Posts tagged "history"

May 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Weighing Large Owls

I have never had to weigh an owl before, much less a large owl. But in the event I were ever called upon to weigh a large owl, I learned from MARS Wildlife Rescue, via Owls in Towels (see Owls in T...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 400,000-Year-Old Tooth Found in China Links Homo erectus with Denisovans and Modern Humans

A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully extracted molecular information from six fossil t...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Monumental Megalithic Necropolis of the Interior of the Iberian Peninsula, Dated to the 5th Millennium BC, Found in Toledo

Researchers from several Spanish universities and research centers, led by Rosa Barroso Bermejo (University of Alcalá), have successfully dated the Valdelasilla site, located in Illescas (Toledo), ...

May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype

Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowd...

May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)

A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture.

May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)

A treatise on a powder that can cure wounds at a distance.

May 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund Crouchback

Henry III wanted another son. His first son, Edward, was followed by a daughter, Margaret, and Henry needed at least "an heir and a spare." So he prayed to the 9th-century East Anglian king Edmund ...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Secrets of the Large Roman Jars Buried in Pompeii’s Tavern Counters Discovered

For more than two centuries, archaeologists have repeatedly faced the same problem when excavating Pompeii’s taverns: large ceramic jars embedded in stone counters, perfectly preserved but complete...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A notebook from the 13th century still legible and pieces of silk used as toilet paper discovered in a latrine in Paderborn

During the archaeological work linked to the construction of the new administrative headquarters of the city of Paderborn in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), a team from a spe...

May 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-12-26

I have another busy day ahead of me, but we cannot forsake our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Syncthing 2.1 adds group organization and proxy support options (Fla for AlternativeTo. May 12, 2026.) I ...

May 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Earth’s crust has broken and mantle fluids are reaching the surface: a new tectonic plate is forming beneath southern Africa

Scientists from the University of Oxford have published a study in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science showing that the Kafue Rift, a geological structure in Zambia that has so far been little s...

May 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Eleanor the Queen

A queen can have several duties, one of which is to produce heirs that can either succeed their parents or be used to make politically advantageous marriages. Eleanor of Provence was one of four si...

May 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings at the Castro de Hortas Confirm the Existence of a Significant Human Settlement in the Cíes Islands Prior to the Arrival of the Romans

Between the end of April and the beginning of May 2026, the Grupo de Estudos en Arqueoloxía, Antigüidade e Territorio (GEAAT) of the University of Vigo carried out the second survey campaign at the...

May 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Emma of Normandy, the only woman twice crowned Queen of England, walked over burning irons to prove her innocence

She lived in the 11th century, was consort of two Kings of England and mother of two as well, served as regent, facilitated the country’s invasion by William the Conqueror, is considered the first ...

May 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-11-26

I took an off-day from Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday. I am busy today, but let us not let that stop us from our daily selection of links from around the web. 1, Putting the phone down: an Osmo Nano ...

May 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Eleanor versus London

The citizens of London may have welcomed their new queen when she and Henry III rode to Westminster for the coronation after the wedding (1236) at Canterbury, but while they got to know her they fo...

May 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Decline of the Silk Road Was Not Just Due to Politics: The Rivers That Ran Through the Taklamakan Desert Dried Up and Trade Collapsed

For centuries, the Silk Road was the backbone of trade between East and West, an intricate network of paths that crossed relentless deserts and icy mountains to connect China with the Mediterranean...

May 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

One of the Enigmatic “Red Dots” Observed in the Early Universe 11.8 Billion Light-Years Away Is Emitting X-Rays

The finding, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, was made possible thanks to the comparison of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. It is a poi...

May 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Medieval Ship Discovered in the Heart of Tallinn Was Practically New When It Sank, and Its Wood Showed Strange “Moon Rings”

It was March 31, 2022, when an excavator working on the construction of an office building on Lootsi 8 Street in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, stumbled upon something that no work plan had accou...

May 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Eleanor of Provence

Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence (1198 - 1245), and Beatrice of Savoy (c.1198 - c.1267) had four daughters, all of whom married kings. Their second daughter, Eleanor (c.1223 - 1291), was not we...