Posts tagged "history"

Jul 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings at the Capo Mulini Shipwreck, Sunk in the Late 2nd Century BC, Rewrite the Map of Republican Sicily’s Trade Routes

The waters of the maritime stretch between Acireale and Aci Castello, on the eastern coast of Sicily, have revealed a new chapter in the seafaring history of the Mediterranean. The conclusion of th...

Jul 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ancient astronomers considered it one of the brightest stars in the sky, but it barely shines: researchers solve the mystery

Almost two millennia ago, in the year 137 AD, Claudius Ptolemy included in his famous Almagest a list of the brightest stars in the sky. Among the thirteen that received the highest rating—magnitud...

Jul 20, 2026 from Palladium

Wiring Capital to Compute

America possesses more capital than any other nation in history and the most compute demand in the world. It is still waiting for a market to wire them together. The post Wiring Capital to Compute ...

Jul 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman camp from the time of Marcus Aurelius and the Marcomannic Wars with strange legionary burials found in Slovakia

The extensive archaeological project linked to the future industrial park of Šurany, in southwestern Slovakia, has provided one of the most relevant discoveries in recent years for understanding th...

Jul 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Urinalysis, Part 1

Last post mentioned that a medieval illustrator indicated a physician by showing him holding a flask. There was a very specific substance in that flask, and it wasn't blood; it was urine. Blood's c...

Jul 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

In the 3rd century BC Germanic peoples cooperated to build the great fortification of Wittekindsburg, now their homes have been found

The archaeological surveys carried out in the surroundings of the German city of Minden, in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, are transforming the current understanding of human occupation in this ar...

Jul 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover 7,000-Year-Old Fish Traps in the Norwegian Mountains

A team of researchers has unearthed in the mountains of southern Norway the remains of several wooden fish traps dating back 7,000 years, a finding that demonstrates that hunter-gatherer-fisher soc...

Jul 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Three Tombs of Officials and Military Figures from Egypt’s 18th Dynasty Discovered at Saqqara, Including That of the “Great Merchant of the House of Ptah”

The Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Bubasteion necropolis, in the eastern sector of the escarpment at the Saqqara site, has announced the discovery of three rock-cut tombs dating to ...

Jul 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Blood & Health

We've been talking about blood as food, and some recipes using blood in cooking, but now let's talk about health-related blood.Blood was considered one of four "humors" that were the key to health ...

Jul 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bartolomeo Colleoni, the mercenary with three pairs of “coglioni”

It is curious that two of the most famous and representative statues of the Quattrocento were not made in honor of a prince or a writer, nor of a religious or mythological figure, but of mercenarie...

Jul 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Blood Recipes

We talked yesterday about preparing and preserving blood for culinary use, now let's look at some more specific uses in medieval cuisine. Today we actually make som e recipes using blood. (For the ...

Jul 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

First Textile Fragment from the Iron Age Found at the Submerged Site of the Gran Carro of Bolsena After Sixty Years of Searching

The waters of Lake Bolsena, in the Italian province of Viterbo, continue to yield unprecedented evidence of protohistoric life in southern Etruria. The team led by the Underwater Archaeology Servic...

Jul 18, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVa: Leadership

This is the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. We’ve talked about how armies a...

Jul 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Late Antique Building with Mosaic and Ritual Objects Found in Agrigento, Evidencing the Transition to Christianity in Sicily

The eleventh excavation campaign in the Hellenistic-Roman district of Agrigento, carried out over the past few weeks, has concluded with the discovery of a building whose construction sequence span...

Jul 17, 2026 from Palladium

Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Education

Educational institutions have learned to optimize for everything except learning. Artificial intelligence could force them to measure what’s important. The post Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Educ...

Jul 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Blood as Food

There's a scene early in The Name of the Rose involving barrels of pigs' blood. It was autumn, and time to slaughter the pigs, but of course you wouldn't want to waste the blood.You could not, howe...

Jul 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Princesses of Ancient Egypt Practiced Archery and Hunting 4,000 Years Ago, and Were Buried With Their Weapons

The reevaluation of six royal mummies found in Dahshur at the end of the 19th century and rediscovered in 2020 has allowed a team of researchers to determine that some Middle Kingdom princesses of ...

Jul 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

DNA Analysis Reveals that the “Shaman” of Stonehenge Was a Female Goldsmith from the Bronze Age

A surprising discovery in the field of archaeogenetics has completely transformed the understanding of one of the most significant prehistoric burials in the British Isles. New evidence from ancien...

Jul 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Tabula Capuana: the sacred Etruscan calendar that has not yet been fully deciphered

In the Altes Museum in Berlin rests one of the most enigmatic treasures of antiquity. It is a simple terracotta tablet, about 60 by 50 centimeters, that looks like a large brick. But on its baked s...

Jul 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Cup Noodle (Cold Edition) in Japan

SoraNews24, which covers news from Japan, is a long-time member of my feed collection and a regular article contributor to the “Around the Web” secution of my weekly newsletter. They cover some “ne...