Posts tagged "history"

May 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researches Discover How Megalithic Architecture Spread Across Europe—It Was Not Through Migrations

That children from previous relationships grow up as siblings in a new family, or that couples adopt or foster children—the so-called blended families—constitute today a widespread model of coexist...

May 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Fossils of the Oldest Giant Crane in Europe and the Oldest Raven in the Iberian Peninsula Found in Granada

The current image of the Granada high plateau, dominated by arid and semi-desert landscapes, is misleading if one goes back in time to approximately a million and a half years ago. At that time, th...

May 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Fingerprints of Artisans and Officials Discovered on the Backs of Clay Seals from Ancient Jerusalem

When a package arrives at home, the modern consumer inspects the seal of the packaging: a sheet of plastic or an adhesive tape that guarantees that no one has opened the box beforehand. That need t...

May 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Defectors

It must have been a shock when Thorkell the Tall, a leader and warrior of the early 12th-century Danish invasion of England, changed his stance and decided to join the English forces of King Æthelr...

May 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

More than Twenty Bases of Votive Statues Found Still in Their Original Position at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Frangissa, Cyprus

The Department of Antiquities of the Deputy Ministry of Culture has announced the conclusion of the fifth campaign of modern archaeological excavation at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Frangissa, locat...

May 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Did Alexander the Great Descend into the Depths of the Ocean? The Incredible Myth of the Conquering King and His Diving Bell

Imagine for a moment the following scene: beneath the surface of an ocean teeming with fish of every size and color, a man with the appearance of a king, seated inside a glass barrel, gazes at the ...

May 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Evidence Found in Ethiopia That Homo sapiens Cremated Their Dead 100,000 Years Ago, 60,000 Before the Oldest Known Record

An international research team, which includes Ferhat Kaya, a researcher at the Academy of Finland at the University of Oulu, has discovered what could be the earliest evidence of human cremation. ...

May 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Thorkell the Tall

The Danish raid on Canterbury in 1011 included a leader named Thorkell the Tall. He was an important enough man that his name was recorded on a few runestones, such as the one pictured here in Swed...

May 23, 2026 from Palladium

The Burden of Discernment

Scientific institutions are struggling to survive under a mountain of publications and poor standards of peer review. Artificial Intelligence could usher in a new era of knowledge, or be its downfa...

May 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

A Noble End

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Alfheah (also Alphege, was captured during an invasion of Vikings in 1011. Eadric Streona was supposedly sent to negotiate. Unfortunately, Eadric might not have been t...

May 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Romans Recycled Emperor Statues: A Study Reveals How and Why the Faces of Power Were Recarved

In ancient Rome, statues of emperors were not immutable. They could change faces. A ruler who had fallen from favor would see his features chiseled away to make room for the image of his successor,...

May 22, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part V: How a Carthaginian Army Fights

This is the fifth and last part of our series (I, II, III, IV, V) looking at how Carthaginian armies were raised and constituted. Over the last four parts, we’ve looked at the larger components of ...

May 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-22-26

I was too busy yesterday to put together my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. I am busy today as well, but not too busy to take a link break. Article Links 1. Six search engines worth trying now that Googl...

May 22, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Ælfheah of Canterbury

Yesterday mentioned that Eadric Streona failed to negotiate the release of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Ælfheah, from the Vikings. Ælfheah (we are told) did not want a ransom paid for his release....

May 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Thousands of Ancient Greek letters have survived, yet none are love letters: what they reveal about life in the ancient world

When we imagine ancient Greece, we tend to think of marble, tragedies, philosophers, and wars. But the Greeks were also a people of letters. The book Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World, by...

May 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The fascinating history of Hațeg, an ancient island in the middle of Europe where all the dinosaurs were dwarfs

In the center of present-day Romania, near the town of Hațeg, lies an extraordinary story—the story of a lost world, a prehistoric island that defied all known rules about what dinosaurs were suppo...

May 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)

Historical predictions from the Scottish Nostradamus.

May 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Eadric Streona

Eadric, the son of Ethelric, started as a relative unknown. His father was at the court of Æthelred the Unready, but was not distinguished. Something in Eadric caused him to get the attention of Æt...

May 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Sasanian Empire Used Advanced Brass Technology in Their Helmets and Military Equipment, Just Like the Romans

A team of scientists from the British Museum and the University of Cambridge analyzed archaeological pieces from two cities of the Sasanian Empire —Merv, in present-day Turkmenistan, and Nineveh, i...

May 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Castoreum, the secretion from beavers’ anal glands that is used to make perfumes and in foods like vanilla ice cream

“…That he had imitated the beaver, which, finding itself harassed by hunters, cuts and tears with its teeth that for which it knows by natural instinct it is pursued…”. Thus Cervantes narrates in D...