Posts tagged "history"

Jun 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Greek Acropolises, Neither Democratic Refuges nor Residences of Prehistoric Kings: A Study Questions Their Origin and Function

No one who has visited Athens forgets the image of the Acropolis crowning the city with its gleaming marbles. However, a new academic study has just overturned decades of misinterpretations about w...

Jun 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Game Publishers Move to Avoid GTA 6 (Rob Fahey)

Games Industry.biz (GIb) is a news website which covers the video game industry (surprise!). I have had GIb in my feed collection for a couple of years, and it has informed two NLJ articles in Prov...

Jun 06, 2026 from Palladium

The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence

Recently, the Vatican and Anthropic have shown a united front on artificial intelligence. But are they actually aligned? The post The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence appeared first on P...

Jun 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Eric the Memorable

After Niels, the fourth and last of the sons of Sweyn II to become kings of Denmark, died, the throne passed to the next generation; in this case to Eric II "the Memorable," son of Eric the Evergoo...

Jun 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

11 Prehistoric Stone Tools That Were Never Used, a Puzzling Discovery on an Ohio Golf Course

It was an ordinary Saturday in January 2021 when Joshua Fetter was walking next to a pond on the Sugar Creek golf course in Ohio. The land was being leveled for future housing developments. Unknowi...

Jun 06, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems te...

Jun 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Strange Complete Boar Burials Discovered Beneath the Tombs of a Greco-Roman Necropolis in the Nile Delta

The excavation campaign carried out by the Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities at the tell of Kom Aziza, located in the Beheira Governorate, has brought to ligh...

Jun 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Children of Sweyn, Part 3

After the untimely death of King Eric the Evergood in Cyprus, his brother Niels became King of Denmark, the latest of the sons of Sweyn II to become king. He was born c.1063, and his reign began in...

Jun 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Horses Found in Pompeii That Were Buried Alive in a Bakery After the Collapse of the Upper Floor—What Were They Doing There?

A team of archaeologists and specialists has unearthed in the famous bakery of the Insula of the Chaste Lovers in Pompeii the remains of two large herbivores—probably horses, donkeys, or hybrids—th...

Jun 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

What Are the Mysterious “Blue and Yellow Waters” the Aztecs Used to Identify Themselves as Heirs of the Toltec Civilization

When the Mexica (also known as Aztecs), after years of wandering, finally glimpsed the place where they would found their capital, they did not only see an eagle devouring a snake on a cactus. Acco...

Jun 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Some microbes found in Ötzi, the Iceman, are still alive after 5,000 years frozen in ice

A team of researchers from Eurac Research has managed to map in detail the microbial community associated with Ötzi, the ice mummy of the Chalcolithic man found in the Italian Alps in 1991. The stu...

Jun 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Anacharsis, the Scythian Prince Turned Philosopher Who Was the First Foreigner Granted Athenian Citizenship

Do you know the expression to speak like a Scythian? It was coined two and a half millennia ago by the ancient Greeks to refer to the ability of some people to give quick, witty, and brutally hones...

Jun 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-04-26

I missed two days of Pook-Emu Bee links. But it is not all bad: Now we have even more links from around the web to choose from. 1. Why I Built Bubbles (Ben at Bubbles Blog. March 26, 2026.) I’ve be...

Jun 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Moment We Saw the Light: Fossil Tracks Reveal When and How the First Animals Began to Perceive the World

More than 540 million years ago, in the seafloor of the Ediacaran, something changed forever. Animals began to see. Or rather, they began to sense, because vision as we understand it today probably...

Jun 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Children of Sweyn, Part 2

After the death of King Canute IV of Denmark, he was succeeded by his brother Olaf (c.1050 - 1095). His reign suffered through several consecutive years of very dry springtimes that led to extremel...

Jun 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of a 4th-Century Roman Bridge Found in the Aare Riverbed in Switzerland at Ancient Salodurum

Divers from Swiss cantonal archaeology have located, beneath the waters of the Aare River near the city of Solothurn, the wooden stakes of a late Roman-era bridge that researchers had been unsucces...

Jun 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings in a Mithras Sanctuary in Croatia Force a Rethink of How This Roman Cult Was Practiced

An article by Ian S. Wilson, from Harvard University, and Matthew McCarty, from the University of British Columbia, questions some of the most entrenched ideas about the Roman cult of Mithras. The ...

Jun 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Gradeshnitsa Tablet: The Oldest Signs in Europe That No One Can Read Predate Sumerian Writing and Egyptian Hieroglyphs

In 1969, in a village in northwestern Bulgaria called Gradeshnitsa, an archaeologist named Bogdan Nikolov unearthed something that would change the way we understand human history: a palm-sized cla...

Jun 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Five hunter-gatherers and their dog ventured into a cave in Italy 14,000 years ago using small pine branches to light their way

A group of researchers has managed to unravel one of prehistory’s best-kept secrets: how humans who lived more than 12,000 years ago illuminated caves. The study, published in Quaternary Internatio...

Jun 03, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Covers from Cerîde-i Adliye, a Turkish Law Journal (1924–26)

Legal infographics that reflect a Turkish nation in flux.