Posts tagged "history"

Mar 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

They Have Been With Us Since the Ice Age: A Study Using Ancient DNA Places Dog Domestication Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed

An international investigation led by the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford has succeeded in establishing the oldest documented genetic evidence to date for the existence of domestic dogs, pushi...

Mar 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The cargo of a Roman vessel loaded with olive oil amphorae from the Iberian Peninsula discovered at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel

An underwater archaeology operation in Switzerland has brought to light, at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel, the remains of a Roman cargo from a vessel that sank nearly two millennia ago. The Cantonal...

Mar 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

OpenAI’s “Checkout Experiences”

I have been hard on “AI” tools at times. Among other things, I have questioned the wisdom of outsourcing ones online commerce activities to “agents” (see my posts on Ebay and Amazon). OpenAI is app...

Mar 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The remains of d’Artagnan, the soldier who inspired the character of the famous musketeer, are found in Maastricht

The possibility of having located the final resting place of one of the most legendary figures in European history is keeping the scientific community and military history enthusiasts in suspense. ...

Mar 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Mystery of the Strange Shipwreck of Ánimas de la Victoria on the Mexican Coast in the 18th Century Solved: A Ship Sailing Where It Should Not Have Been

At the entrance to Espíritu Santo Bay, on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, there lies a maze of reefs that has silently witnessed numerous maritime disasters over the centuries. There,...

Mar 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-25-26

I have another busy “work” day ahead of me, but I won’t let that come between you and today’s Pook-Emu Bee daily links collection. 1. yokohama (Kat at Our Adventures in Japan. March 25, 2026.) Spri...

Mar 25, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

Moneymaking caricatures by a teenage Monet, before he turned to Impressionism.

Mar 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Siege of Acre, Part 4

The first big clash between the army of Saladin and the Christians besieging the city of Acre led to thousands of losses for the Christians under Guy of Lusignan in September 1189. Fortunately, wha...

Mar 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Altar with offerings including skulls and bones discovered in Tula, the ancient capital of the Toltecs

During archaeological salvage work along the route of the Mexico City–Querétaro Passenger Train, carried out by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, specialists from the National In...

Mar 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

What Did the Sumerians of Southern Mesopotamia Eat in the 3rd Millennium BCE? A Technique Reveals the Diet of Non-Elite Populations

For decades, reconstructing the diet of the ancient civilizations that inhabited southern Mesopotamia has been an almost impossible challenge. The arid soil conditions, high salinity, and contamina...

Mar 25, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Miscellanea: The War in Iran

This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec...

Mar 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Jehovah’s Witnesses Remove WATCHTOWER Sign in Brooklyn (2017)

In the March 12 edition of Pook-Emu Bee, I shared a link to a story about a proposal to turn the former Jehovah’s Witness Watchtower buildings on Columbia Heights (between Brooklyn Heights and DUMB...

Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Getting to the Point in Blogs

Words of wisdom from Leon Mika about getting to the point in blog posts.To expand a bit (without losing the point), I would advise my fellow internet writers to define the point in the writing proc...

Mar 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 1st-century child’s tomb is discovered in Pas-de-Calais with a figurine of his parents kissing and more than 800 archaeological structures

Archaeological excavations in Ruyaulcourt, in the French department of Pas-de-Calais, carried out on an elevation flanked by two dry valleys—one of them currently occupied by the Canal du Nord and ...

Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-24-26

I am busy with work today. But today is a day ending in -day that is not Newsletter Satur-day, so I briefly set aside my business to deliver my not-yet-world-famous Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. FCC bans ...

Mar 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists and the Tz’utujil Community Confirm the Discovery of an Ancient Maya Settlement Submerged Beneath Lake Atitlán

An underwater archaeological mission carried out in 2022 has confirmed the existence of an exceptional cultural landscape in the depths of Lake Atitlán, in the Guatemalan highlands. The work, condu...

Mar 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Siege of Acre, Part 3

So King of Jerusalem Guy of Lusignan was camped at Acre, ready to besiege the city and take control of it as a base for future conflict against Saladin, who was trying to consolidate the Middle Eas...

Mar 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The last European Neanderthals descended from a small group that survived by taking refuge in southwestern France during the glaciation

An international research team, led by Professor Cosimo Posth of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, has unraveled the dramatic genetic h...

Mar 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Florina of Burgundy, the woman who died fighting alongside her fiancé during the First Crusade, when they were heading to Jerusalem to marry

Throughout History the profession of arms has been fundamentally male, which does not mean that some women have not also devoted themselves to it, such as the inevitable Joan of Arc, the Spaniards ...

Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Anime News Network’s Confusing Season Ranking

Anime News Network does a “best of” run-down at the end of every anime season. I decided to check out the Winter 2026 season review to see what I should watch in a couple of months after I catch up...