Posts tagged "history"

May 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Thousands of Ancient Greek letters have survived, yet none are love letters: what they reveal about life in the ancient world

When we imagine ancient Greece, we tend to think of marble, tragedies, philosophers, and wars. But the Greeks were also a people of letters. The book Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World, by...

May 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The fascinating history of Hațeg, an ancient island in the middle of Europe where all the dinosaurs were dwarfs

In the center of present-day Romania, near the town of Hațeg, lies an extraordinary story—the story of a lost world, a prehistoric island that defied all known rules about what dinosaurs were suppo...

May 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)

Historical predictions from the Scottish Nostradamus.

May 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Eadric Streona

Eadric, the son of Ethelric, started as a relative unknown. His father was at the court of Æthelred the Unready, but was not distinguished. Something in Eadric caused him to get the attention of Æt...

May 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Sasanian Empire Used Advanced Brass Technology in Their Helmets and Military Equipment, Just Like the Romans

A team of scientists from the British Museum and the University of Cambridge analyzed archaeological pieces from two cities of the Sasanian Empire —Merv, in present-day Turkmenistan, and Nineveh, i...

May 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Castoreum, the secretion from beavers’ anal glands that is used to make perfumes and in foods like vanilla ice cream

“…That he had imitated the beaver, which, finding itself harassed by hunters, cuts and tears with its teeth that for which it knows by natural instinct it is pursued…”. Thus Cervantes narrates in D...

May 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Emu Café Social and ATmosphere

I use the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin here on ECS (follow me from Masotdon or similar at @naferrell@social.emucafe.org). Because ActivityPub for WordPress is a key part of this project, I subs...

May 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Italy-Azerbaijan Trade Partnership

According to Vasif Huseynov writing for The Jamestown Foundation, “Italy is Azerbaijan’s largest trading partner.” Had you asked, I would have probably guessed Turkey. But I suppose Italy makes sen...

May 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Possible Iron Age Celtic Harbor Found on the Bank of the Main River in Germany

In March 2026, the German municipality of Aschaffenburg notified the Bavarian authorities of the discovery of these wooden elements during trenching and earthmoving operations. Since then, the exca...

May 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-20-26

We are having a second consecutive 90+ degree day here in Brooklyn today’s Pook-Emu Bee links are warmer than the outside temperatures. Links 1. Google Search as you know it is over (Sarah Perez fo...

May 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Law that “Regularized” Thousands of Freed Slaves by Granting Them the Vote in the Roman Republic was not for what we thought

For decades, the official history of ancient Rome has repeated the same idea: in the last decades of the Republic, freed slaves – the libertini – were so numerous and so impoverished that any popul...

May 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Mykonos Vase, Created in the 7th Century BC, Contains the Oldest Known Depiction of the Trojan Horse

In the summer of 1961, some workers conducting excavations in the center of the city of Mykonos, on the Greek island of the same name, stumbled upon an unexpected find: a large terracotta pithos, a...

May 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-19-26

I had been sitting down to churn out today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links. 1. Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold T...

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 ...