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Finding the site of the Battle of Baecula
Tip o’ the pileus to @PunicOctopus on twitter who alerted us (and the world) to this rather important study in Spain … from El Pais: Año 208 aC. Los ejércitos romano y cartaginés, a las órdenes de...
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Grumbling About the Lod Mosaic Exhibit
I’m sure this sort of thing could be said about a number of exhibitions … from the Daily Pennsylvanian: The “Lod Mosaic” at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has...
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Roman Finds from Manisa
A pair of painfully brief items, but if we post both, the picture isn’t too vaguae. First, from Turkish Press: A number of historical artifacts believed to date back to the Roman period have been...
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Temple-burial mystery revealed |Αρχαιολογία Online
Temple-burial mystery revealed via Αρχαιολογία Online.
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Pondering the Belgammel Ram
Interesting item from the National Oceanography Centre (UK)/University of Southampton: Known as the Belgammel Ram, the 20kg artefact was discovered by a group of British divers off the coast of Libya...
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Excavations at Pella Get Funding
From ANA: Excavations at the ancient agora of Pella, capital city of Alexander the Great’s and his father Philip’s kingdom, have been renewed for another five years under University of Thessaloniki...
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Maybe the Temple of Quirinus Is Somewhere Else?
A little over a year ago, the Italian press — it never really made it to the English press, I don’t think — was abuzz with the discovery of a statue of a maenad which, it was suggested, might have...
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Chest Plate (?) Recovered
A brief, and as always, tantalizing item from Hurriyet: An armor plate, worn by ancient warriors on their chest, has been seized in the northwestern province of Çanakkale’s Lapseki district. The man in...
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Greek ‘Villas’ in Southern Russia?
From Greek Reporter: Borysthenes and other Greek colonies along the north coast of the Black Sea in the 5th century BCE. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) During archeological excavations next to the Russkaya...
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Roman Wall in Bath (maybe)
The incipit of an item in the Bath Chronicle: Engineers have uncovered part of what could be a Roman wall while carrying out emergency sewer repairs in Bath city centre. Wessex Water was carrying out...
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Africans in Roman Britain
Saw this in something called The Voice: AN INTERACTIVE website for children highlighting the diversity of Roman Britain will be launched tomorrow in a bid to challenge lessons on the current history...
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Greco-Roman Remains Along the Suez Canal
From Al-Ahram: An Egyptian excavation mission from the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) uncovered on Thursday a complete industrial area that can be dated to the Graeco-Roman era. The discovery...
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Relocating the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Very interesting item, somewhat on the periphery of our purview, in the Independent: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, weren’t in Babylon at all – but were...
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Plans for the Gladiator Tomb! (maybe)
If you’ve been hanging around rogueclassicism and/or my twitterfeed, you will be aware of the campaign to save the so-called ‘Gladiator Tomb’ from being reburied. The campaign was spearheaded by the...
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Wine ‘Warehouse’ at Oplontis
Found this one in the Wine Spectator: Harvest season may have been their busiest time of year, but wine was the last thing on the minds of the 54 people huddled in a room of Oplontis Villa B in A.D. 79...
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Recent Finds from Milas, Stratonikeia
A somewhat rambling item from World Bulletin: Excavations in a field in Milas, a district of the southwestern province of Mugla, has uncovered mosaic tiles belonging to the Roman era. The excavations...
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Elephant’s Tomb a Former Mithraeum?
Interesting item first appearing in English at Science Daily: The so-called Elephant’s Tomb in the Roman necropolis of Carmona (Seville, Spain) was not always used for burials. The original structure...
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Musician-with-lyre Burial from Metaponto?
There are brief notices in assorted Italian press sources of a meeting about something of interest … the incipit of a piece at LiveSiciliaPalermo: La scoperta di uno scheletro di un musicista di 2.500...
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Moles Working Epiacum’s Roman Fort?
From the BBC: Epiacum is a site full of buried treasure, which no-one can reach – no-one human at least. Near Alston in Cumbria, close to the Northumberland border, where now there are fields, there...
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Caesar in Germania … the Evidence Mounts
Back in September, we were pondering some new evidence that Caesar’s troops may have been in Germany (Evidence of Caesar’s Troops … In Germany?) and it never did seem to make it to the English press....
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