Posts tagged "history"

Jul 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

1,000 Years Ago There Were Tens of Thousands of Languages in the World, Today Only 7,500 Remain: This Is What Happened

Today, humans speak or use signs in approximately 7,500 different languages. However, this figure, impressive as it may seem, represents only a snapshot of a constantly changing history, and questi...

Jul 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Elevated Roads That Seem to Lead Nowhere Found in an Iron Age Fort in Western England

A team of archaeologists and students from the University of Birmingham has begun the first excavation work at the site known as Wall Camp, an Iron Age fort located on the Shropshire plain in weste...

Jul 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Criminal Cases, Part 2

Sometimes the "punishment" was more of a restriction. Take the case of Thomas Welford, who sold salted herring. He had a ship docked at Queenshithe filled with salted herring. He was a wholesaler, ...

Jul 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Mystery of the Baboon and the Ibis: Moonlight Reveals Why the Ancient Egyptians Deified Two Such Different Animals

A study published in the journal Time and Mind has brought back to the scientific forefront a question that for decades has puzzled Egyptologists and primatologists: why the god Thoth, one of the m...

Jul 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Moskstraumen, the Norwegian whirlpool that looks so much like Charybdis from the Odyssey that some theories say they are the same

Between the islands of Moskenesøya and Mosken, in the Norwegian archipelago of the Lofoten, the waters do something that happens nowhere else in the world in quite the same way: they twist in the o...

Jul 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Thrace’s First Farmers: The Settlement of Paradimi Is Older Than Previously Believed and Had a Double Defensive System

The mound of Paradimi, located about six kilometers southwest of the city of Komotini on the plain of Greek Thrace, has been the focus of an ambitious investigation that has transformed what was kn...

Jul 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Criminal Cases, Part 1

We've talked about death and destruction in war, and all sorts of dangerous and aggressive behavior that is not seen in modern day-to-day life. Law courts in the modern era are packed with daily tr...

Jul 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Possible Ancient Dams Discovered in Egypt Near the Red Pyramid of Dahshur That May Have Been Used for Its Construction

French and Egyptian researchers have presented the first solid evidence that two huge linear structures located southwest of the Red Pyramid, on the Dahshur plateau (Egypt), were not ramps for drag...

Jul 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two babies were buried in an ancient Roman latrine at the sanctuary of Artemis in Ephesus in the 8th century, centuries after the building’s abandonment

The discovery occurred in the least expected place. During excavations at the Odeon of Ephesus, a building dedicated to musical and poetic performances built in the 1st century AD, archaeologists l...

Jul 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings at the Iberian Site of the Assut de Tivenys Point to an Origin Prior to the 3rd Century BC and Reveal a Seal and a Fibula of Sertorian Soldiers

The excavations carried out this summer at the Iberian settlement of L’Assut, located in a strategic spot along the course of the Ebro River as it passes through the municipality of Tivenys (Baix E...

Jul 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Were AI Blog Post Images Ever Cool?

I read an interesting blog post by Panagiotis Vryonis titled AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more. My first thought was “they were never cool.” But I read on to see his perspective. ...

Jul 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Light Phone Continues to Fail QWERTY Test

I have read some articles about the Light Phone and other “minimalist” phones. As someone who wrote not one but two articles on my “ideal” phone concept (creative concept photography included), I a...

Jul 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tomb with 560 Ushabti Figurines, Rhodian Pottery, and Osirian Burials Discovered in Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities, conducting excavation work at the necropolis of Tell el-Quwaysna, located in the Menufia governorate, has documented th...

Jul 22, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Urinalysis, Part 3

William of Malmesbury tells us that William the Conqueror fell from his horse in summer of 1087 while fighting on the continent and suffered painful internal damage. Physicians examined his urine a...

Jul 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Statue of a Bacchante Found in Tusculum May Have Belonged to Cicero and is the First Discovered Work of the Famous Sculptor Evandros

A team of archaeologists from the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome (EEHAR-CSIC) has unearthed in the ancient city of Tusculum a female marble statue of extraordinary quality that, ...

Jul 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman camp with inscribed projectiles discovered, marking the exact site of the repression of the Cerretan revolt in 39 B.C.

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have documented at Collet de Jovell, within the municipality of Urús in the province of Lleida, a collection of archaeological materials...

Jul 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Emerald Tablet, the enigmatic text that revealed the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone

Psychiatrist Carl Jung and historian George R. S. Mead studied the Emerald Tablet between the last quarter of the 19th century and the first of the 20th. Surrealist poet André Breton included the p...

Jul 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Rare Statue Found in a Gallic Iron Age Settlement Where Unusual Amounts of Horse Meat Were Consumed

The excavations carried out at the residential site of Mettray Le Désert, located north of Tours, have provided new data on human occupation during the second period of the Iron Age. The fieldwork,...

Jul 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Urinalysis, Part 2

We started a conversation yesterday on the use of urine by medieval Western European physicians to determine health. I thought today we'd go into exactly how the urine was an indicator of health.Ex...

Jul 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A New Forensic Approach to the Shroud of Turin: Science Reveals Biological Clues Without Dating Its Origin

The Shroud of Turin, one of the most studied and controversial relics of Christianity, has been subjected to a new scientific scrutiny that, without resolving the debate on its chronology or authen...