Posts tagged "history"

Jun 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Reveals That All Homo naledi Fossils Found in the “Cradle of Humankind” Belong Exclusively to Female Individuals

An international team of researchers has analyzed the dental remains of 20 individuals of Homo naledi and concluded that all of them are female. The study, published in the prestigious journal Cell...

Jun 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Something in Interstellar Space Could Be Altering Extraterrestrial Intelligence Signals Before They Reach Us

A new study conducted by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests that space weather conditions around stars could be hindering the detection of radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations....

Jun 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Cabbage Sorter’s Review of Shiki (Anime)

I follow the excellent Cabbage Sorter blog for fun articles about and reviews of anime, manga, and novels (not to mention entertaining posts on other subjects). Here, she reviewed the 2010 anime ve...

Jun 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tatakiage Recruits in Sumo

I watched all the matches in the first three grand sumo tournaments of 2026. Because I am following sumo this year, I looked for a couple of sumo blogs to add to my feed collection. One is Tachiai....

Jun 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 67

Today we look specifically at the institutional racism against Jews established by Pope Innocent III in the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Of the 70 canons of the council proceedings, the final fo...

Jun 26, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It

This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In th...

Jun 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Did the Romans Never Recover Their Hoards? A Massive Study with 18,200 Finds Reveals the Reason

Throughout history, humans have hidden their most precious belongings—coins, jewelry, weapons, religious objects—underground. From the Romans to the Vikings, through the Middle Ages, archaeologists...

Jun 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity, Part 3

Modern ideas of race and racism are largely based on skin color, but the Middle Ages saw many other factors. To quote (again) Regino of Prüm:"Nor should it be forgotten that, just as different nati...

Jun 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Severnaya Zemlya, the last archipelago in the world to be discovered, was mapped in 1933

In the far north of Russia, beyond the 78th parallel, there is a group of islands that remained invisible to the world until well into the 20th century. Today we call it Severnaya Zemlya (Northern ...

Jun 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity, Part 2

Not everyone believed that race and ethnicity were purely a result of being descended from the sons of Noah. Some felt the natural world/environment played a part.An Afro-Arab Islamic philosopher n...

Jun 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Unique Discovery at the Iberian Oppidum of Cerro de las Cabezas: Two Executed Men Deposited Alongside Six Deer Antlers in a “Bad Death” Ritual

The archaeological site of Cerro de las Cabezas, an important Iberian oppidum located in the municipality of Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real, central Spain), has yielded one of the most singular and enigma...

Jun 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The First Scientist to Describe a Dinosaur Bone Mistook It for a Giant’s Scrotum

Elias Ashmole was a 17th-century scholar who, besides founding Oxford’s Philosophical Society and London’s Royal Society, created the museum that bears his name, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Arc...

Jun 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity, Part 1

What did medieval people think about different races? How did they distinguish one ethnic group from another? This question occurred to me when reading up on Regino of Prüm, who around 900CE wrote ...

Jun 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Evidence of Camels in Belgrade Fortress Reveals Previously Unknown Trade Routes in the Middle Ages

The Belgrade Fortress, located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, has witnessed more than two millennia of history. From its role as a Roman military post to its function as a defensi...

Jun 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Paleolithic Cave Art Was Not Random: A Study Reveals a Hidden “Grammar” in the Caves of the Cantabrian Region

For decades, archaeologists have debated whether the paintings and engravings our ancestors left on cave walls were mere isolated acts, born of magic or superstition, or whether they instead respon...

Jun 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-23-26

It has been five days since the last edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. While I ordinarily publish links in the morning and it is now the evening, I submit some late links today to keep the backlog und...

Jun 23, 2026 from Palladium

War by Other Means

Robotic warfare is shifting the source of state power away from citizens to firms. The transition will produce a new social contract. The post War by Other Means appeared first on Palladium.

Jun 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Regino of Prüm

Although Charlemagne is a famous name, and we know a lot about him, his descendants and the events of the Carolingian era are not well-documented. There are a handful of chronicles written by vario...

Jun 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Intact Maya City of Minanbé Discovered in the Jungle of Campeche After a Thousand Years of Abandonment, with a 13-Meter-High Pyramid Temple

The dense tangle of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, in the state of Campeche, has guarded one of its best-preserved secrets for over a millennium. It is the ancient city of Minanbé, a settlement th...

Jun 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Byzantine Shipwrecks off the Coast of Türkiye Reveal the Rise and Crisis of Trade and a Previously Unknown Type of Amphora

Between 2010 and 2012, an international expedition led by explorer Robert Ballard, aboard the oceanographic vessel Nautilus, surveyed the seabed of southwestern Türkiye, off the Datça Peninsula and...