Posts tagged "history"

Jul 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Evidence of Ridden Horses in the Iberian Peninsula Found at a Bronze Age Site in Madrid

A team of researchers from the University of Córdoba, the CSIC, and other institutions has documented at the Castillo Reyes site in Pinto (Madrid) the oldest set of evidence known to date regarding...

Jul 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

At Site of Oldest Known Human Burials, 145,000-Year-Old Skull Reveals Earliest Documented Stabbing

The Qafzeh cave, in present-day Israel, has brought to light one of the most significant fossil assemblages for tracing the first steps of Homo sapiens outside Africa, but a new examination of the ...

Jul 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 2nd Century BC Greek Military Camp Discovered on the Border Between Bactria and Sogdiana in Uzbekistan

A Czech-Uzbek archaeological team has managed to unravel the true nature of a Hellenistic-era site in southern Uzbekistan. What in 2018 seemed to be just a simple group of half-buried pots with har...

Jul 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

David of Oxford

Asher of Lincoln had a son, David, who married a local woman, Muriel, and at some point moved to Oxford, where he lived in a house on St. Aldate's (now site of the Oxford Town Hall), where Oxford J...

Jul 08, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”: Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage

Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock character of the pedant and his association with individual superiority, social dist...

Jul 08, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from Amauta Magazine (1926–30)

Cover designs for José Carlos Mariátegui’s radical Lima-based magazine.

Jul 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Seal with Astral Symbols and One of the Priests Who “Burned Incense to Baal, to the Sun, to the Moon, to the Planets and to All the Host of Heaven” Found in Southern Israel

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority found a limestone seal with a worship scene engraved on its base during excavations conducted on the outskirts of the city of Yavne, in the sout...

Jul 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researches Discover that Fungi Communicate Underground in Cases of Metal Contamination in Forests

The health of northern hemisphere forests largely depends on an age-old alliance hidden beneath the soil surface. This is the symbiosis that most trees establish with the so-called ectomycorrhizal ...

Jul 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Illegitimate Children in Ancient Sparta: A Study Reveals They Were Not Marginalized, but a Key Piece in the Social Machinery of the Warrior Myth

The image of Sparta that has come down to us is that of a closed, militarized, and extremely rigid society, where only true-born citizens — the so-called homoioi or “equals” — had rights, and where...

Jul 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Astonishingly Well-Preserved Soft Tissues Discovered in a Fossil 200 Million Years Older Than Dinosaurs

Long before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth, and even before animals or plants colonized the land surface, distant relatives of starfish known as crinoids, which resemble sea flowers attached ...

Jul 07, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858)

Selections from a peculiar British journal that focus on the peculiarities of British monarchs.

Jul 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Moses of Oxford

Moses of Oxford was one of the most prominent scholars and legal minds in Anglo-Jewry of the 13th century. Born in Oxford to a family of generations of rabbis, he married into another prominent fam...

Jul 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Bioenergetic Study Places the Col de la Traversette as the Most Probable Route for Hannibal’s Crossing of the Alps

The crossing of the Alps undertaken by the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca in 218 B.C. with a force of 40,000 soldiers, 7,000 horses, and 37 war elephants has been the subject of historical spe...

Jul 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dragonnades, the campaigns to force the Huguenots to convert by obliging them to lodge and feed soldiers in their homes

Ardèche is a French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that encompasses Vivarais and parts of Languedoc. One of its tourist attractions is the so-called Chemin Royal du Boutières, a rout...

Jul 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman Emperors Were Murdered Nearly Twice as Often as Chinese Emperors: Study Reveals the “Military Trap”

The fate of emperors in antiquity was far from similar. While ruling in Rome often meant a premature and violent death, Chinese monarchs enjoyed considerably greater survival. This is confirmed by ...

Jul 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Jews in Oxford

Just as London had a Jewish presence after the arrival of William and the Norman French, Oxford started to see a significant Jewish population about 10 years after the 1066 conquest. Living mostly ...

Jul 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Inscriptions in the Ancient Phrygian City of Acmonia Reveal Torch-Bearing Statues at Night and the Power of Priestesses

Researchers have announced the discovery of nine inscriptions in the ancient city of Acmonia, located in modern-day Turkey, offering an exceptional window into the daily life, religious beliefs, an...

Jul 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Science Discovers the Exact Location: A Study Shows That Odysseus’ Ithaca Was Never an Island

The image that for millennia has supported Homeric scholarship crumbles in the face of philological and geological evidence. A study published in the digital journal Antigone argues that the concep...

Jul 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Tsunami That Saved the Greek City of Potidea from the Persian Siege Is the First Documented Giant Wave in History

The Aegean Sea holds secrets that not even the Olympian gods could imagine. Beneath its waters, the tectonic plates dance a dangerous waltz that, from time to time, shakes the earth violently and u...

Jul 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Sealed Tombs with Slabs, Untouched Since Antiquity, and a Stele with a Seated Man Holding a Bird Discovered in Northwestern Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission working in the ancient city of Marina Al-Alamein, located on the country’s northwestern coast, has achieved a discovery of singular importance during excavations...