Posts tagged "history"

May 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Pre-Roman Sanctuary Found in Padua, With Temples and Venetic Inscriptions Buried by an Ancient Flood

During the construction work of the first functional section of the New Regional Road 10 “Padana Inferiore,” which will connect Borgo Veneto with Carceri, the company Veneto Strade S.p.A. encounter...

May 19, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s)

Photographs and films of a forgotten pastime.

May 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The St. Edmund Cult

After Edmund of East Anglia began to be treated as a saint, he became an important focal point for Christians in East Anglia, and as a political tool.The Danish King Cnut (c.990 - 1035), who conque...

May 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Reveals That Mohenjo-Daro, One of the World’s Earliest Cities, Thrived While Reducing Its Wealth Gap

A study published in Antiquity has challenged one of the most widely accepted historical narratives of the past decades: the notion that the evolution from small villages to cities inevitably leads...

May 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund Ironside

Edmund, son of Æthelred the Unready and his first wife Ælfgifu of York, was likely born between 990 and 993, one of several siblings. He was raised in Wessex by his grandmother, Ælfthryth, wife of ...

May 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

One of the Mysterious Megalithic Vessels of the Plain of Jars in Laos Contains Remains of 37 Individuals and Glass Beads from India and Mesopotamia

Hundreds of stone jars, some weighing several tons, are scattered across the remote highlands of northern Laos. Despite researchers having examined this megalithic complex known as the Plain of Jar...

May 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Sultanate of Yogyakarta, the only reigning monarchy in the world that belongs to a republic

You don’t need to be an expert geographer to know that the capital of Indonesia is Jakarta, its most populated city. However, during the years of the Indonesian revolution that granted the country ...

May 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-18-26

Monday is here. So too after taking the weekend off are my Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Maniac strangles 7-year-old boy in Brooklyn park: cops (Dean Moses for Brooklyn Paper. May 18, 2026.) These sorts o...

May 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Saint Edmund

When King Edmund of East Anglia bought off the Vikings of the Great Heathen Army in 865, he might have thought he was safe from that point on. They returned to East Anglia in 868, however. Accordin...

May 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Silver Denarius of Emperor Gallienus Found in Strange Pits of a Mid-3rd Century AD Sarmatian Settlement in Hungary

Excavations carried out between late February and early March of 2026 on the outskirts of Őrbottyán, a town located in Pest County (Hungary), have brought to light a set of archaeological structure...

May 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researchers Manage to Distinguish the Handwriting of Different Hittite Scribes in Cuneiform Tablets with Artificial Intelligence

A team from the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz has presented an artificial intelligence tool called Palaeographicum that recognizes th...

May 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover That Angola’s Ndalambiri Rock Shelter, Famous for Its Mysterious Ancient Paintings, Was a Center of Iron Production

The rock shelter of Ndalambiri, declared a National Heritage Site of Angola in 1974, is known for its large painted frieze over 60 meters long that contains nearly 1,200 figures, mainly white, red,...

May 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

King Edmund of East Anglia

The Kingdom of East Anglia formed in the first half of the 6th century. Its first king was Wehha, ruling people who came from Frisia and Jutland. He was followed by Luffa, who was followed by Tytil...

May 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

For Centuries, the People of Central Asia Spoke One Language but Wrote in Another: Greek, Aramaic, or Prakrit

Imagine if suddenly all documents written in Spanish, English, or French disappeared, and the only things left from our era were a few administrative texts in Latin and Ancient Greek. Something lik...

May 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund at War

There were few times in England's Medieval period when it was not at war with someone. Even when they were not forced to defend themselves, they chose to go to warfare territory or to start a Crusa...

May 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of a self-sufficient village from the late 3rd century AD—predating the Germanic migrations—and a strange “large, dark, opaque glass bead” discovered in Saxony

Gravel extraction at the Liebersee site, a hamlet belonging to the municipality of Belgern-Schildau in Saxony (Germany), has brought to light a series of archaeological structures that document the...

May 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Mycenaean Palace and a Sanctuary Rewrite the History of the Lacedaemonians, and How the Spartans Joined Them

Imagine a fertile valley in the Peloponnese, crossed by the Eurotas river. There, more than 3,300 years ago, a Mycenaean palace rose, controlling the territory. Seven kilometers to the north, on a ...

May 16, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, May 15, 2026

Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week we’ll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the ‘odds and ends’ components (slingers, elephants), before looking at how that mixture...

May 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-15-26

After two missed days due to having many work assignments, I return with a new edition of my Pook-Emu Bee links. Of course, there are no Pook-Emu Bee links tomorrow because of the newsletter and Su...

May 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund's Second Wife

After returning to England from failed Crusade attempts, Edmund had to deal with some unrest. His father, Henry III, died on 16 November 1271. The succession passed to Edward, who was still returni...