All adjudications of the public (works, exploitation of services, supply of goods, licenses...) today are made following a regulated, transparent, lawful and, logically, public procedure - as long as you do not snoop on someone judge or journalist and uncover that it has not been so. Well, they acte
For all the places in the world where the caligae have stepped (sandals of the Roman legionnaires) today you can find bridges, aqueducts, amphitheaters... and many other constructions that have stood for more than 2,000 years. Have you ever wondered what the secret of the solidity of these witnesses
It is curious that, in the first years of his reign, Nero he was recognized by the Roman Senate as Pater Patriae , Father of the Nation. It was a title not implicit in the position of emperor and that the Senate granted on merit. It was certainly a time of prosperity for Rome. Nero lowered taxes, se
We recently talked about some insults that were used in ancient Rome, also the oldest joke of humanity, because today we are going to see what they laughed at in Greece and Rome. And where are we going to get this compilation of jokes from Antiquity, well, from Philogelos (Addicted to laughter), a w
We all have engraved in our retinas the image of thousands of slaves working under the whip to raise the pyramids of Egypt, because that image has more artistic license than reality. Of course, there were slaves in Egypt, most of them prisoners of war, but they were not the main workforce of Egyptia
The word escrache It is appropriate to refer to the demonstrations that are convened in front of the home or workplace of public figures to reprove their behavior in certain political or social matters. According to the Dictionary of Americanisms , escrache refers to the popular demonstration of den
Before getting into the pink gossip of the Sumerians, it should be noted that the marriage between the two rivers had no religious connotations. It is true that the act was presided over by a priest, but that was done to collect the corresponding tax (all religions pass the brush, right?) and to att
Who does not know the story of Noahs Ark? It is one of the most popular legends in Western culture and every summer the ark is discovered on Mount Ararat. It has been “discovered” so many times that a fleet of ocean liners could be built with its wood. The question is, was that story real, as some u
That there have been prostitutes, prostitutes or women of dissolute life throughout the history of humanity, is something undeniable. This is confirmed by the saying that prostitution is the oldest profession in the world. We can know what was charged in ancient Rome for these services, how much a
On Sunday we were in Pompeii. Since the world is a world, there have always been misfortunes and catastrophes, but few that have captivated humanity like the one that happened in that city. I can think of no other that has aroused so much interest.Goethe, Trip to Italy, March 13, 1787 POMPEII.
If this year Correos celebrates its 300th anniversary, when in 1716 the Spanish State officially assumed the service and with powers throughout the territory, to find the first postal service in history as such, one would have to go back to ancient Rome. One consequence of the construction of the R
The diversity of vehicles that circulated through the streets of Rome could be classified by the load that was transported, the distance to travel... and the means available, that is why the poorest traveled and moved in the San Fernando car (for a while on foot and another walking) or in the vehicl
Although the ideas and projects for the construction of navigation channels that would join seas or oceans to reduce costs and time in maritime transport were already studied in antiquity, it was not until the 19th century (Suez, Corinth, Panama...) when the engineering made them come true. But in t
Whenever popular phrases from the history of cinema come up, there is someone who says:“I cant find my legs ”. Actually, in the movie Cornered , John Rambo said:“…and I cant find his legs. I cant find the legs. I cant get it out of my head. And so seven long years, day after day… ”. It is possibly o
Whether it was the Telerín Family , Topo Gigio or Casimiro , as children we have always had a reference that the older ones used to send us to bed. The appearance on television of one of these characters, depending on the decade, marked bedtime. Sometimes, that moment had to be accompanied by the re
It is well known that the ancients were pleased that their gods had many adventures. It is already known that the people like to brag about powerful gods. The god Marduk , patron of Babylon, could not be less. We are not going to deal here with his numerous escapades, which led him to become a legen
Almost 25 centuries have been needed to put into practice something that Plato was already clear about back in the 4th century BC:the incorporation of women as soldiers in the Army . For Plato the importance that women should have in society is shown, above all, in three of his Socratic Dialogues. A
It is often thought that beer has its origins in the Germanic peoples, and that, due to the Roman Empire and the popularity of wine, beer did not begin to be produced and spread until shortly after the invasions of the so-called barbarians. Beer was already known many years before by civilizations a
A problem that has always been with us is the amount of garbage we generate, its removal, storage and destruction or recycling. Well, this problem already had it in the cities of Antiquity. Even with the revolutionary sewage network that turned the Tiber into a river sewer and laws that prohibited d
Although the Christmas season has passed, it is always a good time to talk about Jesus of Nazareth . Something has that universal Galilean that never goes out of style. This time we will focus on a topic even more hackneyed than his famous birth:his death. Can anything new be told about the death of
How his relations with the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito were disrupted, Mikis Theodorakis reveals in his reply letter to the well-known Skopje tenor Blagoza Nakoski, who protested - in an open letter to the media - about the Greek composers clear position on the issue of the naming of Skopje, whi
The Greek area was inhabited hundreds of thousands of years ago. However, the first findings of weapons are much later and date back to the Middle Paleolithic period. These finds concern stone arrowheads, javelins and spears. The specific weapons were clearly used in hunting, but also apparently in
Charlotte Corday (1768-1793) is a French aristocrat known for having assassinated the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. “I killed a man to save a hundred thousand.” she will say. By this very symbolic act, accomplished by herself and in the name of the principles of 1789, she became the most famous wom
In the world of racehorses, there is a race called King George VI &Queen Elizabeth S, which is the highest race in the world along with the Prix de lArc de Triomphe in France. With an eternal longing for all horsemen, Japanese horses have never won the race, in which famous horses from all over th