and Sculpture.: Proceedings of the 10th International Round Table on Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/colour-space-interfaces-of-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Semantics of Space in Greek and Roman Narratives
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-semantics-of-space-in-greek-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Online/open-access articles, lesson plans, and websites about the Ancient World
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2021/04/onlineopen-access-articles-lesson-plans.html

Racialized commodities: long-distance trade, mobility, and the making of race in ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Racialized commodities: long-distance trade, mobility, and the making of race in ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE

Fields, sherds and scholars: recording and interpreting survey ceramics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Fields, sherds and scholars: recording and interpreting survey ceramics

How to Get Ahead in Archaeology: Using the Book Review System as a Strategy for 19th-Century Archaeologists, with a Case Study on Charles Roach Smith (1806–1890). Keeble. Internet Archaeology 69.
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue69/5/index.html

The Politics of Faith in Constantine’s Rome – Retrospect Journal

The Politics of Faith in Constantine’s Rome

Recreating the Myth: Cleopatra’s Death in Two Nineteenth-Century French Paintings  – Retrospect Journal

Recreating the Myth: Cleopatra’s Death in Two Nineteenth-Century French Paintings 

The Arch of Trump’s Triumph and Downfall
https://hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-arch-of-trump-triumph-and-downfall/
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[RERUN] EPISODE 81: The Other 300 (Part 1) — History on Fire
https://historyonfirepodcast.com/episodes/2025/10/20/rerun-episode-81-the-other-300-part-1

Mithras and Mithraism: San Clemente and Ostia Antica
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/mithras-and-mithraism-san-clemente?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=508757&post_id=176506508&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

The Puzzling Case of Children’s Rattles in Early Bronze Age Syria, or, Here Kid, Shake This, Mom and Dad are Working | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/the-puzzling-case-of-children-s-rattles-in-early-bronze-age-syria-or-here-kid-shake-this-mom-and-dad-are-working/
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(83) Maximus Decimus Meridius – They Got His Name WRONG? – YouTube

(85) Bacchae | Writer’s Portrait | National Theatre – YouTube

How ancient societies collapsed
https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/how-ancient-societies-collapsed?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=752411&post_id=175131395&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Things to do in Chicago: Homerathon 2025 at the National Hellenic Museum to read the Odyssey – ABC7 Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/things-do-chicago-homerathon-2025-national-hellenic-museum-read-odyssey/18025424/

• 480 B.C. — Battle of Salamis (one reckoning; seems a bit late)
• 127 A.D. — ludi votivi decennales pro salute Augusti
• c. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Maximus of Aquila
• 1524 — death of Thomas Linacre … “the best Greek and Latin scholar of his age”
• 1952 — death 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)