Posts tagged "history"

Oct 22, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Searching Community Memory Posts in 1987

Community Memory was a digital bulletin board “for the unmediated sharing of information for use by the general public” (Farrington 1987) deployed in three generations around Berkeley, California f...

Oct 22, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The End of Constans

Constans II came to the imperial throne as a child, but upon gaining his majority he proved to be capable and even ambitious. His (fruitless) attempt to resolve the Monothelitism controversy has al...

Oct 22, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865)

A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.

Oct 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 180-Foot-Long Stone Tomb With “Antennae” Found in Western Sahara Is Over 4,000 Years Old

On a gravel plain in northern Western Sahara, with no shade for miles, there is a heap of stones 54.5 meters (179 feet) long. Two rows of stone slabs run out from it like the arms of a V that never...

Oct 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Rome Reshaped Spain’s DNA More Than the Visigoths Did, Ancient Genomes Show

In the early 5th century, a woman of high rank was buried beside an old Roman posting station on the Via Augusta, in what is now the province of Castellón. Her grave held a glass cup and two gold p...

Oct 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Spain’s “Great Wall” Was Never Built: It Is a 2,750 Feet Rock Ridge That a Medieval Lord Turned Into a Fortress

From the viewpoint at the chapel of San Marcos, it looks like the work of an army of stonemasons. Two lines of pale limestone, almost vertical, run down a hillside and disappear into the green wate...

Oct 22, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Maze Prison Escape

United Kingdom · 1983 · Escape — In September 1983, 38 Provisional IRA prisoners armed with smuggled handguns took over H-Block 7 of the Maze prison and escaped in a hijacked food truck, sparking t...

Oct 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

As Rome Expanded, Villagers in Portugal May Have Been Fixing Dye With Crushed Rock and Vinegar: A Pit Full of Flowers May Be the Leftovers of a 2,000-Year-Old Workshop

Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils they simply rot away. Archaeologists therefore tend to reconstruct the hi...

Oct 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Constans and Monothelitism

So Constans II survived the attempt by Valentinus to become emperor in 644, and ruled for another 22 years, accomplishing a few "firsts" for an eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor. He was the first B...

Oct 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Gold Leaf Left for a Foreign God Points to a Greek Merchant Who May Have Supplied the Roman Army

Some 1,900 years ago, a man named Thrasymedes gave a thin sheet of gold to a god who was neither Greek nor Roman. The deity came from the borderlands of what is now southeastern Turkey. The offerin...

Oct 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Study of 1,678 Children’s Past-Life Claims Finds a Pattern That Skeptical Families Show Most Strongly

What do you make of a young child who says they remember being someone else? A team at the University of Virginia has not tried to answer that. It has measured something more concrete: how much tim...

Oct 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A “Medieval” Spanish Village Church Is Really 1,200 Years Old, and Built From Roman Ruins

The church is Santa Eulalia de Esperante, known in Galician as Santalla de Esperante. It stands in a hamlet a few kilometres southwest of Lugo. Until now, historians saw a simple rural church from ...

Oct 20, 2026 from Palladium

Measuring the Swarm Economy

Existing AI benchmarks fail to measure the growing capabilities of multi-agent systems. New metrics are needed as these systems begin to reshape society. The post Measuring the Swarm Economy appear...

Oct 20, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900)

Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.

Oct 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Mystery of the “Five Foolish Virgins”: These Giant Stones Have Marked a Roman-Era Grave in Norway for 1,700 Years

At the narrowest point of the Karmsundet, the channel that separates the island of Karmøy from the mainland on Norway’s west coast, five stones stand upright on a hillside. Some are more than five ...

Oct 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Valentinus Turns Traitor

He was trusted by Emperor Heraclius to support the emperor's son, Constans II, and he did, even going so far as to eliminate the young emperor's rivals. A few years later, however, Valentinus decid...

Oct 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Forest That Stopped Roman Legions Hid a Shrine to Demeter, and Archaeologists Just Discovered Signs of Use Long Before the Etruscans

In 2006, the Carabinieri, Italy’s national military police, raised the alarm about illegal digging in a forest of oaks and chestnuts near Vetralla, in the province of Viterbo, north of Rome. The So...

Oct 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Universe Should Be Empty — A Particle Physicists Ignored for Decades May Explain Why It Isn’t

If matter and antimatter had come out of the Big Bang in equal amounts, there would be no stars today. Every particle has an antimatter twin with the opposite electric charge, and when the two meet...

Oct 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Mad Honey: The Natural Poison That Knocked Out a Greek Army and Later Ambushed Roman Soldiers

They had crossed most of Persia, climbed snowbound mountains and fought tribes that hurled stones at them from the cliffs. What left them most exposed, only a few days from the sea, was a honeycomb...

Oct 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Neanderthal Hand Found in a Spanish Cave Still Holds Its DNA After 46,000 Years

Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, butchered animal bones, the leftovers of their camps. What nobody had e...