Time to purge the mailbox again:

Although a bit out of our period, Ramiro Sanchez-Crespo sent in notice about the collapse of a section of the medieval wall at Leon (ancient Numantia), but possibly more importantly, of plans for development near the ancient archaeological remains which obviously will have an impact on them ...

Philosophy Now has another installment of Dear Socrates ...

At the Smartset, Tony Perrottet writes about the ancient Olympics ...

Speaking of the Olympics, the Teaching Company has a couple of free downloadable lectures by Jeremy McInerney on the Ancient Origins of the Olympic Games ...

If you're still following the Gela shipwreck thing, the BBC has posted a nice video report ...

Nature Magazine has a nice video report on the Antikythera Mechanism ...

... after which, you might want to read the Daily Mash (a satirical/humour mag)'s take on the AM ...

Discover had a nice feature on the Scythians ...

All Things Pakistan had a lengthy piece on Hellenistic and Parthian Gandhara ...

The National Post had a somewhat rambling (especially from Robert Fulford) piece on Greek myths ...

... while the Baltimore Sun rambles even more in a touristy piece on Mycenae and assorted other sites ...

The BBC had a lengthy 'what the Romans did for us' piece (and yes, they have Monty Python) ...

News of some historical fiction starring Pliny and Tacitus ...

The America-as-Rome pieces seem to be picking up again ... first we have Vox Day at Worldnet Daily taking inspiration from Thucydides to theorize how America's empire will fall ... less infomed (based on citation of the historian "Taxidus" is a semi-similar piece in the Trumpet ...

Martin Conde has updated a pile of his photos of the Imperial Fora (Google Earth has recently updated) ...

From Youtube comes this very nice collection of Roman portraits (mostly mummy portraits from the Fayyum):