• ludi palatini (??)
• 175 A.D. — Commodus is enrolled in all the priestly colleges
• 225 A.D. (or 226) — birth of the future emperor Gordian III
• c. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Pope Fabian at Rome
• c. 288 A.D. — martyrdom of Sebastian at Rome

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Remains of Vitruvius’ Basilica found in ‘Tutankhamun-like’ discovery | ANSA.it
https://www.ansa.it/amp/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2026/01/19/remains-of-vitruvius-basilica-found-in-tutankhamun-like-discovery_d9b943a6-245d-4953-9731-9e13e2415abe.html

Basilica of Vitruvius found in Fano: “discovery of extraordinary importance”
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/basilica-of-vitruvius-found-in-fano-discovery-of-extraordinary-importance

The Largest Roman Villa in Wales Was Just Found and Experts Are Calling It a Local Pompeii
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/the-largest-roman-villa-in-wales-was-just-found-and-experts-are-calling-it-a-local-pompeii/

Pompeii, thanks to new technologies ancient inscriptions resurface in the theater district
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/pompeii-thanks-to-new-technologies-ancient-inscriptions-resurface-in-the-theater-district

Nearly eighty ancient inscriptions with declarations of love, insults, and slogans left by the public in the corridors of the theaters discovered in Pompeii

Nearly eighty ancient inscriptions with declarations of love, insults, and slogans left by the public in the corridors of the theaters discovered in Pompeii

Greek Archaeologists Continue Restoration Works in Cyclades
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/19/greek-archaeologists-continue-restoration-works-in-cyclades/

Police Find 26 Rare Hellenistic Spearheads in Foreign National’s Ptolemaida House
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/19/hellenistic-spearheads-ptolemaida-discovery-2026

Meet the global taskforce working to recover stolen cultural heritage – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/19/global-taskforce-recovering-stolen-cultural-heritage

4 suspected antiquities robbers caught digging in ancient Sea of Galilee burial cave
https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/s1xayajrwg

World’s First Robot Was Made in Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/19/worlds-first-robot-ancient-greece/

Bridging Continents: The Feat of Ancient Greek Engineer Mandrocles at the Bosphorus – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/18/ancient-bridge-mandrocles-bosphorus/

Did the Trojan War Really Happen? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/18/trojan-war-really-happen/

The Nimrud Letters – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Nimrud Letters

Spencer Alley: Italian Artefacts
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2026/01/italian-artefacts.html

Bulgari’s New Watch Is Built Around a 1,800-Year-Old Roman Coin
https://www.esquire.com/uk/watches/a70031683/bulgaris-new-watch-is-built-around-a-1800-year-old-roman-coin/

Alexander the Great’s Influence in Modern Times
https://hellenicnews.com/2026/01/18/alexander-the-greats-influence-in-modern-times/

Roman Times: The Last Flight of the Ba: Reimagining the Afterlife at the End of Antiquity
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-last-flight-of-ba-reimagining.html

Troy Reborn: The Journey of Aeneas – CANE
https://caneweb.org/troy-reborn-the-journey-of-aeneas/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Egyptian Antiquities Inspector Convicted Over Involvement in Major Artefact Smuggling
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/01/egyptian-antiquities-inspector.html

Let’s talk about letter 149 of Jerome, de solemnitate paschae – or rather, about CPL 2278, Pseudo-Jerome on Easter

Let’s talk about letter 149 of Jerome, de solemnitate paschae – or rather, about CPL 2278, Pseudo-Jerome on Easter

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Hornblower, Hannibal and Scipio: parallel lives
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/review-of-hornblower-hannibal-and.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Still more Barkay obituaries
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/still-more-barkay-obituaries.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Did Simeon and Levi do a bad thing or the right thing?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/did-simeon-and-levi-do-bad-thing-or.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ANIMATING ANTIQUITY: HARRYHAUSEN AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/animating-antiquity-harryhausen-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Heinrich Brugsch et scientia moderna
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/heinrich-brugsch-et-scientia-moderna.html

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VIDENDA
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(743) Who the ‘eck is Ptolemy XII – YouTube

(743) The Dark Ages: How Ancient Greece Lost the Power of Writing – YouTube

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Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca (SAEG) X – 2027 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca (SAEG) X – 2027

• Ludi Palatini (day 3)
• c. 155 A.D. — martyrdom of Germanicus in Smyrna
• 169 A.D. — martyrdom of Pontianus
• c. 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Messalina

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How the ancient Romans managed their wealth (it wasn’t just by hiding hoards) | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/how-the-ancient-romans-managed-their-wealth-it-wasnt-just-by-hiding-hoards

Police Arrest Foreign National After Seizing Ancient Greek Spears
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/18/police-arrest-foreign-national-after-seizing-ancient-greek-spears/

Egypt court hands life sentence to antiquities inspector over major artifact smuggling – EgyptToday
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/144561/Egypt-court-hands-life-sentence-to-antiquities-inspector-over-major

Findings in Northwestern Spain Confirm the Presence of Roman Elites in the “Utmost Frontiers of the Empire”

Findings in Northwestern Spain Confirm the Presence of Roman Elites in the “Utmost Frontiers of the Empire”

Roman Britain: Sifting through remains in the ‘London lasagne’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62w8erwdk6o

Republican tombs found in Rome suburb
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/01/republican-tombs-found-in-rome-suburb/156768

Historic Plaka Residence Reveals Ancient Road and Classical-Era Finds During Restoration – tovima.com

Historic Plaka Residence Reveals Ancient Road and Classical-Era Finds During Restoration

The Ancient Greek Goddess Chimera Embodied Fear of Females – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/18/goddess-chimera-female-fear-ancient-greece/

Ea-nāṣir: How An Ancient Copper Merchant Became An Internet Star | IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/ea-nasir-how-an-ancient-copper-merchant-became-an-internet-star-82254

How to Fix Democracy: Plato May Have an Answer – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/18/fix-democracy-plato/

Literary Hub » Alexander the Great, Ancient Gay Icon

Alexander the Great, Ancient Gay Icon

Gods Among Men | Psychology Today Canada
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-political-animal/202601/gods-among-men-exploring-ancient-demigod-myths

From Penelope to Prometheus: Stephen Fry on why Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ speaks to our ‘age of AI’ | Books and Literature News – The Indian Express
https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/stephen-fry-the-odyssey-jaipur-literature-festival-10478339/

Is Alexander the Great’s Tomb Hidden at St Mark’s Basilica in Venice? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/17/alexander-the-great-tomb-st-mark-basilica-venice/

Spencer Alley: Roman Bodies
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2026/01/roman-bodies.html

Time, Feet, and Serious Wounds: Starting to Read Iliad 11 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Time, Feet, and Serious Wounds: Starting to Read Iliad 11

Weekly Varia no. 165, 01/18/26 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 165, 01/18/26

The Incandescent – Noodlings

The Incandescent

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites? – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites?

(20) The Ancient Roman Guide to Building Your Personal Library
https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/the-ancient-roman-guide-to-building-your-personal-library?triedRedirect=true

Vijf broden, twee vissen – Mainzer Beobachter

Vijf broden, twee vissen

Cornucopia – Mainzer Beobachter

Cornucopia

PaleoJudaica.com: Performance, Space, and Time in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/performance-space-and-time-in-dead-sea.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Adam, Time and Tradition: Temporal Thinking in Ecclesiastes … (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/adam-time-and-tradition-temporal.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Heritage Gazetteer of Libya
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2016/10/heritage-gazetteer-of-libya.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PeriodO: A gazetteer of period definitions for linking and visualizing data
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2015/02/periodo-gazetteer-of-period-assertions.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: iDAI.gazetteer
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2017/05/idaigazetteer.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Syriac Gazetteer
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-syriac-gazetteer.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Clavis Clavium
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2020/06/clavis-clavium.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’instrumentum inscriptum dagli scavi di Arsinoe: Anfore e mortaria nella raccolta dell’Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli” di Firenz
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/linstrumentum-inscriptum-dagli-scavi-di.html

Book Review: “Odyssey” by Stephen Fry | Geeks
https://vocal.media/geeks/book-review-odyssey-by-stephen-fry

The Anti-Classicist – Commentary Magazine

The Anti-Classicist

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Anima Latina 18.01.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/01/anima-latina-18-01-2026.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 17.01.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/01/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-17-01-2026.html

Episode A8 – Who Was King – The Ancient World – Apple Podcasts

Episode A9 – Seventy Kings – The Ancient World – Apple Podcasts

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(709) How Scholars Identify Fake Dead Sea Scrolls – YouTube

(709) Historian Analyses EPIC: The Musical (Cyclops Saga) – YouTube

(710) Rome’s talking statue! – YouTube

(710) Why Nisibis 217 AD Mattered for the Roman Empire – YouTube

(710) Panoramic view of the Roman Forum! – YouTube

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explorator 28.03 ~ January 18, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.03 ~ January 18, 2026

Call for Dramatic Production Proposals (Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance) | Society for Classical Studies
https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/call-dramatic-production-proposals-committee-ancient-and-modern-performance

Full-stack developer for the conversion of the thesaurus dictionary from a printed to a fully digital version | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | 4092
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/50021dd066f19975fdb0532ed35009c6a87825a8

• Ludi Palatini (day 2) — the theatrefest continues
• 52 B.C. — murder of Publius Clodius Pulcher near Bovillae
• 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Moseus
• 1898 — death of H.G. Liddell (Greek lexicographer and father of Alice-in-wonderland)