Toasty rises on various occasions. The obvious thing is to fulfill them with the help of all kinds of vessels. Quite a specific idea of what the medieval rulers were supposed to drink from. Especially the ruler of the so-called barbarian peoples. The skull is associated with something dark an
Bust of Gallienus It cannot be said that the official historiography was tender towards the Roman Emperor Gallienus, considered an immoral man, incapable and despicable (since he was also an uncomfortable character, we can however hypothesize a certain deliberate exaggeration in painting him wit
As soon as the Germans completed their conquest of France, they also seized some of the Channel Islands off its coast, though part of Great Britain. They had no military significance, but their occupation provided the perfect breeding ground for Goebbels propaganda. The first (and only) piece of Bri
The choice of the point of the conflict with the Persians in Salamis was well studied by the ancient Greeks and not accidental, as it was based on the knowledge of the local climatic conditions. This is shown by a new study from the Atmospheric Physics and Climatology Research Center of the Academy