Posts tagged "history"

Oct 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman-Era Oracle Pillar With 56 Answers, Consulted by Throwing Sheep Bones, Found in Turkey

Here is how a consultation worked. Anyone with a question (whether to travel, close a purchase, go to court, or wait for a sick relative to recover) walked up to a statue of the god Hermes in the t...

Oct 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-11-26

After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled daily links. Speech 1 | Foul Call: New York Times Calls for Canceling Sophie Cu...

Oct 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researchers Solve the Mystery of Enigmatic 18,000-Year-Old Venus Figurines: Artists Followed the Hidden Pattern Inside a Mammoth Tusk

Cut a mammoth tusk across and a pattern appears that nobody drew. Rings like those of a tree trunk mark how the ivory grew, and are known as Owen’s lines. Crossing them runs a web of curved lines t...

Oct 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Cave That Gave Us Two Ice Age Venus Figurines May Have Hidden Chambers Next Door

Near Parabita, a town in the province of Lecce, in the heel of Italy’s boot (the region of Apulia, also spelled Puglia), a limestone cave holds a piece of Ice Age history. Two small bone figurines ...

Oct 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Gordiya

The woman whose name keeps showing up in the last few posts was the wife of three powerful men in 6th-century Iran, one of whom was her brother.Born to one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran, Gordiy...

Oct 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Northern Spain’s Iron Age Hillforts Emptied Out Around 400 BC and No One Knows Why — Rebuilding Took at Least Two Centuries

Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), and Roman tradition says the Gauls would sack Rome around 390 BC. Farther ...

Oct 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

2,800-Year-Old Skulls From a Picene Iron Age Necropolis Have a Flattened Back

Any pediatrician has seen it: a baby who spends so many hours lying on their back that one side of the head ends up flat. The condition is called deformational plagiocephaly, from the Greek plagios...

Oct 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Uncle Vistahm

An uncle willing to kill your father might not be the best person in whom to put your faith. Vistahm and his brother Vinduyih killed Iranian Emperor Hormizd IV (they had reasons) and put his son on...

Oct 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Small Dinosaur May Have Devoured a Huge Predator Related to T. rex: Tooth Marks Reveal an Unusual Scene

About 70 million years ago, in what is now Alberta, Canada, a young Albertosaurus—a relative of T. rex—ended up as food for another dinosaur. The key lies in bite marks preserved on its jaw. The st...

Oct 09, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week: October 9, 2026

Hey, folks, no post this week as my work schedule has been pretty heavily disrupted and other tasks had to come first. Patrons will already know this background, but over the summer, we had a water...

Oct 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Dealing with the Uncles

So Khosrow II had regained his throne and the usurper Bahram Chobin had fled and been killed. Order was restored in the Iranian Empire. Khosrow had originally be put on the throne when his two uncl...

Oct 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Webb Telescope Finds Water Clouds on a Jupiter-Sized World Seven Light-Years Away

About 7.4 light-years from the Sun, a dim ball of gas about as wide as Jupiter drifts through space with no star to warm it. Jupiter is large enough to fit some 11 Earths side by side. (A light-yea...

Oct 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Giant Elephant Tooth Reveals the Green Wetland Where Early Humans Lived in the Road Between Africa and Eurasia 700,000 Years Ago

Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the molar of an elephant, about 8 inches (20 cm) tall and 3 inches (8 cm) w...

Oct 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Catherine the Great Wanted to Resurrect the Byzantine Empire in the 18th Century, and Why the Plan Fell Apart

In 1787, Catherine the Great set off on a six-month tour of Crimea, a territory Russia had annexed only four years earlier. The emperor of Austria and a group of European diplomats travelled with h...

Oct 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The “Doodles” of Greek Mathematicians: Scribe’s Notebooks Reveal How They Calculated in Roman Egypt

When we think of Greek mathematics, we think of Euclid, Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga: elegant proofs and general rules. Alongside that tradition ran a humbler one, which rarely makes it into ...

Oct 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Khosrow II and Bahram

After Hormizd IV was strangled with his own turban by his own followers in 590, his son became Iranian Emperor Khosrow II and faced the threat of the civil war leader Bahram Chobin heading his way....

Oct 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hittite Royal Archive Found in Turkey Records A Baby Princess, a Spreading Fever and a Call for Troops 3,400 Years Ago

The Hittite generals posted in western Anatolia (the Asian part of modern Turkey) did not mince words. They told their king that the territory was surrounded by enemies. They asked for soldiers, ho...

Oct 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Neanderthal Wood Tools Almost Never Survive — A Spanish Cliff Has Preserved Spears, Bowls and a Club With No Known Match

When people talk about Neanderthal technology, they almost always mean stone: points, scrapers, flakes chipped from flint. There is a good reason for that. Stone can last hundreds of thousands of y...

Oct 08, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The OneCoin Scheme

Bulgaria · 2014–2019 · Fraud — Ruja Ignatova and Sebastian Greenwood defrauded millions of investors worldwide of over €4 billion through OneCoin, a fake cryptocurrency operating on a simple SQL da...

Oct 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Sparta Founded Only One Colony in Its History, and Filled It With the “Sons of Virgins”

When we think of Greek colonization, we think of Athens, Corinth or the cities of Euboea, which scattered new settlements across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Sparta hardly looked abroad at ...