Posts tagged "history"

Sep 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Greek Engineers Quarried an Entire Coastline to Build a Warship Harbor 2,600 Years Ago— Now Underwater in Libya

Cyrene was one of the wealthiest Greek cities in the ancient Mediterranean, built on a plateau some 9 km (about 6 miles) inland from Libya’s northeastern coast, on what is now known as Jebel Akhdar...

Sep 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 32,000-Square-Foot Roman Mansion Just Surfaced in Bulgaria — and No One’s Sure Whose It Was

Inside a Roman legionary fortress, almost nobody had a private bathroom. Soldiers washed in communal baths built for the whole unit. In practice, only one person could usually justify baths of any ...

Sep 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Egypt’s Pyramid-Era Afterlife Ran on Favors — A New Project Is Mapping Who Owed What to Whom

Picture ancient Egypt’s funerary cult and the mind jumps to the dead themselves: the offerings, the gods, the pageantry. Easy to forget are the people who actually carried the bread, beer, and ince...

Sep 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Babylon Had No Religion Class, but Its Future Officials Still Had to Learn Nearly 2,000 Gods

Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the gods. There was no textbook that worked as a Bible either. Religion was everywh...

Sep 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Lazic War

While the Byzantine Empire under Justinian I and the Sassanids under Khosrow I might have decided to stop fighting on their southern borders, hostilities continued in the area east of the Black Sea...

Sep 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Just Turned Up in a Buried Roman Town Beside Europe’s Only Undammed Major River

In the small village of Qesarat, in southern Albania‘s Tepelenë district, an Italian-Albanian excavation team has just finished a summer season that turned up something unusual: six decorated floor...

Sep 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Find a 2,000-Year-Old Grave of the People Who Inspired the Amazons

The archaeologists were not looking for a Sarmatian. When they opened the burial mound near the Sea of Azov, they expected Bronze Age graves — and found plenty: thirty-one of them. But one grave di...

Sep 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Center of the Milky Way Smells Like Rum and Tastes Like Raspberries, But There’s Also Other Smells, Not So Pleasant

In April 2009, newspapers around the world ran a headline that read like a cocktail menu: the center of the galaxy tastes of raspberries and smells of rum. The line came from the Guardian, which bu...

Sep 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Justinian and Iran

When Justinian I became emperor (527 - 565), he inherited from his uncle the war with the Sassanid Empire to the east. This Iranian Empire was ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651 CE.His chi...

Sep 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Teotihuacan Could Write Like the Maya and Aztecs — New Cave Glyphs to Honor its War Dead Prove It

For decades, one question has nagged at specialists in ancient Mexico: did Teotihuacan — the city that dominated central Mexico from roughly the first to the sixth century AD, with a population tha...

Sep 27, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Theranos Scandal

United States · 2002–2025 · Fraud — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and COO Sunny Balwani raised over $700 million by falsely claiming their proprietary devices could run hundreds of blood tests ...

Sep 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Last Great Cavalry Charge Wasn’t Led by Europeans — It Was Won by Indian Lancers in WWI

India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalry units raised not by Britain directly, but by India’s semi-autonomous princely ...

Sep 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Three-Chapter Controversy

One of Emperor Justinian's (527 - 565) goals—and it was personal as well as professional—was reconciling Chalcedonian Christianity with the non-Chalcedonians.The Chalcedonies were called so because...

Sep 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman Bathhouse Was Secretly Turned Into a Wine and Olive Oil Factory in Late Antiquity at Antiochia ad Cragum

A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey’s southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE, it stopped functioning as a bath so...

Sep 25, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, September 25, 2026

Hey, folks, Fireside this week! We’re now well into the Teaching Paradox series on Hearts of Iron, but as you may have noticed, the structure of those posts means they tend to be quite chunky (the ...

Sep 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 1,700-Year-Old Pyramid Found in the Egyptian Desert Held a Judge, a Greek Poem and a Coin of Constantine

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of a Roman-period tomb whose architecture, according to the country’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, has no exact parallel e...

Sep 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Just Found a Roman City With an Amphitheatre for 8,000 People in Austria — It Was Abandoned, and No One Knows Why

In the 1970s, the small settlement of Stein, in Lower Austria, came close to becoming the site of the country’s second nuclear power plant. The project was scrapped, and the land went back to being...

Sep 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Justinian's Empire

We've been talking lately about Emperor Justinian I and the Eastern Roman Empire trying to reunite with the Western Roman Empire in the Gothic Wars. Ostrogoths had taken over much of Italy, and Jus...

Sep 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Known Homo Sapiens Had a Modern-Sized Brain — Scientists Just Reconstructed his Face

Roughly 315,000 years ago, a group of early humans lived in what is now Morocco. Their remains, unearthed at a site called Jebel Irhoud, are the oldest fossils ever attributed to our species, Homo ...

Sep 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bronze Age Greece Wasn’t Just Brides Moving Away: Men Migrated as Often as Women, and Up to One in Ten People Grew Up Somewhere Else

In each of the Bronze Age Greek communities analyzed, between 5% and 10% of the people buried had not grown up where they died. That is one of the findings of a study in PLOS One by a team that inc...