Posts tagged "history"

Jul 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Large Roman Ceramic Kilns Discovered in Ancient Pannonia in Austria, and Archaeologists Believe There Are 100 More Underground

The educational excavation campaign that the University of Vienna has been conducting since mid-July in the municipality of Hannersdorf, in the Oberwart district southeast of Vienna, has brought to...

Jul 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Aquiry Civilization Inhabited the Southwestern Amazon with Millions of People for 1,500 Years and Collapsed at the Same Time as the Maya

An international team of researchers has documented through airborne laser scanning the existence of an extensive multicultural civilization that thrived in the Southwestern Amazon between 600 B.C....

Jul 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Library in the Iberian Peninsula and the Westernmost in the Entire Empire Found in a Roman Villa in Córdoba

A team from the University of Granada has confirmed that a room in the Roman villa of Fuente Álamo, in the municipality of Puente Genil, functioned as a library, making it the oldest documented in ...

Jul 29, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. ...

Jul 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two 40,000-Year-Old Ivory Bird Figurines Discovered in Hohle Fels Cave, the Smallest Sculptures Found to Date at the Famous Site

Excavations carried out during 2025 in the Hohle Fels cave, located in the UNESCO World Heritage area of the Swabian Jura in southwest Germany, have yielded two new discoveries of extraordinary imp...

Jul 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Nicholas Brembre

Proving that "what goes around comes around"—although we should probably just allude to the medieval concept of the Wheel of Fortune—one-time Nicholas Brembre, who had persecuted former mayor John ...

Jul 29, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920)

Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.

Jul 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Byzantine Ballista Bolts from the 11th Century Found at the Manzikert Site, Used in the Siege Prior to the 1071 Battle

The systematic excavations that have been underway since 2020 in the plain of Manzikert (in Turkish Malazgirt), in eastern Anatolia, have provided a new set of material evidence that makes it possi...

Jul 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Shows Lead Was Worked in the Iberian Peninsula During the Bronze Age 1,800 Years Before the Phoenicians Arrived

A discovery at the Minferri site, in the town of Juneda in Lleida, has completely upended the established chronology for lead metallurgy in the Iberian Peninsula. The research carried out at this B...

Jul 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Last European Hunter-Gatherers Colonized Central Mediterranean Islands Before the Advent of Agriculture

The publication in the journal PNAS Nexus of new evidence from Malta has shaken the foundations of what was believed about the maritime capabilities of the last hunter-gatherers in Europe. The disc...

Jul 28, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)

A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.

Jul 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Mayor Northampton

Despite his past as a troublemaker being involved in public brawls, even being imprisoned in the Tower for a time because of one, John Northampton became an Alderman for the Cordwainer Ward in 1375...

Jul 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Rare Geological Phenomenon Observed from Space: 1.4 Cubic Kilometers of Magma Moved 50 Kilometers Inside the Earth’s Crust

Satellite monitoring has allowed an international team of scientists to follow in real time the evolution of an extraordinarily rare geological process in the subsurface of Ethiopia. Between Decemb...

Jul 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The discovery of footprints from a hominid that lived 1.4 million years ago by a Kenyan lake reveals it could reach 180 centimeters in height

An international team of researchers has documented a set of fossilized footprints that offer an exceptional snapshot of the behavior of a group of ancient human relatives who inhabited the shores ...

Jul 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Antikythera Ephebe, the Greek statue that still gazes at something that disappeared two thousand years ago

It stands 6.4 feet tall, nearly twenty-three hundred years old, and has one detail that makes it special among the surviving bronze sculptures of ancient Greece, alongside the Charioteer of Delphi ...

Jul 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Good Parliament

1376 was a time of unrest in England under King Edward III. The court was considered corrupt, the wealth gap was increasing, the common people felt oppressed, taxation to support Edward's wars with...

Jul 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover 120 Roman Inscriptions in Spanish Cave that Reveal the Role of Women in the Goddess’s Rituals

The archaeological campaign carried out during May and June 2026 in Cova Dones, located in the Valencian municipality of Millares in southeastern Spain, has completely transformed the previously kn...

Jul 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Large 2nd-Century AD Germanic Settlement with Thirty Longhouses Eight Meters Wide Discovered Next to the Teutoburg Forest

A team of archaeologists has concluded, after several months of fieldwork, the excavation of a Germanic settlement of exceptional dimensions in the Sieker district, southeast of the German city of ...

Jul 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Secret of the Preservation of the Huashan Rock Paintings for 2000 Years: They Are Made with the Blood of Women Giving Birth

The Huashan rock paintings, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, stretch over 260 kilometers along the Zuojiang River valley, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China. Mo...

Jul 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The complete layout of the wall of the first Roman camp in Vindonissa discovered, along with medical and military equipment of the legionaries

The emergency archaeological intervention promoted by Cantonal Archaeology on Zürcherstrasse Street in Windisch (in the Swiss canton of Aargau) has concluded within the expected timeframe, accordin...