Posts tagged "history"

Jun 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Epitaph of Seikilos, the oldest song preserved complete with musical notation and text

Although archaeologists have found written music texts older than the Greek Epitaph of Seikilos, such as the Hurrian Songs dating back to 1400 B.C., these are incomplete. Only one Hurrian song, des...

Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Static Site Webmentions

Blogger Michael Harley wrote a post about adding webmention support to his blog. I am pro-webmention (see my NLJ post on site-to-site conversations, so I sent my congratulations in webmention form....

Jun 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

2,700-Year-Old Figurine Found in Guatemala Bears the Oldest Numbers in Mesoamerica

The piece, just a few centimeters and fragmented, belongs to the tradition of the so-called tongue figurines and was found in the sector known as Grupo Joyas, one kilometer from the ceremonial cent...

Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-11-26

I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, but I am making sure to make up for it by starting this post yesterday. 1. Uzbek Fighters in Syria Face Tensions with Al-Sharaa’s Government (Jacob Zenn for J...

Jun 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Largest Whale Necropolis in the World Discovered in the Indian Ocean, with Millions of Fossils and Remains from 5.3 Million Years Ago to the Present

A team of researchers has documented in the Diamantina Zone, in the southeastern Indian Ocean, the most extensive and deepest aggregation of cetacean remains and active ecosystems associated with w...

Jun 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

Paintings from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.

Jun 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Pope Innocent III

Finally, the pope mentioned more than any other in this blog gets his time in the spotlight. He was named Lothario at birth, and his father, Trasimondo, was a count in the city of Segni in central ...

Jun 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Evidence of the Siege of the Ancient City of Qabra in Northern Mesopotamia 4,000 Years Ago During the Bronze Age Discovered

An archaeological excavation led by the University of Central Florida (UCF) in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, near the city of Erbil, has provided a set of physical evidence that compels the rewriting...

Jun 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

HMS Sappho, the British ship that seized an American slave brig causing a diplomatic incident, and then disappeared without a trace

HMS Sappho was the name—curious for a warship—of a brig-sloop of the Royal Navy that played a role in a diplomatic incident between the United Kingdom and the United States: in 1856 it boarded an A...

Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

A Moka Pot Pen

I came across a blog post on Extra Fine Writing titled Check it out, a weird little pen that looks like a coffee pot. When I saw the headline on The Well Apportioned Desk, I was not sure what to ex...

Jun 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Stellar Wind Detected by the James Webb Telescope Is Responsible for the Large Number of Massive Dead Galaxies in the Early Universe

The paradox has been on astrophysicists’ desks for years: observations of the early universe show a number of massive and already inert galaxies far higher than what conventional models of cosmic e...

Jun 10, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886)

A philosophical system and a practical guide for the cultivation of dramatic genius.

Jun 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Mysterious Footprints Carved in Stone Found in Southern Scandinavia Reveal Secret Pacts in the Bronze Age

On the coasts of southern Scandinavia, engraved in rocks that faced the sea thousands of years ago, there are thousands of footprints carved into stone. For decades, archaeologists have considered ...

Jun 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Finnish Crusades

Pope Alexander III decided that it was time to tackle the pagans on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea (the Baltic is between the peninsula that holds the Scandinavian countries and the mainland...

Jun 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings in Lisbon reveal the aromatic plants and woods used in funeral pyres, and the first evidence of myrtle in a cremation context across the Roman Empire

Between 2017 and 2018, the expansion of a restaurant on Calçada do Lavra, in Lisbon, uncovered a fragment of the Roman necropolis of Olisipo, the ancient city that preceded the Portuguese capital. ...

Jun 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

2,000 Years Ago in Iron Age Britain, a Woman’s Brain was Extracted and Her Bones Turned into Sharp Points

British archaeology has just documented a funerary practice previously unknown on the island. A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and the United States has examined the remains of two ind...

Jun 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bass Rock, the Most Inaccessible Prison in Europe Was Conquered from Within

Just over two kilometers from the eastern coast of Scotland rises a massive block of volcanic rock that seems to emerge directly from the sea. Its almost vertical walls reach over one hundred meter...

Jun 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Giving Defunct Blogs Proper Burials

Robert Birming published an interesting short blog post titled Where do blogs go when they die? He noted having noticed that many blog posts shared in recent years by participants in his Junited in...

Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The History Blog and Japanese Saws

I follow The History Blog by psuedynmous blogger livius. It features blog posts about history (surprise?) focusing significantly on archaeology news. Significantly, The History Blog links to source...

Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Great Falls, Montana, and Cascade County

I have never been to Montana. Save for the occasional competitive U.S. Senate race, Montana is also not a common election hotspot. Thus, I never thought much about counties in Montana. I just learn...