Posts tagged "history"

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 ...

Sep 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Did Only Some Birds Survive the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs? The Answer May Be Hiding in a Feather Found in T. Rex’s Poop

In 2016, paleontologist David DeMar Jr. was crawling across a rocky outcrop in northeastern Montana, hunting for fish fossils, when he spotted a dark, reddish-brown nodule about half the size of a ...

Sep 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Landslide in Italy Just Exposed a 2,500-Year-Old Tomb From a People Who Traded With the Greeks

On the slope below the cemetery of Sant’Elpidio a Mare, in Italy’s Le Marche region, recent heavy rains loosened the hillside enough to expose something no one was looking for: a rounded ceramic ve...

Sep 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Last Battle of America’s Indian Wars Wasn’t Fought by the Sioux or the Apache — It Happened in 1918

In the United States, the phrase Indian Wars conjures a specific set of images: the Battle of Little Bighorn, the massacres at Wounded Knee and Sand Creek, the forced marches of the Trail of Tears,...

Sep 10, 2026 from Palladium

The Organization That Remade India

One Hindu nationalist organization remade society from the ground up. Other ambitious projects should learn how they did it. The post The Organization That Remade India appeared first on Palladium.

Sep 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-10-26

We went just over one week without daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Sickness (probably mostly allergies) and work intervened. But today I have a window for links. Back and better than ever? 1 | NCAA decla...

Sep 10, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)

By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death.

Sep 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Romans Believed Lightning Was Sacred and Buried Them as Offerings to God Summanus: A 1,900-Year-Old Inscription Just Proved It

In a quiet corner of Hadrian’s Villa, wedged between the so-called Amphitheater and a low bench of volcanic tufa rock, sits a marble slab measuring roughly 40 by 35 centimeters (about 16 by 14 inch...

Sep 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Solve a 1,700-Year-Old Jewelry Mystery Found in a Germanic Princess Grave on Rome’s Doorstep

In 2022, medical CT scanners let Egyptologists peer inside sealed sarcophagi without ever lifting a lid. In 2026, the same basic technology — pointed not at a pharaoh’s mummy but at two silver broo...

Sep 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Procopius and the Plague

The Plague of Justinian in the 540s was determined to be an early strain of the Bubonic Plague by researchers in recent years who were able to examine evidence from contemporary skeletons. The writ...

Sep 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Bronze Age Tribe in Poland Was Already Eating a Cereal Brought from China before Tutankhamun was even born

Around 1590 BCE — more than 800 years before Rome was founded, and before Tutankhamun was even born — a small number of people in what is now southeastern Poland started eating a cereal that had ne...

Sep 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Forget Beer: Ice Age Hunters Were Getting High 12,000 Years Earlier — With Betel Nuts

Two skeletons from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi had something strange going on in their mouths. Not cavities. Not the usual wear from a tough diet. Deep, rounded grooves cut into the teeth — a...

Sep 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

For 15 Years We Knew Denisovans Only From Their DNA. A Chinese Cave Just Gave Them an Arm

In 2019, workers doing routine ecological restoration at a quarry in China’s Yunnan province hit something under the soil: bones and stone tools. Nobody realized at the time that this unassuming ho...

Sep 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Just Watched an Adult T. Rex Walk — 66.5 Million Years Later

Before 2025, paleontologists had confirmed exactly two footprints anywhere in the world made by an adult Tyrannosaurus rex — one in New Mexico, one in Montana. Isolated prints, each capturing a sin...

Sep 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Beyond Neptune, Icy Worlds Kept a 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Secret Nobody Expected

For the first time, astronomers have pointed NASA’s two flagship space telescopes at the same patch of sky beyond Neptune and let them work as a team. Hubble handled the visible light. Webb handled...

Sep 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Procopius

One of the chief sources of the Gothic Wars and of 6th century Byzantine history is Procopius of Caesarea (c.500 - c.565), a Greek scholar and historian from Palestine. Besides writing Words on the...

Sep 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Britain’s Tallest Prehistoric Stones Are Taller Than Stonehenge — And Scientists Just Found Where They Came From

A team from the University of York and Curtin University, in Australia, has settled one of the most persistent puzzles in British archaeology: the exact origin of the towering standing stones known...

Sep 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Wildfires May Have Taught Humans to Make Pottery

Long before anyone built a kiln on purpose, the ground itself may have shown people how. A new study argues that a wave of prehistoric wildfires in the southern Levant, more than 9,000 years ago, s...

Sep 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

There’s a Faint Glow Opposite the Sun You’ve Probably Never Seen — and It Took Astronomers 300 Years to Explain

Picture a moonless night, far from any city. Look straight at the point in the sky opposite the Sun — the antisolar point, where the Sun would appear if you could see it through the Earth. There, f...

Sep 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

This Medieval Castle Had More Than 40 Subterranean Ovens — And Bread Wasn’t the Only Thing Baked There

At the foot of Mount Aragatsotn, in the Armenian highlands, sits the site of Aruch — a castle that was never just a castle. Between the 12th and 13th centuries, it housed a high-status residence, c...