Posts tagged "history"

Jun 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 69

The attempt to limit contact with Jews in public and keep their public authority diminished forced them to wind up being more crucial than ever to society.Canon 69 of the Fourth Lateran Council dec...

Jun 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Complete Self-Sufficient Settlement from the Second Intermediate Period Discovered in the Eastern Nile Delta

The discovery, the result of excavation work carried out by the Egyptian archaeological team in this eastern delta site, offers an unprecedented overview of the social and economic organization of ...

Jun 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The cosmological principle says that if we look far enough, the universe is the same in every direction: a disturbing finding suggests it is not

A team of astrophysicists has just published in Nature a finding that calls into question one of the pillars of modern cosmology. Using the most detailed map of the universe to date, they have dete...

Jun 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Settlement of 52 Prehistoric Huts Discovered in Central Italy Next to a Roman Thermal Complex

Research, protection, and enhancement work in the archaeological area of Case Pente, in the municipality of Sulmona, has not ceased since March 2023, when the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine A...

Jun 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ctesibius, the Greek sage who invented a hydraulic musical organ, the most accurate clock in thirteen centuries, and a machine that could have changed the course of History

He started as a barber and went on to become one of the great inventors of Antiquity, directing the Museion of Alexandria and earning the honor of having a lunar crater named after him. He wrote nu...

Jun 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Turley on “White Time” “Scholarship”

Jonathan Turley, a notable constitutional scholar and law professor, runs a popular law blog where he covers legal matters and other topics. On the matter of other topics, we have “White Time”: Dut...

Jun 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Cal Newport on Big AI “Doom Trolling”

Cal Newport wrote a New York Times op-ed calling on big AI companies to stop “doom trolling” and published a short summary of his argument on his personal website. He specifically criticizes some o...

Jun 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 68

Continuing our look at the final four Canons of the proceedings of the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council, we come to Canon 68, which wanted to make sure everyone knew who a Jew (or Muslim) was, so they c...

Jun 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Reveals That All Homo naledi Fossils Found in the “Cradle of Humankind” Belong Exclusively to Female Individuals

An international team of researchers has analyzed the dental remains of 20 individuals of Homo naledi and concluded that all of them are female. The study, published in the prestigious journal Cell...

Jun 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Something in Interstellar Space Could Be Altering Extraterrestrial Intelligence Signals Before They Reach Us

A new study conducted by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests that space weather conditions around stars could be hindering the detection of radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations....

Jun 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Cabbage Sorter’s Review of Shiki (Anime)

I follow the excellent Cabbage Sorter blog for fun articles about and reviews of anime, manga, and novels (not to mention entertaining posts on other subjects). Here, she reviewed the 2010 anime ve...

Jun 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tatakiage Recruits in Sumo

I watched all the matches in the first three grand sumo tournaments of 2026. Because I am following sumo this year, I looked for a couple of sumo blogs to add to my feed collection. One is Tachiai....

Jun 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 67

Today we look specifically at the institutional racism against Jews established by Pope Innocent III in the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Of the 70 canons of the council proceedings, the final fo...

Jun 26, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It

This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In th...

Jun 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Did the Romans Never Recover Their Hoards? A Massive Study with 18,200 Finds Reveals the Reason

Throughout history, humans have hidden their most precious belongings—coins, jewelry, weapons, religious objects—underground. From the Romans to the Vikings, through the Middle Ages, archaeologists...

Jun 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity, Part 3

Modern ideas of race and racism are largely based on skin color, but the Middle Ages saw many other factors. To quote (again) Regino of Prüm:"Nor should it be forgotten that, just as different nati...

Jun 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Severnaya Zemlya, the last archipelago in the world to be discovered, was mapped in 1933

In the far north of Russia, beyond the 78th parallel, there is a group of islands that remained invisible to the world until well into the 20th century. Today we call it Severnaya Zemlya (Northern ...

Jun 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity, Part 2

Not everyone believed that race and ethnicity were purely a result of being descended from the sons of Noah. Some felt the natural world/environment played a part.An Afro-Arab Islamic philosopher n...

Jun 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Unique Discovery at the Iberian Oppidum of Cerro de las Cabezas: Two Executed Men Deposited Alongside Six Deer Antlers in a “Bad Death” Ritual

The archaeological site of Cerro de las Cabezas, an important Iberian oppidum located in the municipality of Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real, central Spain), has yielded one of the most singular and enigma...

Jun 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The First Scientist to Describe a Dinosaur Bone Mistook It for a Giant’s Scrotum

Elias Ashmole was a 17th-century scholar who, besides founding Oxford’s Philosophical Society and London’s Royal Society, created the museum that bears his name, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Arc...