Posts tagged "history"

Oct 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A King Buried Under Four Swords: How Mycenaean Greece Turned Its Dead into Gold Sculptures

In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in the southern Peloponnese, for three weeks, and they were tired. The flo...

Oct 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Blind King Who Rode Into the Battle of Crécy Tied to His Knights – and the Legend That Gave the Prince of Wales His Feathers

On 26 August 1346, English and French armies met at one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years’ War: Crécy. Edward III’s English army crushed the French army of Philip VI. The defeat wa...

Oct 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

A Townhouse For Sale in Brooklyn Heights

I came across an article about a “fully restored 1840s Brooklyn Heights townhouse” available for the low price of $12.75 million. It looks nice. But the artcile does leave out some potentially impo...

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Oct 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Uncovered a Roman Pottery Workshop With 21 Kilns in France — It Ran for About Three Centuries and Left Evidence of Every Production Step

Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of road, perhaps, or a lone farmstead. At Sermaize, in the Hauts-de-France r...

Oct 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-01-26

Let us start October off on the right foot with an exciting new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee Links. Oh no, whatever will I do? 1 | Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of...

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Oct 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

In Pharaonic Egypt Almost Only Dogs Got Names — A Faded Tomb Painting Has Just Revealed One Unlike Any Other

Of all the animals shown in the tombs and art of ancient Egypt, very few have a name. Almost all of those that do are dogs. A handful of horses are named too, though far fewer survive. Cats, the an...

Oct 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Khosrow and The Panchatantra

The Emperor of Iran, Khosrow I (531 - 579) was not just a leader who wanted to go to war with the Byzantines. He wanted to advance his people and culture in all ways, not just militarily.Yesterday ...

Oct 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Tiny Lead Venus Turns Up in a Retired Roman Soldiers Village Hidden in the Woods Outside Budapest

A metal detector has pulled a small lead statuette of Venus Pudica out of a forest in the Buda Hills, northwest of Budapest. It is the first religious object recorded at the Roman village of Piliss...

Oct 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Mystery of the Celtic Luxury Wagons Tacitus Described, Buried in a Danish Bog

Around 1880, men cutting peat at Dejbjerg, in western Jutland (Denmark), began pulling bronze pieces out of the bog that shone as if they were new. Some assumed it was gold. Others had a more down-...

Oct 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Toys R Us Leaving Japan After 35 Years

Back in the 90s and very early 2000s, most of my video games came from Toys ‘R Us. See, for example, my discussion in Nintendo 64 at 30 and My N64 Memories (which includes a photo of my Toys ‘R Us-...

Sep 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-30-26

Time for the Sepender edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee Links. Subway Stories 1 | These salvaged relics in a Brooklyn subway station are the ghostly remains of old New York buildings ...

Sep 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Sinking German Lake Yields Timbers Carved 10,500 Years Ago by Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers — They May Have Been Building With Wood Before Farmers Arrived

Some lakes give up shipwrecks, and Arendsee, in northern Germany, has already given up one. What archaeologists brought to light in 2026 is something else: wood carved by Mesolithic hunter-gatherer...

Sep 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis

Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. F...

Sep 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905)

Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.

Sep 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Herodotus Thought the Danube Began in the Pyrenees — That Error Now Clouds Germany’s “First Celtic City”

In southwestern Germany, an open-air museum and a website present the Heuneburg as the “Celtic city of Pyrene”, a settlement already thriving when Rome was still a small village on the Tiber. The n...

Sep 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Games of Diplomacy

A 7th-century Sanskrit biography of the Indian emperor Harshavardhana written by his court poet Banabhatta contains the first literary mention of the game of chess. In it we read that the Indian em...

Sep 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A “Hell Pig” Predator Lived in Spain 36 Million Years After the Dinosaurs — It Was Kin to Hippos and Whales

Around 30 million years ago, a heavily built animal prowled the area that is now Vallbona de les Monges, in Lleida province (Catalonia, northeastern Spain). It had a long head, prominent cheekbones...

Sep 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Musa, the Roman Slave Who Became a Parthian Queen May Have Been Augustus’s Spy

Most of the Persian kings whose names we know are Cyrus, Darius, Cambyses, Xerxes, Artaxerxes, Khosrow. Each has a number after his name, and they belong to different dynasties and eras. But they s...

Sep 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-29-26

You may wonder whether I sometimes go a week or so (a week in this case) without publishing Pook-Emu Bee links because I lack links. Not so. I collect links every day. That makes getting back to Po...

Sep 29, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35)

Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.