The centuries go by, the writings remain. Books, both works of art and boxes of secrets, become precious testimonies of the past. Thus the exceptional old collections of the Media Library of Troyes scroll through the rich history of the city and its region. An invaluable fund Most of these paper
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
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets Everyone knows the story of Robin Hood, the English archer who, with a group of faithful, took refuge in the forests of Sherwood to fight against the tyranny of the Norman prince Juan sin Tierra and the evil sheriff of Nottingham, who take advantage of the
Almost every day, and especially in the summer months, we have news, many of them with tragic endings, of African immigrants trying to access the Iberian Peninsula through the sea, with small boats that can barely withstand the waves and in which they travel crowded men, women and children, or tryin