Hardly anything in the news today, so let's see what the ClassiCarnies have come up with ...

Laudator is pondering the treatment of corpses ...

PhDiva DK has some interesting news from the Italian press on some recent finds from the Palatine ... there's also one on the (ab?)use of Etruscan tombs ... and a piece on a (still) stolen archaic head from the British Museum ...

Bestiaria is talking about Latin words with the -sc- infix (which, strangely enough, I've always found interesting) ...

Hobbyblog has a Valerian/Kadmos ...

Lingua Latina has some World Cup stuff ... here too ... (and for the tangential record, I have NEVER seen a two-on-none in soccer before) ...

Latest headline from Ephemeris: Symeon II apprehendendus?