Posts tagged "history"

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...

Sep 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The World’s Oldest Temple Had a 12,000-Year-Old Bone Mystery –Two Graves Found at Göbekli Tepe May Have Finally Solved It

Archaeologists have spent thirty years puzzling over an unusually grim detail at Göbekli Tepe, the roughly 11,600-year-old site often called the world’s oldest temple. Since excavations began in 19...

Sep 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

This Fossil Predates Dinosaurs by 300 Million Years — and Scientists Still Aren’t Sure What It Was

Finding fossils usually means months of fieldwork, a hammer, and a lot of patience. In Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost region, it took none of that. According to the University of Cambridge, a clus...

Sep 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Rome Changes Hands Again

Totila's behavior in Rome after the Siege enhanced his reputation. He did not kill very many, and he only destroyed part of the walls, reacting to the letter from Belisarius about preserving the gr...

Sep 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 6,800-Year-Old European Village Had Almost No Rich or Poor — Here’s How Archaeologists Found Out

In the early 1980s, an American-Yugoslav team dug a trench roughly the size of a tennis court — 16 by 20 meters (52 by 66 feet) — into a low hill near the village of Opovo, in northern Serbia. Betw...

Sep 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Physicists Just Recreated How Matter Is Born — a Process That Only Happens in the Big Bang or the LHC

Quarks, the smallest known building blocks of matter, are never seen alone. They are roughly a billion times smaller than an atom and exist only locked inside larger particles such as protons and n...

Sep 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Uncover a Rare 4,000-Year-Old Tomb in Norway — Built From Slabs That Weigh Hundreds of Kilograms Each

The team wasn’t even looking for a grave. Kjersti Væge, project director at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, was overseeing a dig at Kongefaret 8, on the Svinesund plateau ...

Sep 24, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

Lufthansa Heist

United States · 1978 · Heist — Armed robbers guided by an airline insider stole $5.875 million in cash and jewels from a JFK airport cargo terminal without triggering an alarm.

Sep 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Burned Iron Age Wall Under a Paris Hospital Could Be the Gaulish Lutetia Caesar Described

Nobody expects to find a two-thousand-year-old fortification in the courtyards of a working hospital. But that is what archaeologists have uncovered at the Hôtel-Dieu, on the Île de la Cité, the is...

Sep 23, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825)

An illuminated Persian manuscript about customs, culture, and caste, written by an enigmatic figure of the early British Raj.

Sep 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Totila in Rome

In 546, Goth King Totila walked into Rome after a year-long siege.The city was nearly empty due to starvation and suicide brought on by the siege. The siege had been so devastating for the inhabita...

Sep 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

X-Rays Found Egyptian Glass Hidden in a 2,000-Year-Old British Harness Ring Made Long Before Rome Invaded

In late 2025, conservators from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum brought an unassuming object to the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire: a terret, a small bronze loop that Iron Age chariots u...

Sep 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Napoleon’s Family Looted an Etruscan Tomb in 1839 — Archaeologists May Have Just Found Its Neighbor

In 1889, a team from the École française de Rome reached a circular earthen mound roughly 30 meters (about 98 feet) across, in the Polledrara necropolis on the southern edge of the ancient Etruscan...

Sep 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Large Circular Structure, 30 Ritual Jars, a Lead Horn, a Hidden Niche: What a 3,000-year-old Sanctuary in Sardinia Is Revealing About the Bronze Age

In the mountainous interior of Sardinia, where the Gennargentu massif gives way to the valleys of the Flumendosa river, a site called S’Arcu ‘e is Forros has been surprising archaeologists for more...

Sep 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Largest Prehistoric Sunken Shipwreck’s Cargo of Iron in Europe, Found in the Danube, Was Enough Metal to Arm 500 Warriors

In the spring of 2019, workers dredging gravel at Deinham, a site on the Danube in Upper Austria, kept snagging strange double-pointed iron objects in the excavator’s bucket. Instead of tossing the...

Sep 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Higurashi Mahjong

I have played and reviewed many little-known and niche visual novels. But I am also familiar with some of the classics. For example, I am a fan of the much-esteemed Higurashi: When They Cry series,...

Sep 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

AP Tests and College Credits

According to Neetu Arnold, writing for City Journal, “37 states require public universities to award credit to students who score a ‘3’ or higher on an AP exam.” That note is consistent with the Co...

Sep 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-22-26

Let us make it three days of Pook-Emu Bee links in a row. 1 | Million Goods Opens And A Crucial Bike Lane Completed (DeKalb Dispatch. Sep. 11, 2026.) There’s no such thing as a crucial bike lane. 2...

Sep 22, 2026 from Palladium

Wealth Taxes Could Kill Privately-Owned Companies

Ignoring the intangible value of private governance of firms not only makes wealth taxes confiscatory but erodes the very foundations and benefits of the freedom to create organizations. The post W...