=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== Finding personal Roman items in Carlisle a ‘real connection’ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6y5qn8q6qo A Massive Dam Uncovered in Jerusalem Reveals an Ancient Climate Crisis and a Brilliant Solution – Archaeology https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2026-02-07/ty-article-magazine/a-dam-discovered-in-jeusalem-reveals-an-ancient-climate-crisis-and-a-brilliant-solution/0000019c-2785-db08-abdd-6f8f9c9d0000 2,500 Roman Votive Offerings in Britain and Gaul Reveal Gender Divide Between Clay Women and Metal Gods – Arkeonews https://arkeonews.net/2500-roman-votive-offerings-in-britain-and-gaul-reveal-gender-divide-between-clay-women-and-metal-gods/ Ancient Roman Mithras Temple…

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293 B.C. — dedication of a Temple of Quirinus by Papirius Cursor (the temple having been vowed/begun by his similarly-named dictator father) which had a sundial associated with it somehow 291 B.C. — possible date for the arrival of the cult of Aesculapius at Rome 1827 — Death of William Mitford (History of Greece ……

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304 A.D. — martyrdom of Adaucus in Phrygia 1845 — the small glass ‘amphora’ known as the Portland Vase, while on loan to the British Museum, was smashed by a guy on a drinking binge (it was subsequently restored)

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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== The Workshop of the Final Day of Construction in a Luxurious Seaside Villa Discovered in Herculaneum The Workshop of the Final Day of Construction in a Luxurious Seaside Villa Discovered in Herculaneum Archaeologists Find Elite Family 14th Century BC Tombs in Cyprus https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/02/06/archaeologists-find-elite-family-14th-century-bc-tombs-in-cyprus/ Rare Lead Pipe Reveals Petra’s Advanced Ancient Aqueduct Engineering…

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46 B.C. — victory of Julius Caesar over pro-Pompey forces at Thapsus 300 A.D. — martyrdom of Theophilus Scholasticus ‘The Lawyer’ 1811 — birth of H.G. Liddell (co-author of the massive Greek Lexicon which is still standard and father of Alice in Wonderland) 2001 — death of Emily Vermeule (author of Greece in the Bronze…

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