Posts tagged "history"

May 01, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals

This is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies were raised and constituted. Last time, we looked at the backbone of Carthage’s armies: North Africa...

May 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Mad Parliament

King Henry III had spent lavishly on many things, including trying to fund a war to gain the Kingdom of Sicily for his younger son Edmund. He was confronted by a number of barons who would only agr...

May 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Evolution Has Reused the Same Genes for 120 Million Years: A Study Questions the Randomness of Nature

An international team of scientists has confirmed that evolution has used the same genetic repertoire for over 120 million years, suggesting that patterns of change in life on Earth may be more pre...

May 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Astronomers Discover Loki, an Ancient Stellar System Hidden in the Milky Way

Researchers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Chile, and other countries have analyzed in detail 20 very old stars located in the solar neighborhood, all of them following unusual orbits that keep t...

May 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

George Maniakes, the Byzantine military genius who conquered Sicily twice from the Muslims aided by the Viking Harald Hardrada and Norman mercenaries

Between the years 1614 and 1618, the military officer Joan de Roca Maldonato, who was in command of the most important fortress the Spaniards possessed in Syracuse, carried out a series of reinforc...

Apr 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Banned Trees and Plants in New Jersey

I read an April 18, 2026 report in the New York Post titled After holding its nose for decades, NJ finally bans stinky Bradford pear tree: Under a new law, the Bradford pear tree and 29 other non-n...

Apr 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-30-26

Work did not allow for timely Pook-Emu Bee links, but today I return with nine new links from around the web. 1 Popular WordPress redirect plugin hid dormant backdoor for years (Bill Toulas for Ble...

Apr 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Barbarians Who Didn’t Invade Rome: Groups from Northern Europe Were Already Plowing the Lands of Southern Germany a Century Before the Fall of the Empire

A genomic analysis conducted on 258 individuals buried in the so-called row cemeteries of southern Germany has just demolished the 19th-century image of a great Germanic migration that supposedly b...

Apr 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)

The working class undergirds everything in this cartoon of capitalist society.

Apr 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Inscription Found in the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor in Tivoli Identifies the Basilica Where Augustus Dispensed Justice Cited by Suetonius

The archaeological investigations carried out in the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor in Tivoli, one of the most imposing monumental complexes of Roman Italy, have yielded a discovery of exceptional im...

Apr 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Second Barons' War—Causes

The Second Barons' War started in 1264 by Simon de Montfort, the 6th Earl of Leicester, against King Henry III of England. Henry was relying to much on favorites for advice—many of them from France...

Apr 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 9th-Century Manuscript Found in Rome Contains the Oldest Copy of the First Poem in English with the Original Text Embedded

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have located in the National Central Library of Rome a 9th-century copy of the first known poem in the English language, the Caedmon’s Hymn, which dates from...

Apr 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Roman Babies Were Buried in York with Imperial Purple and Gold, a Luxury Reserved for Emperors

The remains, kept in the collections of the York Museums Trust, belong to two newborns or infants whose bodies were wrapped in luxurious fabrics before being placed in separate coffins. The first r...

Apr 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 7,000-Year-Old Pit Reveals the Hunting of at Least Twelve Beavers for Their Pelts in the Neolithic

During the preliminary work for the construction of the SuedOstLink direct current connection, and in close coordination with the transmission grid operator 50Hertz, the State Office for Monument C...

Apr 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Simon and Eleanor

After Simon de Montfort failed to gain the hand of the Countess of Flanders, he was offered a different marriage partner: the sister of King Henry III of England, Eleanor of England.Also called Ele...

Apr 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of Two Disasters 2,600 Years Apart and a Stele of King Ashurbanipal Found at Nineveh’s Shamash Gate

The monumental Shamash Gate, the most important eastern entrance of the ancient city of Nineveh, has revealed a secret that remained hidden for millennia: beneath its foundations lie traces of two ...

Apr 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Coins Minted in England to Stop Viking Raids Were So Liked by the Vikings That They Ended Up Using Them as Pendants

Two extraordinarily rare English coins, minted at the beginning of the 11th century with the explicit intention of stopping Viking raids through divine intervention, have appeared in two different ...

Apr 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Enigma of Munigua, the Spectacular Roman City with the Largest Terrace Sanctuary Outside Italy

For over sixty years, a team from the German Archaeological Institute has unearthed in the Sierra Norte of Seville (Spain), eight kilometers north of Villanueva del Río and Minas, the remains of a ...

Apr 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Learning About Cassette Futurism

I recently read Mike Piggott’s blog post A love letter to cassette futurism (HT Dragonfly BSD Digest). I did not recall having seen the term before, but Mr. Piggott’s definition of it being “a retr...

Apr 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Shows a Complicated Construction Technique Thought to Be Roman Was Used 8,000 Years Earlier at the Neolithic Site of Motza

About 10,000 years ago, long before the Romans set foot in the Holy Land, the inhabitants of the Neolithic settlement of Motza were already building their houses with plaster floors of exceptional ...