Posts tagged "history"

Jul 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 07-13-26

It has been 12 days since I last published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links due to some combination of being busy and not feeling my best. Both of those blockers exist today, but I have time to squeeze i...

Jul 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Aaron of Lincoln

In the pipe rolls (the records of royal finances in Medieval England) for 1166 is a mention of £616 12s 8d owed to Aaron of Lincoln by King Henry II, who borrowed from him for projects in nine coun...

Jul 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bronze and Iron Age Seals with Cuneiform Writing and Hieroglyphs That Mean Nothing: Created for Those Who Could Not Read

In ancient Mesopotamia, cuneiform writing was the domain of a small elite. Scribes, trained for years, mastered a complex system of signs used to administer, record, and communicate. But what happe...

Jul 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Euclid Telescope Discovers the Oldest and Most Distant Quasars at the Dawn of the Universe

The Euclid space observatory, launched into orbit by the European Space Agency in 2023, has achieved a discovery that rewrites the limits of observational astronomy by identifying 31 quasars belong...

Jul 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman Guardian Genius Hidden for 1600 Years Discovered in Vindolanda

Archaeological discoveries are often measured by their scientific importance, but there are also finds that remain in memory for the exact instant they emerge from the ground. The relief of a Roman...

Jul 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Sealed Tomb of a High Official or Priest Filled with Paintings and Inscriptions Discovered on Luxor’s West Bank

The Dutch archaeological mission working in the Theban necropolis, led by Dr. Carina van den Hoven of Leiden University, has brought to light a tomb in the lower sector of Sheikh Abd al-Qurna, on t...

Jul 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Favorite Summer Songs

Laura Cameron at The Well-Apportioned Desk is wrote a post titled Journal Prompt July. She decided to tackle July journal prompts compiled at the BaronFig blog in 2024. While I do not have a journa...

Jul 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The Sinking of Victory Chimes

In late 2024, I wrote a research article on Victory Chimes, a historic schooner that was docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park and was in the process of being converted into a restaurant boat. My article ...

Jul 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Archa System

The Exchequer of the Jews was created in 1194 by King Richard I of England in order to keep track of all records of debts owed to Jewish moneylenders (as well as possessions and property of every J...

Jul 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Nagoya Basho Predictions

The Nagoya Basho grand sumo tournament is about to begin. I watched the first three tournaments of the year (January, March, and May) and am excited for the fourth. I would not yet deem myself comp...

Jul 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Keeping Track of Jewish Debts

The catalyst for the 1189 tragedy in York after the coronation of King Richard I was three men who wanted to criminally erase the debts they owed to the Jewish moneylender Aaron of York. Richard Ma...

Jul 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Ancient Is Being Right-Handed? First Evidence of “Right-Handedness” Discovered in a 550-Million-Year-Old Fossil

Scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, Florida State University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Riverside, have documented what could constitute the earliest...

Jul 10, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Friday Friday, July 10, 2026 (On the Chud Vision of Roman History)

Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’ve been a bit behind because we had some family travel followed by an issue with a water leak in the basement which has pushed me out of my normal home office space...

Jul 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Licoricia of Winchester

Licoricia of Winchester, the second wife of David of Oxford (one of the wealthiest financiers in England in the 13th century), was a successful businesswoman herself. Her first husband, Abraham son...

Jul 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Law Against Long Hair in Rome in the Year 416: Why Did the Roman Empire Ban Manes?

In the year 416, Emperors Honorius and Theodosius II enacted a law that prohibited wearing long hair in the city of Rome and its surroundings. This regulation, which also forbade the use of fur gar...

Jul 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Power Objects in Royal Tombs: The Rings of the Mycenaean and Minoan Elite Were Forged with Meteorite Iron

For five years, a French-Greek team visited nineteen museums and thirty-three archaeological sites to solve a riddle that had gone unanswered for decades: did the Mycenaeans and Minoans use meteori...

Jul 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Names of Three Previously Unknown Kings of the Assyrian Empire from the 10th to 8th Centuries BCE Discovered on Cuneiform Tablets

The image of a stable Assyrian kingdom, with an orderly dynastic line and mostly peaceful father-to-son successions, has for decades been the predominant narrative among specialists of the ancient ...

Jul 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Esparto Footwear Found Used in the Riotinto Mines in the Iron Age 2,400 Years Ago

A team from the University of Granada has examined a set of eight sandal soles made with esparto, recovered in the Nuevo Filón Norte 1 sector of the ancient Riotinto mining district, in the municip...

Jul 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

David's Wives

When David of Oxford declared that he was divorced from his wife, Muriel, little did he know the furor it would cause. In Jewish law, a wife must consent to a divorce, which Muriel did not do. She ...

Jul 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Mystery of Metsamor: A Unique 7th-Century BC Burial in Armenia Reconsiders the Role of Women in the Kingdom of Urartu

A team of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw has unearthed at the site of Metsamor, in present-day Armenia, the remains of a woman around forty years old, buried approximately 2,700 years...