Found in 1908, the deciphering of the Phaist disc is still an unknown that intrigues archaeologists and historians. By Tales PintoAmong the great mysteries that intrigue archaeologists – and they are not few – is the Phaisto disk (or Phaisto disk, or Phaisto disk). The disc is a ceramic piece, made
Cretan and Mycenaean civilizations preceded the heyday of Greek city-states such as Athens and Sparta. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe Cretan and Mycenaean civilizations , or Minoan and Mycenaean, developed around 2000 BC. C., in the region that comprises the extreme south of Greece, having thus preced
Alexandria was an urban center that gave rise to the Egyptian kingdom of the Ptolemies. It was founded in 332 BC. by the Macedonian Alexander the Great and in a short time it became one of the largest cities in the Greek world. On the breakwater of the Mediterranean Sea, the Lighthouse of Alexandria
Today there is a restricted portion of the world population that lives in a high level of consumption and a lot of luxury.But this is not privilege only of present society. In the time of the pharaohs, they and their families lived a life of great luxury, refinement and comfort, even if in the stand
By Rainer Sousa The sexual issue is a topic that has intrigued many historians over time. After all, the serious and detailed examination of this theme has the great power to reassess the place that sexual practices have in the contemporary world and establish the construction of other logics of mea
The economy in Ancient Egypt was based on agriculture, with the cultivation of flax, cotton, vines, cereals and olive trees being common. By Lilian Aguiar The economy in Ancient Egypt was based on agriculture. The Nile River, with its floods, was a godsend to the Egyptians. The cultivated lands bel
By Rainer SousaIn the process of formation of the Catholic Church, we observed that the strengthening of this institution faced situations that threatened its unity. One of them occurred in the year 476, when the fall of the last Roman emperor in the West established the triumph of the barbarian inv
The taste for dolls on the part of children today can be considered a legacy of Antiquity. The vast majority of ancient civilizations maintained a custom in common:the fascination and habit of dolls . Currently, children, mostly girls, have the habit of having and playing with dolls. But can we say
Agricultural revolution changes lifestyle (c. 6000 BC - Greece) In the Middle East, farmers who had pioneered sedentary life and cereal cultivation are now raising a wide variety of domestic animals, sheep, goats and cattle. They have been traveling to the Balkans, through Anatolia, in search of fe
Prehistory is an interdisciplinary area that studies themes related to the passage of hominids to human civilization itself. What is Prehistory? Prehistory is a period comprising approximately five million years, having ended around 6000 BC. This period is the subject of multidisciplinary studies,
In caves, artists depict life (c. 20,000 BC - Europe):It was probably before the current glaciation that people began to make artificial representations of the world they lived in. But the first artistic traditions emerged only over the last 20,000 years. Now essential aspects of life are portrayed
Along with other technical advances, agriculture and animal husbandry constitute the main innovation of the period, that of the so-called Neolithic revolution. The completed sedentarization of the man, villages appear that combine agricultural and pastoral activities and the population grows, arises
The Paleolithic is a period of prehistory that extended from 2.6 million years ago to approximately 10,000 BC. (or 12 thousand years ago). During this period, hominids used stone to produce tools necessary for their survival. The Paleolithic was also known as the Stone Age.The period in question was
Neanderthal man predominates (c. 100,000 BC - Europe): A robust subspecies of Homo sapiens took over as the dominant group in Europe, North Africa and Southeast Asia. The Neanderthal man, as this subspecies is known, is taller than other species (up to 1.72 meters), has a large brain, powerful jaw a
It is the way of life of nomadic peoples, that is, peoples who do not have a fixed home. They dont stay in one place. Nomads are hunter-gatherers, meaning they live by hunting, fishing and gathering food. When the need arises, they move to seek better living conditions.Nomadism was the lifestyle of
It was a species of the genus Homo neanderthalensis, which inhabited Europe and some places in western Asia about 230,000 to about 29,000 years ago. Neanderthals were cold-adapted, their brains were approximately 10% larger in volume than those of modern humans. On average, Neanderthals were around
Around 6000 BC, man achieved an important achievement:he discovered that it was possible to make objects out of metal. The first metal he worked on was copper. Later, through fusion, he mixed copper with tin and obtained a stronger metal, started to produce more powerful weapons and more efficient t
Humans hunt reindeer and mammoths (c. 18,000 BC - Europe) In the later stages of this glaciation, the vast plains of Europe and Asia are being invaded by herds of reindeer, horses, bison and woolly mammoths, and humans are taking the opportunity to exploit these animals, which provide them with an
Humans adapt to the cold (c. 900,000 BC - China) Increasingly inventive and adaptable humans have discovered fire and are using it to keep warm in the harsh Chinese winters and, perhaps, for cooking. It is not known for sure how they learned the secret, but it is likely that they took advantage of
Hominids fit for survival (c. 2mi BC - Africa) It took more than 1 million years for hominids to develop bigger brains and improve their manual dexterity, but now, on the African continent, Homo habilis, the same ancestor of the genus Homo, makes basic stone tools, chipping pebbles to create shar
We have already talked on several occasions about the animals used during wars, some with happy endings (Voytek) and other cruel ones (animals used as bombs), but todays borders on the tragicomic. In 1944 the Project Pigeon was developed (Dove Project ) which consisted of putting pigeons inside a
The Trojan War is probably the greatest war in classical mythology, and it is one of the most famous stories ever told (most famous in Homers Iliad). The Trojan War was a mythological battle in western Anatolia between the early Greeks and the people of Troy, which later Greek writers dated to the 1
The Secretary of State for War (War Department) commissioned Whitworth to find a successor to the Enfield 1853 carbine in caliber 14.66 mm, whose recent Crimean war had just shown the disadvantages. The Whitworth rifle had a lower bore (11 mm) and a hexagonal section; the bullets, elongated, had a s
There were two ships of the same type, the Gneisenau and the Scharnhorst, which, like the pocket battleships, posed some problems of classification, some considering them as battlecruisers, the others as battleships. Their protection was that of the classic battleships, but their high speed (32 knot