It is often said that the Second World War had a good part of its roots in the end of the First, in the Versailles Treaty of 1919. It is an analysis focused on the harsh conditions imposed on the defeated Germany, but what is not so well known is that Japan also moved away from the West at that time
Any fan of war history knows that Blitz is the term used for the air attacks that the Luftwaffe carried out against the United Kingdom between 1940 and 1941, during World War II and in the context of the so-called Battle of Britain. What is not so well known is what the expression Zeppelin Raids ref
I think we all know of the existence of cave paintings, troglodyte houses and even underground cities, but it is rarer to have heard of rock-cut churches. However, there are; and, in the case of northern Spain, a few, to the point that you can even make a tourist route visiting them. This itinerary
The Swiss commune of Waltensburg, located in the Graubünden canton in the center-east of the country and which today has just 300 inhabitants, was so important during the Middle Ages that it was home to four castles:Jörgenberg, Grünenfels, Vogelberg and Kropfenstein. Only ruins remain of them. Howe
A new study concludes that although the Knights of the Round Table have gained worldwide fame, most medieval English heroic or chivalrous stories have been lost. Meanwhile, more than three-quarters of the medieval stories in Icelandic and Irish survive to the present, in an unusual pattern that sugg
Recently in the article dedicated to María la Judía , we said that this woman did not exactly invent the bain-marie, known long before, but she did give it her name. The person responsible for the nomination was a doctor who lived between the 13th and 14th centuries and who, moreover, like a good me
The Silla kingdom was one of three that existed on the Korean peninsula from 57 B.C. In 660 and 668 AD. managed to conquer the territories of the other two, dominating the entire region for almost three centuries, until 935 AD. During all that time the capital of the kingdom was the city of Gyeongju
In the cathedral of Monza in Italy there is a curious crown that is not made of iron but which has been known, since the early Middle Ages, as the Iron Crown. The name derives from the belief that an inner sheet that holds the plates together was made of that metal, although it is actually silver.
In 1347, the plague first entered the Mediterranean through trading ships carrying goods from the Black Sea territories of the Golden Horde. The disease then spread across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, claiming up to 60% of the population in a large-scale outbreak known as the Black Dea
The expression Renaissance scholar (or, by extension, Renaissance man) is often used to describe those types of scholars of the early Modern Age characterized by a universal knowledge that covered a wide range of subjects:astronomy , geography, physics, mathematics, poetry, plastic arts, cartography
Chariots were used on the battlefield in China as early as the 5th century BC. They were mainly mobile defensive elements for the protection of the soldiers, while they carried out some activity such as the excavation of tunnels or trenches. From these primitive models it was developed in the 3rd c
In the article that we dedicated to the Persian Royal Road, we said that Darius had established 111 stations or posts along the entire route that connected the Achaemenid empire, equipped with refreshment horses, where the royal messengers could carry out relays, and even spend the night if necessar
The current city of Trier (in German Trier) was founded around the year 16 BC. as Augusta Treverorum . It is located on the right bank of the Moselle River, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and about 9 kilometers from the border with Luxembourg. Emperor Augustus made it the capital of th
The one who is considered the first Roman writer in history was born in Taranto around the year 284 BC. and he was Greek. Taranto was a Greek colony in Magna Graecia (the southern Italian peninsula) that had asked King Pyrrhus of Epirus for help in his fight against Rome. However, the defeat of this
Chariots were used on the battlefield in China as early as the 5th century BC. They were mainly mobile defensive elements for the protection of the soldiers, while they carried out some activity such as the excavation of tunnels or trenches. From these primitive models it was developed in the 3rd c
Before the Romans drove mules north across the Alps in the first century, horses were the only riding animals used by the peoples of the area. This is revealed by the genetic analyzes carried out by a research group from the ArchaeoBioCenter of the LMU (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich), the
Some time ago we published an article dedicated to the five Roman expeditions that entered sub-Saharan Africa, which did not mark a southern border because it would have required an effort that was not clear if it would be repayable, limiting their domain to the Mediterranean coast, but they did est
On a high, spur-shaped, rocky plateau on the west bank of the Birecik Reservoir, about 4 km northwest of Eski Halfeti and 50 km northeast of Sanliufa in southern present-day Turkey, stand the ruins of a great fortress a banks of the Euphrates. It is called Rumkale or Hromgla, which literally means
Examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed that our earliest ancestors likely created intricate works of art by firelight. The stones were engraved with artistic designs about 15,000 years ago and show patterns of heat damage that suggest they were carved near the flickering
A handful of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa contain the oldest evidence of subduction, a key element of plate tectonics, according to a new study published in AGU Advances, the journal of the American Geophysical Union for research in the sciences. of Earth and space. These rare time
The Carnival has its origin in antiquity with feasts to the gods where a change in the social order was allowed. In this way, the slaves and serfs took the places of the masters and the population took the opportunity to have fun. Although it is known as the country of Carnival, Brazil is not the
The Sumerians were an unknown people. Even the name by which they are known was given to them by archaeologists in the 19th century. Nevertheless, they left behind strong marks of their military art. From at least the 5th millennium, a great civilization flourished on the banks of the Tigris and
They say that on the morning of July 22, 1921 , when the captain general of Melilla, General Manuel Fernández Silvestre , present in the Annual camp, had decided to withdraw from the besieged position in what would later become a cruel massacre, his personal friend, the influential Sharif of the Kab
When you wrote the lines that lead this article, Francisco de Cuellar , former captain of the San Pedro, galleon of the Castile squadron, rested in Antwerp after more than a year of hardship. It was November 4, 1589. Shortly before, he had entered Dunkirk almost naked after a Dutch warship riddled w