They would use sharp pieces of quartz to strike against pyrites. Striking these materials could create sparks hot enough to light tinder and start a fire.
Tinder: Tinder consisted of easily flammable materials like dried leaves, dry twigs, wood shavings, or animal fat that would catch fire when exposed to the sparks
The Großkampfwagen or K-Wagen was the first German super-heavy tank that, if it had entered service before, might have changed the course of World War I. In June 1917, before the first German battle tank, the A7V, was even completed, the German army requested the construction of an assault super-tan
Gaius Julius Caesar was involved early in the public life of Rome. Belonging to the camp of Marius he risked being killed by Sulla in the first great civil war. Caesar left Rome and participated in two campaigns in Lesvos and Cilicia. As soon as he was informed of Sullas death (78 BC), Caesar re
Not long ago, in 2004, a team of German archaeologists unearthed a slender, tubular object in the Rhine Valley that they initially identified as a spear but, upon further analysis, concluded was the duct of a water pump. . Dating back more than a millennium and a half, it constituted the material pr
We are going to talk today about the Athenian sacred ships and we cannot think of a more fascinating way to start than by remembering the so-called Paradox of Theseus . It consists of asking if something material remains the same when all its parts are replaced, something that Heraclitus exemplified