ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ May 20, 2025

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Egypt recovers antiquities smuggled to Australia
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/egypt-recovers-antiquities-smuggled-to-australia-209364

D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of Three Antiquities To The People Of Iraq – Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of Three Antiquities To The People Of Iraq

Archaeologists uncover multi-period sanctuary at Khirbat Balu’a in Karak | Jordan Times
https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/archaeologists-uncover-multi-period-sanctuary-khirbat-balua-karak

Museum in Rome to restore masterpiece of Etruscan art in public
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-etruscan-museum-restoration-in-public.html

Intricately carved 2,700-year-old Assyrian relief unearthed in Iraq – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/513297/Intricately-carved-2-700-year-old-Assyrian-relief-unearthed-in

Ancient fresco mirrors the fate of Pompeii residents who sought shelter from an eruption | CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/17/science/pompeii-barricaded-house-frescoes

The American Academy, Rome : Women and Ruins : Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/the-american-academy-rome-women-and-ruins-archaeology-photography-and-landscape/

Ancient Greek Marble Workshop Unearthed on Paros Island – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-greek-marble-workshop-unearthed-on-paros-island/

Greece, excavations at the Hellenistic sculpture workshop in Paros: what archaeologists have discovered
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/greece-excavations-at-the-hellenistic-sculpture-workshop-in-paros-what-archaeologists-have-discovered

Paros: Impressive findings of ancient sculpture workshop

Paros: Impressive findings of ancient sculpture workshop

Roman-era mosaic panel discovered in Homs | Partners | Belarus News | Belarusian news | Belarus today | news in Belarus | Minsk news | BELTA
https://eng.belta.by/partner_news/view/roman-era-mosaic-panel-discovered-in-homs-168100-2025/

Hatnefer’s heart scarab: An exquisite ancient Egyptian gold necklace inscribed with the Book of the Dead | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/hatnefers-heart-scarab-an-exquisite-ancient-egyptian-gold-necklace-inscribed-with-the-book-of-the-dead

What would Thucydides say? – Telegraph – Telegraph
https://telegrafi.com/en/What-did-Thucydides-say/

Roman Roads Continued to Be Used in Medieval England for Over a Thousand Years After the Fall of the Empire

Roman Roads Continued to Be Used in Medieval England for Over a Thousand Years After the Fall of the Empire

Why Iberians Didn’t Adopt the Advanced Ancient Greek Bronze Techniques – GreekReporter.com

Why Iberians Didn’t Adopt the Advanced Ancient Greek Bronze Techniques

Museum Snaps Up the U.K.’s Largest-Ever Iron Age Gold Coin Hoard

Museum Snaps Up the U.K.’s Largest-Ever Iron Age Gold Coin Hoard

David Chipperfield Architects reveals Roman theatre revival plans

David Chipperfield Architects reveals Roman theatre revival plans

Ophthalmology in the Ebers Papyrus: a translation-based reassessment of ancient Egyptian eye remedies | Eye
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-025-03865-4

Eboracum Roman Festival brings centurions to the streets of York!
https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/106418/eboracum-roman-festival-brings-centurions-to-the-streets-of-york-/

‘Blood of Zeus’ and the Beauty of Greek Tragedy – But Why Tho?

‘Blood of Zeus’ and the Beauty of Greek Tragedy

A tragic play in Greek with song and dance? No prob | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1084437

The Father of Church History was Palestinian – #EOPalestine 21 – Everyday Orientalism

The Father of Church History was Palestinian – #EOPalestine 21

Mapping the myth: In search of Homer’s enchanted islands – Geographical

Mapping the myth: In search of Homer’s enchanted islands

HOMERIC STUDIES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/homeric-studies/80798591EC4D9A11AA144778C6EDF7A8?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues

New light on ancient medicine in Macedonia and Northern Greece – News

New light on ancient medicine in Macedonia and Northern Greece

Laudator Temporis Acti: Love of One’s Own Kind, Hate of Outsiders
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/love-of-ones-own-kind-hate-of-outsiders.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Wind
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/wind.html

1700 jaar Nikaia (3): het concilie begint – Mainzer Beobachter

1700 jaar Nikaia (3): het concilie begint

1700 jaar Nikaia (4): beraadslagingen – Mainzer Beobachter

1700 jaar Nikaia (4): beraadslagingen

PaleoJudaica.com: Roman-era pine coffin excavated on the Incense Road
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/roman-era-pine-coffin-excavated-on.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Fredriksen, Ancient Christianities
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/review-of-fredriksen-ancient.html

1700 jaar Nikaia (5): de besluiten – Mainzer Beobachter

1700 jaar Nikaia (5): de besluiten

Back in the Apotheke | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Back in the Apotheke

Our House | Sphinx

Our House

How John North changed Roman Religion | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/how-john-north-changed-roman-religion-blog-post

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Horbat ‘Uza: The 1991 Excavations Volume I: The Early Periods
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/horbat-uza-1991-excavations-volume-i.html

Magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: studies in honor of Christopher A. Faraone – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: studies in honor of Christopher A. Faraone

Ancient science and technology of colour. Pigments, dyes, drugs and their experience in antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient science and technology of colour. Pigments, dyes, drugs and their experience in antiquity


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AUDIENDA
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Did Josephus really write abou…–Tyndale House Podcast – Apple Podcasts

Season 4, Podcast 4: Curating with Care: Transparency in Museums with Lisa Saladino Haney – Peopling the Past

Season 4, Podcast 4: Curating with Care: Transparency in Museums with Lisa Saladino Haney

Theseus & Ariadne 5: ““Let’s s…–Live from Mount Olympus – Apple Podcasts

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(246) One of the best scenes in the entire play – YouTube

(248) Roman Way of Reading a Sundial – YouTube

(248) Bronzi di Riace. Gli interrogativi sulla loro provenienza. Rainews Pomeriggio24 19/5/25 – YouTube

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Framing the Sebasta

Framing the Sebasta

Akrotiri, Thera – Zakros, Crete: “Parallel Lives”

Akrotiri, Thera – Zakros, Crete: “Parallel Lives”

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ May 19, 2025

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How is Roman concrete still standing after 2,000 years? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/how-is-roman-concrete-still-standing-after-2-000-years

Egypt considers underwater museum to showcase sunken cities off Alexandria coast – Tourism – Egypt – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1238/546509/Egypt/Tourism/Egypt-considers-underwater-museum-to-showcase-sunk.aspx

Egypt recovers 21 artifacts from Australia – Egypt Independent

Egypt recovers 21 artifacts from Australia

Teenager on hike finds 1,800-year-old ring depicting Roman goddess Minerva | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/teenager-ring-roman-goddess-minerva-b2753644.html

Monumental Relief of Last Assyrian King Turns Up in Ancient City

Monumental Relief of Last Assyrian King Turns Up in Ancient City

3D modeling demystifies the Parthenon’s lighting conditions in ancient Greece
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-3d-demystifies-parthenon-conditions-ancient.html

[AI?]4,500-year-old clay toys found in Syria – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854382#google_vignette

Roman military fortress uncovered in ‘important strategic’ location in Egypt
https://nypost.com/2025/05/19/world-news/roman-military-fortress-uncovered-in-important-strategic-location-in-egypt/

The Blogs: The Scythians: Lords of the Steppe in the Shadows of History | Branko Miletic | The Times of Israel
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-scythians-lords-of-the-steppe-in-the-shadows-of-history/

UC Classics helps produce authentic-sounding ‘Antigone’ in Greek | University of Cincinnati
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2025/05/uc-classics-helps-produce-authentic-sounding-antigone-in-greek.html

University of Cincinnati Strives for Authenticity in Greek Tragedy
https://hoodline.com/2025/05/university-of-cincinnati-strives-for-authenticity-in-greek-tragedy-performance-antigone-with-ancient-song-and-dance/

Apsaros Roman fort: Guarding a distant shore – The Past

Apsaros Roman fort: Guarding a distant shore

The Romans were blamed for massacring these Iron Age warriors. But did they actually murder themselves? | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/iron-age/the-romans-were-blamed-for-massacring-these-iron-age-warriors-but-did-they-actually-murder-themselves/

George Clooney Renews Push to Return Parthenon Marbles to Greece – GreekReporter.com

George Clooney Renews Push to Return Parthenon Marbles to Greece

A 2,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus Was Just Unsealed—and the Mummy Inside is Mind-Blowing
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-000-old-sarcophagus-just-125300004.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=YW5kcm9pZC1hcHA6Ly9jb20uZ29vZ2xlLmFuZHJvaWQuZ29vZ2xlcXVpY2tzZWFyY2hib3gv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG2Yyfyq8tHFtGCuBFhxeHgKnUXSxUvyuHbczSJqEdSUfnnAtGuUf72YdLXnrG83Xtecf86Fc_RdRCn3930N_NudMuOWlq_L3NNMZj8EISkRFRWDvHNqLQcf7vN1JbKqs6BecHN8Nr-HEulxIN4iKI-Zx3PlszkbfFSyVi5q6PLK

Man Finds Nearly 1,500 Priceless Ancient Coins While Out for a Walk: Thought He Might Be ‘in a Dream’
https://www.aol.com/man-finds-nearly-1-500-110000688.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=YW5kcm9pZC1hcHA6Ly9jb20uZ29vZ2xlLmFuZHJvaWQuZ29vZ2xlcXVpY2tzZWFyY2hib3gv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMBSTjiSndbC1DhaBVZy4kgRkc_-X22lw1ZrfmLIrjcRszjzw4uEQX589Jo3I3DxMKy-CYhuXdlhFEkAdp-lxH6ty7mSjqvvNESpSF1cemQ_PTBsK6zkIV6e9j3aPNrIvQD9C-F1f0HfWQmjoIaIdcbaoo9KBp56-2uUqYBebmbQ

Sarcophagus of the Spouses undergoes restoration in public view

Sarcophagus of the Spouses undergoes restoration in public view

In the West Bank, the archaeological site of Sebastia under Israeli control
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/05/19/in-the-west-bank-the-archaeological-site-of-sebastia-under-israeli-control_6741403_4.html

Summer 2025 Reading List – Noodlings

Summer 2025 Reading List

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der Senat von Rom: Politische Kontinuität und Wandel in der Zeit von 235 bis 757
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/der-senat-von-rom-politische.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Paneas: Volume IV: The Aqueduct and the Northern Suburbs
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/paneas-volume-iv-aqueduct-and-northern.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Nahal Haggit: A Roman and Mamluk Farmstead in the Southern Carmel
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/nahal-haggit-roman-and-mamluk-farmstead.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gamla II: The Architecture The Shmarya Gutmann Excavations, 1976–1989
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/gamla-ii-architecture-shmarya-gutmann.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Roman pig-jaw funerary offering at the Legio VI Ferrata camp?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-roman-pig-jaw-funerary-offering-at.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Pilgrimage Road
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-pilgrimage-road.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Plataea
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/plataea.html

Weekly Varia no. 131, 05/18/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 131, 05/18/25

Ephemeris ~ FOEDUS SINE FOEDERE
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2432

How to Help Gazan History & Archaeology Students Finish their Degree – Everyday Orientalism

How to Help Gazan History & Archaeology Students Finish their Degree

Fathers of Geography – The Milesian school | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/fathers-geography-%E2%80%93-milesian-school

Roman miniature padlock – The Past

Roman miniature padlock

Laudator Temporis Acti: Aischrologia
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/aischrologia.html

1700 jaar Nikaia (2): de gastenlijst – Mainzer Beobachter

1700 jaar Nikaia (2): de gastenlijst

Surveying the Pontic landscape through the fortresses of the Mithradatids | Spartokos read

Surveying the Pontic landscape through the fortresses of the Mithradatids

Homer’s living language: formularity, dialect, and creativity in oral-traditional poetry – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Homer’s living language: formularity, dialect, and creativity in oral-traditional poetry

New book explores how Rome’s ruins have resonated in art and literature over centuries – undefined
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/19/new-book-explores-how-romes-ruins-have-resonated-in-art-and-literature-over-centuries

Fragmentary modernism: the classical fragment in literary and visual cultures, c.1896-c.1936 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Fragmentary modernism: the classical fragment in literary and visual cultures, c.1896-c.1936


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Judea Capta: The Romans Coins … – Jewish History Nerds – Apple Podcasts

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VIDENDA
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(217) I love the collective buzzing ngl – YouTube

(217) Uncovering the Vatican Hill from Roman Emperors to Popes – YouTube

(217) Il sarcofago del magistrato di Tarquinia – Sapiens 17 maggio 2025 – YouTube

(217) A Sundial’s “Stretchy” Seasonal Hours – YouTube

(217) Ancient Roman Egg Found with Liquid Still Intact – YouTube

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Reception and the Epistemic Violence of the Classical | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/reception-and-epistemic-violence-classical

Join the Timeless Treasures Project

Join the Timeless Treasures Project

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ May 18, 2025

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Iconic Dolphin Mural Collapses at Knossos Archaeological Site – GreekReporter.com

Iconic Dolphin Mural Collapses at Knossos Archaeological Site

Bronze Age Artifacts Unearthed in Cyprus, Only Seen Prior in Uluburun Shipwreck – GreekReporter.com

Bronze Age Artifacts Unearthed in Cyprus, Only Seen Prior in Uluburun Shipwreck

Roman-era mosaic panel discovered in Homs – Syrian Arab News Agency
https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=356078

New Roman-Era Complex Unearthed in Athens – GreekReporter.com

New Roman-Era Complex Unearthed in Athens

The Tomb of Amphipolis built by Alexander the Great for Hephaestion was found to be aligned with the winter solstice

The Tomb of Amphipolis built by Alexander the Great for Hephaestion was found to be aligned with the winter solstice

The unusual world of Roman Collegia — or how to start a company in Ancient Rome
https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/history-and-humanities/history/roman-collegia-ancient-corporations/

Ancient fresco mirrors the fate of Pompeii residents who sought shelter from an eruption | CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/17/science/pompeii-barricaded-house-frescoes

[AI?]Bronze lion-head coffin handles with rings found near Ibreika – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854129

[AI?]4,500-year-old clay toys found in Syria – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854382

[AI?]Reviewing ‘When the Stones Speak,’ where King David lives on – Israel Culture – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-854088

[AI?]First Aleppo-pine coffin found on the Nabataean Incense Road near Avedat – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854383

Rare Dionysian frieze in Pompeii – The Past

Rare Dionysian frieze in Pompeii

Lead isotopes in silver reveal earliest Phoenician quest for metals in the west Mediterranean | PNAS
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1817951116

Delikkemer Aqueduct: A Roman Engineering Wonder Along the Lycian Way – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/delikkemer-aqueduct-a-roman-engineering-wonder-along-the-lycian-way/

The Battle at Kokkalia in 279 BC and the defeat of the Gauls by the Aetolians and Eurytanians – ProtoThema English

The Battle at Kokkalia in 279 BC and the defeat of the Gauls by the Aetolians and Eurytanians

Ancient Greek Armor Protected Soldiers in an 11-Hour Battle Simulation – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Greek Armor Protected Soldiers in an 11-Hour Battle Simulation

Britain’s Largest Iron Age Gold Coin Hoard: A Possible Tribute to Julius Caesar? – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/britains-largest-iron-age-gold-coin-hoard-a-possible-tribute-to-julius-caesar/

‘Very rare’ African ebony figurines found in 1,500-year-old Christian burials in Israeli desert | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/very-rare-african-ebony-figurines-found-in-1-500-year-old-christian-burials-in-israeli-desert

George Clooney: “The Parthenon Marbles Are Going To Come Back To Greece”

George Clooney: “The Parthenon Marbles are going to come back to Greece”

2000-Year-Old Roman Origins Confirmed for Elche’s Monumental L’Assut de l’Argamassa Dam – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2000-year-old-roman-origins-confirmed-for-elches-monumental-lassut-de-largamassa-dam/

Who really led the Bar Kochba revolt? New research sheds light on rebellion’s enigmas | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/who-really-led-the-bar-kochba-revolt-new-research-sheds-light-on-rebellions-enigmas/

Herod Atticus Theater to close for 3 years for restoration | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1270005/athens-herod-atticus-theater-to-close-for-3-years-for-restoration/

Genetic Continuity of the Greeks: Tracing DNA Through the Millennia – GreekReporter.com

Genetic Continuity of the Greeks: Tracing DNA Through the Millennia

Gladiator Maximus’ house found in Türkiye? Mosaic in ancient Nicaea sparks debate – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/has-gladiator-maximus-house-been-found-in-turkiye-mosaic-discovery-in-ancient-nicaea-3201585

Why the man in charge of Pompeii doesn’t want you to visit
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/pompeii-visitors-gabriel-zuchtriegel-tourism/

Only Surviving Roman Cookbook Reveals Origins of Europe’s Most Iconic Recipes – GreekReporter.com

Only Surviving Roman Cookbook Reveals Origins of Europe’s Most Iconic Recipes

The Antikythera Mechanism Was Discovered on This Day in 1901 – GreekReporter.com

The Antikythera Mechanism Was Discovered on This Day in 1901

Forget luxury, Epicurus says all you need is friendship and food – Neos Kosmos

Forget luxury, Epicurus says all you need is friendship and food

The Lost Treasure of Odysseus and the Theories Surrounding It – GreekReporter.com

The Lost Treasure of Odysseus and the Theories Surrounding It

The 1,500-Year-Old Lady’s Sandals With Sweet Message in Greek – GreekReporter.com

The 1,500-Year-Old Lady’s Sandals With Sweet Message in Greek

NEW VIDEO TOUR! – Epidaurus: A Tour of the Ancient Theatre |

NEW VIDEO TOUR! – Epidaurus: A Tour of the Ancient Theatre

KAN 11 Short Documentary about the TMSP – The Temple Mount Sifting Project

KAN 11 Short Documentary about the TMSP

Zahi Hawass Stumbles Through a Discussion of Occult Egyptology on Joe Rogan – JASON COLAVITO
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/zahi-hawass-stumbles-through-a-discussion-of-occult-egyptology-on-joe-rogan

Many Rivers To Cross | Sphinx

Many Rivers To Cross

1700 jaar Nikaia (1): iets nieuws? – Mainzer Beobachter

1700 jaar Nikaia (1): iets nieuws?

De opgraving van Alesia – Mainzer Beobachter

De opgraving van Alesia

PaleoJudaica.com: Gallagher, The Apocrypha through History (OUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/gallagher-apocrypha-through-history-oup.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Cifers, Dangerous Tales (SBL)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/cifers-dangerous-tales-sbl.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bet She’an II: Baysān the Theater Pottery Workshop
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/bet-shean-ii-baysan-theater-pottery.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mary’s Well, Nazareth: The Late Hellenistic to the Ottoman Periods
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/marys-well-nazareth-late-hellenistic-to.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Azor Cemetery Moshe Dothan’s Excavations, 1958 and 1960
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-azor-cemetery-moshe-dothans.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Maresha Excavations Final Report III: Epigraphic Finds from the 1989–2000 Seasons
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/maresha-excavations-final-report-iii.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Ramat Bet Shemesh Regional Project: The Gazetteer
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-ramat-bet-shemesh-regional-project_18.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Ramat Bet Shemesh Regional Project: Landscapes of Settlement from The Paleolithic to the Ottoman Periods
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-ramat-bet-shemesh-regional-project.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Numismatic News: One of the largest tranches of Greek data added to the Nomisma LOD cloud
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/numismatic-news-one-of-largest-tranches.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Youth
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/youth.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Bronze Banqueter
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/bronze-banqueter.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Critical Viewpoint
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-critical-viewpoint.html

Ancient Myths, Modern Masculinities: Achilles
https://theshelbiad.blogspot.com/2025/05/ancient-myths-modern-masculinities.html

Outrage in Greece after Adidas advert shows drone shoe ‘kicking’ Acropolis | Greece | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/17/outrage-in-greece-after-adidas-advert-shows-drone-shoe-kicking-acropolis

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Must Get This Vital Aspect Right To Be A Proper Adaptation
https://screenrant.com/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-fantasy-right-adaptation/

Horace by Peter Stothard: Plump, playboy poet who was in love with wine and the sunshine | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-14715629/Horace-Peter-Stothard-ancient-rome-history-review.html

5 best animated series to watch if you love Greek mythology
https://www.soapcentral.com/shows/5-best-animated-series-watch-love-greek-mythology
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Anima Latina 18.05.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/05/anima-latina-18-05-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 17.05.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/05/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-17-05-2025.html

The Council of Nicaea – The Ancients | Acast

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(185) Wasps by Aristophanes is CHAOTIC – YouTube

(188) It works though?? So I guess it was worth it??? – YouTube

(185) Stunning views of the Roman Forum – YouTube

(186) Exploring Hadrian’s Villa! – YouTube

(188) Welcome to Palestrina & the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia – YouTube

(186) Virility of the Satyrs (Enchantment of the Tortoise Lyre) – YouTube

(188) Roman Women – Eumachia – Latin – YouTube

(188) AB OVO… usque ad mala! – YouTube

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The Inscriptions of the Antikythera Mechanism (With a Focus on New Readings and Restorations of the Back Cover Inscription) | MPIWG
https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/inscriptions-antikythera-mechanism-focus-new-readings-and-restorations-back-cover-inscription

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ May 16, 2025

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The Megalithic ‘Dragon Houses’ on a Greek Island That No One Can Explain

The Megalithic ‘Dragon Houses’ on a Greek Island That No One Can Explain

Rare ancient Roman ring unearthed in Lincolnshire ditch | Hilton Head Island Packet
https://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/world/article306426736.html

[AI?]Banana traces in ancient teeth reshape Iron Age trade map – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854123

Small objects from 3300 years ago had only been found in the wreck of the Uluburun, now also in a tomb in Cyprus

Small objects from 3300 years ago had only been found in the wreck of the Uluburun, now also in a tomb in Cyprus

[AI?]Christian chapel, Saint Salome inscriptions found in Judean cave – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854124

Roman Battlefield Unearthed Near Vienna – Biblical Archaeology Society

Roman Battlefield Unearthed Near Vienna

Who really led the Bar Kochba revolt? New research sheds light on rebellion’s enigmas | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/who-really-led-the-bar-kochba-revolt-new-research-sheds-light-on-rebellions-enigmas

Greco-Roman Mosaic Uncovered In Illegal Dig Near Zile Castle

Greco-Roman Mosaic Uncovered in Illegal Dig Near Zile Castle

[AI?]Roman pig jaw burial found at Legio—first evidence in the Levant – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854127

Roman antiquities found at the bottom of a garden, including tombstone of freed slave, go under the hammer | Irish Independent

‘Very rare’ African ebony figurines found in 1,500-year-old Christian burials in Israeli desert | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/very-rare-african-ebony-figurines-found-in-1-500-year-old-christian-burials-in-israeli-desert

Archaeologists discover new clues of cave dwelling in western Iran – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/513112/Archaeologists-discover-new-clues-of-cave-dwelling-in-western

Joe Rogan humiliates archaeologist in blistering showdown over Egyptian pyramid’s secret chambers: ‘Worst guest ever!’ | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14716701/Joe-Rogan-humiliates-archaeologist-called-bulls-Egyptian-pyramid-discovery-Worst-guest-ever.html

Prosecutor orders investigation into Acropolis drone light show | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1269896/culture-ministry-to-file-complaint-over-drone-display-over-acropolis/

Laudator Temporis Acti: Don’t Be a Coward
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/dont-be-coward.html

(12) Fighting the good fight – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/fighting-the-good-fight?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=163709182&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Blog #108: Everyday Orientalism with Katherine Blouin – Peopling the Past

Blog #108: Everyday Orientalism with Katherine Blouin

PaleoJudaica.com: Matthew Goff honored
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/matthew-goff-honored.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the leaders of the Bar Kokhba Revolt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/on-leaders-of-bar-kokhba-revolt.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Late-antique African figurines excavated in Negev
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/late-antique-african-figurines.html

Vienne – Mainzer Beobachter

Vienne

The Memory Collective – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

The Memory Collective

GCPS educators recognized by the American Classical League | News Details
https://www.gcpsk12.org/news-details/~board/news-releases/post/gcps-educators-recognized-by-the-american-classical-league

Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual)

Did Julius Caesar Burn Down the Library of Alexandria? – Bad Ancient
https://www.badancient.com/claims/julius-caesar-burn-library-of-alexandria/

Lessons from the Roman Empire about the danger of luxury – Big Think
https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/lessons-roman-empire-danger-luxury/

What Was a Colosseum Made of Shipping Containers Doing in the Port of Naples? | Collater.al
https://www.collater.al/en/coppa-pizzeria-daniele-sigalot-napoli-performance-art/

When Dionysus Lands on Erin: Greek Tragedy on Irish Grounds – Leiden University
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/06/when-dionysus-lands-on-erin-greek-tragedy-on-irish-grounds

Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Link&utm_campaign=New+Cambridge+Alert+-+Articles&WT.mc_id=New+Cambridge+Alert+-+Articles

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Animal Sacrifice and the Greek Gods – JSTOR Daily

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Animal Sacrifice and the Greek Gods

Cimetière de l’époque romaine de Frontovoe 3 au sud-ouest de la Crimée : en trois parties. Partie 2-3, | Spartokos a lu

Cimetière de l’époque romaine de Frontovoe 3 au sud-ouest de la Crimée : en trois parties. Partie 2-3,

Dinámicas históricas, religiosas e iconográficas en el norte de África – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Dinámicas históricas, religiosas e iconográficas en el norte de África

Horace by Peter Stothard: Plump, playboy poet who was in love with wine and the sunshine | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-14715629/Horace-Peter-Stothard-ancient-rome-history-review.html
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A Long & Storied (Mythical) Tale of Tyranny, Revisiting Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound – Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean | Podcast on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5AVl8ee3zvUqcrbgstObvY

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA357 – What was the least influential weapon on the ancient battlefield?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa357-what-was-the-least-influential-weapon-on-the-ancient-battlefield
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(126) Snitches get stitches – YouTube

(126) Ancient Greek Hours, NOT Roman: Koine’s Surprising Way To Tell Time – YouTube

(126) Sacred Band of Thebes #shorts #fyp #thebes #sacredband #egypt #documentary #history #ancient #greece – YouTube

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Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Roman Archaeology at University of Birmingham
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/images/employer-logos/medium/45.gif?1532708452

War in the Ancient World International Conference (WAWIC) 2025 | College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences | UMN Duluth
https://cahss.d.umn.edu/departments/history-political-science-international-studies/history/wawic

Reconstructing a timber and mudbrick building at Malia

Reconstructing a timber and mudbrick building at Malia

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ May 15, 2025

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Archaeologists Reveal Ancient Throne Room Relief Depicting King and Gods – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-ninevah-north-palace-kuyunjik-assyrian-king-relief-2072253

De Re Coquinaria: 1,500-year-old cookbook reveals secrets of ancient Roman society | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/food-and-drink/ancient-roman-cookbook-recipes-b2750947.html

Massive stone carving of Assyrian king surrounded by gods discovered in Iraq | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/quite-enigmatic-rare-stone-carving-of-assyrian-king-surrounded-by-gods-discovered-in-iraq

Tomb thought to hold Alexander the Great’s father actually found to contain remains of young woman and six infants | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/alexander-the-great-tomb-woman-greece-aigai-b2751516.html

Macedonian Tomb Mystery Deepens: Where Is King Philip II Buried? – GreekReporter.com

Macedonian Tomb Mystery Deepens: Where Is King Philip II Buried?

African figurines found in Israel reveal unexpected cultural connections
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/05/african-figurines-found-in-israel-reveal-unexpected-cultural-connections/155233

[AI?]African figurines illuminate Early Christian life in the Negev, Israel – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854075

[AI?]Mini black juglets reveal Iron Age burial in Jerusalem cemetery – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-854082

Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work

Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work

Nenikikamen: Cinema’s First Epic in Ancient Greek and Old Persian – GreekReporter.com

Nenikikamen: Cinema’s First Epic in Ancient Greek and Old Persian

Rare ancient Roman ring unearthed in Lincolnshire ditch | Bellingham Herald
https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article306426736.html

130 years of the Austrian excavation at Ephesos
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/media/news-archive/news-detail/130-jahre-oesterreichische-grabung-ephesos

Did British Soldiers Plunder Greece’s Amphipolis Tomb in 1916? – GreekReporter.com

Did British Soldiers Plunder Greece’s Amphipolis Tomb in 1916?

Greece to Restore the Monumental Sculpture of the Lion of Amphipolis – GreekReporter.com

Greece to Restore the Monumental Sculpture of the Lion of Amphipolis

Hispania, the engine of Roman imperial wealth: a fresh look at the economy of antiquity – Current events – University of Barcelona
https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/economia-hispania

The Story Behind the “Greek Foot” and Its Medical Explanation – GreekReporter.com

The Story Behind the “Greek Foot” and Its Medical Explanation

Kourion archaeological site visitor centre closes for renovation until December 2025 | in-cyprus.com

Kourion archaeological site visitor centre to close for seven months

Kathleen Coleman awarded new Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education  — Harvard Gazette

Kathleen Coleman awarded new Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education 

The Joys of Discovering the Roman Underground, From the Colosseum to What’s Beneath the Trevi Foundation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-joys-of-discovering-the-roman-underground-from-the-colosseum-to-whats-beneath-the-trevi-foundation-180986626/

How Trump’s “Emergency” Powers Could Become Permanent | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/195218/trump-emergency-powers-become-permanent

A Strange Loop’s John-Andrew Morrison Will Star in Off-Broadway Revival of Medea of the Laundromat | Playbill
https://playbill.com/article/a-strange-loops-john-andrew-morrison-will-star-in-off-broadway-revival-of-medea-of-the-laundromat

Medea UK Premiere at The Coronet Theatre Reimagines Euripides Through a Japanese Lens – Theatre Weekly

Medea UK Premiere at The Coronet Theatre Reimagines Euripides Through a Japanese Lens

Archaeologist Panos Valavanis dies at 71

Archaeologist Panos Valavanis dies at 71

Amathous-West Terrace Exploration Project

Amathous-West Terrace Exploration Project

Metal Guru | Sphinx

Metal Guru

A Room of One’s Own? | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/a-room-of-ones-own-blog-post

Poëzie: Een zwaan – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Een zwaan

De antieke watermolen – Mainzer Beobachter

De antieke watermolen

Laudator Temporis Acti: Abstract Gods
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/abstract-gods.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Opposites
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/opposites.html

Three Things Thursday: On Traveling | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Three Things Thursday: On Traveling

Act 2 Scene 4 of the second part of ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ by Christopher Marlowe (Greek iambic trimeters) | Permessus

Act 2 Scene 4 of the second part of ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ by Christopher Marlowe (Greek iambic trimeters)

PaleoJudaica.com: Lag B’Omer 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/lag-bomer-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Guide to ethnographic passages by Diodoros of Sicily
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/guide-to-ethnographic-passages-by.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Greek Ezekiel papyrus on display in Madrid
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/greek-ezekiel-papyrus-on-display-in.html

(12) Pasts Imperfect (5.15.25)
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-51525?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=342873&post_id=162641918&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(12) ANE Today, 15 May 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-15-may-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=163560682&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

AWOL – TJenseits von Pharsalos: Untersuchungen zu Heterotopie und Dialogizität in Lucans Bellum Civile
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/jenseits-von-pharsalos-untersuchungen.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Death Imagined: Ancient Perceptions of Death and Dying
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/death-imagined-ancient-perceptions-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History: Approaches and Case Studies
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/harnessing-horses-from-prehistory-to.html

Working in Ancient Greece in the Archaic and Classical Periods (8th–4th Centuries BC) I | Spartokos read

Travailler en Grèce ancienne aux époques archaïque et classique (VIIIe – IVe siècles av. n.è.) I

Freedom and power in classical Athens – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Freedom and power in classical Athens


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Episode 161 – ¿Por Qué No Los Dos? – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Episode 161 – ¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

The Last Roman Emperors – The Ancients | Acast

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(100) Diane Rayor | Translating Sappho and Tragedy – YouTube

(100) “Musical” Logic in Plato’s Creation Myths | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | Oliver Whetstone – YouTube

(100) FROGS Summary (Aristophanes Ancient Greek Comedy) – YouTube

(101) Zahi Hawass on Joe Rogan? Show me the photos! Flint Dibble reaction – YouTube

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From Archaeology to Art Market, Transforming Provenance Research: Ten Years of Unveiling Cyrenaican Funerary Sculptures – British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies

From Archaeology to Art Market, Transforming Provenance Research: Ten Years of Unveiling Cyrenaican Funerary Sculptures

The Towers and the “Cyclopean” Stone World of the Western Mediterranean Islands in the Bronze Age | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/towers-and-cyclopean-stone-world-western-mediterranean-islands-bronze-age-0

The 42nd Annual Walton Lecture on Byzantium as Roman, Greek and Christian, May 20 – The National Herald

The 42nd Annual Walton Lecture on Byzantium as Roman, Greek and Christian, May 20

Head of the John Miller Burnam, UCL Classics Librarian Job Details | University of Cincinnati
https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Head-of-the-John-Miller-Burnam%2C-UCL-Classics-Librarian-OH-45201/1281640300/