Posts tagged "history"

May 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dante described a planetary impact in his “Divine Comedy” 500 years before modern science

Researchers from Marshall University reexamine the Divine Comedy through the lens of cosmic collision physics and conclude that the nine circles of the inferno represent an impact crater generated ...

May 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Dictum of Kenilworth, Part 2

Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, was originally on the side of the rebels during the Second Barons' War. He changed over to the royalist side when Simon de Montfort made an alliance with t...

May 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Archaeological Study Changes the View on the Etruscan City of Veii: It Was Not a Failure in Roman Times, but an Example of Community Resilience

When archaeologists talk about the ancient city of Veii, about 17 kilometers north of Rome, they usually divide its history into two very different acts. The first, glorious: between the 6th and 4t...

May 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Emperor Francis II Dissolved the Holy Roman Empire to Prevent Napoleon from Taking the Throne

“Who can endure this misfortune that weighs upon a nation that was once so glorious? May God improve things, if it is still possible to improve them!” The German poet Christoph Martin Wieland wrote...

May 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Learning About Preserving Strawberry Freshness

I came across a blog post by Chris Glass titled Strawberries were on sale. Having not long ago published an article about once purchasing out-of-season cherries on sale. I had to open. While Mr. Gl...

May 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Writer’s Take on Not Wasting Readers’ Time

Cesar Aguirre writes “[t]elling readers you don’t want to waste their time is already wasting it.” I agree. It comes off as protesting too much. In Staying the Course in Writing in the LLM Moment, ...

May 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Justice Thomas Moves Into Second

Clarence Thomas assumed office as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on October 23, 1991. Today, being May 7, 2026, Justice Thomas has now been on the bench for 12,615 d...

May 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Inscriptions from ancient Teos honoring the market supervisor show the activity of Roman negotiatores’ associations in greek cities in the 1st century BC

Excavations in the ancient Greek city of Teos, in present-day Turkey, have brought to light two inscriptions from the 1st century BC that document for the first time the organized presence of Roman...

May 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-07-26

After bouncing back from missing Tuesday with daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, we make it two days in a row with your daily collection of links for May 7, 2026. 1. Mamdani to announce free 2026 ...

May 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Women Were Buried Embracing Beside the Walls of a Cathedral, a Unique Discovery in Medieval Poland

The research, published in the journal Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, combined ancient DNA analysis with archaeological and osteological evidence to reinterpret an exceptional find: tw...

May 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Dictum of Kenilworth, Part 1

The end of the Second Barons' War required closure and reconciliation, and it came in the Dictum of Kenilworth, need for the castle in which the last rebels held out against royalist assault, until...

May 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Maya Altar Found in Yucatán in a Three-Level Quadrangular Structure

A quadrangular building, erected more than fifteen hundred years ago on three superimposed levels and associated with a Maya residential unit, has been placed under technical protection by speciali...

May 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Arcane Hierothesion Sanctuary of Mithridates I Callinicus in Arsameia, the Capital of the Ancient Kingdom of Commagene

In the foothills of southeastern Turkey, on the banks of the Kâhtaçay River – the Nymphaios of the ancients – rises a rocky promontory. There, in what locals today call Eski Kale, the “Old Castle,”...

May 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-06-26

I missed publishing daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to a work deadline. But we are back today with nine new links from around the world wide web. 1. Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins — Author of...

May 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings at Nuraghe Barru Reveal That Bronze Age Towers in Sardinia Functioned as Cult Centers in the Iron Age

The Nuraghe Barru complex is set atop a sparsely vegetated hill in the south-central area of Sardinia. From this commanding position, the stone structure, originally erected over 3,200 years ago du...

May 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Second Baron's War Ends

Simon de Montfort was in control of London in April 1264. Northampton was under siege by supporters of King Henry, and Simon assembled his army to stop the royalists, but he was too late. Simon the...

May 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Cuneiform Tablet Workshop Found in Ancient Nineveh Reveals That Assyrian Scribes Never Fired or Carefully Prepared Them

An international team of archaeologists and scientists has shed light on how the famous cuneiform writing tablets were manufactured in ancient Assyria. The study, published in the journal Archaeome...

May 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A wooden structure older than Stonehenge and a stone causeway found on a Neolithic artificial island in Scotland

A team of archaeologists from the University of Southampton has excavated and documented a large wooden platform hidden beneath what today appears to be a stone-built island, located in a Scottish ...

May 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Second Barons' War Against the Jews

In February 1264, after the Mise of Amiens, the fighting between the forces of Simon de Montfort and King Henry III began in earnest. Simon's sons Henry and Simon the Younger made attacks on the We...

May 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Logograms of Linear B Writing Deciphered, Revealing Ingredients of Mycenaean Perfumed Oils from the Bronze Age

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge has achieved a significant breakthrough in deciphering two mysterious signs of Linear B, the administrative system used by the Mycenaean civil...