Posts tagged "history"

May 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Residues of a Lethal Toxin Found in Medieval Medical Instruments Reveal That Anesthesia Was Already Used in 14th-Century Surgeries in China

A team of Chinese archaeologists has identified residues of aconitine on a pair of iron scissors and surgical forceps recovered from a tomb dated between 1348 and 1411 AD in the Jiangyin district, ...

May 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The St. Brice's Day Massacre

Clashes with Danes and England resulted in establishing the Danelaw, originally just the set of Danish laws agreed upon with Alfred the Great (848 - 899) wherein Danes could ruler themselves while ...

May 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Earth’s Outer Core Changed Direction Beneath the Pacific Ocean Without Scientists Yet Being Able to Explain the Causes

The research, published in the Journal of Studies of Earth’s Deep Interior, analyzed the behavior of the planet’s liquid outer core over a 28-year period, between 1997 and 2025. The scientific team...

May 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Large Hidden Hydraulic System Discovered Around the Urartian Fortress of Argishtikhinili in the Ararat Plain in Armenia

The aerial image shows it all. Where the human eye, at ground level, only sees modern farmland and roads, Cold War spy satellites and current sensors have revealed a hidden landscape: dozens of kil...

May 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Analysis of Thousands of Ceramic Fragments Confirms that the Ancient Roman Mellaria Was a Major Mining Center Connected to the Trade Networks of Southern Hispania

A study from the Ager Mellariensis project at the University of Córdoba, published in the journal Monografías de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la UNED, provides new data on the role that the Roman c...

May 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-26-26

I am a bit late on today’s Pook-Emu Bee links, but the links are better late than never. 1. Ghost CMS SQL injection flaw exploited in large-scale ClickFix campaign (Bill Toulas for Bleeping Compute...

May 26, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Harold A. Taylor’s Autochromes of California Flowers (early 20th century)

Photographs of flowers by an advocate of California’s beauty.

May 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Sweyn Forkbeard

European history classrooms in America often talk about the Danish King Cnut (Canute) and his conquest of England. The modern world also hears about Cnut's grandfather, Harald Bluetooth, from whom ...

May 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How the Romans Transformed Europe Without Imposing Their Culture: A Study Shows That Romanization Was a Process of Negotiation

Two archaeological sites in the region of Carinthia (Austria) tell a little-known story about how the Romans built their empire. These are the hill settlement of Magdalensberg and the planned city ...

May 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Extraordinary Life of Grace O’Malley, the Indomitable Pirate Chief of Her Clan Who Ruled the Ports of Western Ireland

She lived in the 16th century, was the head of the O’Malley Irish clan, was labeled as a pirate for seizing any ship that refused to pay a tribute for fishing in her waters, personally met with non...

May 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pink Tea With Baking Soda

My friend told me that she was making “Kashmiri chai” tea this morning. She correctly anticipated that I did not know what Kashmiri chai was and sent a link to the recipe she was using. I read the ...

May 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Moina Michael and the Remembrance Poppy

Inspired by Col. John McCrae’s poem, In Fladers Fields, Georgia resident and professor Moina Michael championed the remembrance  poppy following World War I. Sara Freeland, writing for UGA Today, e...

May 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For Memorial Day (2026)

The Pook-Emu Bee links return today for Memorial Day, a day for remembering those Americans who gave their lives in battle. I put together some suitable links for the occasion to lead off today’s P...

May 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researches Discover How Megalithic Architecture Spread Across Europe—It Was Not Through Migrations

That children from previous relationships grow up as siblings in a new family, or that couples adopt or foster children—the so-called blended families—constitute today a widespread model of coexist...

May 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Fossils of the Oldest Giant Crane in Europe and the Oldest Raven in the Iberian Peninsula Found in Granada

The current image of the Granada high plateau, dominated by arid and semi-desert landscapes, is misleading if one goes back in time to approximately a million and a half years ago. At that time, th...

May 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Fingerprints of Artisans and Officials Discovered on the Backs of Clay Seals from Ancient Jerusalem

When a package arrives at home, the modern consumer inspects the seal of the packaging: a sheet of plastic or an adhesive tape that guarantees that no one has opened the box beforehand. That need t...

May 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Defectors

It must have been a shock when Thorkell the Tall, a leader and warrior of the early 12th-century Danish invasion of England, changed his stance and decided to join the English forces of King Æthelr...

May 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

More than Twenty Bases of Votive Statues Found Still in Their Original Position at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Frangissa, Cyprus

The Department of Antiquities of the Deputy Ministry of Culture has announced the conclusion of the fifth campaign of modern archaeological excavation at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Frangissa, locat...

May 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Did Alexander the Great Descend into the Depths of the Ocean? The Incredible Myth of the Conquering King and His Diving Bell

Imagine for a moment the following scene: beneath the surface of an ocean teeming with fish of every size and color, a man with the appearance of a king, seated inside a glass barrel, gazes at the ...

May 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Evidence Found in Ethiopia That Homo sapiens Cremated Their Dead 100,000 Years Ago, 60,000 Before the Oldest Known Record

An international research team, which includes Ferhat Kaya, a researcher at the Academy of Finland at the University of Oulu, has discovered what could be the earliest evidence of human cremation. ...