Origins
References in Pytheas, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Procopius, Jordanes. Archaeological remains indicate Roman connections in the 3rd century after Christ, but...
The Rise of Christianity
Christianity emerged in the cities of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. The earliest Christians, because they refused to honor...
The City of Nicaea
The crusade’s first objective was the city of Nicaea. The capital of the Turkish sultanate, Nicaea was an important strategic location...
Overview of this Period
This period witnessed great agricultural expansion, which made possible considerable population growth, which in turn contributed to the rise and growth...
The Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire, was a polyglot, multiethnic, polysectarian state, at the head of which was the emperor (basileus, autokrator), whose...
Sound-producing sand avalanches
Sound-producing sand grains constitute one of nature’s more puzzling and least understood physical phenomena. They occur naturally in two distinct types: booming...
XV. Romolo e Remo is a 1961 film based on the legend of Romulus and Remus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoydKmph6JY
XIV. The Avenger is a 1962 film Aeneas leads escaped survivors of the Trojan war...
Typography was invented twice: once in China and Korea and in medieval Europe. In China, printing was invented, according to some data (Julien, "Documents...
