A Roman-era street is being excavated at Troy.

“On a Turkish hillside overlooking the olive-covered slopes outside Izmir is a cave known to generations of locals as the place where Homer penned ‘The Odyssey.’”

The Gaziantep Archaeology Museum has reopened after renovations following the 2023 earthquakes.

Ben Witherington suggests that Paul and Barnabas traveled from Cyprus to Pisidian Antioch at the request of Sergius Paulus.

Brent Nongbri writes about a sarcophagus lid in Athens “that shows papyrus rolls with a surprisingly high level of detail.”

“Athens’ U-shaped Panathenaic Stadium — made entirely of white marble — is getting its first systematic cleaning in more than a century.”

“The remains of an ancient bridge [from the time of Caligula] have emerged in Rome’s Tiber River, near St. Peter’s Basilica, as weeks with virtually no rain caused water levels to plunge.”

“Some households in Pompeii burned incense that likely came from Asian or African forests, connected via a global trade network, according to a new study.”

“A cave in eastern Spain is revealing new clues about the ritual lives of Roman women, after archaeologists documented more than 120 Latin inscriptions — the highest number known anywhere in the Roman Empire — at an underground sanctuary.”

Dante Muhammad has done a lot of detailed study to reconstruct the physical setting where Jacob crossed the Jabbok. His related book is entitled We Were Not Looking: Reconstructing the Patriarchal World Through Ancient Near Eastern Context.

With cracks appearing in the walls, the Altes Museum in Berlin is now scheduled for a complete renovation in the 2030s.

Carl Rasmussen shares some remarkable before/after photos of the odeum at Laodicea.

HT: Agade, Arne Halbakken, Joseph Lauer, Explorator