Just as we recently discovered a coin from Rome in the shape of a ham, we now have the spintriae , coins or tokens in which different sexual positions were represented on the front and a number on the back... What were these types of coins used for? The most conservative and least original vers
In 428, Genseric he was elected king of the Vandals. A year later, he organized the largest non-Roman naval operation in late antiquity, shipping 80,000 people – of whom only 15,000 were warriors – off the shores of Carteia (Algeciras) and transferring them to the beaches of Ceuta. In a very short t
The use of aromatic plants in cooking and medicine has been a constant throughout history. Mint, specifically, has been used to flavor many dishes and in medicine to facilitate digestion, as a mouth freshener and for its stimulating properties. Some of us, including myself, believed the urban legend
As a result of the comment that Cayetano left in the previous post, in which he defined Messalina as an icon for compulsive onanists, I remembered a story that he had read in the book Historias de la Historia by Carlos Fisas -the bedside book for all of us who write this type of article- and now I
[…] The little fullonica of Quinto Talpicio was located behind the wall of the necropolis. Iónica, Aula Plautias most trusted slave—one of the most admired and envied matrons in the entire colony—had come that morning to pick up her masters robes and robes. Talpicio had a very bad reputation throug
Nowadays, when we take a book in our hands, we are not always aware that we are perpetuating a tradition of more than 2000 years of history and that had its origin in the notebooks made up of several wax tablets that the Romans used at the end of the Republic. The word book comes, in fact, from the
The triremes They were warships that first appeared in Ionia and became the dominant warship in the Mediterranean Sea from the late 6th century BC. until the fourth century BC. C., and later, due to its effectiveness, under the Roman Empire until the fourth century. These ships were responsible for
The Medical Wars were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and the city-states of the Hellenic world that began in 499 BC. and extended until 449 BC, and whose starting signal was a tattoo on the head . Medical Wars Darius I the Great was the third king of the Achaemenid
Today, in democratic societies, the people exercise their small share of power by acting as sovereign when they participate in the election of their representatives after enduring the electoral campaign which, along with bed and war, is where the most lies are heard. Then, after the corresponding vo
Today, and after multiple studies and various theories according to the different discoveries, we can date the age of the Earth to something more than 4,500 million years and, according to the findings in Herto (Ethiopia), the first homo sapiens appeared about 150,000 years ago but the pharaoh Psam
We have already talked on several occasions about sexuality in Ancient Rome and, even so, I would like to remind you again that the concept of sex in Roman society has nothing to do with the modesty and congenital blush that this topic produces in us today. for the education received. But neither sh
There is no self-respecting commercial TV channel that does not have on its grill some program based on hoaxes, rumors, falsehoods... the so-called, very wisely, trash TV . We already told at the time what would have happened in the 16th century to the – in this case the – condemned for insults or s
A few years ago, before embarking on a trip abroad, it was almost normal to buy a travel guide for the destination in question, which also included some useful phrases or expressions to get around in non-Spanish-speaking places. Nowadays, these guides are being relegated in favor of the internet or
What began at the end of the third century a. C. as a strategic invasion to cut the Carthaginian supply lines that supported the invasion of Rome by Hannibal during the Second Punic War, it soon became a conquest that in about twelve years had completely expelled the Carthaginian forces from the Pen
Our archenemy today was one of the Jewish leaders who rebelled against Rome at the end of Neros rule, causing the greatest physical, human and spiritual disaster that Jerusalem suffered in all of classical antiquity. His obstinacy and blind faith in his God led the people of Israel to one of the blo
Our archenemy today was a religious and patriotic man, a real nuisance to an increasingly Hellenistic Empire. His obstinacy and sedition provoked one of the bloodiest reprisals in history, also ordered by a character whom the passage of time has classified as more of a philosopher than a soldier. T
In Antiquity and the Middle Ages, on rare occasions, sanity prevailed and to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, it was agreed that the battle in question would be decided by a duel between the champions of each side. When Tulio Hostilio (673 – 641 BC), the third king of Rome, declared war on the city of
Zhuge Liang , Sleeping Dragon , was a Chinese soldier and strategist of the kingdom of Shu during the period of the Three Kingdoms (Shu , Wei and Wu ) that disputed control of China after the fall of the Han dynasty . In addition to being a great strategist in the disposition of the troops and recon
One of the greatest conquerors and strategists in history was Alexander the Great, but to take Tiro he had to put a lot of imagination into it. The city of Tyre, located in present-day Lebanon, was one of the largest Phoenician city-states -about 40,000 inhabitants-, with the peculiarity that it had
When the Romans defeated the Carthaginians and, later, the Celtiberian, Lusitanian and Asturian rebels... they obtained, in addition to fertile and productive lands, important metal deposits in what would become the province of Hispania. In the words of Pliny (in Naturalis Historia ): Hispania is
The Mannlicher is the weapon that has associated its name with the greatest victories of the Greek Army in the 20th century. It was used from 1912 to 1941 by the army. The first rifles and Arabids of the type were received in 1906, having been ordered by the government of Theotokos, in the context o
From the middle of the 16th c. A.D. groups of European adventurers began to arrive on the American continent in search of the famous land of Eldorado, the land where gold was everywhere and you only had to reach out to get it. According to legend, there was an Indian city near present-day Bogota, Bo
Deer , the charrúa cacique, amicably extended General Rivera the knife that he had asked him to chop his tobacco. However, the military reacted unexpectedly; he jerked back, feigning surprise, and in the same motion he drew his revolver and shot her. That was the signal that the rest of his troops,
Until the 1970s, several countries applied eugenics programs for the improvement of hereditary traits seeking racial hygiene . Although the best known case is that of Nazi Germany, there were many other countries that applied this type of program, such as the case of Sweden that we have already talk