Looking back, in this case to Antiquity, on too many occasions we can say that Nihil novum sub sole (Nothing new under the sun), because today we have one more example:brushes to remove lint (or anything else) from clothes. The Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus , who lived around 600 BC, observed
The Sumerian economy was based mainly on barter, and to prevent the markets from becoming a battlefield or the rogues from doing their thing, the rulers annually issued tables of product equivalencies. Thus, any buyer could know that a kilo of wool -which weighs the same as a kilo of iron- was equiv
Each of you has made a vow of poverty, renouncing personal property, but as a religious community you want to have everything, thundered Bishop of Acre Jacques de Vitry, outraged by the lack of moderation in the conquest of the earthly goods by the Poor Knights of Christ. Indeed, the fortune raised
The harangues of the champions before going into battle to inflame the spirits of the combatants are typical and, above all, very cinematographic. In this case, the confrontation occurred in the year 61 between Boudica , the queen of the Iceni, and Caius Suetonius Paulo , Roman governor of Britain.