Posts tagged "history"

Jun 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-15-26

Monday is a fun day. One reason Monday is a fun day is because it marks the return of Pook-Emu Bee links after the weekend. Speaking of the weekend, I published links and commentary to enjoy in Sat...

Jun 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Large Marble Busts from the 3rd Century AD Found Buried at the Bottom of a Roman-Byzantine Winepress in Caesarea

On the last day of a routine archaeological excavation, when the teams had already concluded their work in the field, something none of those present expected emerged from the ground: two marble sc...

Jun 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A second sealed and intact Etruscan tomb discovered in San Giuliano just one year after the first find

The team of the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP), led by Professor Davide Zori of Baylor University, has opened a new Etruscan funerary chamber that remained completely sealed a...

Jun 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Canons on Heresy

The Fourth Lateran Council called in 1215 by Pope Innocent III had three chief objectives: Church reform, freeing the Holy Land, and eliminating heresy. The first Canons addressed the subject of th...

Jun 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover Ireland’s Largest Viking Settlement and One of Western Europe’s Biggest

A team of Norwegian and Irish archaeologists is currently excavating in the town of Woodstown, on the banks of the River Suir and about three and a half miles west of Waterford, what researchers be...

Jun 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Physicist Creates a Miniature Universe in the Laboratory to Demonstrate that Time Can Emerge from Internal Disorder

The research, published in Physical Review Research by Professor Giovanni Barontini, managed to measure the passage of time without using any external clock, instead defining the parameter based on...

Jun 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

8,000 years ago, the last hunter-gatherers of northern Spain breastfed their children until the age of four and barely set foot on the coast

What did the inhabitants of the Cantabrian region eat eight millennia ago? How did they feed their babies? Did they move through the territory or live anchored to their environment? The answers wer...

Jun 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Start of the Fourth Lateran

After years of being pope and asserting his will on the world, Innocent III decided to bring together all the church leaders and establish a new set of rules and policies for unifying the Church's ...

Jun 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Fossil footprints found in Italy reveal the earliest evidence of when and where dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet

About 230 million years ago, during a geological period known as the Carnian (within the Late Triassic), Earth experienced a drastic climate change. An episode of intense and widespread rainfall, c...

Jun 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

AI Slop About Medieval London

I was linked to a site called Fake History Hunter a few weeks ago. The author, a former historical consultant, uses her site to debunk fake history in media. In AI review: Time Witnessed, she takes...

Jun 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Innocent Meddling

Pope Innocent III believed in the absolute power of the pope over secular authorities, and he did what he could to assert that power wherever he could.A couple months after Innocent became pope, in...

Jun 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

New Features in ActivityPub For WordPress 9.0

ActivityPub for WordPress version 9.0 was just released, and a blog post by lead developer Matthias Pfefferle goes over the new features (you can follow me from Mastodon, Pixelfed, or the like at [...

Jun 12, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration

This is the second part (I, IIa) 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. While I hope t...

Jun 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-12-26

I have an assignment I need to finish today. But I will not let that stop me from capping off the work-week with one more edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. Pook-Emu Bee will be off tomorrow for Newsle...

Jun 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

2,000-Year-Old Grape Seeds in a 32-Meter-Deep Etruscan Well Reveal Surprises About Modern Wine

The history of wine in one of Italy’s most emblematic regions has just been rewritten thanks to genetics. An international team of scientists has sequenced the DNA of two-thousand-year-old grape se...

Jun 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Sun and Moon Allegory

Pope Innocent III was determined to assert papal authority over every area possible. He made sure that kings, although they had their "local" political power, were still under the spiritual authori...

Jun 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A prehistoric cave older than Neanderthals and modern humans discovered, sealed for 300,000 years

A team led by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the University of Haifa, with the support of the Ayalon Highways company, has discovered and is currently excavating a cave estimated to be 300,00...

Jun 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How the Macedonians Disguised as Women Killed the Persian Envoys before the First Greco-Persian War

The ancient Kingdom of Macedonia is known, above all, for the period of the Argead dynasty, whose most renowned representatives were Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great. However, they reigne...

Jun 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Missing Brand Music Video Ads

According to a May 27, 2026 report in Marketing Brew by Katie Hicks titled Why so many brands are releasing music videos, ” it seems brand-created music videos are making a comeback as marketers ar...

Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Turning a Blog Into a Book

Wouter Groeneveld published a blog post on his blog, Brain Baking, titled The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book. I have thought about creating a book from the millions of words I have pu...