Parchment is a surface, produced from the skin of animals, that was used for writing. It was created in Pergamum, a city in Asia Minor, in the 2nd century BC. The scroll it is a surface that was used for writing, being very popular in part of the Ancient Age and the Middle Ages. It was produced fro
The exploitation of pau-brasil was the first commercial practice in Brazil, and it played a major role in the 16th century. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe vegetable known as brazilwood It has also been called pau-de-Pernambuco, however, its scientific name is Caesalpinia echinata. It was often found
Recently, as a result of the article we published on the origin of the books in the Library of Alexandria, a somewhat fussy reader (and by the way, quite wrong) rebuked us on a social network, assuring us that those were not books, but manuscript scrolls. What he evidently did not know is that the
It was during the reign of Louis VI the Fat (1108-1137) that a written document relates for the first time the ceremony of touching the scrofula . The healing of scrofula gradually appears as the prerogative of the kings of France and England:Robert the Pious may have had this power, Philippe I and