Posts tagged "history"

Sep 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An altar of fire and a 2,300-year-old chest found in Uzbekistan reopen the mystery of how the ancestors of the Zoroastrians buried their dead

The site is provisionally dated to a six-century stretch, from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, offering a window into funerary rites practiced by a population that neither buried nor crem...

Sep 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Rare Etruscan Cube-Shaped Tomb from the Era of Rome’s Last Kings, with a Corinthian Krater Filled with Burned Bones, Discovered in Pontecagnano

Anyone planning to build in Pontecagnano Faiano, near Salerno, has learned to expect a tomb underneath. That happened again this year, and this time the find was unusual enough that archaeologists ...

Sep 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Diver Who Held Up a Cathedral With His Bare Hands — for Six Years, in Total Darkness

Winchester Cathedral covers roughly 53,800 square feet (about 5,000 square meters) of floor space, making it one of the largest cathedrals in Northern Europe. At 558 feet (170 meters) long, it’s al...

Sep 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Just Dug Beneath a Legendary Slavic Fortress in Germany — and Found a Settlement 5,000 Years Older

In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the Havel River curls around a low rise of land that locals call the Pilatsch. For g...

Sep 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval

General Belisarius

Flavius Belisarius (c.500 - March 565) was Byzantine Emperor Justinian's favorite military commander. He successfully managed to gain control of Northern Italy from the Ostrogoths during the Gothic...

Sep 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

DNA From Ancient Grape Seeds Shows Spain’s Wine Came From the Phoenicians, Not the Romans

One grape variety still grown in Spanish vineyards, hebén, has never gone out of cultivation for at least the last 1,100 years, according to the new study. That takes its lineage back to roughly th...

Sep 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

4,500 Years Before Nonstick Cookware, Bronze Age Syria Already Had Two Kinds of Pots and Seasoned Food With Resin

A team led by the National Museum of Denmark has worked out, for the first time, what people actually cooked in the pots of Hama, an ancient city in western Syria, roughly 4,500 years ago. By analy...

Sep 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Lake the Size of Connecticut Has Been Sealed Under Antarctic Ice Since Before Humans Existed

In February 2012, after twenty years of nearly uninterrupted work, a Russian drill broke through the last stretch of ice over East Antarctica and reached something no human had ever touched: the su...

Sep 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of “love flower” seeds—a plant that today survives only in a remote corner of Ankara—have been discovered inside a 4,000-year-old Hittite vessel

The site is called Külhöyük, in the Oyaca neighborhood of Ankara’s Gölbaşı district, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the capital. It’s a tell — the term Near Eastern archaeology uses for an...

Sep 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Near Where Emperor Diocletian Was Said to Be Born Archaeologists Find a Body Buried Face-Down — A Fate Usually Reserved for Outcasts

The body has been lying face-down for close to two thousand years. When archaeologists reached tomb 162, on the outskirts of modern Solin, Croatia, they immediately noticed something at odds with t...

Sep 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Post-Plague Constantinople

Although during the horrific events of the first recorded appearance of the Bubonic Plague during the time of Justinian we read that rivals put aside their differences, the aftermath did not usher ...

Sep 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman Villa Mixed the Pharaohs’ Most Expensive Pigment Into Its Plaster Like Cheap Filler

Egyptian blue predates the pyramids’ final form. Egyptian artisans were producing it before 3100 BCE, making it, as far as archaeologists know, the first pigment humans ever manufactured synthetica...

Sep 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

2026 Aki Basho Sumo Predictions

Before July’s Nagoya Basho (July grand sumo tournament), I predicted which wrestlers I thought would reach 10 wins. Now, one tournament wiser, I will predict the entire field for the September 2026...

Sep 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Burial During Justinian's Plague, Part 2

Just because deaths during the Justinian Plague were so numerous that they couldn't dig graves and had to resort to piling them up in stone towers doesn't mean that "proper" funerary procedures wer...

Sep 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Almoravid Engineers Anchored a Fortress to Bare Rock — 900 Years Before Modern Skyscrapers Used the Same Trick

On May 29, 1108, an Almoravid army crushed the forces of Alfonso VI of León and Castile outside the town of Uclés. Among the dead was Sancho Alfónsez, the king’s only son and heir, a loss so severe...

Sep 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Particle of Light Traveled 2 Billion Years, Broke the Rules of Physics to Reach Earth — And Scientists Think They Know Why

On October 9, 2022, two space telescopes, Swift and Fermi, picked up the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. Researchers nicknamed it BOAT — “brightest of all time” — official designation GRB ...

Sep 12, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

D. B. Cooper Hijacking

United States · 1971 · Hijacking — A passenger calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727, extorted $200,000, and parachuted from the plane's aft stairs into the night storm, vanishing withou...

Sep 11, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art

This week, at long last, we begin our long-delayed but always expected something that we blog for: the Hearts of Iron IV Teaching Paradox series! This has been a long requested series that I put of...

Sep 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A monumental building discovered in the port of Tarquinia in an even older layer beneath its own Roman ruins

Gravisca sits on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lazio, in what is today the Porto Clementino area near Tarquinia, roughly 7–10 kilometers (4–6 miles) from the ancient Etruscan city it once served. The sit...

Sep 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Burial During Justinian's Plague, Part 1

Sometimes a disaster strikes a civilization that kills so many so fast that the systems for providing support and burial cannot keep up. Such was the case when the Bubonic Plague came to town. One ...