Posts tagged "history"

Apr 10, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians

This is the first part of a series looking at the structure of the Carthaginian army. Although Carthage has an (unfair!) reputation for being a country of “peaceful merchants who tended to avoid wa...

Apr 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-10-26

My Pook-Emu Bee links are a bit late today. I had to deal with an issue related to my wireless access point this morning and then some work assignments. Unfortunately, I did not have time to engage...

Apr 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hidden patterns discovered in the construction of hundreds of megalithic monuments on the northern border between Spain and Portugal

High in the mountains that separate northern Portugal and Galicia, dozens of stone mounds have stood silently over the landscape for more than 6,000 years. They are the remains of one of the highes...

Apr 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Paleolithic Humans Began to Miniaturize Their Stone Tools When Giant Animals Disappeared

Approximately 300,000 years ago, humans living in what is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria began to stop making a type of stone tools they had used for more than a million years. T...

Apr 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Maria's Claim

Maria of Antioch had a stronger claim to the throne of Jerusalem in 1268 than the man who was crowned.Born c.1220, she was a granddaughter of Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem. After the death of Conra...

Apr 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Columned Building in Guatemala Reveals the Moment When the Maya Began to Share Power

Deep in the jungles of Petén, Guatemala, a team of archaeologists has unearthed the remains of a building that changes what we thought we knew about how the ancient Maya governed themselves. It is ...

Apr 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of the Temple of the god Pelusius discovered in the ancient city of Pelusium in Egypt: a massive structure with canals connected to the Nile

After six years of archaeological excavation work at the Tell el-Farama site, located in the ancient city of Pelusium in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, the Egyptian archaeological mission under ...

Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Non-Meta Smartglasses and my Pet Issues

Some time ago, I saved a link to a November 12, 2025 report in Wired titled Hate Meta? Even Realities Is Making the Smart Glasses You Want. This is a flawed headline. It presupposes that the main r...

Apr 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists find and document the hydraulic system that supplied water for a thousand years to the ancient Greek city of Amphipolis

The bilateral collaboration between the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Granada (UGR) and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres, known as EAA/MYA (Study of the Aqueduc...

Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-09-26

I am a bit late today because I just spent about an hour troubleshooting why I was not receiving calls on my Ubuntu Touch-powered Google Pixel 3a XL. I think I fixed the issue. With that aside, on ...

Apr 09, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America.

Apr 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Finding in Poland Reveals Lactose-Free Milk Drinking Rituals and Female Secret Societies in the Neolithic

The discovery, published in the journal Prähistorische Zeitschrift, provides new insights into how the human groups of the Funnel Beaker Culture lived, drank, and socially organized during the Late...

Apr 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Iron Age mountain settlement in southeastern Iberia was burned three consecutive times: researchers now know why

There was a time, about 2,500 years ago, when a small village located high in a mountain range in southeastern Iberia burned with troubling frequency. Not once, but three times. Its adobe houses ca...

Apr 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Hugh's Rivals

When the title King of Jerusalem was up for grabs in 1268, there was more than one claimant. There had not been a king in situ for years because the title had been passed to children whose regents ...

Apr 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An expedition discovers an unknown and unmapped island in Antarctica that forces the updating of international navigation charts

The presence of a rocky formation previously unknown to nautical cartography has been confirmed by the scientific team aboard the icebreaker Polarstern, from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), in ...

Apr 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Aurelian, the emperor of humble origin who gave his name to Orleans and reunified the Roman Empire

Aurelian can be defined as a rara avis. Not only did he build nineteen kilometers of sturdy walls around Rome to protect it from barbarian invasions, parts of which are still preserved and bear his...

Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The “Build A Boy” Project

I recall having read about a project which lets people turn Lego Game Boys into working Game Boys. I was reminded of it when I saw a link to the official Crowd Supply project, authored by Natalie C...

Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Blocking Bad Bots With AbuseIPD Blacklist

Sean Connor at The Boston Diaries wrote about trying to block annoying and/or malicious bots from crawling his website. It is a good read. Beginning in late 2024, I started noticing The New Leaf Jo...

Apr 08, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project

The creator of WNYC's Public Song Project on creativity, copyright, and the public domain.

Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On the Phone Map Crisis

The New York Post published a report (of sorts) about commuters having difficulty navigating the labyrithine Fulton Street (Manhattan) subway station, which functions as something of a major hub in...