Posts tagged "history"

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...

Jul 18, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVa: Leadership

This is the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. We’ve talked about how armies a...

Jul 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Late Antique Building with Mosaic and Ritual Objects Found in Agrigento, Evidencing the Transition to Christianity in Sicily

The eleventh excavation campaign in the Hellenistic-Roman district of Agrigento, carried out over the past few weeks, has concluded with the discovery of a building whose construction sequence span...

Jul 17, 2026 from Palladium

Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Education

Educational institutions have learned to optimize for everything except learning. Artificial intelligence could force them to measure what’s important. The post Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Educ...

Jul 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Blood as Food

There's a scene early in The Name of the Rose involving barrels of pigs' blood. It was autumn, and time to slaughter the pigs, but of course you wouldn't want to waste the blood.You could not, howe...

Jul 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Princesses of Ancient Egypt Practiced Archery and Hunting 4,000 Years Ago, and Were Buried With Their Weapons

The reevaluation of six royal mummies found in Dahshur at the end of the 19th century and rediscovered in 2020 has allowed a team of researchers to determine that some Middle Kingdom princesses of ...

Jul 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

DNA Analysis Reveals that the “Shaman” of Stonehenge Was a Female Goldsmith from the Bronze Age

A surprising discovery in the field of archaeogenetics has completely transformed the understanding of one of the most significant prehistoric burials in the British Isles. New evidence from ancien...

Jul 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Tabula Capuana: the sacred Etruscan calendar that has not yet been fully deciphered

In the Altes Museum in Berlin rests one of the most enigmatic treasures of antiquity. It is a simple terracotta tablet, about 60 by 50 centimeters, that looks like a large brick. But on its baked s...

Jul 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Cup Noodle (Cold Edition) in Japan

SoraNews24, which covers news from Japan, is a long-time member of my feed collection and a regular article contributor to the “Around the Web” secution of my weekly newsletter. They cover some “ne...

Jul 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Scythians Had So Many Horses That They Afforded the Luxury of Burying Healthy Specimens in Their Prime Alongside Fallen Warriors

A team of Russian archaeologists and zoologists has managed, for the first time with such extensive material, to determine the age and sex of the horses that the Scythians sacrificed and buried in ...

Jul 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Lincoln's Shame

One of the most famous cases of anti-semitism took place in Lincoln in 1255.On 31 July 1255, a nine-year-old named Hugh disappeared in Lincoln. A month later, on 29 August, his body was discovered ...

Jul 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Genetics Shows That Bronze Age States in China Were a Social Invention Forged Through Rituals: The Discovery That Rewrites History

A team of researchers from Jilin University and other Chinese institutions has successfully sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of 207 individuals buried in the Dahekou cemetery, in Shanxi ...

Jul 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Aslantaş, the impressive Phrygian monolithic tomb guarded by two stone lions for 2,700 years

About thirty kilometers north of Afyonkarahisar, in western Anatolia, there is an eleven-meter-high volcanic tuff rock carved with two lions standing on their hind legs, facing each other, with jaw...

Jul 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Using AIM Until the Bitter End

Hackaday published an article authored by Tyler August titled AIM-ing For A More Open Platform Than Discord, wherein he summarized an article on running a self-hostable open-source implementation o...

Jul 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Archaeological Discovery of the Ligures Baebiani Reveals How Rome Used Mass Deportations to Control Its Empire

In the year 180 BC, approximately 47,000 people were torn from their homes in the valleys of the Magra and Vara, in northwestern Italy, and forced to move hundreds of kilometers south, to the regio...

Jul 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Medieval Lincoln

The Lindum Colonia fell into decline after the departure of Roman Legions from Britain, but remained a viable community with a church dedicated to St. Paul. In fact, it became its own kingdom, the ...

Jul 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dark matter resides in a hidden extra dimension along with a force-carrying particle known as the “dark photon”, according to a new theory

Dark matter, that mysterious substance that holds galaxies together, could be naturally “in tune” with a hidden fifth dimension, according to a new theory developed by scientists at the University ...

Jul 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The women who managed Roman villas were much more than simple housekeepers: a study reveals the functions of the “vilica”

For decades, historians have described the vilica —the administrator of a Roman villa— as a figure in charge of domestic chores: cooking, cleaning, and caring for the household. However, a thorough...

Jul 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Fortunate NBA Champions (2001-2016)

Writing for The Pudding, Russell Samora recently put together a list of the “most ethical” NBA champions, wherein he used a formula (with many entertaining graphs) to determine, going back to 2001,...

Jul 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 07-14-26

Two consecutive editions of Pook-Emu Bee daily links? What in the world is going on here? 1. Sega Dreamcast driver fixes appear in Linux 7.2-rc3 — fabled console remains in favor while iconic compu...