Posts tagged "history"

May 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Emu Café Social and ATmosphere

I use the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin here on ECS (follow me from Masotdon or similar at @naferrell@social.emucafe.org). Because ActivityPub for WordPress is a key part of this project, I subs...

May 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Italy-Azerbaijan Trade Partnership

According to Vasif Huseynov writing for The Jamestown Foundation, “Italy is Azerbaijan’s largest trading partner.” Had you asked, I would have probably guessed Turkey. But I suppose Italy makes sen...

May 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Possible Iron Age Celtic Harbor Found on the Bank of the Main River in Germany

In March 2026, the German municipality of Aschaffenburg notified the Bavarian authorities of the discovery of these wooden elements during trenching and earthmoving operations. Since then, the exca...

May 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-20-26

We are having a second consecutive 90+ degree day here in Brooklyn today’s Pook-Emu Bee links are warmer than the outside temperatures. Links 1. Google Search as you know it is over (Sarah Perez fo...

May 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Law that “Regularized” Thousands of Freed Slaves by Granting Them the Vote in the Roman Republic was not for what we thought

For decades, the official history of ancient Rome has repeated the same idea: in the last decades of the Republic, freed slaves – the libertini – were so numerous and so impoverished that any popul...

May 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Mykonos Vase, Created in the 7th Century BC, Contains the Oldest Known Depiction of the Trojan Horse

In the summer of 1961, some workers conducting excavations in the center of the city of Mykonos, on the Greek island of the same name, stumbled upon an unexpected find: a large terracotta pithos, a...

May 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-19-26

I had been sitting down to churn out today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links. 1. Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold T...

May 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Pre-Roman Sanctuary Found in Padua, With Temples and Venetic Inscriptions Buried by an Ancient Flood

During the construction work of the first functional section of the New Regional Road 10 “Padana Inferiore,” which will connect Borgo Veneto with Carceri, the company Veneto Strade S.p.A. encounter...

May 19, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s)

Photographs and films of a forgotten pastime.

May 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The St. Edmund Cult

After Edmund of East Anglia began to be treated as a saint, he became an important focal point for Christians in East Anglia, and as a political tool.The Danish King Cnut (c.990 - 1035), who conque...

May 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Reveals That Mohenjo-Daro, One of the World’s Earliest Cities, Thrived While Reducing Its Wealth Gap

A study published in Antiquity has challenged one of the most widely accepted historical narratives of the past decades: the notion that the evolution from small villages to cities inevitably leads...

May 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund Ironside

Edmund, son of Æthelred the Unready and his first wife Ælfgifu of York, was likely born between 990 and 993, one of several siblings. He was raised in Wessex by his grandmother, Ælfthryth, wife of ...

May 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

One of the Mysterious Megalithic Vessels of the Plain of Jars in Laos Contains Remains of 37 Individuals and Glass Beads from India and Mesopotamia

Hundreds of stone jars, some weighing several tons, are scattered across the remote highlands of northern Laos. Despite researchers having examined this megalithic complex known as the Plain of Jar...

May 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Sultanate of Yogyakarta, the only reigning monarchy in the world that belongs to a republic

You don’t need to be an expert geographer to know that the capital of Indonesia is Jakarta, its most populated city. However, during the years of the Indonesian revolution that granted the country ...

May 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-18-26

Monday is here. So too after taking the weekend off are my Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Maniac strangles 7-year-old boy in Brooklyn park: cops (Dean Moses for Brooklyn Paper. May 18, 2026.) These sorts o...

May 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Saint Edmund

When King Edmund of East Anglia bought off the Vikings of the Great Heathen Army in 865, he might have thought he was safe from that point on. They returned to East Anglia in 868, however. Accordin...

May 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Silver Denarius of Emperor Gallienus Found in Strange Pits of a Mid-3rd Century AD Sarmatian Settlement in Hungary

Excavations carried out between late February and early March of 2026 on the outskirts of Őrbottyán, a town located in Pest County (Hungary), have brought to light a set of archaeological structure...

May 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researchers Manage to Distinguish the Handwriting of Different Hittite Scribes in Cuneiform Tablets with Artificial Intelligence

A team from the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz has presented an artificial intelligence tool called Palaeographicum that recognizes th...

May 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover That Angola’s Ndalambiri Rock Shelter, Famous for Its Mysterious Ancient Paintings, Was a Center of Iron Production

The rock shelter of Ndalambiri, declared a National Heritage Site of Angola in 1974, is known for its large painted frieze over 60 meters long that contains nearly 1,200 figures, mainly white, red,...

May 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

King Edmund of East Anglia

The Kingdom of East Anglia formed in the first half of the 6th century. Its first king was Wehha, ruling people who came from Frisia and Jutland. He was followed by Luffa, who was followed by Tytil...