Posts tagged "history"

Jul 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Shows Lead Was Worked in the Iberian Peninsula During the Bronze Age 1,800 Years Before the Phoenicians Arrived

A discovery at the Minferri site, in the town of Juneda in Lleida, has completely upended the established chronology for lead metallurgy in the Iberian Peninsula. The research carried out at this B...

Jul 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Last European Hunter-Gatherers Colonized Central Mediterranean Islands Before the Advent of Agriculture

The publication in the journal PNAS Nexus of new evidence from Malta has shaken the foundations of what was believed about the maritime capabilities of the last hunter-gatherers in Europe. The disc...

Jul 28, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)

A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.

Jul 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Mayor Northampton

Despite his past as a troublemaker being involved in public brawls, even being imprisoned in the Tower for a time because of one, John Northampton became an Alderman for the Cordwainer Ward in 1375...

Jul 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Rare Geological Phenomenon Observed from Space: 1.4 Cubic Kilometers of Magma Moved 50 Kilometers Inside the Earth’s Crust

Satellite monitoring has allowed an international team of scientists to follow in real time the evolution of an extraordinarily rare geological process in the subsurface of Ethiopia. Between Decemb...

Jul 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The discovery of footprints from a hominid that lived 1.4 million years ago by a Kenyan lake reveals it could reach 180 centimeters in height

An international team of researchers has documented a set of fossilized footprints that offer an exceptional snapshot of the behavior of a group of ancient human relatives who inhabited the shores ...

Jul 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Antikythera Ephebe, the Greek statue that still gazes at something that disappeared two thousand years ago

It stands 6.4 feet tall, nearly twenty-three hundred years old, and has one detail that makes it special among the surviving bronze sculptures of ancient Greece, alongside the Charioteer of Delphi ...

Jul 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Good Parliament

1376 was a time of unrest in England under King Edward III. The court was considered corrupt, the wealth gap was increasing, the common people felt oppressed, taxation to support Edward's wars with...

Jul 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover 120 Roman Inscriptions in Spanish Cave that Reveal the Role of Women in the Goddess’s Rituals

The archaeological campaign carried out during May and June 2026 in Cova Dones, located in the Valencian municipality of Millares in southeastern Spain, has completely transformed the previously kn...

Jul 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Large 2nd-Century AD Germanic Settlement with Thirty Longhouses Eight Meters Wide Discovered Next to the Teutoburg Forest

A team of archaeologists has concluded, after several months of fieldwork, the excavation of a Germanic settlement of exceptional dimensions in the Sieker district, southeast of the German city of ...

Jul 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Secret of the Preservation of the Huashan Rock Paintings for 2000 Years: They Are Made with the Blood of Women Giving Birth

The Huashan rock paintings, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, stretch over 260 kilometers along the Zuojiang River valley, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China. Mo...

Jul 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The complete layout of the wall of the first Roman camp in Vindonissa discovered, along with medical and military equipment of the legionaries

The emergency archaeological intervention promoted by Cantonal Archaeology on Zürcherstrasse Street in Windisch (in the Swiss canton of Aargau) has concluded within the expected timeframe, accordin...

Jul 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Evaluating My Nagoya Basho Predictions

On July 11, I made my pre-Nagoya Basho predictions for the fourth grand sumo tournament of 2026. To be precise, I picked eight wrestlers to hit double digit wins. Now that the Nagoya Basho has been...

Jul 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

John Northampton

John Northampton was a citizen of London his whole life, from a decent-sized family (two brothers and two sisters). He became a cloth merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, fou...

Jul 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Large Fresco of Dionysus and Ariadne Discovered and Restored on the Ceiling of the “Casa con Pacificio” in Pompeii

The presentation of the project took place in the Palestra Grande of the Excavations, at the end of the International Workshop Pompeii: Excavations and Ongoing Research, held in the Park Auditorium...

Jul 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The “Barbarian Invasions” forced Roman legionaries on the Danube frontier to survive on hunting and fishing, as supply routes were cut off

The Roman soldiers who guarded the Danube frontier almost two thousand years ago did not live on bread and vegetables alone. The analysis of more than 10,000 animal bones found at the Diana-Karataš...

Jul 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Criminal Cases, Part 3

When the Mayor of London says you have to dress for diner, you dress for dinner. On the Feast of Pentecost in 1382, the Mayor of London and the Aldermen were to meet at the Church of St. Peter in C...

Jul 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On Tactics to Hit the Hacker News Front Page

I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page. I had six New Leaf Journal articles make Hacker News page one between April 2021 and January 2024, and can say ...

Jul 24, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVb: Cohesion

This is the second half of the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. Last we...

Jul 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tadej Pogacar Shatters Pantani’s 1995 Alpe d’Huez Record by 1:15

I haven’t watched the Tour de France since 2016, mainly due to the fact I dropped cable and would need to subscribe to a streaming service that may or may not work with my all-Linux set-up. But I s...