Posts tagged "history"

Oct 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Neanderthal Hand Found in a Spanish Cave Still Holds Its DNA After 46,000 Years

Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, butchered animal bones, the leftovers of their camps. What nobody had e...

Oct 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Malta’s Mysterious 31 Miles of “Railway Tracks” in Solid Rock May Be Roman, Not Prehistoric

On a patch of bare rock in western Malta, roughly 80 by 100 metres (260 by 330 feet), dozens of parallel grooves cross, overlap and merge into one another. The spot, Misraħ Għar il-Kbir, is popular...

Oct 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Valentinus to the Rescue

Constantine's arrangement and gift of money to Valentinus for the army, to support Constantine's son in the line of succession, was almost prescient. Constantine died three months after becoming em...

Oct 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Who Made the Terracotta Army? 2,200-Year-Old Fingerprints Point to Men, Women and Children

About 2,200 years ago, someone pressed a finger into a lump of damp clay to stick down the flap of a suit of armour. The kiln sealed that print, and it has survived intact ever since. Now a team fr...

Oct 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How a Dirty Diaper Helped a KGB Colonel Escape the Soviet Union

In November 1983, the Soviet Union came to believe that NATO might be preparing a nuclear attack. The trigger was a war game. The alliance’s annual exercise, Able Archer 83, ran from 7 to 11 Novemb...

Oct 19, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Securitas Depot Robbery

United Kingdom · 2006 · Heist — An armed gang kidnapped a depot manager and his family to breach a Kent cash vault, stealing £53.1 million in Britain's largest cash robbery.

Oct 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Constantine and Heroclonas

When Emperor Heraclius died on 11 February 641, he left two of his sons in charge. Each was from a different mother.Constantine, his son by his first wife, Fabia Eudokia, had been crowned co-empero...

Oct 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hilltop Villages, African Ivory and Wounded Skeletons: How Small Communities Resisted The First Bronze Age Power in Spain

Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, stockpiling grain on a large scale and arming its warriors with halberds (blades...

Oct 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Clear Voices, Muddy Music: Scientists Measure How a Giant Roman Amphitheatre in Spain Sounds Today

Thirty-five thousand spectators. That is the capacity the authors of a new study attribute to the Roman amphitheatre of Itálica, in Santiponce, near Seville in southern Spain. It is roughly the cro...

Oct 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman House Cut Into Rock Found with Its Own Ancient Pier From the Empire’s Last Centuries on Corsica

Anyone who wants to build a house on the waterfront at Meria, at the northern tip of Corsica, has to let archaeologists look underneath first. The rule comes from the island’s regional archaeology ...

Oct 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Heraclian Dynasty

For a century (610 - 711), Heraclius and his descendants were emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire, ruling over the Byzantines from Constantinople. To get these descendants, he had two marriages.Th...

Oct 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Phoenician Ivory, a Phrygian-Style Belt and Traces of Indian Pepper, Found Inside a Strange “Dark Age” Tomb in Jordan

Around 1200 BC, the eastern Mediterranean fell apart. The great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed, many cities were destroyed or emptied, writing disappeared from much of the region, and long-dis...

Oct 16, 2026 from Palladium

Lose, and Lose, and Lose, and Win

We went to Brazil to observe a reformist political party struggling to change the course of their country. History tells us their road to power might be longer than expected. The post Lose, and Los...

Oct 16, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIb: The Opposite of Love

This is the second half of the third part (I, II IIIa) of our long-delayed series looking at the theory of history advanced by Paradox Interactive’s Hearts of Iron IV, one of the most popular strat...

Oct 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Emperor Heraclius

Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (reigned 610 - 641) was mentioned here when he tried to make the whole empire follow Monothelitism. The idea that Jesus had only a single "energy" and not two (the human...

Oct 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

New Structures Have Been Discovered in Ancient Arsinoe, the Greek City that the Egyptian “Philadelphus” Queen Named after Herself in Aetolia

Ancient geographers listed many cities called Arsinoe, from Cyprus to Cilicia (in what is now southern Turkey), from Ephesus to the Gulf of Suez. Most of them were linked to the Ptolemies, the dyna...

Oct 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Schrödinger’s Cat, One Step Closer: Scientists Succeed in Moving a Small Diamond Using a Quantum Effect

In a lab at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan, a slab of diamond smaller than a pencil eraser hangs from a carbon fiber rod about 5 centimeters (2 inches) long. The ro...

Oct 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

In the Ancient Olympics, Cheaters Were Fined to Pay for Bronze Statues of Zeus That Athletes Had to Walk Past — 16 Pedestals Survive Today

On the road into the stadium at Olympia, at the foot of Mount Cronius, ancient Greek athletes passed a stone platform with steps cut through it. A row of bronze statues of Zeus, the god the Games w...

Oct 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Neanderthal’s Shoulder Blade from Shanidar Cave May Bear Evidence of the Oldest Known Fatal Spear Wound

The shoulder blade is such a wide and flat bone that in some areas it becomes almost translucent when held up to the light. That is why it is rare to find it whole, even in modern burials, and why ...

Oct 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Khosrow and Shirin, Part 3

We left off two days ago (because of the Farhad Tarash interlude) with the "wrong" ending of their love story, one we know didn't happen because we know when the two lovers lived and died. The idea...