Posts tagged "history"

Sep 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Spain’s ‘Iberian Pompeii’ Just Unearthed a Face-Smashed Statue Older Than the Roman Empire

The face is gone. Not chipped or worn away by time, but struck — possibly on purpose — until nothing remained of the features that once identified this life-size limestone head, carved roughly 2,40...

Sep 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ancient Chinese Law Said Cattle Thieves Lost Their Noses— Archaeologists Just Found the Proof

Chinese legal texts have described nasal amputation as a criminal punishment since the Bronze Age. Oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang dynasty even carved the concept into a single character: a...

Sep 04, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026

Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,000) which left me with some non-blog catching up to do. Next week, we’ll be start...

Sep 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Long Before Rome, Etruscan Civilization Engineered Tombs to Alter the Mind

Two tombs, two very different experiences. Walk into one and the space narrows around you, guiding your eyes along a fixed sequence of images. Walk into the other and the sound itself seems to come...

Sep 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Failure at Milan

The insubordination of John the Sanguinary that led to the division in the Byzantine army between the divisions commanded by Belisarius and those commanded by Narses created further problems. The S...

Sep 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 1666 Manuscript From Mexico City May Rewrite the History of Galileo’s Telescope

Galileo Galilei is remembered for pointing a simple two-lens tube at the sky and changing astronomy forever. What he is not remembered for is a four-lens telescope built more than a decade before h...

Sep 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Exceptional Imperial Bath Discovered Hidden in the Tower of a Roman Palace at the Serbian Site of Šarkamen

Three decades have passed since the collection of gold jewelry appeared in the Šarkamen mausoleum, and now this Roman imperial complex has once again surprised the archaeological community with a d...

Sep 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Italy and Japan Ended Up as Enemies in World War II and Didn’t Sign Peace Until 1951

Two of the most prominent belligerents of World War II ended up clashing despite having initially fought on the same side, and it wasn’t until 1951, six years after the end of the conflict, that th...

Sep 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Nazi Ahnenerbe Organization Made More Than 200 Exact Copies of Scandinavian Bronze Age Rock Art: What Were the Casts For?

In the 1930s, the German Nazi regime launched an ambitious archaeological research program with a clear goal: to prove that Germanic culture was the oldest and most superior in the world. To achiev...

Sep 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman Lead Weights Discovered in Ancient Mellaria Reveal the Importance of River Fishing in the Conventus Cordubensis

The archaeological site of Mellaria, located in the municipality of Fuente Obejuna, in the province of Córdoba, continues to provide insights into the economic and daily life of this Roman city tha...

Sep 03, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Belisarius and Narses

The outcome of the insubordination of John the Sanguinary created a dangerous precedent. General Narses disagreed with General Belisarius' approach to the conquest of Italy from the Ostrogoths, and...

Sep 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Copper Ring Found at Herodium Bearing Pilate’s Name Belonged to a Worker in His Administration in Judea

The archaeological find could hardly have been more modest: a small ring made of copper alloy, with a few Greek letters engraved on it and the image of a ceramic vessel. Yet its insignificant appea...

Sep 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Cantabrian Labarum, the military standard that the Romans knew as “cantabrum”

As indicated in its statute of autonomy, the flag of Cantabria (in north Spain) is “formed by two horizontal stripes of equal width, white on top and red on the bottom”, with the coat of arms in th...

Sep 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-02-26

My throat is irrtated, my nose is stuffy, and I have a slight headache. It’s ragweed season. Unrelated: It’s time for our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1 | Dating App Adds Feature Allowing Men To Filte...

Sep 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

First Terrestrial Mammal Footprint Discovered in Antarctica

A team of paleontologists has discovered on King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands, the first fossil footprint unequivocally attributable to a terrestrial mammal in the Eocene of Antarct...

Sep 02, 2026 from Daily Medieval

John and Narses

I thought we'd elaborate a little on the conflict mentioned yesterday about the taking of Ariminum (modern Rimini) by a Byzantine force under a general called John, also known as John the Sanguinar...

Sep 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Unveil the Hidden City of Nimrud, the Ancient Assyrian Capital Forgotten for 180 Years

For nearly two centuries, archaeologists excavating Nimrud, one of the capitals of the Assyrian Empire in present-day northern Iraq, focused their attention on the acropolis mound. There, they unea...

Sep 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bacon’s Rebellion, the Colonial Virginia Civil War Considered the Origin of American Racism

It is clear that ethnic differences, like religious ones, have been the origin of countless conflicts throughout the world from Antiquity to the present day. It is not surprising, then, that this a...

Sep 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Experiment Records an Anomalous Signal That Could Be the First Detection of the Elusive Dark Matter of the Universe

The world’s most sensitive dark matter observatory, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, has detected a particle interaction that cannot be explained by conventional background radiation models, a findi...

Sep 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Santa Cristina Well-Temple, a Nuragic Work of the Bronze Age That Is 30 Centuries Old and Looks Like It Was Built Yesterday

There are ancient monuments that impress with their size and others that impress with their precision. The Sacred Well of Santa Cristina, in the municipality of Paulilatino, province of Oristano in...