• 49 B.C. — Caesar crosses the Rubicon (according to some sources)
• 69 A.D. — emperor-for-a-little-while-and-not-much-longer Galba adopts Lucius Calpurnius Piso

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La scoperta dell’acquedotto romano di Padova

A caccia dell’acquedotto romano perduto: il ritrovamento a Padova all’Arzeron della Regina

Rare ‘Smiling Medusa’ Unearthed in Ancient City Founded by Greek Queen Amastris
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/09/rare-smiling-medusa-unearthed-in-ancient-city-founded-by-greek-queen-amastris

An exceptional ceramic stylus from the 5th century BC discovered intact in the ancient Greek city of Gela in Sicily

An exceptional ceramic stylus from the 5th century BC discovered intact in the ancient Greek city of Gela in Sicily

Massive Roman Military-Industrial Complex Discovered in Northern England on the River Wear – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/massive-roman-military-industrial-complex-discovered-in-northern-england-on-the-river-wear/

Temple of the Sun Discovered at Abusir – Biblical Archaeology Society

Temple of the Sun Discovered at Abusir

A Mystical Healing Complex from the Archaic Period Later Transformed into a Roman Necropolis Discovered in Ancient Tenea in Greece

A Mystical Healing Complex from the Archaic Period Later Transformed into a Roman Necropolis Discovered in Ancient Tenea in Greece

Greek Archeologists Discover Amazing 3,000-Year-Old Burial Pit
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/09/greek-archeologists-discover-amazing-3000-year-old-burial-pit

Rare Roman coin reveals historical details about the third century AD in Libya

Rare Roman coin reveals historical details about the third century AD in Libya

Detectorist who ‘dug up Roman brooch’ actually bought it on eBay
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly544d1eg1o

The U.S. Repatriated Seven Ancient Artifacts to Egypt
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/united-state-returned-7-ancient-artifacts-egypt-mummified-fish-falcon-head-1234769242/

Ancient Greeks and Their Reciprocal Relationship with Animals – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/09/ancient-greek-relationship-animals/

War Music | Blog post | Mary Beard

War Music

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Human Sacrifice and the Death of Antinous – JASON COLAVITO
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/human-sacrifice-and-the-death-of-antinous

Selvans? – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Selvans?

Sling bullets got me out of bed – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Sling bullets got me out of bed

ADKIKA, DIKE and BIA | Greek Myth Comix
https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/adkika-dike-and-bia/

Romeinse ogen – Mainzer Beobachter

Romeinse ogen

PaleoJudaica.com: Day Festschrift (T&T Clark)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/day-festschrift-t-clark.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Paul the “Prancer?”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/paul-prancer.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Bar-Asher & Brown, Light is Sown (OUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/bar-asher-brown-light-is-sown-oup.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/stealing-from-gods-temple-robbery-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die ägyptische Schriftkultur in Nubien im Neuen Reich
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/die-agyptische-schriftkultur-in-nubien.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Amphores des VIe-IIIe siècles avant J.-C. provenant des collections du Musée central de Tauride et du Musée des antiquités de Théodosia
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/amphores-des-vie-iiie-siecles-avant-j-c.html

Amphorae from the 6th-3rd centuries BC from the collections of the Central Museum of Tauris and the Museum of Antiquities of Theodosia | Spartokos read

Amphores des VIe-IIIe siècles avant J.-C. provenant des collections du Musée central de Tauride et du Musée des antiquités de Théodosia

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Forgers and Critics: Anthony Grafton and the History of Faking It (Ad Navseam, Episode 206) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/forgers-and-critics-anthony-grafton-and-the-history-of-faking-it-ad-navseam-episode-207/

(480) The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert | John Lee – YouTube

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA391 – Bridging the Hellespont
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa391-bridging-the-hellespont

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(480) King Tut’s Tomb: The Discovery That Sparked a Global Power Struggle | HISTORY This Week – YouTube

(480) Eric H. Cline | Love, War, and Diplomacy in Canaan during the Amarna Age – YouTube

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Roman Fake News?

Roman Fake News?

Training the Next Generation of Digital Classicists

Training the Next Generation of Digital Classicists

Deposition in Water: A Practice and its Problems

Deposition in Water: A Practice and its Problems

One Collective Find from around Valandovo

One Collective Find from around Valandovo

• Agonalia — one of four dies agonales during which the Rex Sacrorum would sacrifice a ram in the Regia; on this occasion apparently in honour of Janus.
• 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Felix and companions in Africa
• 302 A.D. — martyrdom of Julian and companions at Antioch
• c. 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Marciana at Caesarea (Mauretania)

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Archaeologists find near-complete Iron Age battle trumpet in west Norfolk | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/battle-trumpet-carnyx-west-norfolk-b2895812.html

Near-complete bronze carnyx among Iron Age hoard discovery
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/01/near-complete-bronze-carnyx-among-iron-age-hoard-discovery/156712

Rare 2,000-year-old war trumpet, possibly linked to Celtic queen Boudica, discovered in England | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/rare-2-000-year-old-war-trumpet-possibly-linked-to-celtic-queen-boudica-discovered-in-england

Archaeologists discover signs of Roman industrial hub at site in Sunderland | Sunderland | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/08/archaeology-roman-whetstone-offerton-sunderland-river-wear

Toxic pigment found in 2,000-year-old women’s graves | Science in Poland
https://scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news%2C110954%2Ctoxic-pigment-found-2000-year-old-womens-graves.html

Important Archaeological Finds in Rafina, Attica – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/important-archaeological-finds-in-rafina-attica/

Why Julius Caesar’s Last Words Were in Greek? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/07/julius-caesar-last-words-greek/

Justinian-era harbour uncovered at ancient Peyia | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/01/08/justinian-era-harbour-uncovered-at-ancient-peyia

A return to the classical foundations of American statecraft – Engelsberg ideas

A return to the classical foundations of American statecraft

History Repeating | Sphinx

History Repeating

Notes on Accettola on Nabataean epigraphy and identity – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Notes on Accettola on Nabataean epigraphy and identity

The Joy of Correspondence – Liv Mariah Yarrow

The Joy of Correspondence

Notes on Fajardo on Anonymous Civil War coinages of 68-69 BCE – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Notes on Fajardo on Anonymous Civil War coinages of 68-69 BCE

Public Domain Day 2026 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Public Domain Day 2026

Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2026/01/07/plato-censored-texas-am-carries-out-course-review

What Thucydides Really Thought About Technology and War

What Thucydides Really Thought About Technology and War

Latinum Books – longform fiction Latin and English
https://latinum.substack.com/p/latinum-books-longform-fiction-latin?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=183876586&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Hugh Laurie Set to Film New Series “Dig” in Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/08/hugh-laurie-film-new-series-dig-greece/

Homeric Redshirts and Iliad 10: Introducing Dolon – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Homeric Redshirts and Iliad 10: Introducing Dolon

Laudator Temporis Acti: Jealousy
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/01/jealousy.html

XXX Ulpia Victrix – Mainzer Beobachter

XXX Ulpia Victrix

PaleoJudaica.com: Is AI replacing archaeologists? Nope.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/is-ai-replacing-archaeologists-nope.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Another review of Conybeare, Augustine the African
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/another-review-of-conybeare-augustine.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Buckley, 1800 Years Of Encounters With Mandaeans
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/review-of-buckley-1800-years-of.html

Book Review: Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism , Shadi Bartsch

Plato Goes to China

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Fall of Sparta – The Ancients | Acast

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VIDENDA
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(459) Diversity in Early Christianity with Dr. Paula Fredriksen – YouTube

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ANE Today, 8 January 2026 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-8-january-2026?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=183809383&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Pasts Imperfect (1.8.26)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-1-8-26/?ref=pasts-imperfect-newsletter

• 13 A.D. — consecration of the signum Iustitiae Augustae by the future emperor Tiberius
• ca 175 — martyrdom of Apollinaris