Posts tagged "history"

Jul 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dragonnades, the campaigns to force the Huguenots to convert by obliging them to lodge and feed soldiers in their homes

Ardèche is a French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that encompasses Vivarais and parts of Languedoc. One of its tourist attractions is the so-called Chemin Royal du Boutières, a rout...

Jul 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman Emperors Were Murdered Nearly Twice as Often as Chinese Emperors: Study Reveals the “Military Trap”

The fate of emperors in antiquity was far from similar. While ruling in Rome often meant a premature and violent death, Chinese monarchs enjoyed considerably greater survival. This is confirmed by ...

Jul 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Jews in Oxford

Just as London had a Jewish presence after the arrival of William and the Norman French, Oxford started to see a significant Jewish population about 10 years after the 1066 conquest. Living mostly ...

Jul 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Inscriptions in the Ancient Phrygian City of Acmonia Reveal Torch-Bearing Statues at Night and the Power of Priestesses

Researchers have announced the discovery of nine inscriptions in the ancient city of Acmonia, located in modern-day Turkey, offering an exceptional window into the daily life, religious beliefs, an...

Jul 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Science Discovers the Exact Location: A Study Shows That Odysseus’ Ithaca Was Never an Island

The image that for millennia has supported Homeric scholarship crumbles in the face of philological and geological evidence. A study published in the digital journal Antigone argues that the concep...

Jul 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Tsunami That Saved the Greek City of Potidea from the Persian Siege Is the First Documented Giant Wave in History

The Aegean Sea holds secrets that not even the Olympian gods could imagine. Beneath its waters, the tectonic plates dance a dangerous waltz that, from time to time, shakes the earth violently and u...

Jul 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Sealed Tombs with Slabs, Untouched Since Antiquity, and a Stele with a Seated Man Holding a Bird Discovered in Northwestern Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission working in the ancient city of Marina Al-Alamein, located on the country’s northwestern coast, has achieved a discovery of singular importance during excavations...

Jul 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Old Jewry

In the City of London there is a street still called Old Jewry, currently dominated mostly by financial offices. In 2001 the remains of a mikveh (ritual bath, requiring fresh flowing water) was dis...

Jul 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Independence Day Fireworks

I decided to step out to see if I could see the 4th of July fireworks from a cross-street in Brooklyn Heights. I took this video from Pierrepont and Willow Streets and then converted it into a gif ...

Jul 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

DNA analysis of the “Golden Man” reveals that a few elite families ruled Scythian nomadic society 2,500 years ago

The discovery of the Golden Man in the Issyk kurgans in Kazakhstan had become a national symbol and one of the most significant archaeological finds of the Eurasian steppe. But until now, researche...

Jul 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The discovery of an abandoned defective ingot leads to the uncovering of a Roman-era lead smelting workshop in Germany

The first systematic excavations on a hillock of the Rothaargebirge massif, near the town of Brilon in the German district of Hochsauerland, have documented a metallurgical workshop dating back two...

Jul 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Ashkenazi and Sephardic and Mizrahi

The difference between different groups of Jews arts with the Jewish Diaspora, the displacement of Israelites outside of the Southern Levant. Because Jews traveled to various parts of the known wor...

Jul 04, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: On the Declaration of Independence

Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an open mu...

Jul 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Complete Byzantine City Discovered in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities operating at the Ain el-Sabil site, located in the Dakhla Oasis, has succeeded in uncovering a fully articulated residen...

Jul 03, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Rashi's Writings

The first book printed in Hebrew with a date on it was printed in Italy and dated 18 February 1475. It was a commentary by Rashi on the Chumash (the first five books of the Bible, the Torah, as dis...

Jul 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Secrets Uncovered in an 18th-Century Nautical Map Guiding Sailors Between India and the Horn of Africa

A team of researchers has managed to unravel the mysteries hidden for two hundred years in an 18th-century navigation chart used by sailors to travel across the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The do...

Jul 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The James Webb Telescope Discovers an Unknown Substance on the Surface of Titan and Pluto

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a mysterious light absorption signal on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and on Pluto, the famous dwarf planet. The signal, centered at a wav...

Jul 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ambracia, the Greek city that defended itself from the Roman siege with the first known use of poisonous gases

Arta is a city in northwestern Greece that barely preserves the typical archaeological remains of Antiquity and, instead, does treasure heritage from the Byzantine period: only traces remain of the...

Jul 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Google Hardware Complaints Remind Me of BlackBerry Classic

I read an article on マリウス.com titled I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware. The author, Marius, goes through the issues he has had with various Google phones and tablets over the years. One of the iss...

Jul 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Settings in “No AI” DuckDuckGo

Back on June 8, 2026, Chris Wiegman published a blog post titled You Don’t Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain. For those not in the know, noai.duckduckgo.com is a subdomain of DuckDuckGo search whi...