Posts tagged "history"

May 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

For Centuries, the People of Central Asia Spoke One Language but Wrote in Another: Greek, Aramaic, or Prakrit

Imagine if suddenly all documents written in Spanish, English, or French disappeared, and the only things left from our era were a few administrative texts in Latin and Ancient Greek. Something lik...

May 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund at War

There were few times in England's Medieval period when it was not at war with someone. Even when they were not forced to defend themselves, they chose to go to warfare territory or to start a Crusa...

May 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of a self-sufficient village from the late 3rd century AD—predating the Germanic migrations—and a strange “large, dark, opaque glass bead” discovered in Saxony

Gravel extraction at the Liebersee site, a hamlet belonging to the municipality of Belgern-Schildau in Saxony (Germany), has brought to light a series of archaeological structures that document the...

May 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Mycenaean Palace and a Sanctuary Rewrite the History of the Lacedaemonians, and How the Spartans Joined Them

Imagine a fertile valley in the Peloponnese, crossed by the Eurotas river. There, more than 3,300 years ago, a Mycenaean palace rose, controlling the territory. Seven kilometers to the north, on a ...

May 16, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, May 15, 2026

Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week we’ll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the ‘odds and ends’ components (slingers, elephants), before looking at how that mixture...

May 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-15-26

After two missed days due to having many work assignments, I return with a new edition of my Pook-Emu Bee links. Of course, there are no Pook-Emu Bee links tomorrow because of the newsletter and Su...

May 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund's Second Wife

After returning to England from failed Crusade attempts, Edmund had to deal with some unrest. His father, Henry III, died on 16 November 1271. The succession passed to Edward, who was still returni...

May 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Physician’s Case Found in Pompeii Among the Remains of a Victim of the A.D. 79 Eruption

More than six decades after the excavation work carried out in the so-called Orto dei Fuggiaschi (Garden of the Fugitives), a new analysis of the materials recovered at the time has succeeded in as...

May 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tomb of the Purification Priest of the Temple of Amun and 10 Other Figures, Whose Names and Roles Were Previously Unknown, Discovered in Luxor

The work of the Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the necropolis of Dra Abu el-Naga, located on the west bank of Luxor, has concluded its eighth excavation...

May 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Attius Clausus, the Sabine who emigrated to Rome with his family and his five thousand clients, changed his name and founded the gens Claudia

«Appius, who had an impulsive character… » says Livy in the second book of his work Ab urbe condita (On the Founding of the City); «Appius leaves because of the natural arrogance of his character» ...

May 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A new species of “hairy” ghost pipefish discovered in the southwestern Pacific that disguises itself as algae to hide

A team of Australian researchers has officially described a new species of ghost pipefish, characterized by its abundant “fur” of fine filaments all over its body, giving it a notably shaggy appear...

May 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Funding a Crusade

When Henry III's son Edmund Crouchback was 23 years old, he pledged to go on crusade with his brother, Edward, and a cousin, Henry of Almain (son of Henry III's brother, Richard of Cornwall; Henry ...

May 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dust from a Remote Stellar Explosion Has Been Accumulating for Tens of Thousands of Years in Antarctic Ice as the Solar System Passes Through the Local Interstellar Cloud

An international team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has confirmed, through the analysis of Antarctic ice tens of thousands of years old, that the Solar System is currently ...

May 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

59,000 Years Ago, a Neanderthal Underwent a Dental Drilling to Cure an Infection, and then that Knowledge was Lost

A team of researchers has documented what is likely the oldest case of successful dental treatment in history of human evolution, performed by a Neanderthal who lived in the Chagyrskaya cave, in th...

May 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Weighing Large Owls

I have never had to weigh an owl before, much less a large owl. But in the event I were ever called upon to weigh a large owl, I learned from MARS Wildlife Rescue, via Owls in Towels (see Owls in T...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 400,000-Year-Old Tooth Found in China Links Homo erectus with Denisovans and Modern Humans

A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully extracted molecular information from six fossil t...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Monumental Megalithic Necropolis of the Interior of the Iberian Peninsula, Dated to the 5th Millennium BC, Found in Toledo

Researchers from several Spanish universities and research centers, led by Rosa Barroso Bermejo (University of Alcalá), have successfully dated the Valdelasilla site, located in Illescas (Toledo), ...

May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype

Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowd...

May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)

A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture.

May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)

A treatise on a powder that can cure wounds at a distance.