Posts tagged "history"

Jun 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Alexander III's Reign

In 1179, Pope Alexander III, now able to function as the recognized pope after his imperial-supported rival popes were suppressed, was in a position to summon clergy from all over to address some r...

Jun 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Wells, Waterwheels, and Canals Leading Water to Saladin’s Citadel Fortress in Cairo Discovered

The work of the joint Egyptian-French archaeological mission, composed of members from the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), has brought to lig...

Jun 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Enigmatic Iron Age “hole belts” in Denmark may be defensive structures similar to those Caesar encountered at Alesia

For years, archaeologists have found tens of thousands of holes about thirty or forty centimeters deep arranged in bands between three and six meters wide, stretching for several kilometers across ...

Jun 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Spanish Archaeologists Discover in Tusculum the Basilica That Served as a Model for This Type of Roman Building

This past January 2026, Italian authorities announced a discovery that shook the archaeological world: the so-called Basilica of Vitruvius in Fanum Fortunae, present-day Fano, considered the only c...

Jun 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On Personal Search Engines

I read a blog post titled Personal Search Engines with interest (HT Steve Makofsky). The author, Jason J. Gullickson, describes building a prototype federated personal search engine seeded with dom...

Jun 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Self-Hosting Adventures (Kenneth Reitz)

I stumbled upon a blog post by Kenneth Reitz on his personal blog via Bubbles. The essay, titled Self-Hosting Adventures, is well-advertised by its headline. While my personal set-up does not have ...

Jun 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-07-26

I was only able to publish two editions of Pook-Emu Bee links last week. Thus, to make amends, I present a rare Sunday edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. For link fans out there, I include many links in ...

Jun 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Pope Alexander III

A man born in Siena c.1100 named Roland grew up to make significant changes to the Roman Catholic Church. His name was Roland, and he studied theology at (probably) Bologna, according to Robert de ...

Jun 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Greek Acropolises, Neither Democratic Refuges nor Residences of Prehistoric Kings: A Study Questions Their Origin and Function

No one who has visited Athens forgets the image of the Acropolis crowning the city with its gleaming marbles. However, a new academic study has just overturned decades of misinterpretations about w...

Jun 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Game Publishers Move to Avoid GTA 6 (Rob Fahey)

Games Industry.biz (GIb) is a news website which covers the video game industry (surprise!). I have had GIb in my feed collection for a couple of years, and it has informed two NLJ articles in Prov...

Jun 06, 2026 from Palladium

The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence

Recently, the Vatican and Anthropic have shown a united front on artificial intelligence. But are they actually aligned? The post The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence appeared first on P...

Jun 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Eric the Memorable

After Niels, the fourth and last of the sons of Sweyn II to become kings of Denmark, died, the throne passed to the next generation; in this case to Eric II "the Memorable," son of Eric the Evergoo...

Jun 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

11 Prehistoric Stone Tools That Were Never Used, a Puzzling Discovery on an Ohio Golf Course

It was an ordinary Saturday in January 2021 when Joshua Fetter was walking next to a pond on the Sugar Creek golf course in Ohio. The land was being leveled for future housing developments. Unknowi...

Jun 06, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems te...

Jun 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Strange Complete Boar Burials Discovered Beneath the Tombs of a Greco-Roman Necropolis in the Nile Delta

The excavation campaign carried out by the Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities at the tell of Kom Aziza, located in the Beheira Governorate, has brought to ligh...

Jun 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Children of Sweyn, Part 3

After the untimely death of King Eric the Evergood in Cyprus, his brother Niels became King of Denmark, the latest of the sons of Sweyn II to become king. He was born c.1063, and his reign began in...

Jun 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Horses Found in Pompeii That Were Buried Alive in a Bakery After the Collapse of the Upper Floor—What Were They Doing There?

A team of archaeologists and specialists has unearthed in the famous bakery of the Insula of the Chaste Lovers in Pompeii the remains of two large herbivores—probably horses, donkeys, or hybrids—th...

Jun 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

What Are the Mysterious “Blue and Yellow Waters” the Aztecs Used to Identify Themselves as Heirs of the Toltec Civilization

When the Mexica (also known as Aztecs), after years of wandering, finally glimpsed the place where they would found their capital, they did not only see an eagle devouring a snake on a cactus. Acco...

Jun 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Some microbes found in Ötzi, the Iceman, are still alive after 5,000 years frozen in ice

A team of researchers from Eurac Research has managed to map in detail the microbial community associated with Ötzi, the ice mummy of the Chalcolithic man found in the Italian Alps in 1991. The stu...

Jun 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Anacharsis, the Scythian Prince Turned Philosopher Who Was the First Foreigner Granted Athenian Citizenship

Do you know the expression to speak like a Scythian? It was coined two and a half millennia ago by the ancient Greeks to refer to the ability of some people to give quick, witty, and brutally hones...