2,500 years ago, a period of unforeseen incubation of ideas occurred across the globe, which has rarely happened in the history of human civilization. Maybe you are unaware that Buddha, Socrates and Confucius lived at the same age, and that in the period of around 100 years, at the turn of the 6th to the 5th century …
It is the icy 16th century. Europe is winter and fear bound. The Ottomans led by Suleiman the Magnificent conquered the Belgrade fortress in a decisive battle and moved into Europe. Turks have expelled Hungarians from Banat and Slavonia, reaching Vienna – and they are to spend a century ruling over the southeast of the continent. …
On a drawing under the number 281, published more than a century ago, in the tenth volume of Cambridge’s Natural History, dedicated to mammals, not an ordinary human head was shown, but a sketch of the famous skull of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), one of the most significant thinkers of all times. You might be surprised, …
n the margins of the dramatic situation in Ukraine, the possibility of nuclear war has been opened up again, and with recurrent statements from the leaders of the Russian Federation and the USA, as well as with the announced ‘suspension’ of the so-called START treaty, the media have analyzed the danger of a potential nuclear …
A part of a wonderfully vivid fresco from the Akrotiri site on the Aegean island of Thera (nowadays called Santorini) in the photo shows two boy boxers who obviously belong to a developed culture and judging by jewellery, distinct social circles. Believe it or not, this amazing fresco was created over 3,500 years ago, centuries …
It was the year 1512. Across Europe, an all-out war had been raging for four years between a Roman pope and the Republic of Venice – in this war, papal states, Venice, Spain, France, England and several other kingdoms and dukedoms in succession joined ‘holy’ confederations and coalitions. Although this unrest resembled so many previous …