Posts tagged "history"

Sep 16, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Veronese's Dogs

“Oh, if I could only pray”, Luther once said of his dog Tölpel, “the way this dog watches the meat”. Attending to attentive canine figures in half a dozen paintings by Paolo Veronese, Thomas W. Laq...

Sep 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Massive 6,000-Year-Old Kiln in Romania Ran Hot Enough to Melt Bronze Centuries Before Anyone Cast It

A team of archaeologists digging at the site of Ursoaia, in Romania’s Iași County, has uncovered a nearly 6,000-year-old pottery kiln unlike anything previously found in the region. Described in a ...

Sep 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Not All Roads Led to Rome: Scientists Discover Byzantium Was the Empire’s Real Hub

All roads lead to Rome. It’s one of the oldest sayings in the Western world, and according to a new study in Nature Communications, it isn’t quite true. Led by Adam Pažout, a researcher at the Auto...

Sep 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Nothing in the Universe Can Reach -459°F or Absolute Zero — Not Even Empty Space

There’s a temperature nothing in the universe has ever touched. It’s called absolute zero, equal to -273.15°C (-459.67°F), the point at which the particles that make up matter would lose all their ...

Sep 15, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

It’s “A Cat-astrophe”! (1919)

“A Cat-astrophe” came on the tail end of an odd 1918 boom in cat-themed music.

Sep 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-15-26

My posting out-put has been subpar of late, but today the Pook-Emu Bee links return for the first time since September 10. 1 | 25 Years Since the Worst Day in My Lifetime (Andrew R. Arthur for Cent...

Sep 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

North Africa’s Oldest Fort Outside Egypt Rose in Step with Bronze Age Spain

Before Rome existed, before Phoenician ships ever reached the western Mediterranean, and around the same time the first fortified villages of the Argaric culture were rising in southeastern Iberia,...

Sep 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Blues and Greens

People love sports, and people love their sports teams, and rivalries abound. 'Twas ever thus, and Ancient Rome was no exception.In Rome and the later Byzantine Empire, chariot races were extremely...

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...