Posts tagged "history"

Sep 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Knowing Someone Through Games

I read a post on the Strange Voyages blog titled 9 Games to Know Me (HT Bubbles Weekly). It caught my interest because the concept struck me as similar (albeit not identical) to my September 2023 a...

Sep 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pokémon is Older than Tamagotchi

I read an August 31, 2026 article in SoraNews24 titled Tamagotchi evolves into a ring for its 30th anniversary, preorders now open. I had a Tamagotchi at some point in the 90s, but I do not think i...

Sep 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-01-26

For the first time in about a week (if not a little more), I do not have a tight work deadline. Thus, I present you with a relatively leisurely edition of the Pook-Emu Bee to kick off September. 1 ...

Sep 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Discover Why Ice Ages Occur Every 100,000 Years

An international study published in Nature Communications reveals that minimal changes in solar radiation were enough to relocate the dominant winds of the North Atlantic and permanently alter the ...

Sep 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The First Siege of Rome

King Vitiges of the Ostrogoths besieged Rome, that had been taken and inhabited by the Byzantine forces of Justinian I, led by General Belisarius. Rome had not even put up a fight against Belisariu...

Sep 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Unique Snake-Decorated Vessel Linked to the Secret Cult of the God Sabazios Found in a Roman Villa in Girona

A team of archaeologists from the University of Girona has identified several ceramic fragments in the Roman villa of Collet, located on the Girona coast, which belonged to a large vessel decorated...

Sep 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Adobe Houses and a Wine Press from the Era of Ramesses II Found in Memphis Reveal How Ancient Egyptians Lived Away from the Pharaohs

The joint archaeological mission between the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and the Shanghai Museum, which has been working for several seasons in the area of the Temple of Sekhmet in Mit ...

Sep 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Sacred Wars, the struggle of the Greek polis to seize control of the sanctuary of Delphi

In Greek mythology, Delphi was considered the omphalos or navel of the world, the womb of the goddess Gaia (in fact, that is what the original name means, and it is believed that dolphins are named...

Sep 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Fujinokawa First Kyoto-Born Rikishi to Reach Sekiwake in 198 Years

The 2026 Aki banzuke (September Grand Sumo tournament) were released yesterday. 21-year-old Fujinokawa, one of the smallest wrestlers in the top-division, was expected to make his san’yaku debut af...

Aug 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-31-26

We bring August to a close with one Pook-Emu Bee for the road. 1 | Understanding And Dealing With Kim Jong-Un’s Resilience (Mario Alexis Portella for American Thinker. August 31, 2026.) I attribute...

Aug 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Saqqara Bird, an Egyptian object from 200 BC that looks like a miniature airplane

It is very common to find images of birds in the art of Ancient Egypt. We see them in paintings and sculptures with species of all kinds, from the ducks hunted on the Nile to the ibis that lent its...

Aug 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Surprising Ingredients Discovered in Ancient Egyptian Paint: Animal Glues, Chicken Egg, and Sesame and Moringa Proteins

For decades, experts in ancient art have relied on techniques such as infrared spectroscopy or chromatography to determine what colors and adhesives the Egyptians used. But these tools only offer p...

Aug 31, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Gothic Wars

Whatever the catalyst was—murder of his friend Amalasuintha, or just a desire to avenge Rome and Romans against the Goths—Byzantine Emperor Justinian I decided it was time to re-assert control over...

Aug 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman statues from the 2nd century A.D., including those of Emperor Hadrian and his wife Sabina, found in the ancient Greek city of Kibyra

Excavations led by the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University of Burdur (MAKÜ) at the archaeological site of the ancient Greek Kibyra, in southwestern Turkey, have brought to light fragments of four marble s...

Aug 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tomb of the Royal Chamberlain Sekhentiu-Ptah Discovered in Saqqara with the False Door Still in Its Original Location, and a Complex System of Funerary Shafts

The Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Bubastion necropolis in the Saqqara archaeological area has announced the results of the first excavation season in Sector A, located west of the ...

Aug 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tabula Peutingeriana, the only surviving road map of the Roman Empire

On November 26, 2007, the Austrian National Library did something it hardly ever does: it took the Tabula Peutingeriana out of its climate-controlled display case and allowed the public to see it f...

Aug 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Amalasuintha

The Osgtrogothic prince Eutharic took as his wife Amalasuintha, daughter of Theodoric the Great. Eutharic was in line to succeed Theodoric as king of the Ostrogoths, but he died too soon. After The...

Aug 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Image of Neanderthals as a Species Exclusively Adapted to the Cold Is False: This Was What Led Them to Extinction

An international team of researchers has published a study that questions one of the most widespread theories about the disappearance of Neanderthals. According to their findings, climate change an...

Aug 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Burgundian Wars

The sons of Clovis saw Burgundy as a target. Sigismund of Burgundy (c.475 - 524) became king in 516. His father, Gundobad, had slain Chilperic II of Burgundy in 493. Chilperic's daughter was Clotil...

Aug 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tambora, the volcano that in 1815 darkened half the planet’s skies, causing the year without a summer in which Frankenstein was born

In these years, when climate change dominates much of the public conversation, it is worth looking back and remembering that the planet already experienced, just over two centuries ago, a sudden an...