Posts tagged "history"

Sep 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

2026 Aki Basho Sumo Predictions

Before July’s Nagoya Basho (July grand sumo tournament), I predicted which wrestlers I thought would reach 10 wins. Now, one tournament wiser, I will predict the entire field for the September 2026...

Sep 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Burial During Justinian's Plague, Part 2

Just because deaths during the Justinian Plague were so numerous that they couldn't dig graves and had to resort to piling them up in stone towers doesn't mean that "proper" funerary procedures wer...

Sep 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Almoravid Engineers Anchored a Fortress to Bare Rock — 900 Years Before Modern Skyscrapers Used the Same Trick

On May 29, 1108, an Almoravid army crushed the forces of Alfonso VI of León and Castile outside the town of Uclés. Among the dead was Sancho Alfónsez, the king’s only son and heir, a loss so severe...

Sep 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Particle of Light Traveled 2 Billion Years, Broke the Rules of Physics to Reach Earth — And Scientists Think They Know Why

On October 9, 2022, two space telescopes, Swift and Fermi, picked up the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. Researchers nicknamed it BOAT — “brightest of all time” — official designation GRB ...

Sep 11, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art

This week, at long last, we begin our long-delayed but always expected something that we blog for: the Hearts of Iron IV Teaching Paradox series! This has been a long requested series that I put of...

Sep 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A monumental building discovered in the port of Tarquinia in an even older layer beneath its own Roman ruins

Gravisca sits on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lazio, in what is today the Porto Clementino area near Tarquinia, roughly 7–10 kilometers (4–6 miles) from the ancient Etruscan city it once served. The sit...

Sep 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Burial During Justinian's Plague, Part 1

Sometimes a disaster strikes a civilization that kills so many so fast that the systems for providing support and burial cannot keep up. Such was the case when the Bubonic Plague came to town. One ...

Sep 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Did Only Some Birds Survive the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs? The Answer May Be Hiding in a Feather Found in T. Rex’s Poop

In 2016, paleontologist David DeMar Jr. was crawling across a rocky outcrop in northeastern Montana, hunting for fish fossils, when he spotted a dark, reddish-brown nodule about half the size of a ...

Sep 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Landslide in Italy Just Exposed a 2,500-Year-Old Tomb From a People Who Traded With the Greeks

On the slope below the cemetery of Sant’Elpidio a Mare, in Italy’s Le Marche region, recent heavy rains loosened the hillside enough to expose something no one was looking for: a rounded ceramic ve...

Sep 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Last Battle of America’s Indian Wars Wasn’t Fought by the Sioux or the Apache — It Happened in 1918

In the United States, the phrase Indian Wars conjures a specific set of images: the Battle of Little Bighorn, the massacres at Wounded Knee and Sand Creek, the forced marches of the Trail of Tears,...

Sep 10, 2026 from Palladium

The Organization That Remade India

One Hindu nationalist organization remade society from the ground up. Other ambitious projects should learn how they did it. The post The Organization That Remade India appeared first on Palladium.

Sep 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-10-26

We went just over one week without daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Sickness (probably mostly allergies) and work intervened. But today I have a window for links. Back and better than ever? 1 | NCAA decla...

Sep 10, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)

By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death.

Sep 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Romans Believed Lightning Was Sacred and Buried Them as Offerings to God Summanus: A 1,900-Year-Old Inscription Just Proved It

In a quiet corner of Hadrian’s Villa, wedged between the so-called Amphitheater and a low bench of volcanic tufa rock, sits a marble slab measuring roughly 40 by 35 centimeters (about 16 by 14 inch...

Sep 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Solve a 1,700-Year-Old Jewelry Mystery Found in a Germanic Princess Grave on Rome’s Doorstep

In 2022, medical CT scanners let Egyptologists peer inside sealed sarcophagi without ever lifting a lid. In 2026, the same basic technology — pointed not at a pharaoh’s mummy but at two silver broo...

Sep 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Procopius and the Plague

The Plague of Justinian in the 540s was determined to be an early strain of the Bubonic Plague by researchers in recent years who were able to examine evidence from contemporary skeletons. The writ...

Sep 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Bronze Age Tribe in Poland Was Already Eating a Cereal Brought from China before Tutankhamun was even born

Around 1590 BCE — more than 800 years before Rome was founded, and before Tutankhamun was even born — a small number of people in what is now southeastern Poland started eating a cereal that had ne...

Sep 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Forget Beer: Ice Age Hunters Were Getting High 12,000 Years Earlier — With Betel Nuts

Two skeletons from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi had something strange going on in their mouths. Not cavities. Not the usual wear from a tough diet. Deep, rounded grooves cut into the teeth — a...

Sep 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

For 15 Years We Knew Denisovans Only From Their DNA. A Chinese Cave Just Gave Them an Arm

In 2019, workers doing routine ecological restoration at a quarry in China’s Yunnan province hit something under the soil: bones and stone tools. Nobody realized at the time that this unassuming ho...

Sep 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Just Watched an Adult T. Rex Walk — 66.5 Million Years Later

Before 2025, paleontologists had confirmed exactly two footprints anywhere in the world made by an adult Tyrannosaurus rex — one in New Mexico, one in Montana. Isolated prints, each capturing a sin...