Posts tagged "history"

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...

May 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Weighing Large Owls

I have never had to weigh an owl before, much less a large owl. But in the event I were ever called upon to weigh a large owl, I learned from MARS Wildlife Rescue, via Owls in Towels (see Owls in T...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 400,000-Year-Old Tooth Found in China Links Homo erectus with Denisovans and Modern Humans

A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully extracted molecular information from six fossil t...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Monumental Megalithic Necropolis of the Interior of the Iberian Peninsula, Dated to the 5th Millennium BC, Found in Toledo

Researchers from several Spanish universities and research centers, led by Rosa Barroso Bermejo (University of Alcalá), have successfully dated the Valdelasilla site, located in Illescas (Toledo), ...

May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype

Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowd...

May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)

A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture.

May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)

A treatise on a powder that can cure wounds at a distance.

May 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund Crouchback

Henry III wanted another son. His first son, Edward, was followed by a daughter, Margaret, and Henry needed at least "an heir and a spare." So he prayed to the 9th-century East Anglian king Edmund ...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Secrets of the Large Roman Jars Buried in Pompeii’s Tavern Counters Discovered

For more than two centuries, archaeologists have repeatedly faced the same problem when excavating Pompeii’s taverns: large ceramic jars embedded in stone counters, perfectly preserved but complete...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A notebook from the 13th century still legible and pieces of silk used as toilet paper discovered in a latrine in Paderborn

During the archaeological work linked to the construction of the new administrative headquarters of the city of Paderborn in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), a team from a spe...

May 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-12-26

I have another busy day ahead of me, but we cannot forsake our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Syncthing 2.1 adds group organization and proxy support options (Fla for AlternativeTo. May 12, 2026.) I ...

May 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Earth’s crust has broken and mantle fluids are reaching the surface: a new tectonic plate is forming beneath southern Africa

Scientists from the University of Oxford have published a study in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science showing that the Kafue Rift, a geological structure in Zambia that has so far been little s...

May 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Eleanor the Queen

A queen can have several duties, one of which is to produce heirs that can either succeed their parents or be used to make politically advantageous marriages. Eleanor of Provence was one of four si...

May 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings at the Castro de Hortas Confirm the Existence of a Significant Human Settlement in the Cíes Islands Prior to the Arrival of the Romans

Between the end of April and the beginning of May 2026, the Grupo de Estudos en Arqueoloxía, Antigüidade e Territorio (GEAAT) of the University of Vigo carried out the second survey campaign at the...