ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ June 3, 2025

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Excavations at the extraurban cemetery of the Late Cypriot harbour city of Dromolaxia-Vyzakia/Hala Sultan Tekke – Gov.cy
https://www.gov.cy/en/culture/excavations-at-the-extraurban-cemetery-of-the-late-cypriot-harbour-city-of-dromolaxia-vyzakia-hala-sultan-tekke/

Results of the excavations at Dromolaxia, Cyprus

Results of the excavations at Dromolaxia, Cyprus

Cyprus Bronze Age cemetery reveals extensive international trade networks from 14th century BC | in-cyprus.com

Bronze Age cemetery near Larnaca airport shows Cyprus was Mediterranean trading hub

Acropolis Reopens Hidden Routes, Launches New Gift Shop in Major Visitor Upgrade | GTP Headlines
https://news.gtp.gr/2025/06/02/acropolis-reopens-hidden-routes-launches-new-gift-shop-in-major-visitor-upgrade/

Huge archeology breakthrough as discovery sheds light on life 3,000 years ago | Irish Star
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/archaeologists-unearth-3000-year-old-35320514

Thrushes Were the “Fast Food” of Romans in Imperial Cities, Not an Exclusive Delicacy for Banquets

Thrushes Were the “Fast Food” of Romans in Imperial Cities, Not an Exclusive Delicacy for Banquets

Mieza: The School Where Aristotle Tutored Alexander the Great – GreekReporter.com

Mieza: The School Where Aristotle Tutored Alexander the Great

New Research Uncovers What Made Ancient Greek City-States Thrive – GreekReporter.com

New Research Uncovers What Made Ancient Greek City-States Thrive

Getty Museum Showcases Mycenaean Civilization, Griffin Warrior – GreekReporter.com

Getty Museum Showcases Mycenaean Civilization, Griffin Warrior

Bronze Age artifacts go on display in North America for first time | University of Cincinnati
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2025/05/bronze-age-artifacts-in-north-america-first-time.html

5,000-year-old Egyptian blue pigment recreated using ancient methods
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-year-egyptian-blue-pigment-recreated.html

Italian Museum to Restore Ancient Etruscan Treasure in Public View

Italian Museum to Restore Ancient Etruscan Treasure in Public View

Israeli forces raid archaeological sites in West Bank town
https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/158055

[AI?]Romanian discovers 1,469 ancient Roman silver coins near Letca Veche – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-856344

Dolphin mosaic discovery is part of an expansive Roman villa complex
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/06/dolphin-mosaic-discovery-is-part-of-an-expansive-roman-villa-complex/155360

Three Exceptional Roman Mosaics Discovered Near the Ancient Ovilava in Austria

Three Exceptional Roman Mosaics Discovered Near the Ancient Ovilava in Austria

(11) what we talk about when we talk about thinking about Rome
https://donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2108238&post_id=164773809&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(11) 301 Spartans at Thermopylae – by Owen Rees
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/301-spartans-at-thermopylae?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2470207&post_id=164997934&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(11) Aeneid I.210-304 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-i210-304-d86?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=164265676&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(11) Catullus’ little boat – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/catullus-little-boat?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=165048249&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

New alumnus builds interdisciplinary foundation for a future in classical archaeology – Faculty of Environment – Simon Fraser University
https://www.sfu.ca/fenv/news/new-alumnus-builds-interdisciplinary-foundation-for-a-future-in-/

Trembling Tresantes? Spartan Survivors of Thermopylae « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Trembling Tresantes? Spartan Survivors of Thermopylae

Laudator Temporis Acti: What Makes a City
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/06/what-makes-city.html

Gaius Octavius in Spanje – Mainzer Beobachter

Gaius Octavius in Spanje

Poëzie: Keizer Tiberius – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Keizer Tiberius

PaleoJudaica.com: Egypt promises no interference with Saint Catherine’s monastery?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/06/egypt-promises-no-interference-with.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Should publications of forged fragments be formally retracted?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/06/should-publications-of-forged-fragments.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Attic Inscriptions Online (AOI) updates
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/06/attic-inscriptions-online-aoi-updates.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East: Copenhagen, 22–26 May 2023. Volume 2: Field and Lab Reports
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/06/proceedings-of-13th-international_3.html

Populus: living and dying in ancient Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Populus: living and dying in ancient Rome

Polemone di Ilio: I frammenti degli scritti periegetici. Introduzione, testo greco, traduzione e commento – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Polemone di Ilio: I frammenti degli scritti periegetici. Introduzione, testo greco, traduzione e commento


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Podcast Season 4, Episode 6: Classics, the Grand Tour, and Invented Legacies with Hardeep Dhindsa – Peopling the Past

Podcast Season 4, Episode 6: Classics, the Grand Tour, and Invented Legacies with Hardeep Dhindsa

Theseus & Ariadne 7: “You must… – Live from Mount Olympus – Apple Podcasts

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(626) I feel more aligned with Dionysus every time I read Frogs by Aristophanes. – YouTube

(626) Dr Alessandra Ricci – “How did it begin?: The Institutionalization of Byzantine Studies in Turkey” – YouTube

(626) Dr Georgia Flouda – “Adventures in the Archives: Reconstructing archaeology in Nazi-Occupied Crete” – YouTube

(626) Exploring the Giant Temples of Ancient Luxor! #ancientsitesunday – YouTube

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Study Greek in Greece: Master Ancient Greek with Our Immersive Trips

Ancient Greek immersion trip – Euboea

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ June 2, 2025

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Roman Camp from the 2nd Century AD Found Beyond the Empire’s Northern Border on the Rhine

Roman Camp from the 2nd Century AD Found Beyond the Empire’s Northern Border on the Rhine

Ancient dice, combs and intact Roman-era pot among finds unearthed at north Dublin excavation | Irish Independent
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/ancient-dice-combs-and-intact-roman-era-pot-among-finds-unearthed-at-north-dublin-excavation/a507387756.html

Researchers recreate ancient Egyptian blues | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1085727

Egypt culture minister uncovers suspected illegal antiquities dig in Luxor – Courts & Law – Egypt – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1233/547296/Egypt/Courts-amp%3B-Law/Egypt-culture-minister-uncovers-suspected-illegal-.aspx

Man caught looting ancient Roman shipwreck « Euro Weekly News
https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/06/02/man-caught-looting-ancient-roman-shipwreck/

Archaeologists unearth ancient bread that survived underground for 5,000 years | Panorama | Ammon News
https://en.ammonnews.net/article/81965

Mieza: The School Where Aristotle Tutored Alexander the Great – GreekReporter.com

Mieza: The School Where Aristotle Tutored Alexander the Great

Prosciutto di Portici: A portable sundial that looks like a pork leg — and it was likely owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law before Mount Vesuvius erupted | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/prosciutto-di-portici-a-portable-sundial-that-looks-like-a-pork-leg-and-it-was-likely-owned-by-julius-caesars-father-in-law-before-mount-vesuvius-erupted

1,600-Year-Old Be’er Shema Mosaic Unveiled For First Time

1,600-Year-Old Mosaic Unveiled for the First Time Ever in Western Negev

Excavating Pompeii: This Year’s Top Finds | Art & Object
https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/excavating-pompeii-years-top-finds

Underwater Museum in Greece Is “the Parthenon of Shipwrecks” – GreekReporter.com

Underwater Museum in Greece Is “the Parthenon of Shipwrecks”

Archaeologist of psyche: Freud’s office and his passion for antiquity – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/archaeologist-of-psyche-freuds-pffice-and-his-passion-for-antiquity-3202287

Aristides – “Milesian Tales” of Romance and Eroticism | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/aristides-%E2%80%93-milesian-tales-romance-and-eroticism

Archaeologists Find Rare Ancient African Figurines in Christian Graves in Negev Desert – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-find-rare-ancient-african-figurines-in-christian-graves-in-negev-desert/

Kassel University online manuscripts -a fabulous interface! – Roger Pearse

Kassel University online manuscripts -a fabulous interface!

Antiek glas – Mainzer Beobachter

Antiek glas

EPHEMERIS_ Nuntii Latini Universi PROELIA POST VICTORIAM
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2433

Roman towns and cities: Excavating the CA archive – The Past

Roman towns and cities: Excavating the CA archive

[AI?]These are the reasons why the Roman Empire fell and how history could repeat itself – AS USA
https://en.as.com/latest_news/these-are-the-reasons-why-the-roman-empire-fell-and-how-history-could-repeat-itself-n/

Celtic quiz: Test your knowledge about these fierce tribes once described by Julius Caesar | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/celtic-quiz-test-your-knowledge-about-these-fierce-tribes-once-described-by-julius-caesar

Science Notes: Mind your own beeswax – Insights into the composition of the Nimrud writing tablets – The Past

Science Notes: Mind your own beeswax – Insights into the composition of the Nimrud writing tablets

L’empereur Hadrien sur une lampe en terre cuite | L’Antiquité à la BnF

L’empereur Hadrien sur une lampe en terre cuite

Pericles’ Funeral Oration: The Greatest Speech in History – GreekReporter.com

Pericles’ Funeral Oration: The Greatest Speech in History

(11) Agamemnon, STFU – by Joel Christensen
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/agamemnon-stfu?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1870284&post_id=164954775&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Ralph Fiennes’ The Return Made A Massive Change From The Odyssey, But What Was The Point? | Cinemablend
https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/ralph-fiennes-the-return-made-massive-change-from-the-odyssey-what-was-the-point

The Edithorial: Teaching Ancient Ethics in English Prisons: An Update
https://edithorial.blogspot.com/2025/06/teaching-ancient-ethics-in-english.html

Xena: How Hollywood Created a Greek Warrior Princess who Never Existed – GreekReporter.com

Xena: How Hollywood Created a Greek Warrior Princess who Never Existed

The Romans in Colchester | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/the-romans-in-colchester-blog-post

PaleoJudaica.com: INL displays the Crowns of Damascus manuscripts
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/06/inl-displays-crowns-of-damascus.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Leonard J. Greenspoon (1945-2025)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/06/leonard-j-greenspoon-1945-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Agrippa’s Pan place at Paneas
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/06/agrippas-pan-place-at-paneas.html

Weekly Varia no. 133, 06/01/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 133, 06/01/25

Laudator Temporis Acti: All Have Sinned
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/06/all-have-sinned.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Plautus
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/06/plautus.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Ethnic Exclusion
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/06/ethnic-exclusion.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Plutarch und die Evangelien Von der Gattungskritik zum interkulturellen Vergleich
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/06/plutarch-und-die-evangelien-von-der.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Histoire et archéologie de la Crimée ancienne
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/06/histoire-et-archeologie-de-la-crimee.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Copenhagen, 22–26 May 2023. Volume 1: Sustainability; Islamic Archaeology; Inclusion and Belonging
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/06/proceedings-of-13th-international.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Akhziv Cemeteries: The Ben-Dor Excavations, 1941–1944
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-akhziv-cemeteries-ben-dor.html

(11) Aeneid I.102-209 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-i102-209-908?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=164265637&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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(11) An Introduction to The Odyssey – CSMFHT Writes
https://csmfht.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-the-odyssey?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=1211085&post_id=164992843&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=play_card&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true

Anima Latina – CXCIV – 01.06.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/06/anima-latina-01-06-2025.html

The Rise and Fall of the Assyrian Empire – Dan Snow’s History Hit | Acast

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(601) Newest Rome excavation in the Imperial Fora – YouTube

(602) Newly Discovered Large-Scale Pompeii Frescoes – YouTube

(602) Annual Open Meeting 2025 Invited Lecture by Jane Francis – YouTube

(602) Annual Open Meeting 2025 Director’s Report – YouTube

(602) I love Frogs by Aristophanes but I’m really here for Charon’s sass – YouTube

(603) I AM Dionysus in Frogs by Aristophanes – YouTube

(603) Dear Joe Rogan, I’m an Archaeologist and the Helicopter Hieroglyphs aren’t Real – YouTube

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ May 30, 2025

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Archaeologists discover three long-lost Egyptian tombs dating back more than 3,500 years | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14760911/three-Egyptian-tombs-dating-3-500-years.html

Archaeology in turmoil after sculptor’s workshop thousands of years old found in Greece with intact figures and statues inside | Marca
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2025/05/29/6838694122601d01548b4580.html

Ancient cave burial said to hold Jesus’ midwife may actually belong to Salome, Herod the Great’s sister | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-cave-burial-of-jesus-midwife-may-actually-hold-a-princess

New Study Disproves Roman Massacre at Maiden Castle, Revealing Complex Iron Age Conflicts – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/new-study-disproves-roman-massacre-at-maiden-castle-revealing-complex-iron-age-conflicts/

Byzantine Masterpiece Unveiled – Biblical Archaeology Society

Byzantine Masterpiece Unveiled

Discovery of two gold rings reveal Greek influence in ancient Jerusalem | CNN
https://www.cn

“Olympias”: Reviving Ancient Greek Naval Power – GreekReporter.com

“Olympias”: Reviving Ancient Greek Naval Power

Egypt recovers 7 illegally smuggled artifacts from France – Egypt Independent
https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-recovers-7-illegally-smuggled-artifacts-from-france/

New Study Reveals What Caused the Rise and Collapse of Roman Anatolia – GreekReporter.com

New Study Reveals What Caused the Rise and Collapse of Roman Anatolia

Ancient Mediterranean DNA confirms old truths: People contain multitudes | Brown University
https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-05-29/punic-study

Research Retrospective: Digging into the human experience – The Brock News

Research Retrospective: Digging into the human experience

Two babies buried face to face 2,000 years ago: the mystery that shocks archaeologists – AS USA
https://en.as.com/latest_news/two-babies-buried-face-to-face-2000-years-ago-the-mystery-that-shocks-archaeologists-n/

Is Christopher Nolan ballsy enough to do ‘The Odyssey’ justice?
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/is-christopher-nolan-ballsy-enough-to-do-the-odyssey-justice/

Eclipse of Peace: The Ancient Solar Phenomenon That Stopped a War – GreekReporter.com

Eclipse of Peace: The Ancient Solar Phenomenon That Stopped a War

Romans threw offerings into the sinkhole left by a great flood that destroyed a bridge in Utrecht, and they were preserved in the mud

Romans threw offerings into the sinkhole left by a great flood that destroyed a bridge in Utrecht, and they were preserved in the mud

German ambassador highlights archaeology as a cultural bridge between Tehran and Berlin – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/513692/German-ambassador-highlights-archaeology-as-a-cultural-bridge

125 square meters ancient mosaic under conservation in Türkiye’s Perre – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/125-square-meters-ancient-mosaic-under-conservation-in-turkiyes-perre-3202175

Phaistos Archaeological Site Gets Protection Against Lightning and Fire
https://www.argophilia.com/news/phaistos-archaeological-site-upgrades/242547/

LEGO Ideas journeys to the classical past with Roman Forum

LEGO Ideas journeys back to the classical past with a brick-built Roman Forum

Laudator Temporis Acti: Home Sweet Home
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/home-sweet-home.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Natural Law
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/natural-law.html

‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas…’ | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/i-never-laid-eyes-on-aeneas-blog-post

PaleoJudaica.com: Smithsonian returns Chinese “Dead Sea Scrolls” to China
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/smithsonian-returns-chinese-dead-sea.html

Alexander the Great’s Women

Alexander the Great’s Women

2025 International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama | Cyprus Times

2025 International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama

T. C. Schmidt, “Josephus & Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ” – Roger Pearse

T. C. Schmidt, “Josephus & Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ”

On the gods and the world: Orpheus and the Presocratics in the Derveni papyrus – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

On the gods and the world: Orpheus and the Presocratics in the Derveni papyrus

Commodus: the public image of a Roman emperor – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Commodus: the public image of a Roman emperor

A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity (D.) Wharton (ed.) Volume I. Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/cultural-history-of-color-in-antiquity-d-wharton-ed-volume-i-pp-xiv-256-ills-colour-pls-london-bloomsbury-academic-2024-first-published-in-2021-paper-2599-cased-80-isbn-9781350459793/05F5109AE13CD0B43A61F94E292A31CB?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers (S.) Iles Johnston | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/gods-and-mortals-ancient-greek-myths-for-modern-readers-s-iles-johnstonpp-xiv-475-princeton-nj-princeton-university-press-2023-cased-30-us35-paper-20-us2495-isbn-9780691199207/57AA9A6D013F0F0C5B2C16652C1008A1?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLHdig) Beta Version 0.2
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2023/10/tlhdig-thesaurus-linguarum-hethaeorum.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavation in the Roman Legionary Fortress at Caerleon: The Priory Field Store, 2007-2010
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/excavation-in-roman-legionary-fortress.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Images from the Levant to Mesopotamia: Studies Offered to Tallay Ornan
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/mortals-deities-and-divine-symbols.html

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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA359 – Who are your go-to translators for your favourite texts?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa359-who-are-your-go-to-translators-for-your-favourite-texts

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(521) Pompei tra le mani – YouTube

(521) This Ancient Israelite Altar Burned Cannabis – YouTube

(521) Unraveling the Mystery of the Ancient Ankh Symbol – YouTube

(522) Dionysus in Frogs by Aristophanes is my Roman Empire – YouTube

(521) Annual Open Lectures 2025 London – The Work of the BSA in 2024 – YouTube

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ May 29, 2025

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Unique 5th-century archaeological treasure transferred to Ukraine history museum
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3998486-unique-5thcentury-archaeological-treasure-transferred-to-ukraine-history-museum.html

Ancient Structure and Coptic Art Unearthed in Upper Egypt – EgyptToday
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/140447/Ancient-Structure-and-Coptic-Art-Unearthed-in-Upper-Egypt

Three Tombs Unearthed in Dra Abu El-Naga

Three Tombs Unearthed in Dra Abu El-Naga

Byzantine mosaic from 1,600 years ago found in Israel’s Western Negev – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-855613

[old news]Roman Wall Built to Stop Spartacus Rebellion Discovered in Italian Forest
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/roman-wall-spartacus-italy/

[AI?]30-meter treasure tunnel found in Turkey home after foul smell report – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-855585

May: Exekias Games | News and features | University of Bristol
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/may/exekias-board-game.html

Winter Solstice Solar Alignment in Kastas Monument: Alexander the Great’s Tribute to Hephaestion – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/winter-solstice-solar-alignment-in-kastas-monument-alexander-the-greats-tribute-to-hephaestion/

How Emperor Claudius Tried to Promote the Art of Predicting the Future: A Political Strategy in Ancient Rome

How Emperor Claudius Tried to Promote the Art of Predicting the Future: A Political Strategy in Ancient Rome

Historian who Joe Rogan slammed as his ‘worst ever guest’ hits back about what REALLY happened on the podcast | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14758787/Joe-Rogan-worst-guest-Zahi-Hawass.html

Cyprus’ archaeological nerve center shuts its doors, KNEWS
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-archaeological-nerve-center-shuts-its-doors

Lessons from the past: Rapid globalization in Roman Anatolia mirrors the modern Great Acceleration – Popular Archeology

Lessons from the past: Rapid globalization in Roman Anatolia mirrors the modern Great Acceleration

Earthquake Unearthed Lost Roman Odeon in Croatia – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/earthquake-unearthed-lost-roman-odeon-in-croatia/

Why Did Rome Fall? | History Today
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/why-did-rome-fall

How an Ancient Vase From Mykonos Redraws the Trojan War – GreekReporter.com

How an Ancient Vase From Mykonos Redraws the Trojan War

The Ephesus Massacre: 80,000 Romans Slaughtered in a Single Night of Blood and Betrayal – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/the-ephesus-massacre-80000-romans-slaughtered-in-a-single-night-of-blood-and-betrayal/

Calliope, By Joseph Fagnani (1819–1873) – The Historian’s Hut

Calliope, By Joseph Fagnani (1819–1873)

How A Marriage Rejection Contributed To The Athenian Conquest Of Mytilene – The Historian’s Hut

How A Marriage Rejection Contributed To The Athenian Conquest Of Mytilene

Three Things Tuesday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Three Things Tuesday

Alexander de Grote in Pamfilië – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in Pamfilië

Alexander de Grote in Lycië – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in Lycië

[paywalled] The decoding of ancient Roman scrolls is speeding up
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/05/28/the-decoding-of-ancient-roman-scrolls-is-speeding-up

Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle – Biblical Archaeology Society

Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle

Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory
https://quillette.com/2025/05/28/ancient-dna-and-the-return-of-a-disgraced-theory/

A modern adaptation of the ‘Iliad’ – The Martha’s Vineyard Times

A modern adaptation of the ‘Iliad’

Review: THE FROGS, Southwark Playhouse (Borough) | West End Best Friend
https://www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/news/review-the-frogs-southwark-playhouse-borough

‘Please don’t fart, this is art’ – Stephen Sondheim’s musical The Frogs review | Musicals | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/may/29/the-frogs-review-stephen-sondheim-musical-aristophanes-southwark-playhouse

The Bulletin of the Bezan Club | Variant Readings

The Bulletin of the Bezan Club

What Life Was Really Like for Women in Ancient Pompeii

What Life Was Really Like for Women in Ancient Pompeii

Only One Illuminated Manuscript From Antiquity Depicts the Iliad

This Is the Only Illuminated Manuscript From Antiquity Depicting Homer’s ‘Iliad’

(12) ANE Today, 29 May 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-29-may-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=164667628&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(12) Pasts Imperfect (5.29.25)
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-52925?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=342873&post_id=164298071&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(12) 29 May 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Thessalonica) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/29-may-58-bce-from-cicero-at-thessalonica?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=164684850&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Remembering royalty in ancient Egypt: shared memories of royal ancestors by private individuals in the eighteenth dynasty
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/remembering-royalty-in-ancient-egypt.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavations at Tiberias, 1989–1994
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/excavations-at-tiberias-19891994.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bronze and Iron Age Tombs at Tell Beit Mirsim
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/bronze-and-iron-age-tombs-at-tell-beit.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ashdod VI: The Excavations of Areas H and K (1968–1969)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/ashdod-vi-excavations-of-areas-h-and-k.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tel Yoqne‘am: Excavations on the Acropolis
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/tel-yoqneam-excavations-on-acropolis.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Tel Bet Yeraḥ Excavations, 1994–1995
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-tel-bet-yerah-excavations-19941995.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gamla I: The Pottery of the Second Temple Period, The Shmarya Guttman Excavations, 1976–1989
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/gamla-i-pottery-of-second-temple-period.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Coptic-era building with mural, inscriptions, etc. excavated in Egypt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/coptic-era-building-with-mural.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Mount Zion stone-cup cryptic inscription
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/more-on-mount-zion-stone-cup-cryptic.html

The same, but different? Monarchical rule and representation in the Hellenistic world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The same, but different? Monarchical rule and representation in the Hellenistic world

Gallia docta? Education and in-/exclusion in late antique Gaul – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Gallia docta? Education and in-/exclusion in late antique Gaul

Hercules performed: the hero on stage from the Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Hercules performed: the hero on stage from the Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century

Hellenistic athletes: agonistic cultures and self-presentation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Hellenistic athletes: agonistic cultures and self-presentation

Birthing Romans: childbearing and its risks in imperial Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Birthing Romans: childbearing and its risks in imperial Rome

Dionysius the Periegete. A Description of the Inhabited Earth – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Denys le Périégète. La Description de la terre habitée

Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics, College of Arts and Sciences job with University of Cincinnati | 37838190
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37838190/visiting-assistant-professor-classics-college-of-arts-and-sciences/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=1836&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20250529_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20250529_jobtitle_job1

Plato and the Tyrant by James Romm — Open Letters Review
https://openlettersreview.com/posts/plato-and-the-tyrant-by-james-romm

Book of the day: The Buried City – Unearthing the Real Pompeii by Gabriel Zuchtriegel – NZ Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/books/book-of-the-day-the-buried-city-unearthing-the-real-pompeii-by-gabriel-zuchtriegel/GD3NFUA26NCGJP6OV2YUV3NG4E/

MARY MOORE Obituary (2025) – New York, NY – New York Times
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/mary-moore-obituary?id=58474075
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Special Episode – Fulvia with Dr Jane Draycott – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Special Episode – Fulvia with Dr Jane Draycott

Glory and Gold – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts

What’s the Best Textbook for Learning Ancient Greek? – Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 184) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/whats-the-best-greek-textbook-part-i-ad-navseam-episode-184/

Theseus and Ariadne 6: “You’re giving me Labrys? The sacred weapon of Knossos?” | Onassis Foundation
https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-podcasts/live-from-mount-olympus-main/theseus-and-ariadne/theseus-and-ariadne-6-youre-giving-me-labrys-the-sacred-weapon-of-knossos

Podcast Season 4, Episode 5: Naturalizing Inequalities: The Colonial Museum with Dan Hicks – Peopling the Past

Podcast Season 4, Episode 5: Naturalizing Inequalities: The Colonial Museum with Dan Hicks


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(488) What an opening – YouTube

(488) Decoding Hieroglyphs. Who needs the Rosetta Stone? With Dr Monica Hanna – YouTube

(488) Matteo Zaccarini on Herodotus’ Women – YouTube

(488) Spotlight Lecture: Once upon a thing: storytelling and encounters with objects in ancient Egypt – YouTube

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Call for Papers: one-day international colloquium „Eloquence of Marble in Antiquity“ | Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy
https://www.ff.cuni.cz/udalost/call-for-papers-one-day-international-colloquium-eloquence-of-marble-in-antiquity/

Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics, College of Arts and Sciences Job Details | University of Cincinnati
https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Visiting-Assistant-Professor%2C-Classics%2C-College-of-Arts-and-Sciences-OH-45201/1294125000/

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ May 28, 2025

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Cush in the Crosshairs – Biblical Archaeology Society

Cush in the Crosshairs

Herculaneum, bronze Hermes House reopens one year after tourist vandalism
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/herculaneum-bronze-hermes-house-reopens-one-year-after-tourist-vandalism

Egyptian Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Tombs Belonging to Three Senior Statesmen Who Helped Keep the New Kingdom Running
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/egyptian-archaeologists-unearth-three-ancient-tombs-belonging-to-three-senior-statesmen-who-helped-keep-the-new-kingdom-running-180986692/

Researchers Recreate the Sounds of a 3,000-Year-Old Underground City
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/researchers-recreate-the-sounds-of-a-3000-year-old-underground-city/

Dozens of Human Skeletons Reveal a Historical Roman Massacre May Not Have Happened | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/dozens-of-human-skeletons-reveal-a-historical-roman-massacre-may-not-have

Drugs in Ancient Greek and Roman World – GreekReporter.com

Drugs in Ancient Greek and Roman World

Ancient bread rises again as Turkey recreates 5,000-year-old loaf
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-ancient-bread-turkey-recreates-year.html

How an Ancient Vase From Mykonos Redraws the Trojan War – GreekReporter.com

How an Ancient Vase From Mykonos Redraws the Trojan War

Rare ancient Roman statue to be sold at auction in Harwich | East Anglian Daily Times
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/25196996.rare-ancient-roman-statue-sold-auction-harwich/

[AI?]Zahi Hawass clashes with Joe Rogan, igniting pyramid origins firestorm – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-855734

Twin babies buried in Roman Croatia 2,000 years ago may have died of lead poisoning, study suggests | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/infant-twins-buried-together-in-roman-croatia-may-have-died-from-lead-poisoning

Scientists may have solved 2,000-year-old mystery death of Roman baby twins | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-lead-poisoning-baby-twins-mystery-b2758945.html

Scoperto a Roma un mosaico che mette in discussione secoli di certezze
https://www.romatoday.it/speciale/giubileo-ritrovamento-mosaico-2025.html

Earthquake Unearthed Lost Roman Odeon in Croatia – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/earthquake-unearthed-lost-roman-odeon-in-croatia/

Iconic “Greek Slave” Statue Depicts Orphaned Girl from Greece’s Psara – GreekReporter.com

Iconic “Greek Slave” Statue Depicts Orphaned Girl from Greece’s Psara

How Emperor Claudius Tried to Promote the Art of Predicting the Future: A Political Strategy in Ancient Rome

How Emperor Claudius Tried to Promote the Art of Predicting the Future: A Political Strategy in Ancient Rome

How the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts acquired etchings from Napoleon Bonaparte | PhillyVoice
https://www.phillyvoice.com/pafa-museum-collection-piranesi-napoleon-bonaparte/

Buried for 17 centuries: Spain’s Roman coin hoard reveals ancient secrets
https://artdaily.com/news/182294/Buried-for-17-centuries–Spain-s-Roman-coin-hoard-reveals-ancient-secrets

Stunning Byzantine Mosaic Unearthed in Israel’s Negev Desert Now Shines for the Public – GreekReporter.com

Stunning Byzantine Mosaic Unearthed in Israel’s Negev Desert Now Shines for the Public

1,600-year-old Byzantine mosaic unveiled for the first time
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/05/1600-year-old-byzantine-mosaic-unveiled-for-the-first-time/155324

Spectacular Early Christian Mosaic Presented to the Public in Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-05-27/ty-article/spectacular-early-christian-mosaic-presented-to-the-public-in-israel/00000197-123e-d0e9-abd7-3fbea8ac0000

Ancient China was less equal than the Roman Empire. Here’s why. – Big Think
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/china-more-unequal-than-rome/

Gladiator exhibition opens at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rpjnwrypdo

(12) Dionysus: the god who comes, the god who suffers
https://classicsed.substack.com/p/dionysus-the-god-who-comes-the-god?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

YouTube Shorts: Can you name the many mothers of Zeus’ children? – The Historian’s Hut

YouTube Shorts: Can you name the many mothers of Zeus’ children?

Dead writers and fake “Britannica” websites – Roger Pearse

Dead writers and fake “Britannica” websites

Laudator Temporis Acti: Poetasters
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/poetasters.html

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th May 2025 | Sphinx

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th May 2025

Romeins Halder – Mainzer Beobachter

Romeins Halder

Reading the Roman Revolution 21: Dux | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Reading the Roman Revolution 21: Dux

PaleoJudaica.com: A new inscribed ostracon from Lachish
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-new-inscribed-ostracon-from-lachish.html

(12) The poet’s rude rejoinder – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/the-poets-rude-rejoinder?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=164564304&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Why Are We Still Obsessed With Pompeii?
https://hyperallergic.com/1014912/why-are-we-still-obsessed-with-pompeii-buried-city-gabriel-zuchtriegel/

The history of food tasters | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/the-history-of-food-tasters-blog-post

How one Ottoman Greek scholar bridged archaeology between Türkiye and Greece – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-one-ottoman-greek-scholar-bridged-archaeology-between-turkiye-and-greece-3201989

Spring AD 125 – Hadrian travels to Boeotia and Phocis and visits Delphi (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

Spring AD 125 – Hadrian travels to Boeotia and Phocis and visits Delphi (#Hadrian1900)

Relations internationales dans le bassin de la mer Noire dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge : actes de la XIVe Conférence scientifique panrusse à participation internationale (Rostov-sur-le-Don, 12-17 mai 2025) | Spartokos a lu

Relations internationales dans le bassin de la mer Noire dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge : actes de la XIVe Conférence scientifique panrusse à participation internationale (Rostov-sur-le-Don, 12-17 mai 2025)

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hortus Floridus: Studies in Honour of Anne Lill
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/hortus-floridus-studies-in-honour-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Fortuna durior: Gewalt und Macht im Goldenen Esel des Apuleius
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/fortuna-durior-gewalt-und-macht-im.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Can an Object Love? A Philological Essay on Female Subjectivity
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/can-object-love-philological-essay-on.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Enchanted Reception: Religion and the Supernatural in Medieval Troy Narratives
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/enchanted-reception-religion-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Women transcending boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/women-transcending-boundaries-over.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The ritual of the i̓šd tree: a reconstruction
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-ritual-of-isd-tree-reconstruction.html

Changes to BMCR’s language policy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Changes to BMCR’s language policy


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Feasting Like a Roman: The tastes of the ancient elite – ABC listen
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/ancient-roman-cookbook/105342472

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(459) 2025-04-02 Excavations at el Hibeh 2024 Season (Leah Packard-Grams) – YouTube

(459) Aristophanes is mayhem from start to finish – YouTube

(460) A QUEEN who sticks to her original story no matter how nutty it is!! – YouTube

(459) What Remains Of The Colossus Of Rhodes? – YouTube

(459) Behind the scenes of GLL 2.0 (I renewed the whole course!) – YouTube

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Chinese Studies in Roman History since 1949 | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/chinese-studies-roman-history-1949

Archaeometrical study of stone inscriptions

Archaeometrical study of stone inscriptions

Stipendiary Lectureship in Classics | St Anne’s College, Oxford

Stipendiary Lectureship in Classics

Petition · Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree – United Kingdom · Change.org
https://www.change.org/p/save-cardiff-university-ancient-history-degree