Posts tagged "history"

Jun 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Largest Roman Bath Complex in the Netherlands Found in Nijmegen

Archaeological excavations carried out in the Dutch city of Nijmegen have revealed the remains of what is considered the largest Roman-era thermal complex discovered to date in Dutch territory. The...

Jun 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-16-26

Time for a new edition of Pook-Emu Bee links on this very pretty (in Brooklyn, at least) June 16. 1. SCOTUS To Newman: Drop Dead (Josh Blackman at The Volokh Conspiracy. June 15, 2026.) Say what on...

Jun 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of a Large Hellenistic Temple Discovered in Northern Albania in an Ancient and Lost Illyrian City

A team of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw and the University of Tirana has documented, during the recently concluded excavation campaign, the remains of a monumental construction on th...

Jun 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Canons on Responsibility, Part 1

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 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Maya Stela with the Oldest Long Count in the Lowlands Found in Campeche— it predates the Tikal record by 112 years

Two decades of exploration work conducted in the archaeological zone of El Palmar, located in the state of Campeche, have allowed a team of researchers to identify a monument that substantially mod...

Jun 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Imperial Roman Villa Discovered in Castel di Guido, Possibly Belonging to Patricians Close to Hadrian or Antoninus Pius

The Roman countryside continues to yield first-class archaeological surprises. An important imperial-era Roman villa has been discovered in the agricultural holding of Castel di Guido, thanks to an...

Jun 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Carus, the Roman Emperor Struck by Lightning, and Whose Death Was Seized Upon by the Son of a Freedman Named Diocles to Seize Power

Diocletian has gone down in History as one of the most important Roman emperors for the political, economic, military, and administrative reorganization he implemented, which allowed the Crisis of ...

Jun 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

How I’ll Take My Coffee

Simon at Firesphere.dev wrote a short post titled If you want to buy me a coffee in response to a hot take post on the IndieWeb against “Buy Me a Coffee” buttons on blogs or capitalism or something...

Jun 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-15-26

Monday is a fun day. One reason Monday is a fun day is because it marks the return of Pook-Emu Bee links after the weekend. Speaking of the weekend, I published links and commentary to enjoy in Sat...

Jun 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Large Marble Busts from the 3rd Century AD Found Buried at the Bottom of a Roman-Byzantine Winepress in Caesarea

On the last day of a routine archaeological excavation, when the teams had already concluded their work in the field, something none of those present expected emerged from the ground: two marble sc...

Jun 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A second sealed and intact Etruscan tomb discovered in San Giuliano just one year after the first find

The team of the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP), led by Professor Davide Zori of Baylor University, has opened a new Etruscan funerary chamber that remained completely sealed a...

Jun 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Canons on Heresy

The Fourth Lateran Council called in 1215 by Pope Innocent III had three chief objectives: Church reform, freeing the Holy Land, and eliminating heresy. The first Canons addressed the subject of th...

Jun 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover Ireland’s Largest Viking Settlement and One of Western Europe’s Biggest

A team of Norwegian and Irish archaeologists is currently excavating in the town of Woodstown, on the banks of the River Suir and about three and a half miles west of Waterford, what researchers be...

Jun 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Physicist Creates a Miniature Universe in the Laboratory to Demonstrate that Time Can Emerge from Internal Disorder

The research, published in Physical Review Research by Professor Giovanni Barontini, managed to measure the passage of time without using any external clock, instead defining the parameter based on...

Jun 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

8,000 years ago, the last hunter-gatherers of northern Spain breastfed their children until the age of four and barely set foot on the coast

What did the inhabitants of the Cantabrian region eat eight millennia ago? How did they feed their babies? Did they move through the territory or live anchored to their environment? The answers wer...

Jun 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Start of the Fourth Lateran

After years of being pope and asserting his will on the world, Innocent III decided to bring together all the church leaders and establish a new set of rules and policies for unifying the Church's ...

Jun 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Fossil footprints found in Italy reveal the earliest evidence of when and where dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet

About 230 million years ago, during a geological period known as the Carnian (within the Late Triassic), Earth experienced a drastic climate change. An episode of intense and widespread rainfall, c...

Jun 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

AI Slop About Medieval London

I was linked to a site called Fake History Hunter a few weeks ago. The author, a former historical consultant, uses her site to debunk fake history in media. In AI review: Time Witnessed, she takes...

Jun 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Innocent Meddling

Pope Innocent III believed in the absolute power of the pope over secular authorities, and he did what he could to assert that power wherever he could.A couple months after Innocent became pope, in...

Jun 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

New Features in ActivityPub For WordPress 9.0

ActivityPub for WordPress version 9.0 was just released, and a blog post by lead developer Matthias Pfefferle goes over the new features (you can follow me from Mastodon, Pixelfed, or the like at [...