Posts tagged "history"

Nov 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman “Seaside Villa” in Sicily Had Three Bath Complexes—and Outlived Its Wealthy Owners by Centuries

For nearly a century, the Roman villa at Realmonte, on the southern coast of Sicily, was read as what it seemed to be at first glance: a luxury maritime residence, an otium retreat for an aristocra...

Nov 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hidden in Plain Sight: 280 Ice Age Engravings Found in a Spanish Cave Tourists Walked Past for 60 Years

For more than six decades, visitors to the Cova de la Font Major in L’Espluga de Francolí, in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, filed past its walls without seeing what was under their noses. The cave...

Nov 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Earth’s Rock Record Has a Giant Hole in It, and Scientists Have Just Figured Out Why

In the Grand Canyon, rock layers stack up like pages in a book, with the oldest at the bottom and the youngest on top. At one point in the canyon wall, the order breaks. Sandstones from the Cambria...

Nov 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Second Council of Braga

There were several religious councils held at Braga, the 11th of which took place as late as 1566. The illustration is Braga at the time of the last Council.) We talked about the First yesterday. T...

Nov 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Skeletons of Three Children Found Under the Floor of a Greek Temple That Became a Church in Sicily

Around 440–430 BC, the Greek settlers of Akragas, a colony on the south coast of Sicily, built a temple on a hill. It is Doric, the plainest of the Greek building styles, with sturdy columns and no...

Nov 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Etruscan Thrones Carved Into the Rock Emerge From Looted Tombs Near Rome

Several tombs in the Monte Abatone necropolis, a burial ground next to Cerveteri and about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Rome, had suffered cave-ins and were close to giving way. Archaeologists had...

Nov 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Thrihnukagigur, the only volcano in the world you can descend into by elevator: a 120-meter descent into its magma chamber

Every summer, small groups of visitors climb into an open metal cage hanging from a crane above a hole barely four meters (13 feet) wide, and the cage starts to drop. It falls for 120 meters (about...

Nov 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

All 47 Japanese Prefectures Have Produced a Sanyaku Sumo Wrestler

On October 28, 2026, I published Churanoumi Becomes First Sumo Wrestler From Okinawa to Reach Sanyaku. I cited to a news report in Mainichi as my source. While I discussed now-Komusubi Churanoumi a...

Nov 05, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Brink's-Mat Robbery

United Kingdom · 1983 · Heist — Six armed robbers used an insider and petrol threats to raid a Heathrow warehouse, accidentally uncovering and hauling away over three tons of gold bullion.

Nov 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Revival of The Nihon Review

From late 2008 until 2017, I followed an anime review website called The Nihon Review. It died in 2017, but survived in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. I discussed the site, and offered a b...

Nov 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Previously Unknown Migration Reveals the Origin of English, German and the Viking Tongue, 4,000 years ago

English, German, Dutch and Swedish all descend from a single mother tongue that nobody ever wrote down. Linguists call it Germanic. For more than a century, specialists have argued about when and f...

Nov 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists are on the verge of accessing the “zeptoverse”, a world a million times smaller than a proton where as-yet-unknown particles and forces might be hiding

Physicists have been chasing a particle decay for more than 40 years. According to the calculations, it happens just once for every 10 billion times a certain particle is created. The hunt began be...

Nov 04, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki’s Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923)

A neopagan visual archive meant to rival the iconic power of the Christian West.

Nov 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Martin of Braga

A pilgrim from the Hungary/Austria region in Europe became an archbishop in Portugal and wrote prolifically, including a piece that was borrowed and re-written more than once for centuries afterwar...

Nov 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Find a Neolithic 10-Ton Human-Shaped Menhir Statue on the Edge of Paris

A stone statue as heavy as a school bus has turned up in a Paris suburb, lying in the pit where it once stood upright. It was found on a terrace of sediment left by the Marne River, on the southeas...

Nov 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

“I never took anything from any man”: the enigmatic inscription on the tomb of the official Khuwy discovered in Saqqara

An Egyptian official who lived some 4,400 years ago wanted to be remembered as a man who never took anything from anyone. His words survive only in fragments, but those fragments may help show wher...

Nov 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Norway’s First King Married a Sámi Woman: What Sagas Say About the People Vikings Identified with the Giants

For decades, many historians believed that the South Sámi, the Indigenous people of the mountains of central Norway and western Sweden, were relative latecomers to the region. Norwegian farmers, th...

Nov 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Nuclear Bacon

On August 13, 2026, The Washington Free Beacon reported that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed had, in 2023, compared bacon to plutonium. Back in college, a friend and I were talking to a yo...

Nov 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 11-03-26

It is time for a special Election Day edition of the Pook-Emu Bee links. However, I do not have many election-themed links in my backlog after yesterday. I do have to vote, but we’ll deal with that...

Nov 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Key Painted on a 2,200-Year-Old Tomb Hints at a Priestess of Demeter

On 29 October 2026, the Soprintendenza for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto announced the results of its latest excavations. This is the body of ...