Posts tagged "history"

Jul 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Licoricia of Winchester

Licoricia of Winchester, the second wife of David of Oxford (one of the wealthiest financiers in England in the 13th century), was a successful businesswoman herself. Her first husband, Abraham son...

Jul 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Law Against Long Hair in Rome in the Year 416: Why Did the Roman Empire Ban Manes?

In the year 416, Emperors Honorius and Theodosius II enacted a law that prohibited wearing long hair in the city of Rome and its surroundings. This regulation, which also forbade the use of fur gar...

Jul 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Power Objects in Royal Tombs: The Rings of the Mycenaean and Minoan Elite Were Forged with Meteorite Iron

For five years, a French-Greek team visited nineteen museums and thirty-three archaeological sites to solve a riddle that had gone unanswered for decades: did the Mycenaeans and Minoans use meteori...

Jul 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Names of Three Previously Unknown Kings of the Assyrian Empire from the 10th to 8th Centuries BCE Discovered on Cuneiform Tablets

The image of a stable Assyrian kingdom, with an orderly dynastic line and mostly peaceful father-to-son successions, has for decades been the predominant narrative among specialists of the ancient ...

Jul 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Esparto Footwear Found Used in the Riotinto Mines in the Iron Age 2,400 Years Ago

A team from the University of Granada has examined a set of eight sandal soles made with esparto, recovered in the Nuevo Filón Norte 1 sector of the ancient Riotinto mining district, in the municip...

Jul 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

David's Wives

When David of Oxford declared that he was divorced from his wife, Muriel, little did he know the furor it would cause. In Jewish law, a wife must consent to a divorce, which Muriel did not do. She ...

Jul 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Mystery of Metsamor: A Unique 7th-Century BC Burial in Armenia Reconsiders the Role of Women in the Kingdom of Urartu

A team of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw has unearthed at the site of Metsamor, in present-day Armenia, the remains of a woman around forty years old, buried approximately 2,700 years...

Jul 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Evidence of Ridden Horses in the Iberian Peninsula Found at a Bronze Age Site in Madrid

A team of researchers from the University of Córdoba, the CSIC, and other institutions has documented at the Castillo Reyes site in Pinto (Madrid) the oldest set of evidence known to date regarding...

Jul 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

At Site of Oldest Known Human Burials, 145,000-Year-Old Skull Reveals Earliest Documented Stabbing

The Qafzeh cave, in present-day Israel, has brought to light one of the most significant fossil assemblages for tracing the first steps of Homo sapiens outside Africa, but a new examination of the ...

Jul 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 2nd Century BC Greek Military Camp Discovered on the Border Between Bactria and Sogdiana in Uzbekistan

A Czech-Uzbek archaeological team has managed to unravel the true nature of a Hellenistic-era site in southern Uzbekistan. What in 2018 seemed to be just a simple group of half-buried pots with har...

Jul 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

David of Oxford

Asher of Lincoln had a son, David, who married a local woman, Muriel, and at some point moved to Oxford, where he lived in a house on St. Aldate's (now site of the Oxford Town Hall), where Oxford J...

Jul 08, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”: Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage

Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock character of the pedant and his association with individual superiority, social dist...

Jul 08, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from Amauta Magazine (1926–30)

Cover designs for José Carlos Mariátegui’s radical Lima-based magazine.

Jul 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Seal with Astral Symbols and One of the Priests Who “Burned Incense to Baal, to the Sun, to the Moon, to the Planets and to All the Host of Heaven” Found in Southern Israel

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority found a limestone seal with a worship scene engraved on its base during excavations conducted on the outskirts of the city of Yavne, in the sout...

Jul 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researches Discover that Fungi Communicate Underground in Cases of Metal Contamination in Forests

The health of northern hemisphere forests largely depends on an age-old alliance hidden beneath the soil surface. This is the symbiosis that most trees establish with the so-called ectomycorrhizal ...

Jul 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Illegitimate Children in Ancient Sparta: A Study Reveals They Were Not Marginalized, but a Key Piece in the Social Machinery of the Warrior Myth

The image of Sparta that has come down to us is that of a closed, militarized, and extremely rigid society, where only true-born citizens — the so-called homoioi or “equals” — had rights, and where...

Jul 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Astonishingly Well-Preserved Soft Tissues Discovered in a Fossil 200 Million Years Older Than Dinosaurs

Long before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth, and even before animals or plants colonized the land surface, distant relatives of starfish known as crinoids, which resemble sea flowers attached ...

Jul 07, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858)

Selections from a peculiar British journal that focus on the peculiarities of British monarchs.

Jul 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Moses of Oxford

Moses of Oxford was one of the most prominent scholars and legal minds in Anglo-Jewry of the 13th century. Born in Oxford to a family of generations of rabbis, he married into another prominent fam...

Jul 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Bioenergetic Study Places the Col de la Traversette as the Most Probable Route for Hannibal’s Crossing of the Alps

The crossing of the Alps undertaken by the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca in 218 B.C. with a force of 40,000 soldiers, 7,000 horses, and 37 war elephants has been the subject of historical spe...