Posts tagged "history"

Mar 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval

A Guy for Sibylla

After the death of William of Montferrat, Sibylla of Jerusalem needed a new husband. The kingdom of Jerusalem was in a difficult position. Her brother, King Baldwin IV, was suffering from leprosy a...

Mar 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A large Gallo-Roman sanctuary discovered in Burgundy, a ritual complex with two temples and banquets reserved for a local elite for nearly five centuries

The 2025 campaign, carried out over six weeks with the participation of thirty-five volunteers and five professionals, has made it possible to document with unprecedented detail the architectural a...

Mar 14, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part II: The Fremen Jihad

This is the second part (I, II) of our somewhat silly look about the plausibility of warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune. Last week, we looked at the system of warfare that is dominant in the setting w...

Mar 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Largest Prehistoric Monument in Scandinavia Is Not a King’s Tomb but an Astonishing Attempt to Restore the Order of the World After a Catastrophe

For more than a century, Raknehaugen, the colossal earthen mound that rises about 40 kilometers north of Oslo, has been considered by archaeology to be the tomb of a powerful Iron Age chieftain. Wi...

Mar 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem

King Amalric I of Jerusalem, and his first wife, Agnes of Courtenay, had three children. When Amalric was forced to put Agnes aside via annulment in order to be crowned, he first guaranteed that hi...

Mar 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Polar ice melt is slowing Earth’s rotation and lengthening days at an unprecedented rate in the last 3.6 million years

The length of a day is not immutable. Factors ranging from the gravitational pull of the Moon to complex movements within the planet constantly modify the time it takes for Earth to complete one ro...

Mar 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A previously unknown Roman fortlet of the Antonine Wall discovered in the back gardens of homes in Scotland

An archaeological investigation recently published by GUARD Archaeology has revealed the existence of a previously unknown Roman fortlet linked to the Antonine Wall, whose remains lay buried beneat...

Mar 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Plautilla Bricci, the first woman architect in History

In recent times, the memory of many women artists has been recovered who, because of their sex and the mentality of the era in which they lived, were relegated to the background, sometimes having t...

Mar 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Mid-March Snow in Brooklyn (2021 and 2026)

At about 4:00 PM on March 12, 2026, a friend of mine who lines nearby in Brooklyn sent me a message on Delta Chat: it’s snowing. I turned my head to the right to look out my window. Indeed, it was ...

Mar 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Against Linking to Instagram

Jatan at Journal J wrote a good blog post back in 2021 against using “bad links” in blog posts. What does he mean by “bad link”? He explains: While Instagram is one of the worst offenders of the op...

Mar 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-12-26

I missed publishing a set of Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to an assignment. But that does not mean I was not collecting links. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also...

Mar 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A massive stellar migration: scientists discover that the Sun and thousands of twin stars left the center of the Milky Way 6 billion years ago

A team of researchers has obtained conclusive evidence placing the Sun, approximately 4.6 billion years ago, as part of a vast migratory stream of stars that left the central regions of the galaxy....

Mar 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Amalric and the Assassins

In 1173 King of Jerusalem Amalric I made an alliance with the Order of Assassins. They were a sect of Shi'ite Islam whose goals were political as well as religious: they went after the Abbasid Cali...

Mar 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Astronomers witness a planetary collision for the first time, 11,000 light-years from Earth

Anastasios Tzanidakis was reviewing archival telescope data from 2020 when he came across a seemingly unremarkable star that was behaving in an extraordinarily strange way. The object in question, ...

Mar 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery in Yucatán reveals Maya foundational offerings from 3,000 years ago and their link to fertility and the underworld

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) confirmed the discovery of a ritual deposit in the locality of Yaxché de Peón, belonging to the municipality of Ucú, in Yucatán, whose char...

Mar 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Aurochs Skull Impaled on a Wooden Post 10,500 Years Ago Reveals the Earliest Animistic Rituals in Northern Europe

Research at the Lüchow LA 11 site, located on the southwestern margin of the present-day Duvenseer Moor peat bog in the German district of Herzogtum Lauenburg, has provided new data that transform ...

Mar 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Manage to Revive Activity in the Brain of a Cryogenized Mouse for the First Time

A research team from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) has achieved a milestone in the field of cryopreservation: for the first time, they have managed to restore function...

Mar 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Another 13,000 inscribed ostraca found at Athribis, now the largest Egyptian site of ceramic fragments related to astronomy

The Egyptian-German archaeological mission, composed of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the University of Tübingen, has concluded the excavation season at the site of Athribis, in the provin...

Mar 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)

"Tall-tale" or "exaggeration" postcards illustrating the bounties of California.

Mar 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The 1170 Syrian Earthquake

On the morning of 29 June 1170, the inhabitants of what are now western Syria, central southern Turkey, and Lebanon were disturbed by one of the largest seismic events ever to occur along the north...