Posts tagged "history"

Jun 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity, Part 1

What did medieval people think about different races? How did they distinguish one ethnic group from another? This question occurred to me when reading up on Regino of Prüm, who around 900CE wrote ...

Jun 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Evidence of Camels in Belgrade Fortress Reveals Previously Unknown Trade Routes in the Middle Ages

The Belgrade Fortress, located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, has witnessed more than two millennia of history. From its role as a Roman military post to its function as a defensi...

Jun 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Paleolithic Cave Art Was Not Random: A Study Reveals a Hidden “Grammar” in the Caves of the Cantabrian Region

For decades, archaeologists have debated whether the paintings and engravings our ancestors left on cave walls were mere isolated acts, born of magic or superstition, or whether they instead respon...

Jun 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-23-26

It has been five days since the last edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. While I ordinarily publish links in the morning and it is now the evening, I submit some late links today to keep the backlog und...

Jun 23, 2026 from Palladium

War by Other Means

Robotic warfare is shifting the source of state power away from citizens to firms. The transition will produce a new social contract. The post War by Other Means appeared first on Palladium.

Jun 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Regino of Prüm

Although Charlemagne is a famous name, and we know a lot about him, his descendants and the events of the Carolingian era are not well-documented. There are a handful of chronicles written by vario...

Jun 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Intact Maya City of Minanbé Discovered in the Jungle of Campeche After a Thousand Years of Abandonment, with a 13-Meter-High Pyramid Temple

The dense tangle of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, in the state of Campeche, has guarded one of its best-preserved secrets for over a millennium. It is the ancient city of Minanbé, a settlement th...

Jun 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Byzantine Shipwrecks off the Coast of Türkiye Reveal the Rise and Crisis of Trade and a Previously Unknown Type of Amphora

Between 2010 and 2012, an international expedition led by explorer Robert Ballard, aboard the oceanographic vessel Nautilus, surveyed the seabed of southwestern Türkiye, off the Datça Peninsula and...

Jun 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How the United Kingdom Had to Pay 15 Million Dollars or Give Up Canada to the United States for Having Supplied Confederate Privateer Ships

In the autumn of 1984, the Circé, a minesweeper of the French Navy under the command of Captain Max Guerout, was sailing off the coast of Cherbourg when it discovered a wreck about sixty meters dee...

Jun 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Reveals that the Great Roman Cistern of Ancient Calduba in Cádiz Could Store More Than 2 Million Liters of Water

Archaeology and digital engineering have joined forces to rescue from oblivion one of the most monumental hydraulic infrastructures of Roman Hispania. A team from the University of Cádiz has manage...

Jun 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Fossil Demonstrating Maternal Care in Mollusks During the Age of Dinosaurs Reveals the Enigma of Molluskite

An international team of scientists has unearthed on the Isle of Wight, in the United Kingdom, the oldest known fossil evidence to date of maternal care in bivalve mollusks, according to the journa...

Jun 22, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Annals of St. Bertin

In Saint-Omer in France there was a Benedictine abbey called the Abbey of St. Bertin, founded in 638 and existing right up to the late 18th century. It was closed during the French Revolution, orde...

Jun 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hellenistic Wine Jars from Rhodes Reveal the Secrets of Earth’s Magnetic Field and the Jerusalem of the Maccabees

What seems like a simple amphora shard, the kind archaeologists find by the thousands in excavations, is actually a recorder of the Earth’s magnetic field with astonishing precision. A team of rese...

Jun 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A strange bow-and-arrow-shaped galaxy, discovered falling at supersonic speed, defies known models

An international team of astronomers has identified a galactic system of exceptional morphology that presents an elongated structure in a bow-and-arrow shape extending over approximately 1.8 millio...

Jun 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Overwhelming Lady of Kalymnos Found at the Bottom of the Aegean Represents a Real Woman

It was 1994 when a fisherman from the Greek island of Kalymnos, in the Dodecanese, cast his nets into the Aegean Sea without knowing that day would go down in history. When he gathered the catch, a...

Jun 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Married Popes

Our discussion on clerical celibacy, and how Emperor Justinian decreed no bishop or higher position could be married, leads us to take a look at popes that were married.The first, of course, was Pe...

Jun 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery in the Jabal al-Tayr Necropolis Redefines the Origins of Egyptian Pyramid Architecture

The sands guarding the eastern bank of the Nile in the Minya Governorate have brought to light a set of funerary evidence that compels a reassessment of established ideas regarding the evolution of...

Jun 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Justinian and Celibacy

Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527 - 565) took a keen interest in Christianity, and he had some thoughts on clerical celibacy. His Justinian code covered a wide rage of topics, including religion.T...

Jun 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Do Animals of Different Species Talk to Each Other to Collaborate? A Fascinating Study Reveals How They Do It

Cooperation between animals of different species represents one of the most fascinating phenomena in behavioral biology, and a new study published in the journal Animal Behaviour sheds light on the...

Jun 19, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and Professionals

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