Posts tagged "history"

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...

May 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Physician’s Case Found in Pompeii Among the Remains of a Victim of the A.D. 79 Eruption

More than six decades after the excavation work carried out in the so-called Orto dei Fuggiaschi (Garden of the Fugitives), a new analysis of the materials recovered at the time has succeeded in as...

May 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tomb of the Purification Priest of the Temple of Amun and 10 Other Figures, Whose Names and Roles Were Previously Unknown, Discovered in Luxor

The work of the Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the necropolis of Dra Abu el-Naga, located on the west bank of Luxor, has concluded its eighth excavation...

May 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Attius Clausus, the Sabine who emigrated to Rome with his family and his five thousand clients, changed his name and founded the gens Claudia

«Appius, who had an impulsive character… » says Livy in the second book of his work Ab urbe condita (On the Founding of the City); «Appius leaves because of the natural arrogance of his character» ...

May 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A new species of “hairy” ghost pipefish discovered in the southwestern Pacific that disguises itself as algae to hide

A team of Australian researchers has officially described a new species of ghost pipefish, characterized by its abundant “fur” of fine filaments all over its body, giving it a notably shaggy appear...

May 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Funding a Crusade

When Henry III's son Edmund Crouchback was 23 years old, he pledged to go on crusade with his brother, Edward, and a cousin, Henry of Almain (son of Henry III's brother, Richard of Cornwall; Henry ...

May 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dust from a Remote Stellar Explosion Has Been Accumulating for Tens of Thousands of Years in Antarctic Ice as the Solar System Passes Through the Local Interstellar Cloud

An international team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has confirmed, through the analysis of Antarctic ice tens of thousands of years old, that the Solar System is currently ...

May 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

59,000 Years Ago, a Neanderthal Underwent a Dental Drilling to Cure an Infection, and then that Knowledge was Lost

A team of researchers has documented what is likely the oldest case of successful dental treatment in history of human evolution, performed by a Neanderthal who lived in the Chagyrskaya cave, in th...