Posts tagged "history"

Jul 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Old Jewry

In the City of London there is a street still called Old Jewry, currently dominated mostly by financial offices. In 2001 the remains of a mikveh (ritual bath, requiring fresh flowing water) was dis...

Jul 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Independence Day Fireworks

I decided to step out to see if I could see the 4th of July fireworks from a cross-street in Brooklyn Heights. I took this video from Pierrepont and Willow Streets and then converted it into a gif ...

Jul 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

DNA analysis of the “Golden Man” reveals that a few elite families ruled Scythian nomadic society 2,500 years ago

The discovery of the Golden Man in the Issyk kurgans in Kazakhstan had become a national symbol and one of the most significant archaeological finds of the Eurasian steppe. But until now, researche...

Jul 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The discovery of an abandoned defective ingot leads to the uncovering of a Roman-era lead smelting workshop in Germany

The first systematic excavations on a hillock of the Rothaargebirge massif, near the town of Brilon in the German district of Hochsauerland, have documented a metallurgical workshop dating back two...

Jul 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Ashkenazi and Sephardic and Mizrahi

The difference between different groups of Jews arts with the Jewish Diaspora, the displacement of Israelites outside of the Southern Levant. Because Jews traveled to various parts of the known wor...

Jul 04, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: On the Declaration of Independence

Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an open mu...

Jul 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Complete Byzantine City Discovered in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities operating at the Ain el-Sabil site, located in the Dakhla Oasis, has succeeded in uncovering a fully articulated residen...

Jul 03, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Rashi's Writings

The first book printed in Hebrew with a date on it was printed in Italy and dated 18 February 1475. It was a commentary by Rashi on the Chumash (the first five books of the Bible, the Torah, as dis...

Jul 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Secrets Uncovered in an 18th-Century Nautical Map Guiding Sailors Between India and the Horn of Africa

A team of researchers has managed to unravel the mysteries hidden for two hundred years in an 18th-century navigation chart used by sailors to travel across the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The do...

Jul 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The James Webb Telescope Discovers an Unknown Substance on the Surface of Titan and Pluto

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a mysterious light absorption signal on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and on Pluto, the famous dwarf planet. The signal, centered at a wav...

Jul 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ambracia, the Greek city that defended itself from the Roman siege with the first known use of poisonous gases

Arta is a city in northwestern Greece that barely preserves the typical archaeological remains of Antiquity and, instead, does treasure heritage from the Byzantine period: only traces remain of the...

Jul 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Google Hardware Complaints Remind Me of BlackBerry Classic

I read an article on マリウス.com titled I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware. The author, Marius, goes through the issues he has had with various Google phones and tablets over the years. One of the iss...

Jul 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Settings in “No AI” DuckDuckGo

Back on June 8, 2026, Chris Wiegman published a blog post titled You Don’t Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain. For those not in the know, noai.duckduckgo.com is a subdomain of DuckDuckGo search whi...

Jul 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Joining Robert Birming’s JulyReply 2026

Last month, I participated in Robert Birming’s “Junited” project, wherein I (and others) shared good blog posts from around the web. I joined late (see my Junited 2026 posts) and failed to share a ...

Jul 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Function of Iron Age Stelae Along Prehistoric Route in Southern Iberian Peninsula Revealed

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Seville, has unearthed a funerary complex in the southwest of Spain that sheds light on one of the oldest debates in Iberian archaeolo...

Jul 02, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Rashi

An exegete is someone who interprets a text, especially religious texts. One of the leading Jewish exegetes in the Middle Ages was Shlomo Yitzchaki (February 1040 - 13 Juluy 1105), "Shlomo the son ...

Jul 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Long Will Life on Earth Last? A New Calculation Extends the Timeline to 1.8 Billion Years or More if We Can Modify the Planet’s Orbit

The Sun becomes brighter over time, and this increasing brightness will eventually suffocate plant life on Earth. The question that has occupied scientists studying the planet’s future for decades ...

Jul 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tomb of a 6th-Century BC Picene Prince Found in Central Italy with a Two-Wheeled Chariot and Large Still-Sealed Containers

Preventive archaeology investigations promoted by the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Ancona and Pesaro and Urbino, carried out by the company ArcheoLab...

Jul 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Well of Junia Rufina: The Mystery of the Roman Lady Whose Name Appears in Inscriptions from Albania and Cádiz

At the Butrint archaeological site, in southern Albania, there is a well with almost two thousand years of history that continues to surprise. It was excavated by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Ug...

Jul 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

World Cup De-Branding

I have never been a soccer person, so this year’s World Cup has not registered much on me beyond seeing an unusual number of foreign national team soccer jerseys on some days (despite the best effo...