Posts tagged "history"

Jun 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why the Romans Wore Short Hair and Women Wore Blonde Wigs

Hair has never been just hair. In classical Greece and Rome, the way it was worn—long, short, curled, braided, up or loose—revealed social status, religious beliefs, political loyalties, and even t...

Jun 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A stellar system becomes the ‘Rosetta Stone’ that deciphers mysterious cosmic radio pulses

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Sydney, with participation from the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC), has identified a unique stellar system that acts as a natur...

Jun 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Origin of the Euphrates Discovered: The Great River of Mesopotamia Was Born 6 Million Years Ago and Flowed Into an Almost Dry Mediterranean

An international team of geologists has managed to reconstruct for the first time the complete history of the Euphrates River, from its origins about 6 million years ago to its current configuratio...

Jun 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-01-26

Today is June 1. It is also Monday. With that, I present our first-ever collection of June Pook-Emu Bee links after a brief photography interlude. 1. Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabota...

Jun 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Sweyn's Close Call

Sweyn's care for his people allowed Harald Hardrada to escape during their sea skirmish, but Sweyn himself had a similar close call. In 1062, at the Battle of Niså off the coast of Halland (a Swedi...

Jun 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Only Venomous Primate in the World Looks Like a Plush Toy but Has a Deadly Weapon

If you search for slow loris online, you’ll find videos with millions of views. You see a cat-sized primate with huge eyes and slow movements. It hugs a plush toy, holds a cocktail umbrella, or shu...

Jun 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Largest Copper Age Tomb in Europe Is in Murcia and Reveals an Ancient Childhood Epidemic

More than 4,500 years ago, in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, a Chalcolithic (Copper Age) community buried its dead in a large artificial cave now known as Camino del Molino, in Caravaca de...

Jun 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Remains of Queen Elisenda of Montcada Recovered at the Monastery of Pedralbes, Holder of Unusual Power in the 14th Century

The analysis of the foundational tombs of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes in Barcelona has confirmed the identity of the remains of Queen Elisenda of Montcada (Aitona, 1292 – Barcel...

Jun 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Cartouche of Senusret III, a Head of Aphrodite, and the Remains of a Roman Basilica Discovered in Ancient Heracleopolis Magna

The area known as Ihnasiya al-Madina, located in the Beni Suef province of Egypt, continues to provide material evidence of its stratified past. The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Suprem...

May 31, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Sweyn II of Denmark

Also known as Sweyn Estridsson or Estridsen, because his mother was Estrid, daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard, Sweyn II was King of Denmark from 1047 to 1078. He was also sometimes known as Sweyn Ulfsson...

May 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Saving Myth: When Oral Memory Holds the Warning of the Ancestors

Sometime in 1880, a British colonial officer named Maurice Vidal Portman landed on a small island in the Andaman archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The island was —and still is— home to the Sentinele...

May 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Sweyn's Daughter, Estrid

Estrid Svensdatter, daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard and sister of Cnut, was born c.990s and lived at last until after 1057. We do not know about her early life, and there is a great deal of speculation...

May 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Are We Overlooking Signs of Extraterrestrial Life? A Study Warns of “False Negatives” in Biosignature Detection

The possibility that there are signs of biological activity beyond Earth, and that these signs have been systematically ignored or misinterpreted by current instruments, has been analyzed by an int...

May 29, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week: May 29, 2026

Hey folks! I had a few other projects that I really needed to get finished this week, which left me with limited time to put a blog post together. My plan for next week is something for the worldbu...

May 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-29-26

Today is Friday, May 29, 2026. Because it is a day ending in -day that is not Saturday, it is time for our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. There will be no Pook-Emu Bee tomorrow, but you will find even m...

May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of a Roman Bridge from the Year 363 AD Discovered in the Bed of the Meuse River in the Netherlands

A sand extraction operation in the channel of the Meuse River, near the municipality of West Maas en Waal, in the center of the Netherlands, has brought to light four long oak posts whose character...

May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 5th-Century BC Ship with Over Three Hundred Amphorae Found on the Seafloor of the Ionian Sea in Calabria

Archaeologists located a sunken wreck in the waters of the Ionian Sea, dated between the 5th and 4th centuries BC, off the coast of Monasterace, a municipality in the province of Reggio Calabria. T...

May 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Sweyn Invades

It may well have been news of the wholesale slaughter of Danes in 1002 that was ordered by King Æthelred that motivated Sweyn Forkbeard to invade England. The St. Brice's Day Massacre is said to ha...

May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Flash in the Sky Reveals a Possible Object That Passed for an Hour Between Our Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud

During five nights in December 2019, a group of researchers used the DECam camera, installed on the 4-meter Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo (Chile), to observe a specific field of the Large Magell...

May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researchers Discover the Teutonic Knights Built Feldioara Fortress in the 13th Century to Create Their Own Independent State

For decades, historians had suspected that the Feldioara Fortress, also known as Marienburg, was the seat of the Teutonic Knights in Transylvania during their brief presence in the region between 1...