Terror of the year 1000, story of a fabrication. “It was a universal belief in the Middle Ages that the world was to end with the year one thousand of the incarnation […] This end of such a sad world was all together the hope and the dread of the Middle Ages. » Jules Michelet (1798-1874), Histo
American researchers, who relied on an improved tree-dating technique, announced around 1560 B.C. as the most likely date for the powerful Minoan eruption of the volcano of Thira (Santorini). The dating of the explosion, one of the most powerful ever to have occurred on Earth, is a major challeng
The Historical Snooper and Numancia The Historical Snoop, illustrator of Harald, the last Viking from the comic history collection Historietas, brings us back his peculiar and always funny point of view on the topics that our magazines deal with. Today he makes us travel through time and space to l
If there is a type of troop that highlights the uniqueness of the Russian army of the Napoleonic Wars, it is undoubtedly the Cossack cavalry , irregular troops from the steppes of southern Russia and Ukraine of heterogeneous origins (of Tatar, Slavic and even Polish descent) and strong identity of t