=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== Drone survey reveals Roman forum and theatre at Fioccaglia https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/drone-survey-reveals-roman-forum-and-theatre-at-fioccaglia/157015 Manufatti etruschi trovati in una casa disabitata nel Parmense https://www.rainews.it/tgr/emiliaromagna/articoli/2026/02/manufatti-etruschi-trovati-in-una-casa-disabitata-nel-parmense-4e986f14-39d7-43d5-b814-425fc2c369a8.html Monumental Roman apse discovered beneath Cologne’s town hall square https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/monumental-roman-apse-discovered-beneath-colognes-town-hall-square/157010 First Solid Evidence of Hannibal’s Infamous War Elephants Discovered in Spain : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/first-solid-evidence-of-hannibals-infamous-war-elephants-discovered-in-spain Two years after collapse, Caesarea aqueduct to be…

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Parentalia (Day 3) — the festival for appeasing the dead continues Lupercalia 44 B.C. — Julius Caesar is offered — and declines — the title of rex and the diadem to go with it 1515 — death of Aldus Manutius

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Parentalia (day 2) — the period for appeasing the dead continued. 270 A.D. — traditional date for the beheading of Saint Valentine

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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== ‘Virgin’ frescoes emerge from Pompeii suburb https://phys.org/news/2026-02-virgin-frescoes-emerge-pompeii-suburb.html Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Announces Discovery of Archaeological Site in Jifna North of Ramallah – Sada News Agency https://www.sadanews.ps/en/news/275617.html Guides Protest and Threats Shake Pompeii Archaeological Site https://www.ilmattino.it/en/guides_protest_and_threats_shake_pompeii_archaeological_site-9355926.html Spotted with drones at the archaeological site of Fioccaglia (Avellino) the Forum and a hitherto unknown…

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Parentalia (day 1) — a festival for honouring/appeasing the dead began on this day with a number of signs: temples were closed, altars did not have fires burn on them, people were forbidden to get married, and magistrates set down the trappings of their office. Fornacalia (day 1) — this was actually a “feriae conceptivae”,…

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