“Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Adramytteion in western Türkiye have uncovered an unusually personal trace of Roman domestic life: a cat and a dog depicted in a mosaic from the villa’s 2nd–3rd-century AD phase, accompanied by inscriptions giving their names.” Adramyttium is mentioned in Acts 27:2.
The AFP reports on archaeological discoveries in Lebanon in recent years.
The British Museum Blog looks at wigs and hairstyles in ancient Egypt.
On Digging for Truth, Bryan Windle gives an archaeological biography for Sargon II.
New release: Babel and Bible: The Impact of Mesopotamia on Biblical Studies 1872-1924, by Rannfrid I. Lasine Thelle (Bloomsbury; $76–$108)
Hybrid lecture on Sept 16 at the Albright: “The Site That Broke the Clock: Radiocarbon Dating, Pottery, and Rewriting the Early Bronze Age ‘Collapse’ in Jordan,” by James Fraser
Zoom lecture on Sept 23: “The Wondrous Phenomenon of the Artesian Spring – New Excavations at Tall Zirāʿa,” by Dieter Vieweger
An Italian man who constructed his own “ancient Greek theater” and charged tourists to see it is now in jail.
HT: Agade, Explorator, Paleojudaica