Posts tagged "history"

May 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of Weapon Manufacturing and Repair from the Wars of Alexander the Great’s Successors Found on Andros

A team of researchers has managed to unravel the secrets hidden in the ancient metallurgical slags found on the Greek island of Andros, in the Aegean Sea. The results confirm that these remains bel...

May 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The James Webb Telescope Makes an Unexpected Discovery in a Galaxy Located at an Extreme Distance and Age: It Has No Rotation

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made an unexpected discovery in a galaxy located at an extreme distance and age: it shows no rotation at all. Ben Forrest, research scientist i...

May 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Last Death of the Second Barons' War

This post is about Margaret of England (29 September 1240 – 26 February 1275), the daughter of King Henry III. She was in her 20s during the Second Barons' War, but was living in Scotland because s...

May 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Mystery of Bronze Fish Found in Tombs in an Ancient Qin Capital in China Unraveled

An international team of scientists has managed to unravel the mysteries hidden in some unique bronze fish, made more than 2,500 years ago, which were found at the Weijiaya archaeological site, in ...

May 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-08-26

I was busy this morning and forgot to write daily Pook-Emu Bee links. But since tomorrow is newsletter day and there are no Pook-Emu Bee links on newsletter day, I figured I would publish a late-ni...

May 08, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part IV: Allies and Mercenaries

This is the fourth part of our series (I, II, III) looking at how Carthage’s complex, multi-ethnic armies were raised and structured. Last week, we looked at Carthage’s unusual system for raising v...

May 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dante described a planetary impact in his “Divine Comedy” 500 years before modern science

Researchers from Marshall University reexamine the Divine Comedy through the lens of cosmic collision physics and conclude that the nine circles of the inferno represent an impact crater generated ...

May 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Dictum of Kenilworth, Part 2

Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, was originally on the side of the rebels during the Second Barons' War. He changed over to the royalist side when Simon de Montfort made an alliance with t...

May 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Archaeological Study Changes the View on the Etruscan City of Veii: It Was Not a Failure in Roman Times, but an Example of Community Resilience

When archaeologists talk about the ancient city of Veii, about 17 kilometers north of Rome, they usually divide its history into two very different acts. The first, glorious: between the 6th and 4t...

May 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Emperor Francis II Dissolved the Holy Roman Empire to Prevent Napoleon from Taking the Throne

“Who can endure this misfortune that weighs upon a nation that was once so glorious? May God improve things, if it is still possible to improve them!” The German poet Christoph Martin Wieland wrote...

May 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Learning About Preserving Strawberry Freshness

I came across a blog post by Chris Glass titled Strawberries were on sale. Having not long ago published an article about once purchasing out-of-season cherries on sale. I had to open. While Mr. Gl...

May 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Writer’s Take on Not Wasting Readers’ Time

Cesar Aguirre writes “[t]elling readers you don’t want to waste their time is already wasting it.” I agree. It comes off as protesting too much. In Staying the Course in Writing in the LLM Moment, ...

May 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Justice Thomas Moves Into Second

Clarence Thomas assumed office as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on October 23, 1991. Today, being May 7, 2026, Justice Thomas has now been on the bench for 12,615 d...

May 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Inscriptions from ancient Teos honoring the market supervisor show the activity of Roman negotiatores’ associations in greek cities in the 1st century BC

Excavations in the ancient Greek city of Teos, in present-day Turkey, have brought to light two inscriptions from the 1st century BC that document for the first time the organized presence of Roman...

May 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-07-26

After bouncing back from missing Tuesday with daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, we make it two days in a row with your daily collection of links for May 7, 2026. 1. Mamdani to announce free 2026 ...

May 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Women Were Buried Embracing Beside the Walls of a Cathedral, a Unique Discovery in Medieval Poland

The research, published in the journal Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, combined ancient DNA analysis with archaeological and osteological evidence to reinterpret an exceptional find: tw...

May 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Dictum of Kenilworth, Part 1

The end of the Second Barons' War required closure and reconciliation, and it came in the Dictum of Kenilworth, need for the castle in which the last rebels held out against royalist assault, until...

May 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Maya Altar Found in Yucatán in a Three-Level Quadrangular Structure

A quadrangular building, erected more than fifteen hundred years ago on three superimposed levels and associated with a Maya residential unit, has been placed under technical protection by speciali...

May 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Arcane Hierothesion Sanctuary of Mithridates I Callinicus in Arsameia, the Capital of the Ancient Kingdom of Commagene

In the foothills of southeastern Turkey, on the banks of the Kâhtaçay River – the Nymphaios of the ancients – rises a rocky promontory. There, in what locals today call Eski Kale, the “Old Castle,”...

May 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-06-26

I missed publishing daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to a work deadline. But we are back today with nine new links from around the world wide web. 1. Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins — Author of...