The brain of a 25-year-old man who died in the city of Herculaneum, Italy, near Pompeii, during the terrible eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, was turned into glass. Italian researchers have found for the first time fragments of a glassy black material inside the victims cranial cavity and speculate th
The summer of 1566 saw the last attempt of the Turkish sultan Suleiman the so-called magnificent, to neutralize the Habsburgs, also occupying Vienna. On May 1, 1566 Suleiman, at the head of a huge army that according to some sources numbered 300,000 men. Other sources state 100-200,000 men. On Ju
The castle of Trebovla was built in the 14th century. in the valley of the small river Hniezna in todays western Ukraine which in 1675 was part of Poland. The castle was small (100 x 40m) but strongly built with walls up to 4m thick. In 1672 the Polish-Turkish War had broken out. After various excha
Far from being an archaic element, destined to Disappearing due to presumed obsolescence, the pike was, at the beginning of the 16th century, a weapon that had caused a considerable tactical transformation in just a few decades. In the Burgundian Wars (1474-1477), the great squadrons of Swiss pikeme