Marco Antonio and Cleopatra. Perhaps Cleopatras tomb has finally been found The tomb of Cleopatra has it finally been found? According to Zahi Hawass, famous archaeologist and Egyptologist, yes. According to the scholars statements, the queen of Egypt is said to be buried in Taposiris Mag
Skulls of people who may have been beheaded by the Celts The Celts they cut off the heads of downed enemies and kept them as trophies. This macabre custom, described by some Roman authors, it had never found, up to now, archaeological evidence that could confirm it. Furthermore, the Romans
Ancient toilet “Cess” is a word that we all know and use not only to vulgarly define the bathroom, but also as a synonym for something (or someone) that we find unpleasant. Well, have you ever wondered where this term comes from? Do you know what its origin is? In reality, there is not
In Ancient Egypt, when a child died, his favorite fairy tale accompanied him to the afterlife fables in Ancient Egypt were told ? The answer is yes. To tell us unequivocally are their burials. We all know how well the cult of the dead is was deeply rooted in Egyptian culture ( see also
Statue depicting an Etruscan woman. Etruscan women enjoyed rights unknown to other peoples at the same time The Etruscan women they enjoyed rights unknown to girls and ladies of Greece and of Rome. The Etruscans, as is known, they lived between the 9th and 1st centuries AD. in the geog
The beautiful Etruscan sarcophagus called “degli sposi” The Greek historian Theopompus of Chios (? -320 BC) left us a description of the customs of Etruscan women in which he is almost scandalized by their excessive, in his opinion of him, freedom. This is what it says: “Near the Tyrrhenia
Today is the day of remembrance for the victims of the Foibe, then lets talk about the victims of the sinkholes. But lets talk about it in historical terms and without making propaganda. When we talk about the Foibe, the first thing we say is that they were killed because guilty of being Italian.
Pasta, the pride and pride of us Italians. Pasta is the symbol of Italy in the common imagination, it is our greatest wealth, and according to legend, it was we Italians who exported it all over the world, after having imported it, thanks to Marco Polo, from the East. The truth, however, is slight
In fictional stories, the heroes and princes are all young, heroic and handsome, always in good health, even during a plague, but in reality, things arent always like that. There have been kings, princes and war heroes who may have been young, but they werent handsome or were not in good health. T
Many argue that Napoleons boundless ambition was an attempt to compensate for the tiny size of his penis. We have many interpretations of this type, and in recent times, almost every historical figure that has ever existed, has been the subject of a Freudian reinterpretation and analysis, but, in th
On March 15, 44 BC . on the day of the Ides of March, some Roman conspirators assassinated Julius Caesar , in an attempt to restore the Republic to Rome. However, the episode, known as Caesaricide , triggered a series of new wars and internal conflicts that led to the rise of Octavian Augus
LUngheria di Miklós Horthy fu un regime autoritario, conservatore, di estrema destra, fortemente militarista e legato al fascismo prima e al nazional socialismo tedesco poi. It was the year 1920 when Admiral Miklós Horthy , former Minister of War in 1919, was proclaimed head of the Government of
Reading, or rather, re-reading Manzoni in a Keynesian key and take his criticisms of the way in which the government of Milan, in the betrothed , handled the bread crisis, the result of a deeper agrarian crisis, as a criticism of state intervention on the free market , means not having underst
The term Hostage, today, has a very precise meaning, which we can broadly define as, a physical person held prisoner, for economic or political reasons, or for other reasons, but in the ancient world, the term hostage or rather, what today we translate with the term hostage, it had a slightly differ
The Fall of Carthage it is the final act of the Punic wars, a clash between civilizations which in terms of scope we could associate with the world wars of the 20th century, and on a symbolic level we could consider like the Cold War . In this parallel, the fall of Carthage is comparable to the
When Rome took control of a foreign city, through a military or diplomatic conquest, it was incorporated into the Roman state becoming a Municipality, otherwise, when Rome founded a new settlement from nothing, the new city was a Colony. In the Roman world there were no other options, all the cities
He is Orso Mario Corbino and you have probably never heard of him. Or, if youve heard of it, its about a bribery scandal involving Standard Oil in 1924. Orso Corbino was a senator of the Kingdom of Italy during the Fascist regime, elected to parliament for the first time in 1921 and remained in of
When and why was the Berlin Wall built? How tall was it, where is it, how many people have tried to overcome it and how many have lost their lives trying to reach the other side? How many worked on the construction of the wall, and how many worked on the surveillance of the wall? Are we really s
Leopold II of Belgium , born Leopold Louis Philippe Maria Victor of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , Prince of Belgium, Duke of Brabant and King of the Belgians, from 10 December 1865 to 17 December 1909. Leopold II of Belgium was the second son of Leopold of Belgium, the first king of Belgium and above a
I was looking for a different way to talk about Napoleon, and I said to myself, what better way to talk about Napoleon than about Napoleon, if not through the men and women who made the French minute general great? Thinking it was a good idea I started looking for some material on his generals and
Bombings, executions of criminals and blowing up trains. These are the most spectacular methods used by the Home Army in the fight against the Germans. However, all of them were associated with bloody repression. Being aware of this, the Polish underground decided to use much more ... subtle methods
It was January 8, 1947 when David Bowie came to Earth and specifically to Brixton, having the same birthday as Elvis Presley. On the same day in 2016, his 25th and final album, the masterpiece Blackstar, was released, just two 24 hours before his world-shaking death on January 10. Blackstar was the
Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743) was the French portrait painter of the Court and of Kings in the Grand Siècle, described thus by Madame La Palatine “There is a painter here, Rigo, who stutters so horribly that it takes him a quarter of an hour for each word. He sings perfectly and while singing he does
The Classical Liberal Arts, divided into Trivium and Quadrivium, were the main model of education in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe so-called “Arts Liberals Classics ”, or “As Seven Arts Liberals ”, constituted the model of education during antiquity classical