Posts tagged "history"

Jun 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bahariya Oasis was sacred 800 years before its temple, and Romans used it for wine and oil, archaeologists find

The systematic survey work carried out at the site from 2014 to the current 2026 campaign has allowed researchers to document a significant set of architectural evidence that substantially expands ...

Jun 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Clerical Celibacy

The last post talked about attempts by popes to "monasticize" parish priests, preventing them from having families that could be a drain on church resources and potentially lead to sons inheriting ...

Jun 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover the Last Greek Colony in Sicily Was Suddenly Abandoned, Allowing the Preservation of Its Urban Structures

The excavations on Monte Sant’Angelo in Licata, in the province of Agrigento, have concluded their fifth campaign with results that the project leaders describe as exceptional. The work, carried ou...

Jun 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Exceptional Roman Lime Kiln Found in Hungary Built Using the Natural Slope of a Hill

The expansion works of the M1 motorway, the main road corridor connecting Budapest with Vienna over 171 kilometers, have uncovered near the town of Bicske, located about 35 kilometers west of the H...

Jun 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

William Marshal, the “greatest knight who ever lived”, defeated Richard the Lionheart and 500 other rivals in tournaments and jousts

Apart from the fame it gained as one of the settings of The Da Vinci Code, the Temple Church is one of London’s tourist attractions. As its name indicates, it was the seat of the Templars from the ...

Jun 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Ambient Irony on Amodei vs Altman

I look forward to reading Pixy Misa’s Daily News Stuff posts (seven days a week), which feature links to tech and political news with irreverent commentary. Pixy Misa is a pseudonymous Australian s...

Jun 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The Case Against Share Buttons

Back in The New Leaf Journal’s early days, I had share buttons on my articles. I eventually removed them in part because I did not think they added anything useful to my site and in part because of...

Jun 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-18-26

I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday and am late today, but we can hardly let a backlog grow… so let us link today. 1. Peeved NYC students, teachers, parents beg mayor to cancel school for Knicks ...

Jun 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Exceptional Mosaic of the River God Eurymedon from the 3rd Century A.D. Found in Ancient Aspendos

The archaeological excavations carried out by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism in the ancient city of Aspendos, located in the province of Antalya, have yielded a discovery of exceptiona...

Jun 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Children of Priests

Pope Gregory VII (c.1015 - 1085) tried to establish many reforms in the Church, they did not all "stick." One of his reforms was to prevent priests keeping families in the vicarage, and appointing ...

Jun 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A strange monolithic sculpture with two figures receiving a “fluid from a divine entity” discovered in Veracruz

The excavations, carried out by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) as part of the archaeological salvage project on a plot of approximately 12 hectares intended for residenti...

Jun 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists decipher a Roman curse tablet with magical symbols found in ancient Coriovallum

A research team from the University of Heidelberg has managed to decipher the contents of a curse tablet from the Roman era found in the Dutch municipality of Heerlen, a discovery that provides new...

Jun 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ancient Sanctuary Aligned with the Solstice Discovered, Built as a “Prototype” 500 Years Before Stonehenge

Just days before thousands gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice on June 21, a team of archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology, led by Phil Harding, has announced the discovery of an...

Jun 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Plague Outbreak in History Discovered in Siberia: Marmots Transmitted the Bacteria to Hunter-Gatherers 5,500 Years Ago

An international team of researchers has managed to reconstruct the genome of ancestral strains of Yersinia pestis from human remains found in four hunter-gatherer cemeteries located in the Lake Ba...

Jun 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Canons on Responsibility, Part 2

The Fourth Lateran Council called in 1215 by Pope Innocent III had three chief objectives: Church reform, freeing the Holy Land, and eliminating heresy. Part of Church reform was making clear the d...

Jun 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds

Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting. Richard Fa...

Jun 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some 10 countries.

Jun 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hundreds of Thousands of Quadrillions of Bacteria Could Have Reached a Moon of Jupiter from Earth in the Last 80 Million Years

In a fascinating twist for astrobiology, a new study published by researcher Zaza Osmanov, from the Free University of Tbilisi and the National Astrophysical Observatory of Georgia, suggests that E...

Jun 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Late Roman Sarcophagus Discovered Intact and Sealed in the Subsoil of Ancient Epidaurum in Croatia

The emergency archaeological excavations carried out on the plot at 8 Zorina Street, in the historic center of Cavtat in Croatia, have yielded a discovery of exceptional importance for the understa...

Jun 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A New Hypothesis Explains the Mysterious Premature Death of Simonetta Vespucci, Botticelli’s Muse

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London, the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, and the University of California have just published in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism a new study ...