Sumerian legal proceedings were held before an assembly of elders. The assembly was directed by one of them who was generally appointed as judge, although we have no news that it was an office as such. It is believed that a judge in Sumeria had to be an old man who had shown great knowledge of the l
You probably remember from your history lessons some Ibrahim Ibn Jakub - a Jewish traveler from Muslim Spain, who was the first to write something about the Polish state. The curious merchant told about the customs of the Slavs, about the brave warriors of Prince Mieszko, as well as about the people
The curse of the Middle Ages was very powerful. To protect oneself from him, great humiliations were accepted. Whether they were thrown by Christians, Muslims, or pagans, each was taken deadly seriously. Meet the six curses that shaped the fate of Europe! Although they are several centuries old,
In the last days of the Byzantine Empire, there were persons who played a role indulgently miserable and even treacherous. One of these persons who had an absolutely disastrous role was Georgios Amiroutzis. The closest, chronologically, testimony about him was that of the also pro-Turkish Critobu