Posts tagged "history"

Aug 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Tomb of a Young Viking Woman with Remains of a 1,300-Year-Old Dress Found in Western Jutland

Danish archaeology is facing one of the most unique discoveries of the last decade in the field of ancient Nordic clothing. During the excavation at the site known as Skonager (ARV 661), carried ou...

Aug 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Clothar I

The father of the four sons who were mentioned fighting each other's divided Frankish kingdoms yesterday was Clothar I (one of the four sons of Clovis I, the king who first united all the Frankish ...

Aug 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Maya Settlement of K’oxol Ja’ II Discovered in Yucatán Reveals Everyday Life Among Non-Privileged Populations

In the interior of the Yucatán Peninsula, where jungle vegetation intertwines with the characteristic limestone of the region, a team of archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology a...

Aug 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Submerged Etruscan Port from the 4th Century BC, the Oldest Linked to a Temple, Discovered Two Meters Deep off the Coast of Rome

A team of underwater archaeologists and geologists from Sapienza University of Rome and the Center for Maritime Studies has located, off the town of Santa Marinella north of Rome, the remains of an...

Aug 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Battle of Navarino, the day the Ottoman fleet was wiped off the map and Greece gained its independence

“I have sent him a ribbon when, in fact, what he deserved was a rope.” This phrase is attributed to King George IV of England, and the ribbon in question would be that of the Order of the Bath, whi...

Aug 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-24-26

We’re back from the weekend with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee links. 1 | OpenAI builds dedicated ChatGPT experience for teens with parental controls and study features (Eric Revell for Fox Bus...

Aug 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Samnites, the fierce warriors who humiliated the Roman legions at the Caudine Forks

One of the greatest affronts suffered by the Roman legions took place in 321 BC, after the Battle of the Caudine Forks. Not only because of the forced surrender, without even fighting, but also due...

Aug 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Saint Guntram

Yesterday's post mentioned that the Franks fell into civil war and became less of a threat to Lombardy. The Frankish Kingdom had a long history with lots of shifts in power. We should take a seriou...

Aug 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

12 Neolithic Arrowheads Found in Anatolia Bear Rare Geometric Marks Whose Purpose Remains Unknown

A team of French and Turkish researchers has published an exhaustive analysis of twelve obsidian arrowheads with intentional incisions found at the Neolithic site of Tepecik-Çiftlik, in the Cappado...

Aug 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

7,000 Years Ago the Last Hunter-Gatherers Met the First Farmers at a Lake in Germany: This Is What Happened

The more than 50,000 pottery fragments found at the Hüde I site, on Lake Dümmer (Lower Saxony, Germany), are providing an unprecedented insight into how the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifest...

Aug 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Burger King Surpasses Wendy’s

Fox Business reported on August 9, 2026, that Burger King surpassed Wendy’s as the (distant) second largest burger chain in the United States after McDonald’s. According to the report, Wendy’s had ...

Aug 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Lombards Convert

There was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Lombardy when they had no king. Two kings in a row had been murdered—the first by his wife, the second by a young slave he had mistreated—and a d...

Aug 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The back cover of an 8th-century codex hid ten papyri, six of which remain undeciphered because no one knows what language they are written in

In 1919, when someone began to carefully examine the binding of an 8th-century codex preserved in the Chapter Archive of the Cathedral of Barcelona, they discovered that the back cover hid somethin...

Aug 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas”

I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts women. This may be rich coming from someone who, in the last month, has published...

Aug 22, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Lombards

The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according to medieval texts. This blog has mostly dealt with them previously because of t...

Aug 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Codex Gigas, the largest medieval illuminated manuscript, was created by a single monk who took 30 years to complete it

In 1648, as Swedish troops looted Prague Castle at the end of the Thirty Years’ War, someone carried off among the spoils a volume that weighed 75 kilos and required two people to move. It was a bo...

Aug 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Against “Like Them, but Better”

I came across a short post on @iamgregb (I assume by Greg B) titled “Like Them, but Better.” It’s Not. In the post, he makes the case against “[a] social media strategy focused entirely on the comp...

Aug 21, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Vb: Pixel Armies for Pixel Societies

This is the second half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va, Vb) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, with fi...

Aug 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-21-26

It is time to wrap up another perfect five-for-five Pook-Emu Bee work-week before we take tomorrow off for Newsletter Saturday. Life Updates I shared a photo of my new (Ebay, so “new”) Wacom One dr...

Aug 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Sanctuary and Prehistoric Astronomical Observatory in Central Europe Found in the Czech Republic, a Thousand Years Older than Stonehenge

A team of archaeologists, led by the University of West Bohemia (UWB), has brought to light, near the town of Chleby, in present-day Czech Republic, a monumental structure dating back more than 6,5...