Posts tagged "history"

Oct 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bronze Tools That May Be Medical Found in an Egyptian Tomb, 1,800 Years Before Hippocrates

Many Egyptian tombs reveal the trade of the person inside. A scribe is buried with his writing palette, a soldier with his weapons. The tomb that has just come to light at Saqqara breaks that patte...

Oct 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Was This Roman Soldier Murdered by His Own Comrades? Archaeologists Reopen a 2,000-Year-Old Cold Case

In 1977, amateur archaeologists digging at the site of an old Roman fort in Velsen, on the coast of North Holland, uncovered a well. At the bottom lay the almost complete skeleton of a man who was ...

Oct 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Fossil of the first and only amphibian to have always lived in the sea has been discovered in China: it was armored and hunted by suction

There are more than 8,000 species of amphibians on Earth, and not one of them lives in the sea. Fewer than 2% tolerate any salt at all, and even those have limits. It is a striking gap. Whales, sea...

Oct 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Syriac

The Syriac alphabet is a set of 22 consonants; there are no vowels. It was created in the 1st century CE as an offshoot of cursive Aramaic.Written from right to left, (and occasionally vertically),...

Oct 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Create Most Detailed Simulation Yet of the Universe’s First 2 Billion Years — It Shows How the Universe Switched On

When the James Webb Space Telescope began photographing galaxies from the universe’s earliest chapters, astronomers ran into a problem. There were more very bright galaxies than their models predic...

Oct 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Island That Gave Copper Its Name Had a 3,600-Year-Old Port City that Received Goods From Sardinia, the Baltic and India During the Bronze Age

Beside the airport of Larnaca, on the south-east coast of Cyprus, there is a salt lake. About 3,500 years ago it was a sheltered bay, and on its shore stood a port city of up to 50 hectares (124 ac...

Oct 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Woman Who Lived in the Pyrenees 30,000 Years Ago Had Ancestors From Central Europe, DNA Shows Ice Age Europe Was Not Split in Two

Between 34,000 and 25,000 years ago, much of Europe shared a way of life that archaeologists call the Gravettian. It is recognized by its stone and bone tools, by the way people buried their dead, ...

Oct 26, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Entebbe Hijacking

Uganda · 1976 · Hijacking — Hijackers seized Air France Flight 139 and held hostages at Entebbe Airport under Ugandan protection before Israeli commandos launched a daring rescue raid.

Oct 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On Instagram Food Trends

I read a report (such as this is) in the New York Post titled NYC coffee shop serves up pumpkin spice lattes — inside real pumpkins. Some coffee shop in Astoria is dumping lattes into live pumpkins...

Oct 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Switch Back On a Chimpanzee Gene Silenced by a Virus Millions of Years Old. Humans Use it to Form the Brain

Line up human and chimpanzee DNA and the first surprise is how little separates us. We share more than 96% of the sequences used to make proteins, the molecules that build and run a living body. An...

Oct 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-25-26

It has been two weeks since Pook-Emu Bee Links. To be fair, I have had a good amount of work and have been fairly productive in New Leaf Journal publishing. But neither offers a perfect excuse for ...

Oct 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman Inscription Nearly 16 Feet Long Was Found Reused in Southeastern Spain Roman Baths

On Tuesday, October 20, a team in southeastern Spain lifted a block of stone out of a wall where it had been sitting for about twenty centuries. The block carries fragments of two lines of text. Th...

Oct 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Elimination of Grief

After Muhammad's death, the Muslim world expanded its reach quickly. Within a century, its reach extended from modern-day Afghanistan and India in the east to the southern border of France (and all...

Oct 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Physicists Trap a Single Antimatter Particle in Empty Space for Months

When an electron meets a positron, both vanish. Their mass turns into energy and nothing is left of either particle. That is the main reason positrons are so hard to study. There is no jar to keep ...

Oct 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Elijah of Nisibis

Thank heavens for people in the past who took the time to write down what they knew—although, to be fair, we have very few means to independently verify the truth of what they wrote. The best we ca...

Oct 23, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IVa: The Fires of Industry

This is the first half of the last part (I, II IIIa, IIIb) of our series looking at the vision of history advanced by Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game and o...

Oct 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Next Ice Age Began Under the Roman Empire, Researchers Say, Until Global Warming Stopped It

About 2,000 years ago, while Augustus ruled Rome, a leftover patch of ice in the Canadian Arctic stopped shrinking and began to grow. A team from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Colum...

Oct 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Muawiyah I

In the early days of Muhammad (c.570 - 632 CE), the founder of Islam, not everyone in that part of the world automatically agreed with him. A distant kinsman of Muhammad's, Abu Sufyan of the Umayya...

Oct 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Rome Banned Pagan Worship in 392, but a Thracian Temple May Have Kept It Going for Decades

In November 392, the Roman emperor Theodosius I signed a law banning every pagan rite, including those performed in private. Against that date, the claim now coming from Bulgaria’s National Museum ...

Oct 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 2,800-Year-Old Bone Flute Turns Up at Troy in the Age of Homer, the First Musical Instrument Found after Years of Digging

In 160 years of digging at Troy, nobody had found anything you could play. Archaeologists have pulled walls, gates, jewelry, weapons and tableware out of the ground in huge quantities, but never an...