In recent years, thanks to YouTube, videos have become popular advertising the old thesis that an extraterrestrial race arrived on Earth –Anunnaki – and created the Sumerians, as genetic slaves, to work extracting metals, especially gold. On the one hand, one might wonder what curious aliens are th
The Catalan Company was a body of mercenary warriors who fought in the war between the King of Aragon and the King of Sicily. When the war ended these mercenaries found themselves unemployed. Then they offered their services to the emperor Andronicus, who urgently needed troops. In the fall of 13
At any time, at any time while I was a slave, if I had been offered a minute of freedom, and told that I had to die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it, just to know what it was like to be free – Elisabeth Freeman Elisabeth , daughter of slaves from Pieter Hogebooms farm in Claverack
It is possible that one of the oldest professions of humanity is that of a banker. Curiously, we have no news that it was practiced in hunting societies, possibly due to the ease with which a mortgage could be repaid by means of 15 cm of sharpened flint. But when they appeared, in cultures with agri