Posts tagged "history"

Oct 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Bodleian: The Book of Glendalough

Two things may be said about the Book of Glendalough. One is that it resides in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The second thing? That we don't know for certain where or what the Book of Glendaloug...

Oct 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Pakistani Valley Where People Were Said to Live Past 100 and Descend of Alexander the Great’s Soldiers

In 1933, the British writer James Hilton published Lost Horizon, the most successful novel of his career. Four years later, Frank Capra turned it into a film that made it even more famous. It tells...

Oct 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Bad Puns: Romania Edition

The Jamestown Foundation published an article by Peter Fazekas on the formation of a new minority government in Romania. In discussing the various parties, Mr. Fazekas explained that the largest op...

Oct 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 2,400-Year-Old Numidian House Built Against a Defensive Wall Shows How Carthage’s Neighbors Lived

Around 2,400 years ago, a house with several rooms stood against the defensive wall of a settlement in what is now northern Tunisia. Archaeologists have now recovered almost its entire floor plan, ...

Oct 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Bodleian: Cædmon's Hymn

Our first foray into the special medieval holdings of the Bodleian Library is Cædmon's Hymn.Bede wrote that Cædmon was an illiterate man in the late 7th century who cared for the cows at what is no...

Oct 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Pompeii Wardrobe Left Behind in the Eruption Held a Childhood Charm Necklace and 38 Coins

When the cloud of burning ash and gas rolled into the room, the wardrobe was still standing. The wood took almost twenty centuries to rot away, but by then the ash had hardened around it and kept i...

Oct 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Celtic Woman Buried With a Lamb and a Bracelet of Fossilized Mud Found in Germany

When a company plans a business park, the last thing it expects to find underground is a cemetery. That is what happened in 2024 on St.-Florian-Straße in Senden, a town of about 23,700 people in th...

Oct 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Discover How the Prehistoric Cave Paintings in the Chauvet Cave Survived for Thousands of Years

To measure a horse painted 37,000 years ago, you would normally walk up to the wall. At Chauvet that is impossible. The cave floor still holds footprints tens of thousands of years old, and nobody ...

Oct 29, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The 1994 Scream Theft

Norway · 1994 · Theft — Thieves used a ladder to break into Norway's National Gallery and stole Edvard Munch's iconic 1893 painting The Scream in just 50 seconds.

Oct 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Churanoumi Becomes First Sumo Wrestler From Okinawa to Reach Sanyaku

Churanoumi became the first sumo wrestler from Okinawa Prefecture to reach sumo wrestling’s sanyaku ranks. He will make his sankyaki debut at Komusubi 1-East at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, wh...

Oct 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Ritual Sword From the Bronze Age Turned Up on the Site of a Planned Parking Lot in Sardinia Revealing a Nuragic Settlement that Lasted Until the Middle Ages

In 2019, workers preparing the ground for a gas pipeline and a new parking lot in the village of Loculi, in the interior of Sardinia, began to find ancient structures. Seven years later, those stru...

Oct 28, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Gemini 3.8 OCR Costs

In my recent article on the price and performance of some commercial OCR (optical character recognition) models, I predicted Google’s Gemini 3.8 would cost $35.30 ± $23.70 to convert 1,000 pages co...

Oct 28, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain

When the Bristol Channel flooded in 1607, it was not just one of the worst natural disasters in British history, it was also a sign, for many, that they had strayed from the path of God. Erik Crnko...

Oct 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library in Oxford is actually not from the Middle Ages. It was founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley (1545 - 1613), an English diplomat and scholar. What he accomplished, however, was t...

Oct 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 3,000-Year-Old Spanish Mine Rivaled the Alps for Europe’s Bronze Age Copper—Metal May Have Reached Scandinavia

Bronze is mostly copper with a smaller share of tin, and the copper that prehistoric miners could reach was scattered unevenly across Europe. When researchers ask where the continent’s Bronze Age c...

Oct 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Silk Found on Strange 3,000-Year-Old Bronze Masks From a Chinese Civilization With No Known Writing: Did They Write On It?

Under the soil and corrosion that coat some of China’s most spectacular bronze masks, scraps of cloth have survived for roughly 3,000 years. A team of archaeologists and heritage conservation speci...

Oct 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Inedible Berry That Bears the Most Intense Blue of Any Biological Material—Yet Contains No Blue Pigment at All. How Does It Do It?

In a drawer at the herbarium of Kew Gardens, in southwest London, there is a dry twig collected in Ghana in 1974. (A herbarium is a library of pressed, dried plants, and Kew’s is among the largest ...

Oct 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Isaac of Nineveh

Isaac of Nineveh was a 7th-century Syriac Christian, born c.613 in eastern Arabia (Qatar), an area that spoke Arabic and Syrian. He was ordained Bishop of Nineveh in 676, but one record says he lef...

Oct 27, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Albrecht Dürer’s Monument to the Vanquished Peasants (1525)

The design for a difficult-to-interpret monument that was never intended to be built.

Oct 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dog Paw Prints From 4,000 Years Ago Found in a Mudbrick From an Anatolian Burned Bronze Age City

An animal stepped on a mudbrick while it was still soft and left its paw prints in the clay. The brick went into the wall of a house. The house burned and collapsed. About 4,000 years later, archae...