Posts tagged "history"

Jul 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tomb with 560 Ushabti Figurines, Rhodian Pottery, and Osirian Burials Discovered in Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities, conducting excavation work at the necropolis of Tell el-Quwaysna, located in the Menufia governorate, has documented th...

Jul 22, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Urinalysis, Part 3

William of Malmesbury tells us that William the Conqueror fell from his horse in summer of 1087 while fighting on the continent and suffered painful internal damage. Physicians examined his urine a...

Jul 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Statue of a Bacchante Found in Tusculum May Have Belonged to Cicero and is the First Discovered Work of the Famous Sculptor Evandros

A team of archaeologists from the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome (EEHAR-CSIC) has unearthed in the ancient city of Tusculum a female marble statue of extraordinary quality that, ...

Jul 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman camp with inscribed projectiles discovered, marking the exact site of the repression of the Cerretan revolt in 39 B.C.

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have documented at Collet de Jovell, within the municipality of Urús in the province of Lleida, a collection of archaeological materials...

Jul 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Emerald Tablet, the enigmatic text that revealed the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone

Psychiatrist Carl Jung and historian George R. S. Mead studied the Emerald Tablet between the last quarter of the 19th century and the first of the 20th. Surrealist poet André Breton included the p...

Jul 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Rare Statue Found in a Gallic Iron Age Settlement Where Unusual Amounts of Horse Meat Were Consumed

The excavations carried out at the residential site of Mettray Le Désert, located north of Tours, have provided new data on human occupation during the second period of the Iron Age. The fieldwork,...

Jul 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Urinalysis, Part 2

We started a conversation yesterday on the use of urine by medieval Western European physicians to determine health. I thought today we'd go into exactly how the urine was an indicator of health.Ex...

Jul 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A New Forensic Approach to the Shroud of Turin: Science Reveals Biological Clues Without Dating Its Origin

The Shroud of Turin, one of the most studied and controversial relics of Christianity, has been subjected to a new scientific scrutiny that, without resolving the debate on its chronology or authen...

Jul 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings at the Capo Mulini Shipwreck, Sunk in the Late 2nd Century BC, Rewrite the Map of Republican Sicily’s Trade Routes

The waters of the maritime stretch between Acireale and Aci Castello, on the eastern coast of Sicily, have revealed a new chapter in the seafaring history of the Mediterranean. The conclusion of th...

Jul 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ancient astronomers considered it one of the brightest stars in the sky, but it barely shines: researchers solve the mystery

Almost two millennia ago, in the year 137 AD, Claudius Ptolemy included in his famous Almagest a list of the brightest stars in the sky. Among the thirteen that received the highest rating—magnitud...

Jul 20, 2026 from Palladium

Wiring Capital to Compute

America possesses more capital than any other nation in history and the most compute demand in the world. It is still waiting for a market to wire them together. The post Wiring Capital to Compute ...

Jul 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman camp from the time of Marcus Aurelius and the Marcomannic Wars with strange legionary burials found in Slovakia

The extensive archaeological project linked to the future industrial park of Šurany, in southwestern Slovakia, has provided one of the most relevant discoveries in recent years for understanding th...

Jul 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Urinalysis, Part 1

Last post mentioned that a medieval illustrator indicated a physician by showing him holding a flask. There was a very specific substance in that flask, and it wasn't blood; it was urine. Blood's c...

Jul 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

In the 3rd century BC Germanic peoples cooperated to build the great fortification of Wittekindsburg, now their homes have been found

The archaeological surveys carried out in the surroundings of the German city of Minden, in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, are transforming the current understanding of human occupation in this ar...

Jul 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover 7,000-Year-Old Fish Traps in the Norwegian Mountains

A team of researchers has unearthed in the mountains of southern Norway the remains of several wooden fish traps dating back 7,000 years, a finding that demonstrates that hunter-gatherer-fisher soc...

Jul 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Three Tombs of Officials and Military Figures from Egypt’s 18th Dynasty Discovered at Saqqara, Including That of the “Great Merchant of the House of Ptah”

The Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Bubasteion necropolis, in the eastern sector of the escarpment at the Saqqara site, has announced the discovery of three rock-cut tombs dating to ...

Jul 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Blood & Health

We've been talking about blood as food, and some recipes using blood in cooking, but now let's talk about health-related blood.Blood was considered one of four "humors" that were the key to health ...

Jul 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bartolomeo Colleoni, the mercenary with three pairs of “coglioni”

It is curious that two of the most famous and representative statues of the Quattrocento were not made in honor of a prince or a writer, nor of a religious or mythological figure, but of mercenarie...

Jul 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Blood Recipes

We talked yesterday about preparing and preserving blood for culinary use, now let's look at some more specific uses in medieval cuisine. Today we actually make som e recipes using blood. (For the ...

Jul 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

First Textile Fragment from the Iron Age Found at the Submerged Site of the Gran Carro of Bolsena After Sixty Years of Searching

The waters of Lake Bolsena, in the Italian province of Viterbo, continue to yield unprecedented evidence of protohistoric life in southern Etruria. The team led by the Underwater Archaeology Servic...