A Traveller in a Classical Land..... ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΑΥΤΟΝ Founder Hellene Travel, Retired HoD & Senior Examiner OCR....many moons ago....once excavated on Delos.

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Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes. Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search. greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
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Hattusa in Black and White: 120 Years of Excavations at the Hittite Capital arkeonews.net/hattusa-in-bla…
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Research around ancient Abdera in Greece An international, multidisciplinary team has carried out six weeks of fieldwork to investigate settlement patterns, landscape change and interactions between human societies and their environment over time. archaeology.wiki/blog/2026/1…
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Ancient Skulls Found in Thassos Reveal Evidence of Advanced Surgical Procedures greekreporter.com/2026/10/25…
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Moving Mountains: How Rome Transported Obelisks, Art, and Knowledge Across the Mediterranean greekreporter.com/2026/10/26…
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‘Gradiva’, a Parisian school class in Pompeii. The director: ‘A traumatised generation that is now rebelling’ repubblica.it/en/entertainme…
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Accompanying them is a Latin teacher – inspired yet fragile – who takes them up Mount Vesuvius and to Pompeii to see the frescoes in the Villa dei Misteri.
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Archaeologists believe they have solved an early Roman farming mystery. The team at Cotswold Archaeology were excavating a claggy site at Littleport, Cambridgeshire, in 2022 when they came across shallow cultivation trenches. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmy8…
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Experts previously suggested similar parallel trenches might have been bedding channels for vegetables - or even vineyards.
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The Sacred Law of Andania One stone, 194 lines, and the most detailed rulebook any Greek mystery cult left behind. It covers seating, fines, hairbands and what a woman may put on her face. It never once says what the rite was. veiledantiquity.com/posts/an…
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Kiwi Hellenist: Sibyls and Sibylline oracles. 3. The Sibylline oracles kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2…
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Greece’s National Archaeological Museum has extended its temporary exhibition, The Palace of Nestor at Pylos: A Mycenaean Kingdom Revealed, until Sunday, 31 January 2027, greekcitytimes.com/2026/10/2…
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Mapped: Every known (and suspected) road in the Roman Empire bigthink.com/strange-maps/ro…
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British Museum Ancient Cypriot Collections Workshop  classicalcollectionsnetwork.…
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Bronze Age Axe From Minoan Crete May Honor a ‘Sidian and Asian Mother’ greekreporter.com/2026/10/22…
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Tel Shikmona National Park, Haifa, home to 3,500 years of archaeological history and remnants of an ancient purple dye industry, welcomes visitors again after a two-year renovation that added walking paths, restored ruins and improved public access ynetnews.com/travel/article/…
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Roman Emperor Torso Sells for a Record $34.3 million at Sotheby's [wouldn’t it be lovely if they donated it to a museum?] 🤨 artdependence.com/articles/r…
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