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Received — 28 September 2026 ⏭ SPAIN

Babylon Had No Religion Class, but Its Future Officials Still Had to Learn Nearly 2,000 Gods

✇LBV Magazine English Edition
By: Guillermo Carvajal
28 September 2026 at 18:07
Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the gods. There was no textbook that worked as a Bible either. Religion was everywhere and in no particular subject, spread through sign lists, writing exercises and arithmetic drills. A study published in the journal Iraq […]

Two dozen children vs Pablo Escobar’s hippo: The legal battle to get to a Colombian school

✇El País - English
By: Noor Mahtani Mahtani
28 September 2026 at 16:54
A hippopotamus in Colombia on September 23.

Twenty-three children make their way to school with their eyes glued to the murky water of the Nare River to see if they can see the hippopotamus. The school route has become a kind of safari with the kids scanning the horizon. Everyone in the municipality has a story to tell about the hippopotamus; that his feces scare away the fish, that he eats the banana crops, that his footprints are the size of three palms, that he will capsize a canoe... The Puerto Nare hippopotamus is all that’s talked about here. For Luis and his brother Diego, he is not a stranger. They call him Selmo. Their mother shakes her head and asks them not to get too attached because the judge has allowed just 60 days for the hippo to be removed from the vicinity.

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Aerial view of the Samana River, on September 22.Luis Ángel Arango and Luis Felipe Pérez walk to their home on the Samana River.Giovanny Contreras on the Magdalena River, on September 3.

© Luis bernardo Cano

Said Adrián Bustos rests in a boat on the Magdalena River.

© Luis Bernardo Cano

This lake is located in one of the sections of the Nare River.

© Luis bernardo Cano

The presence of wild hippos in Colombia poses a risk to the region's entire ecosystem.

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Jorge Bustos and Juan Aguirre in Puerto Triunfo on September 21.

© Luis bernardo Cano

Diego Tabares steers a boat on the Samana River.

© Luis Bernardo Cano

Hippos in Colombia have begun to migrate to other areas, such as the Isla del Silencio on the Magdalena River.

A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Just Turned Up in a Buried Roman Town Beside Europe’s Only Undammed Major River

✇LBV Magazine English Edition
By: Guillermo Carvajal
28 September 2026 at 13:01
In the small village of Qesarat, in southern Albania‘s Tepelenë district, an Italian-Albanian excavation team has just finished a summer season that turned up something unusual: six decorated floors from a Late Roman building, right at the edge of the Vjosa Wild River National Park. Declared in March 2023, the park protects the last stretch […]

Maricarmen, elderly woman evicted from home in Spain, becomes a global symbol for housing activists

✇El País - English
By: Beatriz Olaizola · Lucía Franco
28 September 2026 at 11:32
Nadz Vogel, an activist with the London Renters’ Union, at the Puerta del Sol encampment on September 27, 2026.

They came to Madrid to counterprogram one of Europe’s largest real estate fairs, The District. What they found was an 87-year-old woman who was about to be evicted from their home — and was, before their eyes. Around 200 housing activists from more than 20 countries across Europe decided to join the demonstrations against the eviction, and later joined a spontaneous encampment in front of the Madrid regional government headquarters at the historic Puerta del Sol plaza.

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Members from different countries of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City hold an assembly at Puerta del Sol.Teresa Mamede, of the Lisbon Renters’ Union, at the Puerta del Sol encampment on September 27, 2026.Ronja Senkpiel, urban geographer and German researcher specializing in urban development, at the Puerta del Sol encampment on September 26, 2026.

Descubren en Ucrania la tumba de un guerrero de la estepa del pueblo que inspiró el mito de las amazonas

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By: Antonio García
28 September 2026 at 07:41
Cuando los arqueólogos abrieron aquel túmulo cerca del mar de Azov esperaban encontrar, sobre todo, tumbas de la Edad del Bronce. Y las encontraron, treinta y una en total. Pero entre ellas apareció algo que no cuadraba con el resto: un hombre de entre 25 y 35 años, tendido boca arriba con los brazos estirados […]

El centro de la Vía Láctea huele a ron y sabe a frambuesa, pero también hay olores menos agradables en el espacio

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By: Guillermo Carvajal
27 September 2026 at 13:12
En abril de 2009, varios periódicos de medio mundo publicaron a la vez un titular que parecía sacado de un cóctel, según el cual el centro de la galaxia sabe a frambuesa y huele a ron. La frase salió del Guardian, que la construyó a partir de un comunicado del Instituto Max Planck de Radioastronomía, […]

Archaeologists Find a 2,000-Year-Old Grave of the People Who Inspired the Amazons

✇LBV Magazine English Edition
By: Antonio García
28 September 2026 at 07:42
The archaeologists were not looking for a Sarmatian. When they opened the burial mound near the Sea of Azov, they expected Bronze Age graves — and found plenty: thirty-one of them. But one grave didn’t fit. Inside lay a man in his late twenties or early thirties, stretched out on his back with his arms […]

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