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A paper in Millennium, dated 16 October 2026, reads John Chrysostom's Discourse on Blessed Babylas and Against the Greeks as an intervention in the debate over Christians and traditional education.
21 Oct 2026A Roman coffin dug up at Westminster Abbey in 1869 held a medieval skeleton. Prof Warwick Rodwell now proposes it was an abbot, most likely Ælfwig, though Wulnoth is the alternative.
21 Oct 2026The first season of a five-year Greek–Chinese dig at Angelokastro, western Greece, produced new evidence on a square building with a columned courtyard, first partly excavated years ago. The Ministry of Culture gives no date or function yet.
21 Oct 2026Türkiye's culture minister says a Hellenistic mosaic-floored structure at Kültepe-Kaniş is a first in the site's 78-year excavation history. Four Hellenistic layers were also identified.
21 Oct 2026Hebrew University archaeologists report a complex of ritual baths in the Ophel, south of the Temple Mount, built in the early first century CE and ended in 70 CE.
19 Oct 2026Reports on 17 October describe the remains of a circular marble monument, about 20 feet across, around the burial chamber in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. IBTimes UK says it does not resolve who was buried there.
19 Oct 2026Excavators at Kurul Castle in Ordu, Türkiye, say this season's digging has uncovered new areas linked to the cult of Dionysos, alongside earlier finds of Cybele. Arkeonews reported on 12 October that detailed descriptions of the objects had yet to be released.
19 Oct 2026Excavators near the Bulgarian village of Vasil Levski have found a bronze ring with four hooks in a temple. The dig's leader, Kostadin Kisyov, has floated two explanations, a lamp holder or fishing gear, and as of October 2026 neither had been confirmed.
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