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  • How to pester the Sumerian gods and not die trying

    In the Catholic religion there is the figure of the “guardian angel ”, which is like a personal angel who helps and protects. It doesnt hurt to have a supernatural character lend you a hand. And the Sumerians? The Blackheads had a pantheon of more than 3,600 gods. There were gods for all kinds of ma

  • Sex toys in ancient times

    The term olisbos , which means slip or slide, is the name that in ancient Greece was given to the phallic-shaped stone, leather or wood contraption that women impregnated in olive oil to practice the art of self-love. The dildo of all life, since Prehistory. In the year 2005 German scientists discov

  • How were banks rescued in the crisis of the first century in ancient Rome?

    It is difficult to add something that has not already been written about the rescue of the banks, but it is curious to know that in ancient Rome, during the first century, they also had their particular economic crisis and the way to tackle it was also by rescuing the banks … but with nuances that m

  • Cleopatra, queen of good mouth and mouth of ten thousand men

    We dont know how exactly she was Cleopatra , the last queen of Egypt, but we know that, if not exceptionally beautiful, her arts of seduction were many and complex. She was a lover of luxury, ostentation and jewelry, she was passionate about power and pleasures of the mouth; of gastronomy and oral

  • The lamb that shook the Akkadian Empire

    The Sumerians were very fond of performing animal sacrifices. You have to understand that the Sumerian gods were like a huge ministry with all its bureaucracy added. They had over 3,600 gods and none of them paid much attention to the poor humans. The sacrifices could be used to grease the bureaucra

  • Why did early Christians in ancient Rome dislike the robe?

    As good followers of the Latin phrase «Panem et circenses » (bread and circuses), the emperors tried to provide entertainment to the citizens of Rome in the Circus Maximus with chariot races or in the Colosseum (amphitheatre) with gladiatorial or animal fights (venatio ). Always trying to surpass wh

  • Barbarossa, the pirate captain of Asterix and Obelix, could well have been the hair shirt Zeniquetes

    I suppose that for the millions of followers of Asterix and Obelix the character of the pirate Barbarossa will not be unknown A captain and crew always up for a beating! Every time they come across Asterix and Obelix, their ship ends up sinking and they end up on driftwood. Well, although René Gosci

  • The oldest nursery in history

    If we travel to Iraq and head towards the Zagros Mountains , on the border with Iran, about 40 km from Baghdad, and very close to the Diyalah River, we will find an archaeological site. It is the ancient Sumerian city of Eshnunna . At first glance, the site doesnt look like much. The old Sumerian ru

  • Why in Ancient Greece the first thing they did when they woke up was to remember Plato's mother?

    Until recently I didnt know who to remember my mother, and not for the better, when every morning a thunderous sound kidnapped me from the dream world of Morpheus and brought me back to harsh reality. Now I know, from the mother ofPlato , the inventor of the alarm clock. The water clocks or clepsyd

  • Did the curse of Tutankhamun exist?

    Some have related the problem suffered by the mask of the Child Pharaoh, remember, the restoration of the sacred beard of the god Osiris glued with «superglue», with the hackneyed curse of the pharaohs. But the story goes even further; begins at ten minutes to two in the morning on Thursday, April 5

  • Nigrino, the Valencian who could govern Rome

    There is no Cordovan who does not boast of the wisdom of his Seneca , nor Calagurritano who is not proud of his Quintiliano , nor bilbilitano that does not quote his satirist Marcial , nor poncino who does not praise the glories of his beloved Trajan , four illustrious exponents of our prolific Ro

  • Traffic tax, bachelorhood tax, urine tax… in Ancient Rome

    It said Benjamin Franklin «nothing is certain, except death and taxes «; of the first nothing to add and of the second... this article to confirm that Franklin was absolutely right. We are going to look at some of the taxes that the Romans had to bear in times of the Republic and the Empire. Some ex

  • Lullubi, the Akkadian “Vietnam”

    The first known empire of humanity was the Akkadian, founded by Sargon of Akhad . Naram-Sin , his grandson, was a worthy successor in terms of conquests, because having lost the entire empire at the beginning of his reign, due to a civil war, he managed to recover it and increase the borders at the

  • Semiramis, the queen who ended a revolt thanks to her sensuality

    Semiramis She was very pretty or, at least, thats what her grandmother and Diodorus of Sicily, claimed. the 1st century Greek historian. As if that were not enough, she was one of the most fascinating queens in history. Well, to be frank, most of what is known about her is legend. When Diodorus o

  • The Greeks have not returned to the drachma because it literally does not fit in purses and tears pockets

    Until a few months ago the terms Grexit , Spexit or Brexit They could seem to us to be the name of racehorses or new energy drinks, when in fact they are Anglo-Saxon acronyms that refer to the hypothetical departure of Greece, Spain or the United Kingdom, respectively, from the EU. On this occasion,

  • Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the best actor in history

    Since Rome conquered Greece and assimilated its extraordinary cultural legacy as its own, it began to value theater as a natural form of citizen expression, a way of temporarily freeing itself from the painful day-to-day vicissitudes or banalities of a group of willing actors. to distract the public

  • What is the key to man's dominance in the world?

    Man appeared on the face of the earth about 2,500,000 years ago. We tend to think that there was only one type of human. However, one of our grandfathers, who in those days was the Ape Austral , he left some corner of East Africa and embarked on the path to other horizons, such as Asia, Europe and e

  • The oldest maps in history

    Theres an old female joke that says the reason millions of sperm are needed to fertilize an egg is because, being male, they dont read the blueprint or ask the way. Ironies aside, for as long as humanity exists it seems that human beings have tried to map the environment they knew or what they thoug

  • Economic crisis in Rome. The fall of an empire

    There have been several theories that historians have handled in the fall of the Roman Empire , one of the largest and most influential in all of history. Personally, I believe that there were several causes, with the aggravating factor of the logical wear and tear of so many years fighting on vario

  • The phenomenon of “fracking” in Ancient Rome

    Nowadays, a topic that is not without controversy is on the lips of many people, the technique of hydraulic fracturing or «fracking «. It consists of drilling a vertical well in the subsoil up to more than 2,500 meters and then continuing to drill another well horizontally up to a distance of betwee

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