Posts tagged "history"

Aug 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Foundations of the Lost Hospedería of the Catholic Monarchs Found in Guadalupe

Excavations carried out during the past month of July in the monumental complex of Guadalupe (Extremadura, Spain) have brought to light the foundation remains of the former Hospedería of the Cathol...

Aug 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Persona 4 Dungeons Were Stressful?

Gamer Braves conducted an interesting interview with Wada Kazuhisa, who is producer of the upcoming Persona 4 Revival. Long-time NLJ readers may know that I am a Persona 4 fan, although I am not pa...

Aug 10, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Inventing ELIZA (Review)

This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum’s article “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine”. ELIZA was a natural language “en...

Aug 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-10-26

Pook-Emu Bee links are back today as we start the new work-week. 1 – Persona 30th Anniversary Paper Fragrances Feature Designs Announced (Orpheus Joshua for Noisy Pixel. August 9, 2026.) I have bee...

Aug 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Group of Hunter-Gatherers Survived the Younger Dryas 14,000 Years Ago in a Cave in Northern Türkiye

A team of archaeologists has discovered in northern Turkey a settlement of hunter-gatherers who lived in the Koskarlı cave approximately 14,000 years ago. The remains found during the first excavat...

Aug 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Mortimer Kidnapping

Young Edmund Mortimer, who was the heir-presumptive of Richard II with the strongest claim to the throne of England, was being raised by the usurper Henry Bolingbroke, now King Henry IV. Edmund's u...

Aug 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The discovery of the remains of 450 mice deposited as an offering in the sanctuary of Apollo in Gortyna indicates an ancient change of dedication

The archaeological research in the ancient sanctuary of Apollo in Gortyna, the famed Cretan city whose epigraphic legislation marked a milestone in the history of Greek law, has concluded its summe...

Aug 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Analyses Reveal That the Chained Men Found in the Phaleron Mass Grave Were Athenians, Not Foreign Invaders

The 2016 discovery of a large mass grave in the ancient cemetery of Phaleron, on the coast of Athens, shocked the archaeological community and the general public. There lay the remains of 79 adult ...

Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Desktop Environments and Distro Hopping

This month marks my sixth year of running Linux exclusively on my computers, so I suppose that I am minimally qualified to offer an opinion on Bhuwan Mishra’s After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hoppin...

Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-09-26

Pook-Emu Bee links are so real now that we’re delivering on Sundays. 1 | Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera (Al Williams for Hackaday. August 8, 2026.) A fitting entry in light of today’s New Leaf ...

Aug 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Neanderthals of a Cave in Northern Spain Were Already Making and Reusing Bone Tools in a Standardized and Planned Way

A team of researchers from the University of Burgos and the Atapuerca Foundation has published the first detailed analysis of the bone retouchers found in the Valdegoba cave, in the municipality of...

Aug 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Mortimer Rebellion

Although Edmund Mortimer was only seven years old when Henry Bolingbroke usurped the throne from Richard II, he was a potential political threat. He was Richard's heir-presumptive, and his lineage ...

Aug 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Many Dinosaur Fossils Have Been Found with Stones in Their Stomachs—Why Did They Swallow Them Voluntarily?

For decades, paleontologists have used the presence of stones inside the skeletons of dinosaurs as an indicator that the animal was herbivorous. These stones, known as gastroliths, have been found ...

Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Used Game Stores in an All Digital World

Much digital ink has been spilled on the slow decline of physical video games (including by yours truly). In a reply post by Jake at An Almost Anonymous Blog titled The importance of owning physica...

Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

/e/ OS’s App Lounge Apparently Still As I Remember

I used an /e/ OS-powered Teracube 2e as my daily driver phone from September 2021 to November 2022. It worked well enough for my purposes initially, as I explained in a very early review I publishe...

Aug 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery at Kom el-Khilgan: a necropolis spanning from the Predynastic Period to the Greco-Roman eras and a residential area from the Second Intermediate Period

The Egyptian archaeological mission under the authority of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has brought to light, during excavation work carried out in the archaeological area of Kom el-Khilgan, ...

Aug 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund Mortimer

When Henry Bolingbroke decided in 1399 to return from exile in France and force his cousin, King Richard II, to return to him the properties and titles of Henry's deceased father, John of Gaunt, he...

Aug 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ingenious System of Hidden Drainage Channels Discovered Beneath the Orchestra of the Roman Theater of Catania

Researchers from the University of Catania, in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Catania and the Valley of the Aci, have located beneath the stage of the Teatro Antico a network of unde...

Aug 08, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together

This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particula...

Aug 07, 2026 from Palladium

How to Deal With Iran

The Iran crisis cannot be resolved without recognizing Iran’s unexpected military and technological edge. Victories can be salvaged from this dangerous stalemate. The post How to Deal With Iran app...