Posts tagged "history"

Sep 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Just Found a New Piece of the World’s Oldest Peace Treaty — and It’s About Refugees

A small piece of clay, not much bigger than a matchbox, took nearly a year for archaeologists to identify. When they finally did, it turned out to belong to one of the most famous documents in the ...

Sep 22, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Siege of Rome (545)

In May 544, General Belisarius and a mere 4000 men were camped along the Adriatic coast, sent by Emperor Justinian I to counter the Gothic army of Totila that was reclaiming territory that the Byza...

Sep 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman Frontier Town Founded by Emperor Augustus in Northern Spain Just Gave Up Its 2,000-Year-Old Kitchen — With Non-Stick Pans

Ten years of digging in the same corner of northern Spain tends to turn up plenty. Temples, walls, coins, the occasional grave. Rarely does it turn up something as mundane as a kitchen. But that is...

Sep 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 70-Year-Old Mystery Resurfaces at One of Europe’s Largest Collections of Prehistoric Rock Art

About 56 miles (90 km) from Brescia and 75 miles (120 km) from Milan, in the Lombard Alps, the forest of Naquane is still turning up surprises after seventy years of excavation. The latest field se...

Sep 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Face of Uni, the Great Etruscan Goddess, Found in the Temple a Magistrate Dedicated to Her 2,500 Years Ago

Some discoveries impress because of their size or value, while others do so because of the exact place where they appear. The one announced by Sapienza University of Rome belongs to the second grou...

Sep 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-21-26

Daily Pook-Emu Bee links ceased being daily for the last week and change, but perhaps it is back with two straight editions to start the new week. 1 | Calibre 9.15 E-Book Manager Introduces “Create...

Sep 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Totila as War Leader

King Totila of the Ostrogoths, although the enemy and a barbarian, was still recognized by Procopius as an impressive figure:The armour in which he was clad was abundantly plated with gold and the ...

Sep 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Has Been Emitting a Radio Signal for Two Decades — and Nobody Can Explain Why

An international team of astronomers has published a detailed study of VT J1906+0849, a radio source discovered in the VLASS survey (Very Large Array Sky Survey) that doesn’t resemble anything else...

Sep 21, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Tinder Swindler

United Kingdom · 2018–2019 · Scam — Shimon Hayut posed as a diamond billionaire's son on Tinder, running a transnational Ponzi scheme that drained victims' loans to fund lavish displays for new tar...

Sep 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Leonardo da Vinci Was Obsessed With Flight. So Why Did He Draw a Wingless Beetle Next to His Water Engineering Notes?

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) filled his notebooks with insects: dragonflies, bees, wasps, butterflies — almost all of them winged. That focus lines up with what historians already knew about him. ...

Sep 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-20-26

I have not had much time to post new articles (long or short lately), but let us get the last full week of September off to a good start with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. 1 | Linux 7.3 Adds S...

Sep 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Totila the Ostrogoth

Although the coins later minted during his reign as king of the Osgtrogoths name him Baduila, he has become known as Totila through the writings of men like Procopius. "Totila" was a diminutive nam...

Sep 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bronze Age Sardinians Were Trading Metal with Scotland and Sweden— 500 Years Before the Phoenicians

A copper ingot cast somewhere in inland Sardinia during the Bronze Age might, centuries later, turn up in a Scottish tomb or a village in southern Sweden. That is the striking picture drawn by Sere...

Sep 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Sumo Ballet

I have been watching all of the top division bouts at the 2026 Aki Basho (September Grand Sumo Tournament). One of the highlight bouts on day 4 featured Yokozuna Onosato vs Takayasu. Takayasu deliv...

Sep 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Belisarius Returns to Italy

The Gothic Wars (535 - 554) under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I were created to reunify the Western Roman Empire with the Eastern. They were successful, thanks to the strategies and (in one cas...

Sep 19, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

Antwerp Diamond Heist

Belgium · 2003 · Heist — An Italian crew breached the heavily guarded Antwerp Diamond Center vault and emptied 109 safe deposit boxes of gems valued at roughly €100 million. Despite their convictio...

Sep 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Doesn’t Gravity Explain Why You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once? A New Experiment Under 1,400 Meters of Rock Just Narrowed It Down

Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in two states simultaneously — spinning left and right at the same time, for ...

Sep 19, 2026 from The Scholar's Stage

The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark

PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated.  I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have underestimated—vastly underestimated—the chance that progress in machine intelligen...

Sep 19, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines

This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game and also one of the most popular strategy games currently...

Sep 18, 2026 from Palladium

Don’t Count Out the Country House

The English country estate bound each generation to the land and to relationships that endured for centuries, sculpting a worthy elite. Scrapping them for bureaucracy might prove a costly mistake. ...