• ludi Romani (day 8)
• 490 B.C. — battle of Marathon (another suggested date)

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(PDF) The Minoan Thera eruption predates Pharaoh Ahmose: Radiocarbon dating of Egyptian 17 to early 18 Dynasty museum objects
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395400119_The_Minoan_Thera_eruption_predates_Pharaoh_Ahmose_Radiocarbon_dating_of_Egyptian_17_to_early_18_Dynasty_museum_objects

A Bronze Ram of a Roman Warship to Scale Found in Ancient Iuvavum

A Bronze Ram of a Roman Warship to Scale Found in Ancient Iuvavum

Sensational Discovery in Salzburg: 1,800-Year-Old Roman Ship’s Bow Unearthed During Renovation – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/sensational-discovery-in-salzburg-1800-year-old-roman-ships-bow-unearthed-during-renovation/

Metals reveal trade in Bronze Age more connected than previously thought
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-metals-reveal-bronze-age-previously.html

Origin and fabrication biographies of Sardinian figurines

Origin and fabrication biographies of Sardinian figurines

2,400-Year-Old Greek-Era Tomb Discovered in Manduria, Southern Italy – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/11/greek-tomb-manduria-southern-italy/

Pompeii, waiting bench discovered in front of the famous Villa of Mysteries
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/pompeii-waiting-bench-discovered-in-front-of-the-famous-villa-of-mysteries

Britain’s economy boomed after the Romans, Aldborough study reveals | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/britains-economy-boomed-after-the-romans-aldborough-study-reveals

Gaza Antiquities Rescued Ahead Of Israeli Strike – Barron’s
https://www.barrons.com/news/gaza-antiquities-rescued-ahead-of-israeli-strike-78e661be

Rare Hieroglyphic Canopus Decree of Pharaoh Ptolemy III Unearthed in Egypt – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/10/hieroglyphic-canopus-decree-pharaoh-ptolemy-egypt/

The Skull of an Ancient Brown Bear Tells a Story of Brutality and Abuse at the Hands of Roman Entertainers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-skull-of-an-ancient-brown-bear-reveals-its-abuse-at-the-hands-of-roman-entertainers-180987310/

Divers Find a Well-Preserved Roman Helmet From the Naval Battle That Ended a Punic War
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/divers-find-a-well-preserved-roman-helmet-from-the-naval-battle-that-ended-a-punic-war-180987318/

(18) Column of text from PHerc. 172 (Scroll 5)
https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/column-of-text-from-pherc-172-scroll?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1454609&post_id=172491768&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Latin Mass returns to St. Peter’s Basilica: here’s what we know – ZENIT – English

Latin Mass returns to St. Peter’s Basilica: here’s what we know

Mycenological conference bingo | Aegean prehistory

Mycenological conference bingo

[FWIW] Ancient Greek Inventions We Weren’t Meant to Find – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/11/ancient-greek-inventions-find/

Were the Amazons just a “male fantasy”? Here’s the truth behind the ancient world’s warrior women | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-greece/amazons-myth-or-real-warrior-women-ancient-world/

Rome’s Ancient Sculptures Arrive at The Kimbell First Time – Fort Worth Magazine
https://fwtx.com/culture/romes-ancient-sculptures-arrive-at-the-kimbell/

Review: The British Museum’s ‘Gladiators of Britain’ | Observer

This Traveling Exhibition in the U.K. Recasts Gladiators as More Than Sacrificial Lambs

MSU library awarded $10,000 grant, preserving Greek collection | Morehead State University | Kentucky
https://www.moreheadstate.edu/news/2025/09/msu-library-10k-grant

New book celebrates 60 years of Classical Civilisation in English schools – Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2025/09/new-book-celebrates-60-years-of-classical-civilisation-in-english-schools/

PaleoJudaica.com: Greenspoon obituary
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/greenspoon-obituary.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient Yahwistic echoes of Achaemenid Zoroastrianism
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/ancient-yahwistic-echoes-of-achaemenid.html

PaleoJudaica.com: de Hemmer Gudme on Portier-Young, The Prophetic Body
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/de-hemmer-gudme-on-portier-young.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Shepherd, How Did They Read the Prophets? (Eerdmans)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/shepherd-how-did-they-read-prophets.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Corpus Masoreticum Working Papers
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2022/06/new-open-access-journal-corpus.html

No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes review – a thrilling take on the Golden Fleece myth | Fiction | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/11/no-friend-to-this-house-by-natalie-haynes-review-a-thrilling-take-on-the-golden-fleece-myth

In search of the Dioskouroi: image, myth and cult. A ‘periegesis’ – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

In search of the Dioskouroi: image, myth and cult. A ‘periegesis’

Classics, love, revolution: the legacies of Luigi Settembrini – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Classics, love, revolution: the legacies of Luigi Settembrini

L’Eredità di Giustiniano. L’ultima guerra dell’Italia romana – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

L’Eredità di Giustiniano. L’ultima guerra dell’Italia romana

Pasts Imperfect (9.11.25)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-9-11-25/?ref=pasts-imperfect-newsletter
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Warfare in Ancient Greece – Dan Snow’s History Hit | Acast

Fall of the Sumerians – The Ancients | Acast

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(19) CULTURE. POMPEII: A “WAITING BENCH” DISCOVERED IN FRONT OF THE VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES – YouTube

Last Roman Gladiator Arena Unearthed In Switzerland – video Dailymotion

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Love Letters and Erotic Letters: Antiquity and Beyond | School of Languages, Cultures and Societies | University of Leeds
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages-research-innovation/dir-record/research-projects/983/love-letters-and-erotic-letters-antiquity-and-beyond

• ludi Romani (day 7)

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[old news]2,000-year-old Roman hall remains unearthed in biblical city linked to early Christian worship
https://nypost.com/2025/09/10/world-news/2000-year-old-roman-hall-remains-unearthed-in-biblical-city-linked-to-early-christian-worship/

Ancient sling stones unearthed in Urartian castle excavations in eastern Anatolia – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/ancient-sling-stones-unearthed-in-urartian-castle-excavations-in-eastern-anatolia-3206677

Excavations in the Ancient Greek City of Segesta in Sicily Yield New Discoveries – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/09/excavations-ancient-greek-city-segesta-sicily-new-discoveries/

2,200-Year-Old Sundial Found in Ancient Greek City of Aigai in Turkey Matches One From Delos – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/09/sundial-ancient-greek-city-aigai-turkey-matches-delos/

Drought reveals lost tombs from Hellenistic period in Iraq | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/drought-reveals-lost-tombs-from-hellenistic-period-in-iraq

1,600 years of care: Archaeologists in northern Israel uncover world’s earliest home for elderly | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-say-theyve-uncovered-earliest-home-for-elderly-in-northern-israel/

Rare 1,900-Year-Old Aramaic Inscription Discovered in Dead Sea Cave Near Ein Gedi – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/rare-1900-year-old-aramaic-inscription-discovered-in-dead-sea-cave-near-ein-gedi/

Archaeologists Unearth Albania’s First Roman-Era Tomb
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/albania-roman-tomb-2685849

The best part of this Getty Villa exhibit is also the smallest – Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-09-10/pylos-warrior-princes-of-ancient-greece-getty-villa

Stele with a Complete Monolingual Version of the Canopus Decree Issued by Pharaoh Ptolemy III in 238 B.C. Discovered

Stele with a Complete Monolingual Version of the Canopus Decree Issued by Pharaoh Ptolemy III in 238 B.C. Discovered

Wealthy ancient Roman’s tomb discovered in Albania | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1280326/wealthy-ancient-romans-tomb-discovered-in-albania/

Majority of Britons Back Return of Parthenon Sculptures to Greece – tovima.com

Majority of Britons Back Return of Parthenon Sculptures to Greece

From Dean to Full Time-Professor: Dr. Terry Papillon’s time on the Domain

From Dean to Full-Time Professor: Dr. Terry Papillon’s time on the Domain

The Brown Classics Department Mourns the Loss of Michael C. J. Putnam | Department of Classics | Brown University
https://classics.brown.edu/news/2025-08-20/loss-michael-c-j-putnam

Ancient Interpretation of the Prophets | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/ancient-interpretation-prophets

(18) To travel is better than to arrive – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/to-travel-is-better-than-to-arrive?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=173271885&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(18) LESSON 13: Ab Urbe Condita – Livy’s Foundation Myth
https://latinum.substack.com/p/lesson-13-ab-urbe-condita-livys-foundation?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=173260528&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey – Slavery
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/assassins-creed-odyssey-slavery

Laudator Temporis Acti: Key to Success
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/09/key-to-success.html

De Papyrus Ebers – Mainzer Beobachter

De Papyrus Ebers

PaleoJudaica.com: The Sifting project found a potsherd with reed-impression decorations
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-sifting-project-found-potsherd-with.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: War Essays
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/war-essays.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Classics and Race: A historical reader
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/classics-and-race-historical-reader.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Economies
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/ancient-economies.html

Body behaviour and identity construction in ancient Greek and Roman literature – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09.19/

L’histoire du rémora: à quoi voulez-vous croire? – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09.18/

Empresses-in-waiting: female power and performance at the late Roman court – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09.17/

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(533) Bureaucracy/Pyrotechnics #Etymology – YouTube

(535) Josephus on Jesus: Forgery or Authentic? Investigating the Testimonium Flavianum – YouTube

(536) Pompei, emerge la “panca d’attesa” antica davanti alla famosa Villa dei Misteri – YouTube

(536) The REAL Relationship Between Achilles & Patroclus – YouTube

• ludi Romani (day 6)
• 1738 – Death of Thomas Sheridan (translator of Persius among others)