Posts tagged "history"

Aug 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Origin of the Langobard People

The History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon drew heavily on other works, especially about prior times. One of these was a 7th-century work called Origio Gentis Langobardorum ("The Origin of the ...

Aug 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Parthenon frieze was designed to be viewed as a cinematic sequence that only comes to life as you walk by, not as a static work of art

A study published in the journal Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies proposes a radically new reading of the Parthenon frieze, the famous 160-meter-long sculpture that surrounded the tem...

Aug 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists discover that the enigmatic Natufians, considered the first sedentary people of the Levant, habitually ate lizards and snakes

Around fifteen thousand years ago, the hunter-gatherer communities that populated the southern Levant experienced a radical transformation in their social and spatial organization. Those groups tha...

Aug 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-20-26

I’m a bit late with Pook-Emu Bee links today, but the streak continues. By the way, WordPress’s admin area looks different after the latest update. Change in color contrast. I’m not complaining. 1 ...

Aug 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

History of the Lombards

Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to assemble his Historia Langobardorum. Written between 787 and 796CE, he recounts t...

Aug 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Create a ‘Mini Big Bang’ and Manage to Reproduce in the Laboratory the State of Matter That Filled the Cosmos During the First Moments of the Universe

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, at the University of Copenhagen, have managed to reproduce in the laboratory the state of matter that filled the cosmos during its first millionth of a seco...

Aug 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Demonstrate That Brands Already Existed 3,200 Years Ago in Bronze Age Oases

The question of whether brands are an invention exclusive to modern capitalist societies has received a resounding answer from an international team of researchers: they already existed at least 3,...

Aug 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-19-26

Keeping the Pook-Emu Bee weekday streak going on this sunny (here in Brooklyn, at least) August 19, 2026. 1 | Vindman Vaporizes $16.2 Million in Loss, Spends 36X DSA Candidate on Ads (Paul Bois for...

Aug 19, 2026 from Palladium

American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source

Chinese companies’ AI strategy can economically cripple American labs unless the U.S. government competently counters. The post American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source appeared first on Pal...

Aug 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Paul the Deacon's Writings

Paul the Deacon (c.720s – 13 April c.796-799) has many writing attributed to him (some probably erroneously, like a life of Gregory the Great, that was written much earlier than Paul). He was in th...

Aug 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman Sanctuary Built Over a Bronze Age Burial Mound Discovered in Suffolk That Later Became a Place of Execution in the Middle Ages

A team of archaeologists from Archaeology South-East, part of University College London, has unearthed at Red Lodge, Suffolk, a fascinating site spanning from the Neolithic to the medieval period, ...

Aug 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Was Malaci a Nymph? The Enigma of the Lady of Cova Dones

A woman ventures into the mountain with a light and a spindle in her hands, walking through the passageways of Cova Dones, in present-day Millares (Valencia). She leaves the entrance behind until r...

Aug 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-18-26

Another weekday means another set of Poook-Emu Bee links. 1 | Jeanie Buss battling siblings over sale of remaining Lakers shares to new ownership group: reports (Scott Thompson for Fox Business. Au...

Aug 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Paul the Deacon

Winfrid, son of Warnefrid, was born about 720 in the Duchy of Friuli, the northern part of the Italian Peninsula that was the kingdom of the Lombards. His parents, Warnefrid and Theodolinda, were w...

Aug 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Human Male Pelvis Is an Evolutionary Innovation for Walking Long Distances, While the Female Pelvis Resembles That of Neanderthals

A study conducted at the Department of Anatomy and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, whose results have been published in Scientific Reports, proposes a radical reinterpretation of the evolution...

Aug 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hubble Discovers That the Milky Way Devoured the Dwarf Galaxy Kraken-Heracles 11.8 Billion Years Ago

An international team of astrophysicists has managed to identify, thanks to the archives of the Hubble Space Telescope, the definitive proof of a massive collision that the Milky Way experienced in...

Aug 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

At the Monastery of San Juan de la Peña, One of the Most Brutal Trials of the Middle Ages Was Regulated: Walking Nine Steps with a Red-Hot Iron

One of the places in Spain that you absolutely have to visit is the Royal Monastery of San Juan de la Peña. Not only because of its peculiar location, nestled between the rocky walls of a mountain ...

Aug 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Sensationalist Economics Reporting in Morning Brew

Writing for Morning Brew, Matty Merritt covered “luxury butter.” According to the author: “With grocery item costs up everywhere, even $10 butter feels like a reasonable little treat.” I live in an...

Aug 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-17-26

Pook-Emu Bee was off Saturday for the newsletter and off Sunday because I had work to finish, but we return on this fun Monday for our regularly scheduled links from around the web. Links & Comment...

Aug 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of a Denisovan “Giant” Found Over 60 Meters Beneath the Seafloor in Taiwan Challenge the Rules of Human Evolution

An international team of researchers has identified two leg bones found in the Penghu Channel, Taiwan, as belonging to Denisovans, an extinct group of hominids related to Neanderthals. The fossils,...