We already counted in a previous article as in the year 409 B.C. Carthaginian troops razed the Greek city of Selinunte in Sicily, killing or taking prisoner its more than 20,000 residents. A few thousand remained in the city as tributaries of Carthage. Years later, in 250 BC, the entire population w
Room 8 of the Cáceres Museum, dedicated to Roman epigraphy, exhibits a small part of the collection of inscriptions held by the institution. Among them stands out a stela from the town of Casar (the old Norba Caesarina) that bears an inscription that has not yet been deciphered. In addition, the fig
The 20 to 30 kilometer diameter monster hit the Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. The glass spherules testify to the impact of an asteroid. IMPACT . Did a huge 20-30 kilometer wide asteroid hit Earth 3.5 billion years ago? The discovery in sediment mined near Marble Bar (Western Australia) of tin
In the article that we dedicated to the Chinese jade discs and tubes created in the Neolithic, we said that those objects were indicative of a high social position, given the cost and time used in their manufacture since jade is a difficult stone to work with, which which seemed to suggest that only