Posts tagged "history"

May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A fossil found in Canada solves the paleontological enigma of the “Furongian gap,” a 12-million-year period with no fossils

An international study published in BMC Biology provides new clues to solve one of the most persistent paleontological enigmas of the Paleozoic: the so-called Furongian gap, a time interval roughly...

May 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Video: A Defense of Visual Novels

I learned about an interesting YouTube video about visual novels titled A Defense of Visual Novels: What are They and What They Do Well through an email exchange with the creator. I have been colle...

May 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Disabling AI in WordPress 7.0

This site is (as of the publication of this post) on WordPress 7.0. I became aware that WordPress added some AI features through articles and blog posts instead of the WordPress admin area. The fac...

May 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-28-26

I have more work ahead of me today. But once again, I refuse to let work stand between me and another edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Can an ESPN analyst revive the Scripp...

May 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Marine Animal Defies the Limits of Immortality: A Fragment of Its Amputated Body Survives for Three Years in Seawater

From the reanimated corpse of Frankenstein’s monster to the detached hand known as Thing in the Addams Family, reanimated tissue is one of the most enduring images in science fiction. This archetyp...

May 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Oxford Massacre

One site of the St. Brice's Day Massacre in 1002 seems to have been Oxford. Æthelred called it in a 1004 charter "a most just extermination" of Danes, because of the rumor that they intended to kil...

May 28, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary

In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes? A euphemism for culled...

May 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Roman Empire Gave Gold Jewelry to Barbarian Chiefs for Centuries, and That Explains One of the Greatest Mysteries of European History

When the barbarians entered the Roman Empire in the 5th century and founded their own kingdoms, something strange happened: they destroyed nothing. Palaces, churches, taxes, coins, Latin, and Greek...

May 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Stone Age humans were already sleeping on beds prepared with grass over ashes more than 200,000 years ago

Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa have published an analysis of plant-material beds used by Middle Stone Age humans in Border Cave, located on the border between ...

May 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-27-26

I have a busy day ahead of me, but not too busy for Pook-Emu Bee links. Before getting to links from around the web, I note that I just published the sixth and final part of my New Leaf Journal six...

May 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Marine Fossils in Madrid Found in the Sierra Norte: The Area Was Under the Sea Before the Supercontinent Pangaea

A team of researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has identified in the Sierra Norte of the Community of Madrid the remains of t...

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 ...