Fifth Sertorius born in 122 BC in Sabine lands, more specifically in the city of Nursia (today Norcia, in Italy). Nephew of Gaius Marius , soon excelled under his command, first in Numidia and then against the Cimbri and Teutons. As a reward for his bravery he was made a tribune in 97 BC. and sent t
Julius Caesar is the most famous character in Rome and one of the best known in all of history. Military and brilliant politician, he achieved significant achievements in both fields, but some legends more typical of fantasy than reality have also originated around his figure, which the popular imag
The Classical Olympic Games were held at Olympia from 776 B.C. until Emperor Theodosius abolished them in 394. In fact, the four-year period between each edition of the Games was called the Olympiad. And although they were not the only games in Greece -the Pythic ones were also held in Delphi, the I
Nowadays, one of the techniques used in bioclimatic architecture is passive solar technology, which is nothing more than the direct use of solar energy without transforming it into another type of energy. Well, even if it didnt have such a chic name , in Ancient Greece they already took it into acco
Can you imagine modern society without Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, mobile phones, video games or social networks? If you can do it, you will wonder how to satisfy leisure. In Ancient Rome, entertainment had to do with wooden games, such as checkers, chess, backgammon, tic-tac-toe, marbles... Do you k
Sushruta Samhita is a treatise on traditional medicine from India written in Sanskrit and attributed to Sushruta , a Hindu physician from the 6th century BC. to whom he is considered the Father of Indian Medicine. This treatise, along with the Charaka Samhita and the Astanga Hridaya, constitutes th
It was the middle of the year 157 B.C. when a legation of the Senate of Rome went to Carthage to mediate one of its continuing disputes with the neighboring and cumbersome kingdom of Numidia, the main beneficiary of the draconian treaty that Hannibal had to sign to end the Second Punic War. The nego
In some Mesopotamian reliefs appears the figure of a being with the head of a bird, a muscular human body and beautiful wings, holding an object with a handle in one hand and a kind of pineapple in the other. It is the god Nisroch . It has become very popular thanks to the internet, since the magufa
The Persians continued to double Sunio, when the Athenians were already marching at full speed to the aid of the square, and having arrived before the barbarians, they barricaded themselves near the temple of Hercules in Cynosarges... Those were some of the words that the great Herodotus of Halica
Publius Claudius Pulcher , Roman politician belonging to a rich patrician family, was quite a character of his time. A spoiled posh boy who believed that the whole mountain is oregano. After a mediocre military career in Asia, where he instigated a revolt and was involved in a mutiny, he returned to
Animal Duel (Animal Face-Off ) is a television program in which virtual confrontations between two different species are recreated to discover who would win in real life. Using data from scientists and experts, they are recreated in mechanical models, based on the strength, size, weight, types of at
If we search the RAE for the adjective numantino , the third of its meanings says «that tenaciously resists to the limit, often in precarious conditions «. Today, while we are looking for the origin of this meaning, we will pay tribute to the two thousand five hundred Numantinos who, all together l
Thanks to studies carried out in Kazakhstan, we know that the horse was domesticated a long time ago, more than 7,000 years ago. Although at first it was used mainly for skins and food, over time it was discovered to be very useful for carrying weights and pulling carts, and of course, a great advan
According to the RAE, simony it is the deliberate purchase or sale of spiritual things, such as sacraments and sacramentals, or temporal things inseparably attached to spiritual things, such as ecclesiastical prebends and benefits. This term has its origin in Simón Mago , the protagonist of this sto
Back in the fourth century B.C. Rome was an incipient Republic, compressed in the center of the Italian peninsula, whose only alternative for growth was to absorb all those peoples that surrounded it in its expansion. Etruscans, Samnites, Aequi and Volcans ended during that time under the Roman yoke
Encouraged by the anti-Semitism suffered by the Jews in Europe, at the beginning of the 20th century the Zionist movement founded by Theodor Herzl gained strength. that defended the regrouping of the Jewish population dispersed throughout the world, choosing Palestine as the place of settlement of i
Every Roman city or colony had one or more fullonica , our current laundry and dry cleaning . Remains of these businesses have been found in Ostia, Barcino and Herculaneum, some of them like that of Stephanus in Pompeii in an excellent state of preservation. It consisted of a household linen and clo
Today we start a new graphic section in which we will treat the story from a more relaxed point of view. To do this, I have asked my friend Xurxo for help. I hope you like it. Today, the origin of philosophy. It was Plato who said that «Amazement was the origin of Philosophy. Given that our eyes, a
First of all, it would be necessary to differentiate what is understood today by euthanasia and assisted suicide. euthanasia (from Latin euthanasia , and this from Greek εὐθανασία «Sweet death») is to cause the death of a terminally ill patient, to avoid his agony. It can occur with or without the c
In 60 BC a political alliance was formed in Rome, called the First Triumvirate, formed by Pompey, Julius Caesar and Crasus . The first two contributed their prestige earned on the battlefield and Crassus contributed... being the richest man in Rome . Among the multiple businesses in which Crassus em
The choice of the point of the conflict with the Persians in Salamis was perfectly studied by the ancient Greeks and not at all random, as it was based on the knowledge of the local climatic conditions. This is shown by a new study from the Atmospheric Physics and Climatology Research Center of the
A Pole, a Frenchman, two nephews and a saber and a glass. No, this is not a mistake at all. Today I would like to introduce you to the story of a French ensign who, due to his merits and strong drinks, became a second lieutenant of the 2nd Infantry Rifle Division ... well, he almost became one.
Inspired by the martial art of the Empires two main rivals at the time, the Germans and the nomads of the East, the eminent general Belisarius conceived the idea of finding the antidote, which was none other than the dual-role cavalry . The new cavalry he intended to assemble had to have suffic
Standing tall among the ruins of the barracks, in solitude and abandonment, stands the monument of the unknown soldier, in the former camp of Zarkos in the municipality of Farkadonas in the Regional Unit of Trikala, looking to find the soldier who carved it with him the wonderful way. The monument w