Posts tagged "history"

Apr 03, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Aimery of Lusignan

Aimery (born c.1153) was one of the sons of the Lord of Poitou, Hugh VIII of Lusignan, and Burgundia of Rancon. His brother Guy has figured largely in the past several posts for his time as King of...

Apr 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman submerged port structure discovered off Asini in the Argolid, with foundations of several piers and docks

An underwater archaeology campaign carried out between September 29 and October 1, 2025 in the waters near the site of Asini, in the municipality of Nauplia in the Argolid (Greece), has made it pos...

Apr 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Native Americans created the oldest gaming dice in history, 6,000 years earlier than those of Old World civilizations

Research published in American Antiquity, the flagship journal of North American archaeology, presents evidence that the first dice known in human history were manufactured and used by Native Ameri...

Apr 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Two-Thousand-Year-Old Papyrus with Thirty Unpublished Verses by Empedocles, the Philosopher Who Threw Himself into Etna, Found in Cairo

A fragment of papyrus two thousand years old, located in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, has revealed thirty verses previously unknown from Empedocles, the pr...

Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Toothpaste Expiration Dates (NLJ Link)

This is the 59th entry in Nicholas A. Ferrell’s long-running Justin and Justina dialogue series. Inspired by a true story (N.A. Ferrell, who is me writing in the third person, bought things at Lot ...

Apr 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-02-26

For once I’m not too busy today. But even if I were busy, I would still publish the newest edition of Pook-Emu Bee. 1. Discover more of the Fediverse with tags.pub (Matthias Pfefferle at ActivityPu...

Apr 02, 2026 from Palladium

Think Tanks Have Defeated Democracy

Think tanks and nonprofit advocacy have replaced citizen-driven political parties. Voters have lost their voice as a result. The post Think Tanks Have Defeated Democracy appeared first on Palladium.

Apr 02, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Henry's Problems

While Henry II of Champagne was functioning as King of Jerusalem (even if he did not use the title itself, preferring manage things clearly on behalf of his wife, Queen Isabella), he had a lot of s...

Apr 02, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain

As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger Luckhurst exhumes the history of this period, when anatomists fuelled a body-sna...

Apr 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The End of Luxury in Els Munts: A Study Reveals the Decline of the Roman Villa that Hosted Hadrian in Tarraco

The image we usually have of ancient Rome is filled with banquets where reclining patricians ate grapes and roast pork. Scenes like those must have been common in the Roman villa of Els Munts, a lu...

Apr 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-01-26

Today is April 1. It is both April Fools and the first day of Passover (happy Passover to any Jewish readers!). I do not have a new April Fools joke prepared, but maybe there will be something Apri...

Apr 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Henry, Ruler of Jerusalem

After the brutal murder of Conrad of Montferrat right after he was informed that he had been chosen to replace Guy of Lusignan as King of Jerusalem, Henry II of Champagne went back to Tyre to mourn...

Apr 01, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)

Marvels, wonders, and monstrosities: something between a medieval bestiary and a scientific treatise on birth defects.

Apr 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Create Encryption Using DNA So Secure That Not Even a Quantum Computer Can Break It

The protection of confidential communications, a strategic pillar in the information age, has just received a revolutionary boost. A multidisciplinary team of French and Japanese scientists has suc...

Apr 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researchers propose a revolutionary theory: this is what triggered the Universe’s expansion after the Big Bang

Researchers from the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute have proposed a new theoretical framework that challenges the way the initial expansion of the universe is understood, by suc...

Apr 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Engraving Found in Central Spain Shows a Rider with the Oldest Documented Stirrup in the West, Advancing Its Use by More Than a Century

A small brick fragment discovered at an archaeological site in the province of Cuenca in Spain is calling into question one of the most established theories about the military history of Europe. It...

Apr 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The Ever-Present Old Internet

Tyler Gaw published a good blog post titled The Old Internet is Still Here, noting that there are many personal websites and blogs worth reading on the web. As he put it, “they just got layered ove...

Mar 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

2026 is the Year of the Windows Desktop(TM)

The phrase “the year of the Linux desktop” has become something of a meme. As a 2025 Hackaday headline went, The Year of the Linux Desktop is Always Next Year. Note that I write this with all due a...

Mar 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-31-26

They say that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. That is true in terms of whether (looks nice out), but not in terms of your regularly-scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. OneTaste ‘o...

Mar 31, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Henry II of Champagne

We're going to look at the man who unexpectedly became King of Jerusalem in 1192.Henry was the son of the Count of Champagne, Henry I, and Marie of France, who was a daughter of Eleanor of Aquitain...