Posts tagged "history"

Oct 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Find a Lost Greek Neighborhood in Sicily, Destroyed When Carthage Besieged the City 2,400 Years Ago — and Evidence of a Giant Artificial Fish Pond

Tucked among the Greek temples that made Agrigento famous, on the south coast of Sicily, there is a narrow valley of orange and olive trees. An international team has been digging there for three y...

Oct 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

This Alaskan Ice Age Camp Is 800 Years Older Than Clovis, Once Seen as America’s First Culture

About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its painted bison. (The cave’s entrance would collapse around 13,000 years a...

Oct 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

All of Today’s European Monarchs are Descended From a Family You’ve Never Heard of: The Oldenburgs

Most of us can rattle off Europe’s great royal houses: the Bourbons, the Habsburgs, the Plantagenets, the Stuarts, the Romanovs, the Windsors. Far fewer people have heard of the House of Oldenburg,...

Oct 15, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The McDonald’s Monopoly Scam

United States · 1989–2001 · Scam — For twelve years, security director Jerome Jacobson embezzled winning McDonald's Monopoly game pieces using duplicate seals, distributing over $20 million in stol...

Oct 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 1571 Letter Undercuts the Hoax Theory Around the “Other Voynich Manuscript” and Reveals a Terrified Scribe

Some medieval books can’t be read by anyone, and one of them has become almost a trademark of the genre: the Voynich manuscript, kept at Yale University and dated to the 15th century. It has inspir...

Oct 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Farhad Tarash

I mentioned yesterday a sculptor named Farhad who was punished by Khosrow II for becoming a rival for the love of Shirin. He was given the impossible task to carve steps into the cliffs of Mount Be...

Oct 14, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the slightest stimulus, seemed to jump, strike out with their limbs, or mimic langu...

Oct 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Find a Giant Fungus in China whose Lineage Originated on Dead Matter Left Behind after the Extinction of the Dinosaurs

Until now, the biggest fruiting bodies known among the ascomycetes, the largest group of fungi (it includes morels and truffles), stood between 20 and 30 centimeters (8 to 12 inches) tall, about th...

Oct 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Villager Found a Carved Block Near His House — It Led to Two Colossal Statues of Ramesses II Near a Temple Built Nearly 900 Years Later

A man in Behbeit el-Hagar, a village in Egypt’s Gharbia province, was working on a plot of land in front of his house when he came across a block covered in carvings. He told the local antiquities ...

Oct 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Excavate a Nearly 100-Meter Building Opposite Pakistan’s Greek-Style Temple at Taxila — Its Purpose Is Unknown

The building, named Jandial D, turned up during excavations by the Italian Archaeological Mission of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in Pakistan, part of the Khyber PATH project. Work began in mid...

Oct 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Rudolf Kalvach’s Wiener Werkstätte Postcards (1907)

Postcards that summon medieval grotesques and brightly coloured folk art, but also feel distinctly modern.

Oct 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Khosrow and Shirin, Part 2

Yesterday we started the romance of Khosrow and Shirin, in which the two lovers separate when Khosrow goes to Constantin pole to get help from Roman Emperor Maurice. Khosrow had been dethroned by B...

Oct 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Antarctica Once Had Wildfires: Tiny Charcoal Fragments Reveal a Burning Forest Near the South Pole

Forest fires and Antarctica are hard to picture together. Today the continent lies under a thick sheet of ice, and the cold preserves almost everything that falls on it. Around 90 million years ago...

Oct 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Large Palace has been Discovered Atop a Hill in France, where a Senatorial Family Continued to Live “in the Roman Style” in the Early Middle Ages

When people picture Gaul between the fifth and seventh centuries, they tend to think of invading tribes, shrinking towns and Merovingian kings so passive that later historians nicknamed them the “d...

Oct 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Romans Dug the Longest Tunnel Until the 1800s — 30,000 Men Worked for 11 Years, and Its Completion Was Celebrated with a Naval Battle

In AD 52, the hills around Lake Fucino, some 50 miles (80 km) east of Rome, were crowded with spectators from nearby villages and from the capital itself. On the water, two fleets of triremes and q...

Oct 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Khosrow and Shirin, Part 1

Once the rebellions were finished, the reign of Khosrow II (590 - 628) experienced a golden age in some respects. One facet of his reign was his tolerance of Christians, which may have had somethin...

Oct 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Unearth a Complete Roman Window Grille, Nails and All at Augusta Raurica, the Oldest Colony on the Rhine

Almost nothing is left of a Roman window. The wooden frame rots, the glass (when there was any) shatters and the iron rusts away, so a grille that reaches us in one piece is a rarity. One has now t...

Oct 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Norwegian Divers May Have Found the World’s Oldest Anchor, a Grooved Stone From the Stone Age

Five kilometres (about three miles) of open sea, strong currents and waves that give no warning. That is the distance between the coast of Bømlo, in western Norway, and Hespriholmen, a small rocky ...

Oct 12, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Great Escape — Stalag Luft III

Germany · 1944 · Escape — Allied prisoners of war built a 102-meter tunnel under Stalag Luft III, enabling 76 airmen to escape into Germany before a massive manhunt captured almost all of them.

Oct 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman-Era Oracle Pillar With 56 Answers, Consulted by Throwing Sheep Bones, Found in Turkey

Here is how a consultation worked. Anyone with a question (whether to travel, close a purchase, go to court, or wait for a sick relative to recover) walked up to a statue of the god Hermes in the t...