• Parentalia (Day 8) — the festival for honouring/appeasing the dead continues
• 116 A.D. — Trajan is given the title “Parthicus” by the senate for his victories against the Parthians

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Storms reveal rare 2,000-year-old footprints on Scottish beach
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-storms-reveal-rare-year-footprints.html

Egyptian-Chinese mission uncovers new clues to King Apries’ temple in Mit Rahina – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/562666.aspx

2,500-year-old ‘primitive prosthetic’ found on jaw of mummified Scythian woman who survived complex jaw surgery | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-500-year-old-primitive-prosthetic-found-on-jaw-of-mummified-scythian-woman-who-survived-complex-jaw-surgery

Father, daughter find bronze scale pan in ancient Sussiya | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-887267

‘Cursed!’: Toledo Museum of Art to host exhibit exploring the power of ancient magic in the Mediterranean world | wtol.com
https://www.wtol.com/article/entertainment/arts/cursed-toledo-museum-of-art-exhibit-power-of-magic-in-ancient-world/512-c3a6c8e7-b297-490e-b03f-32b2ca30e41d

Ancient Roman bottles contained traces of fecal matter : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5718375/ancient-roman-medicine-fecal-history

Prof. Ready offers fanfic framing for Euripides’ Orestes — The Kenyon Collegian

Prof. Ready offers fanfic framing for Euripides’ Orestes

Recording your own books | Blog post | Mary Beard

Recording your own books

Poseidon, Divine Hypocrite: Impersonation and Interpretation in Iliad 13 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Poseidon, Divine Hypocrite: Impersonation and Interpretation in Iliad 13

From the Heart of Jerusalem to the People of Iran: A Sassanid Treasure in the Soil of the Temple Mount – The Temple Mount Sifting Project

From the Heart of Jerusalem to the People of Iran: A Sassanid Treasure in the Soil of the Temple Mount

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ukraine: Fifth Century Disc Brooch Seized by Police
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/ukraine-fifth-century-disc-brooch.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ukraine: Police in Vinnytsia Seize Metal Detectorist’s Loot AFTER He’d Destroyed a ‘Princely Grave’
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/police-in-vinnytsia-prevented-illegal.html

What is a Sycophant? | Greek Myth Comix
https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/what-is-a-sycophant/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Evacuating Ukraine’s Ancient Stone Guardians
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/evacuating-ukraines-ancient-stone.html

‘People are in awe’: exhibition unveils ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead | Exhibitions | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/19/book-of-the-dead-exhibition-brooklyn-museum-ancient-egypt

Even the best writing about science recalls ancient myths
https://theconversation.com/even-the-best-writing-about-science-recalls-ancient-myths-272269

Teaching Thursday: Reading Difficult Books | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Thursday: Reading Difficult Books

Sara M. Koenig, The Ten Commandments through the Ages – Reading Acts

Sara M. Koenig, The Ten Commandments through the Ages

PaleoJudaica.com: Onomastic politics and What did Second Temple-era Jews call the Land of Israel?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/onomastic-politics-and-what-did-second.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Water Supply and Management Systems in the Western Mediterranean: Construction and Operation
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/ancient-water-supply-and-management.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Umm al-Quwain 2: A Neolithic settlement and graveyard in the United Arab Emirates
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/umm-al-quwain-2-neolithic-settlement.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Daughters of the Sun: Small Human Images in Megalithic Iberia, 4th-3rd Millennium BC
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/daughters-of-sun-small-human-images-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Edition osirianischer Ritualtexte auf fragmentarischen späthieratischen Papyri der Tempelbibliothek von Tebtynis
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/edition-osirianischer-ritualtexte-auf.html

Sixty-six toilets and urinals in the ancient city of Rome: sanitary, urbanistic, and social agency – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.28/
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Who’s Afraid of Lupercalia?–Instant Classics – Apple Podcasts

Episode 170 – The Gallic Sack of Rome – Part 5 – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Episode 170 – The Gallic Sack of Rome – Part 5

The Fall of Persia | Alexander the Great – The Ancients | Acast

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VIDENDA
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(70) How Parthia Beat Roman Legions – YouTube

(71) Minoan Pithos, Palace of Minos, Knossos – YouTube

(71) Elizabeth Irwin on Polycrates’ ring: fate and the reader – YouTube

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ANE Today, 19 February 2026 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-19-february-2026

Ancient Egypt Magazine 153 – The Past

Ancient Egypt Magazine 153

Pasts Imperfect (2.19.26)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-2-19-26/

University of Basel: University lectureship for Latin language and literature (60%)
https://jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/universitaetsdozentur-fuer-lateinische-sprache-und-literatur/4979f52e-9556-4c53-8190-

What Thucydides Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry – Modern Diplomacy

What Thucydides Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics – HigherEdJobs
https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=179368847&Title=Visiting%20Assistant%20Professor%20of%20Classics

• Parentalia (Day 7) — the period for honouring the dead continues
• 198 A.D. — death of emperor wannabe Clodius Albinus
• 1806 — death of Elizabeth Carter (Classicist who translated Epictetus)

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Archaeologists identify elders in Iron Age Israel through household artifacts
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-archaeologists-elders-iron-age-israel.html

The Princess of Bagicz: Dendrochronology settles debate over age of rare Roman-era wooden coffin
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-princess-bagicz-dendrochronology-debate-age.html

Archaeologists Unearthed a 2,200-Year-Old Bone. They Say It Could Be the First Direct Evidence of Hannibal’s Legendary War Elephants
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearthed-a-2200-year-old-bone-they-say-it-could-be-the-first-direct-evidence-of-hannibals-legendary-war-elephants-180988185/

Archaeologists Identify Previously Unknown Monumental Theater and Forum in Roman Irpinia – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-identify-previously-unknown-monumental-theater-and-forum-in-roman-irpinia/

Roman temple stones used in village houses
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-temple-stones-used-in-village-houses-219052

Were the Ancient Greeks Xenophobic? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/18/xenophobic-ancient-greeks/

Ancient Greeks Used Processed Ergot Fungus in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Study Finds – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/17/ancient-greeks-ergot-fungus-eleusinian-mysteries/

AI Transforms 50 Iconic Roman Figures into Modern-Day People – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/17/ai-roman-iconic-figures-modern-people/

The Assyrians Are Coming | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/assyrians-are-coming

Did the British Museum Remove Palestine From Its Displays?
https://hyperallergic.com/did-the-british-museum-remove-palestine-from-its-displays/

Israel orders seizure of land in northern West Bank, including key archaeological site
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-orders-seizure-of-land-in-northern-west-bank-including-key-archaeological-site/3833024

Where the word ‘Olympics’ comes from : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/18/nx-s1-5717092/winter-olympics-2026-word-of-week

How learning a “dead language” can make you a better programmer
https://www.howtogeek.com/why-learning-a-dead-language-can-make-you-a-better-programmer/

The Colosseum gets a modern makeover – but critics are unimpressed | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-15569945/The-Colosseum-gets-modern-makeover-critics-unimpressed.html

Enslaved Scribes and the New Testament – Biblical Archaeology Society

Enslaved Scribes and the New Testament

The Graeco-Roman museum in Alexandria – The Past

The Graeco-Roman museum in Alexandria

Laudator Temporis Acti: Shouting for Joy
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/shouting-for-joy.html

Pythagoras’ Revolutionary Olympic Boxing Revenge – The Historian’s Hut

Pythagoras’ Revolutionary Olympic Boxing Revenge

Erasistratus Discovers The Love Of Antiochus For Stratonice, By Edward Francis Burney (c. 1760–1848) – The Historian’s Hut

Erasistratus Discovers The Love Of Antiochus For Stratonice, By Edward Francis Burney (c. 1760–1848)

Faits divers (48) – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (48)

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Museum Admits to Mislabelling Heritage Objects since May 1948 (UPDATED)
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/british-museum-admits-to-mislabelling.html

Augustus’ Tokens – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Augustus’ Tokens

Country Feedback | Sphinx

Country Feedback

Writing Wednesday: Two Abstracts | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Writing Wednesday: Two Abstracts

PaleoJudaica.com: The Cairo Codex of the Prophets: digital edition
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-cairo-codex-of-prophets-digital.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Pitting public vs. private property in the Talmud
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/pitting-public-vs-private-property-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the newly-found ancient stone workshop in Jerusalem
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/more-on-newly-found-ancient-stone.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Africam defendere: Byzantinische Fortifikationen in der nordafrikanischen Region Thugga im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/africam-defendere-byzantinische.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Creditor defuncti: Zur Forderungsdurchsetzung nach dem Tod des Schuldners im klassischen römischen Recht
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/creditor-defuncti-zur.html

The pioneer kingdoms of Macedon and Qin: a triumph of the periphery – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.27/

Sicilia archeologica vista dal cielo: dalla preistoria all’età romana – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.26/

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(34) Ancient Coin Podcast with Aaron Berk – Episode 75! – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Save The Date! Antiquity in Media Studies Event (February 28th) – Register Now – The Classical Association of Canada

Save The Date! Antiquity in Media Studies Event (February 28th) – Register Now

Professor of Greek | Ralston College
https://www.ralston.ac/employment-opportunities/professor-of-greek-2026

• Parentalia (Day 7) — the period for honouring the dead continues
• 198 A.D. — death of emperor wannabe Clodius Albinus
• 1806 — death of Elizabeth Carter (Classicist who translated Epictetus)