Posts tagged "history"

Mar 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

First Direct Evidence of the Use of Sickles to Harvest Cereals by the Ancient Canarians Found in Gran Canaria

A research team from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) has revealed the results of an exhaustive analysis of the stone tools recovered from the C008 cave complex, located on the ...

Mar 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists achieve a historic milestone by dating French cave paintings with carbon-14 for the first time

A team led by a researcher from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has achieved a milestone in prehistoric archaeology by confirming through absolute dating the age of several parie...

Mar 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hipparchia, the Greek philosopher of the Cynic school remembered in the annual festival in Athens that celebrated the incorporation of women into philosophy

Hipparchia is a genus of butterflies in the Nymphalidae family, so large that it includes nearly six thousand species worldwide. The name was given in 1807 by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian F...

Mar 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Lost Page of an Archimedes Manuscript Is Found, with an Enigmatic Image Added Over the Ancient Text

The history of science and classical philology experienced this March 2026 a chapter worthy of an academic intrigue novel, although in this case the setting was not a remote archive in Istanbul nor...

Mar 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Like a Mouse in a Wallet

Yesterday's post introduced the phrase more muris in pera, "like a mouse in a wallet." It was said by William of Tyre about Andronikos Comnenos, a cousin of the Byzantine Emperor who came to the Ki...

Mar 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Families in Southern England Continued Burying Their Dead in the Same Cemetery from the Iron Age to the End of the Roman Period

Archaeological excavations at Childrey Warren, a locality in Oxfordshire, have uncovered the remains of an ancient settlement containing a varied set of historical artifacts alongside more than thi...

Mar 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bronze Sheets Found in the Great Temple of Samikon in Elis Reveal It Was Used as a Document Archive in Antiquity

The 2025 excavation campaign at the archaeological site of Klidi, in Samikon (in the Greek region of Elis), has produced results that make it possible to clarify the function of one of the most sin...

Mar 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Can 0.999… Equal 1? The Mathematical Certainty That Defies Intuition

From high school classrooms to the most heated corners of the Internet, few mathematical concepts generate as much debate and skepticism as the equality stating that 0, followed by an infinite numb...

Mar 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-08-26

There was no daily Pook-Emu Bee link post yesterday because it was Newsletter Leaf Journal day (see the links in Newsletter 270). But the next Newsletter is next Saturday. Below, I present the Marc...

Mar 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

A Diversion About a Marriage, Part 1

(I said we would get back to Amalric, but I've discovered a side story that I would rather not put off.)King of Jerusalem Amalric I did not want to give up on his dream of bringing Egypt under Chri...

Mar 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Roman Forum of Barcelona Discovered During Hotel Expansion Works

An exceptional archaeological discovery has emerged from beneath the ground at number 3 Hércules Street, in the heart of Barcelona’s Barri Gòtic. The expansion works of the Gran Hotel Barcino, prom...

Mar 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Pente grammai, the Greek game of five lines played by Ajax and Achilles in ceramic paintings

Five units that must occupy the central position of as many lines, called the sacred line. It sounds like military tactics, like a formation in a hoplite phalanx, but although this is also a confro...

Mar 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Much Did the Egyptian Blue Color Found on the Walls of a Pompeii Room Cost? The Pigment Alone Was Nearly a Legionary’s Entire Annual Pay

At first glance, it is a small room, about nine square meters in size, with walls painted a pale blue reminiscent of the Mediterranean sky. But behind that apparent simplicity, the Blue Room of ins...

Mar 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Fighting for Egypt

In 1163, the young Fatimid caliph of Egypt was al-Adid, who was only 12 and a puppet of several strong nobles and viziers. His current vizier, Shawar, was overthrown by the military commander Dirgh...

Mar 06, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026

Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing the mechanics of warfare in Dune. But I did want to stop to chatter a bit about s...

Mar 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-06-26

I am workng on a few “work” projects today. But I have enough time for a new set of daily Pook-Emu Bee links. If you enjoy the links, you can follow via feed (although I personally recommend follow...

Mar 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Nur ad-Din

Born into the Zengid Dynasty, Al-Malik al-Adil Abu al-Qasim Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd bin Imad al-Dīn Zengī, known as Nur ad-Din, became Emir of Aleppo in 1146 when he was 28 years old.He set out to elimin...

Mar 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Prehistoric Hands and Discs in a Cantabrian Cave Guided a Sacred Route Through the Cavern, Archaeologists Discover

The El Castillo cave, in Puente Viesgo (Cantabria, northern Spain), is one of the most important prehistoric sanctuaries in the world. On its walls, the men and women of the Upper Paleolithic left ...

Mar 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A student finds the sword of a 12th-century Frankish Crusader knight on the coast of Haifa

The Mediterranean coast of Israel has yielded an exceptional testimony of the Crusades, an iron sword one meter in length belonging to a Frankish knight of the twelfth century, whose chance discove...

Mar 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ritual quartz extraction sealed with two 2,000-year-old axes discovered high atop the Bruchhauser Rocks, surrounded by Iron Age walls

Archaeological excavations carried out during 2025 at the Iron Age wall of the Bruchhauser Steine (Bruchhauser Rocks), in Germany’s Upper Sauerland district, have produced results that substantiall...