Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor, turned out to be a worthy rival of the matricide Nero in the category of killing loved ones. He had a father-in-law, brothers-in-law, nephew, wife and son on his conscience. Not a bad balance for a man whom Eusebius of Caesarea wrote about as havin
Merits beauty-case preserved at the Egyptian Museum of Turin When I was working for the news.it portal, I had to write an article about a particularly fascinating find, a trousse of beauty it belonged to an Egyptian woman named Merit now preserved in Turin. The beauty-case tells us a
The Visigoth kingdom was the first political entity of a certain shaft, in the Hispania that was orphaned after the fall of the Roman Empire. A people, the Visigoths, of a marked military character that had emerged from the cold lands of the north, and that, upon reaching the Iberian Peninsula, had
Bartenders often have good stories to tell. In 1874, the owner of a tavern in San Francisco claimed that the US Senate had not approved his appointment as Brigadier General because no one could pronounce his name. His name was Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski. The story is most likely true, which is not t