Now, the Muslim jihad and the Christian crusade They were undoubtedly two maximum exponents of hybridization between religion and war. Interestingly, in the consolidation of the idea of holy war In both spaces of civilization, the figure of an emperor appears, Heraclius, the last Roman sovereign t
British scientists have solved one of the mysteries of Stonehenge, determining the origin of many of the megaliths that make up the famous Neolithic monument in Wiltshire, England, thanks to a sample that had been stored for decades in the US. The geochemical study found that 50 of Stonehenges 52 gr
TheBlack Death , also called the Great Plague , is an epidemic that appeared in the Mediterranean basin in the middle of the 14th century, causing the disappearance of a third of the European population. Coming from Asia, it would have reached Europe via the Silk Roads and Genoese merchant ships fro
The Persians constituted one of the most important civilizations of antiquity. Persia was located mainly in eastern Mesopotamia, in the current territory occupied by Iran, which was called Persia until 1935, when it changed its name. The Persian Empire The Persians spread over a large territory. A