By Demercino Junior The Crusades were expeditions organized by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages, with the aim of retaking Jerusalem and spreading Christianity. One passage that world historiography has not covered very closely was the Childrens Crusade. Perhaps for lack of sources or for n
The First Punic War opened the long series of three contests between Rome and Carthage for control of the western Mediterranean. As is known, the Romans managed to prevail in all of them, but to do so they had to overcome critical moments. If in the second conflict the protagonist of them was Hannib
In todays football, but also in other sports, we are used to seeing how players constantly change teams, mainly due to economic interests. Sometimes they even go to the rival team or the eternal enemy . Well, the first of them all to be documented was a Greek athlete from the 5th century BC. His na
Detail of the decoration of the chariot found in Pompeii • PHOTO BY HANDOUT / POMPEI ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK / AFP In Italy, the ancient remains are not confined to the walls of Pompeii. A few hundred meters north of the archaeological park of the city buried by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. BC,