The oldest wine in the world has been preserved in a Roman sarcophagus in Andalusia for 2,000 years
A team from the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Córdoba, led by Professor José Rafael Ruiz Arrebola, ...
Tag: Ancient Rome
‘On the shores of time’, by Fernando Wulff: three views that meet in the sea
Our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of others. But we all look like the image they have ...
‘Operation Valdecañas’: the reservoir that hid a gigantic archaeological treasure in danger
In 2019, a very severe drought reduced the level of Extremadura reservoirs to levels rarely known. The volume of water ...
“Not everything is penises in Pompeii”: how to tour the city buried in a hundred objects, including a gladiator helmet, a charred bread and a urinal
The book Pompeii, a Roman city in 100 objects (Criticism, 2024) explains the place through a hundred very different elements, ...
“Brutal and genocidal”: dismantling Julius Caesar to warn us about Trump and other Caesars
Some titles reach our televisions with strange translations. The BBC documentary Julius Caesar: The making of a dictator It is ...
Nero's Rome was not so different from today's world: impossible rents, gentrification and chaotic traffic
In the 1st century AD, Rome was the first city with a million inhabitants. Until the 19th century, with Beijing ...
The first trip around the world or how olive oil marked globalization
The five ships of the expedition of the first circumnavigation of the world (San Antonio, Trinidad, Concepción, Victoria and Santiago), ...
Two excavators destroy 235 linear meters of the site of the Vaccea city of Pintia in Valladolid
Pintia (Padilla del Duero, Valladolid) is the site of the sites of the disappeared pre-Roman town of the Vacceos. But ...
Located in Cáceres, a Roman military enclave built on an indigenous settlement
At the end of the Second Iron Age (around 100 BC), and coinciding with the beginning of the Roman presence ...
Which Roman emperor built the Segovia aqueduct? A lifetime to solve an ancient enigma
Colonel Góngora, from the Artillery Academy, proudly displayed his spyglass. Thanks to him, at last, one could read the marks ...
