Posts tagged "history"

Jul 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tell Everyone About Your Hero[in]ism

A friend sent me a link to an interview in Natiulus titled I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem. I trusted that she sent it to me because she thought based on the headline that it would...

Jul 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

One of the Oldest Giants’ Tombs Discovered in the Archaeological Site of Carrarzu Iddia, in Sardinia

The archaeological survey work carried out in the area of Carrarzu Iddia, in the municipality of Bortigali in central-western Sardinia, has culminated in the discovery of a new Giants’ Tomb that un...

Jul 31, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Thomas Usk, Civil Servant & Poet

We know little of Thomas Usk's early life except that he was born in London. The name Usk appears in several records, but we cannot link them together. He became a civil servant and left us some wr...

Jul 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Iron Age Village with a Mysterious Ditch Discovered in Bochum Puzzles Archaeologists

A team of archaeologists from the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), in collaboration with a specialized company, has confirmed the existence of what is considered the first evidence of preh...

Jul 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

626 Stonemason Marks Deciphered on the Towers of a Gate in the Walls of the Ancient Greek City of Ptolemais in Libya

The stone walls of the Gate of Tauchira, in the ancient city of Ptolemais (modern Libya), have preserved for more than two thousand years a silent record of the activity of its builders. These are ...

Jul 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of the 1945 atomic explosion with an unknown metallic alloy discovered in the sand of Hiroshima Bay

Research on nuclear explosion residues continues to bring surprises to the scientific community. A research group led by Luca Bindi, from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Flore...

Jul 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Responding to Nagoya Basho Grades

I read and enjoyed Josh K’s Some Highly Subjective Grades for Nagoya 2026, referring to the Nagoya Basho grand sumo tournament. He gave out four A’s to M7E Kotoeiho, S2W Aoniishki (A+ to the winner...

Jul 30, 2026 from Palladium

Frontier Panic

As artificial intelligence has advanced, it has taken the place of climate change as the main perceived threat to our planet. The post Frontier Panic appeared first on Palladium.

Jul 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bath complex with circular pools from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods discovered in the eastern Nile Delta

The archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered, during its first excavation campaign at the Tell Nasser archaeological area, a comprehensive complex of bathing fa...

Jul 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Criminal Northanmpton

After the populist mayor of London John Northampton was defeated in the election of 383 by Nicholas Brembre, Brembre worked to overturn all of Northampton's efforts to help the common people. When ...

Jul 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tombstones, Sarcophagi, and Amulets Found in the Tell el-Deir Necropolis Mixing Representations of Greek and Egyptian Gods

The Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt has announced the discovery of around twenty funerary tombstones, several sarcophagi, and a collection of amulets in Tell el-Deir, the necropolis located...

Jul 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Large Roman Ceramic Kilns Discovered in Ancient Pannonia in Austria, and Archaeologists Believe There Are 100 More Underground

The educational excavation campaign that the University of Vienna has been conducting since mid-July in the municipality of Hannersdorf, in the Oberwart district southeast of Vienna, has brought to...

Jul 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Aquiry Civilization Inhabited the Southwestern Amazon with Millions of People for 1,500 Years and Collapsed at the Same Time as the Maya

An international team of researchers has documented through airborne laser scanning the existence of an extensive multicultural civilization that thrived in the Southwestern Amazon between 600 B.C....

Jul 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Library in the Iberian Peninsula and the Westernmost in the Entire Empire Found in a Roman Villa in Córdoba

A team from the University of Granada has confirmed that a room in the Roman villa of Fuente Álamo, in the municipality of Puente Genil, functioned as a library, making it the oldest documented in ...

Jul 29, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. ...

Jul 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two 40,000-Year-Old Ivory Bird Figurines Discovered in Hohle Fels Cave, the Smallest Sculptures Found to Date at the Famous Site

Excavations carried out during 2025 in the Hohle Fels cave, located in the UNESCO World Heritage area of the Swabian Jura in southwest Germany, have yielded two new discoveries of extraordinary imp...

Jul 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Nicholas Brembre

Proving that "what goes around comes around"—although we should probably just allude to the medieval concept of the Wheel of Fortune—one-time Nicholas Brembre, who had persecuted former mayor John ...

Jul 29, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920)

Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.

Jul 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Byzantine Ballista Bolts from the 11th Century Found at the Manzikert Site, Used in the Siege Prior to the 1071 Battle

The systematic excavations that have been underway since 2020 in the plain of Manzikert (in Turkish Malazgirt), in eastern Anatolia, have provided a new set of material evidence that makes it possi...

Jul 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Shows Lead Was Worked in the Iberian Peninsula During the Bronze Age 1,800 Years Before the Phoenicians Arrived

A discovery at the Minferri site, in the town of Juneda in Lleida, has completely upended the established chronology for lead metallurgy in the Iberian Peninsula. The research carried out at this B...