Posts tagged "history"

Jun 10, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886)

A philosophical system and a practical guide for the cultivation of dramatic genius.

Jun 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Mysterious Footprints Carved in Stone Found in Southern Scandinavia Reveal Secret Pacts in the Bronze Age

On the coasts of southern Scandinavia, engraved in rocks that faced the sea thousands of years ago, there are thousands of footprints carved into stone. For decades, archaeologists have considered ...

Jun 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Finnish Crusades

Pope Alexander III decided that it was time to tackle the pagans on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea (the Baltic is between the peninsula that holds the Scandinavian countries and the mainland...

Jun 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings in Lisbon reveal the aromatic plants and woods used in funeral pyres, and the first evidence of myrtle in a cremation context across the Roman Empire

Between 2017 and 2018, the expansion of a restaurant on Calçada do Lavra, in Lisbon, uncovered a fragment of the Roman necropolis of Olisipo, the ancient city that preceded the Portuguese capital. ...

Jun 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

2,000 Years Ago in Iron Age Britain, a Woman’s Brain was Extracted and Her Bones Turned into Sharp Points

British archaeology has just documented a funerary practice previously unknown on the island. A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and the United States has examined the remains of two ind...

Jun 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bass Rock, the Most Inaccessible Prison in Europe Was Conquered from Within

Just over two kilometers from the eastern coast of Scotland rises a massive block of volcanic rock that seems to emerge directly from the sea. Its almost vertical walls reach over one hundred meter...

Jun 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Giving Defunct Blogs Proper Burials

Robert Birming published an interesting short blog post titled Where do blogs go when they die? He noted having noticed that many blog posts shared in recent years by participants in his Junited in...

Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The History Blog and Japanese Saws

I follow The History Blog by psuedynmous blogger livius. It features blog posts about history (surprise?) focusing significantly on archaeology news. Significantly, The History Blog links to source...

Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Great Falls, Montana, and Cascade County

I have never been to Montana. Save for the occasional competitive U.S. Senate race, Montana is also not a common election hotspot. Thus, I never thought much about counties in Montana. I just learn...

Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-09-26

I am on a daily Pook-Emu Bee links roll. Today, I keep it doing with a third consecutive edition of the links. 1. Construction of jail in tony NYC nabe turns into potentially deadly ‘clown show’ wi...

Jun 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Iberians of the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula Maintained Genetic Continuity for Six Centuries Despite Contact with Phoenicians and Greeks

The Iberian peoples who inhabited the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age preserved their genetic identity with few modifications over approximately six centuries, despite docume...

Jun 09, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser!

Our Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Soil.

Jun 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Finland

From 950 and 1320 CE saw the growth and development in the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, as well as Iceland.Finland (shown here in dark green, between Sweden and Russia) wa...

Jun 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

1,200-Year-Old Game Board Found in Ancient Volubilis Carved into the Steps of a Medieval Public Bath

A team of archaeologists has discovered in the remains of a medieval public bath in the Moroccan city of Walila —the ancient Volubilis— a stone-carved game board dating from between the late 8th an...

Jun 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A rare Roman mosaic of exceptional craftsmanship and preservation discovered in Soissons, combining two construction techniques

The subsoil of the Aisne department continues to surprise archaeologists. In the Saint-Crépin neighborhood of Soissons, in northern France, the work to install a district heating network has uncove...

Jun 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The “World’s Smallest Adult” Was the Mexican Artist Lucía Zárate

In the winter of 1889-90 occurred what has gone down in history as the Great Sierra Nevada Snow Blockade: a succession of severe snowstorms that battered the border area between California and Neva...

Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Shooting Successfully With Any Footwork in Basketball

I came across Brian McCormick’s Hard2Guard Player Development Newsletter, which focuses on coaching basketball, via Mike Klinzing’s Hoops Head Podcast Newsletter (Hoops Head inspired one of my rece...

Jun 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

No Grand Slam Winners in 2026 French Open Men’s R16

I watched a good amount of most of tennis’ grand slams from about 2000 through 2013 or so. I was a Roger Federer fan, and for a good chunk of that period, you could always count on Mr. Federer play...

Jun 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-08-26

Wherein I managed to successfully publish my “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links for a second consecutive day (what a twist!). 1. Persona 4 Revival Broadcast Announced As Atlus Reveals New Mechanics, Editio...

Jun 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dozens of Headless Skeletons Found in Slovakia Point to Neolithic Funerary Rituals, Not a Massacre

Researchers from the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel (CAU) and the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra have published the first conclusions about the exceptional archaeological site of Vrábl...