Apart from being part of the First Triumvirate together with Julius Caesar and Pompey, Marcus Licinius Crassus has gone down in history as the epitome of the wealthy man, on whose fortune Caesar relied to achieve power and who has left his cognomen as synonymous with fat, something that could apply
Alanya is a city in the Turkish province of Antalya, a charming enclave that, due to its combination of archaeological heritage, natural landscapes and Mediterranean climate, constitutes an attractive tourist destination, the current economic engine of the city. Alanya is best known to history buffs
In the article that we dedicated to the names of women in ancient Rome, we already said that the Roman nomination was more complex than is believed. Both in cinema and in literature we have become accustomed to seeing the typical compound names but in reality that did not obey free will but rather r
To melt chocolate, to liquefy honey, to heat preserves and baby bottles in pre-microwave times, to make desserts and sauces, even to make homemade soap... The bain-marie It is a method whose origins date back to ancient times, not only in the domestic sphere but also in the proto-industrial and scie
When Cleisthenes established democracy in Athens, practically inventing it between 510 and 508 BC, he also wanted to provide the people with a method with which to prevent a tyrant from regaining power in the city. That instrument was the law of ostracism, by which those citizens whose actions or i
It was the year 192 B.C. when an Aetolian army entered Sparta. He did not arrive as an invader but as an ally, after a request for help made by the Spartan king Nabis to make up for the state of weakness in which the country had been left after the defeat before a coalition of Romans, Macedonians an
When in the year 449 B.C. Cimon died, who was the son of Miltiades (the victor at Marathon), commander of the fleet and leader of the Athenian aristocracy, his political supporters had to look for a substitute who would be able to confront Pericles, the head of the popular and democratic party that
A new scientific analysis of the composition of Roman denarii has provided new insights into a financial crisis briefly mentioned by Roman statesman and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero in his essay on moral leadership, De Officiis , and has resolved an age-old debate. Researchers from the University o
In the year 458 AD Constantinople had been the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for some 63 years. Emperor Leo I ruled, who had ascended the throne the previous year becoming the first to be crowned by the Christian Patriarch of the city. A boy was also born in the city of Damascus (present-day S
Most plants reproduce by seeds. This is how the spermatophytes, which are the largest lineage of plants on Earth, with some 270,000 living species, do it. Each seed contains an embryo from which, under the right conditions, a new plant will develop. The oldest seed corresponds to a fossil found in B
Scribonius Longus (Latin Scribonius Largus listen)) was a Roman physician of the 1st century AD. who served at the court of Emperor Claudius (AD 41-54) and apparently accompanied the Roman army in the conquest of Britain. He is famous for having written a pharmacopoeia (list of recipes) that was use
4,500-year-old iconography and texts from Mesopotamia show that equids were used by the elite for travel and warfare; however, the nature of these animals remained a mystery. In Science Advances A team from the Jacques Monod Institute (CNRS/University of Paris) used ancient DNA to show that these a
It is likely that, during a visit to Rome, some reader has climbed to the top of the Capitol, one of the seven hills where the city was born. There is the famous Campidoglio square, presided over by the Town Hall with the famous pavement created by Michelangelo, the bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius
When the Persian king Darius marched against the Scythians in 513 B.C. Pursuing them for several months to the East, he took care to leave a contingent of his troops guarding the bridge he had built over the Danube, to ensure retreat in case of need. Leading this group, made up mainly of Greeks from
According to Cicero, from the beginning of Roman history the Pontifex Maximus compiled on a white board the most important events that had occurred in Rome during the year, as well as the names of the consuls and other magistrates of the Republic, and placed it in a public place where everyone could
More than two centuries before the first Roman road, the Appian Way, was created, the Persian King Darius I planned and built a road that crossed the entire western part of his empire, from the capital Susa in the interior to Sardis in the extreme. from Anatolia. We know it as the Persian Royal Road
We do not know if she would look like Lena Hadley, the actress who played her in the movie 300 , but we do know that the Spartan Gorgo has not gone down in history only because she was the wife of the hero Leonidas but also because she was the only woman from that Greek city who, in addition to be
The youngest will probably never have heard of it, but their parents or grandparents will surely remember how in their childhood the teacher constantly wielded a wooden stick, whose mere presence served as a deterrent when talking in the classroom or doing some mischief . It was not something new o
In the gallery above the portal of St. Marks Basilica in Venice there are four large horse sculptures popularly known as the Horses of St. Mark . These sculptures are older than the basilica itself, as they come from the Hippodrome of Constantinople. They were part of a sculptural monument that rep
It may seem obvious, but the truth is that practically all the Roman inscriptions that we see on statues, steles, tombstones and monuments are written with capital letters, so that it seems that they used only these in their writings. Nothing could be further from the truth, since the Romans also ha
The Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III was an aircraft developed by Chance Vought , in response to the competition launched in December 1955 by the US Navy to produce a naval interceptor of the Mach 2+ class. This aircraft was a competitor to the McDonnell F4H Phantom II to succeed the (future) famous Chanc
In the middle of the Korean War, a young girl carrying her little brother on her back flees on a road where an American tank is driving. Photograph taken June 9, 1951 by Major R.V. Spencer • WIKIMEDIA COMONS According to a Korean proverb, “when the whales snort, the shrimp have their backs broke
Martyrology Romanum ex Ecumenical Sacred Decree of the Second Vatican Council Instauratum Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II promulgatum is the long title of a catalog of martyrs, beatifics and saints of the Catholic Church first published in 2001 by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipl
Who has seen the famous movie Karate Kid , you may remember a scene in which Mr. Miyagi evokes the memory of his late wife, who died giving birth to her child while he was at the front during World War II. The curious thing is that he did not fight in the Japanese army but in the US, which is surpri