In a world without gods
When Marguerite Yourcenar gives Hadrian the floor to tell Marcus Aurelius, whom she had adopted as her grandson, what happened ...
Tag: Old history
The first work of art was painted more than 50,000 years ago in Indonesia
A drawing of humanoid figures hunting a wild pig is the oldest work of art reported to date: it was ...
An extinct branch of the Nile located that explains the enigmatic location of the Egyptian pyramids
Most of the ancient Egyptian pyramids are clustered in a narrow strip of desert that stretches along the foothills of ...
‘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 ...
One of the oldest codices in Christianity goes up for auction
The codex Crosby-Schøyen, a papyrus book produced at the dawn of Christianity in one of Egypt's first monasteries, is about ...
“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, ...
‘Rise of the Rōnin’: the video game where you learn about feudal Japan by beating enemies
Disney+ recently premiered Shogun, one of the most anticipated series of the year, a new adaptation of James Clavell's 1975 ...
The reservoir that swallowed a Copper Age dolmen
Neither water for irrigation nor heritage conservation. The so-called Cadimo pond, in the vicinity of the capital of Jaén, began ...
The first European farmers practiced a ritual murder that is used today by the mafia
They must have been alive when the two women were placed in the silo, imprisoned between grinding stones. Lying face ...
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 ...