I suspect many ClassiCarnies will be taking time off for the next few days ...

David Parsons has an excerpt from a piece about 'Latin revivial' in the Spectator ...

Kristian Minck adds a bit of detail to explain a recent article on his Ancient Transportation blog ...

N.S. Gill has a feature on Vesuvius ...

Ben Henry sent in (thanks) this link to a companion website for a program on NOVA's Science Now about assorted papyri and their reconstruction, etc. (this is exactly the sort of thing which every documentary about something ancient should have ... someone at PBS 'gets it' when it comes to marrying the web and television) ...

... and as long as we're watching videos and the like, folks might be (or not) interested in an NPR interview with Robert Harris drawing parallels (of course) between ancient Rome and the U.S. ....