Etruscans with olive trees. For the Etruscans, olive oil was also a medicine The appreciation of the Etruscans for the olive oil was not limited to the table and religious use (https://www.pilloledistoria.it/5877/storia-antica/luso-dellolio-doliva-presso-gli-etruschi), but went so far as to ma
Egyptian beauty. Oils and ointments were used for face, body and hair The ancient Egyptians they are also famous for the assiduous care they devoted to the body , both in terms of hygiene , a necessity largely dictated by the hot-humid climate in which they lived, both from a strictly aesth
Liz Taylor in Cleopatra. The Egyptians prepared wrinkle creams with natural ingredients You want to know the recipe for an anti-wrinkle cream very popular among the Egyptians? After all, the women who lived along the Nile millennia ago have also gone down in history for the beauty and skill wi
Amphorae around the Phoenician wreck found in Maltese waters It was located 120 meters deep in the waters of the Maltese Archipelago, near the coast of Gozo, the wreck of a Phoenician ship dating back to 700 BC, which testifies perhaps the oldest shipwreck in the Mediterranean. The boat, a
Hannibals Descent with Elephants; the leader, once, managed to win a battle also thanks to the use of snakes Hannibals well-deserved fame as a great leader, in addition to the indisputable skills of a strategist, it is also due to the bizarre and unscrupulous use that the Carthaginian made of a
The kajal of and of the Egyptians was made with natural ingredients The artistic testimonies that have come down to us from Ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures speak for themselves: eye makeup was the focal point of the elaborate make-up at the time in use. The outline in particular was
Ancient Scandinavian warriors. Their tombs testify how much they cared about hygiene and appearance It sounds incredible, but so are the warriors of many centuries ago they cared about their physical appearance and appearing in great shape, evidently, on the battlefield. This was certainly the
Merits beauty-case preserved at the Egyptian Museum of Turin When I was working for the news.it portal, I had to write an article about a particularly fascinating find, a trousse of beauty it belonged to an Egyptian woman named Merit now preserved in Turin. The beauty-case tells us a
Ancient Egypt Yes, even the ancient peoples, Egyptians including, they had the problem of avoiding sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies, and having neither too much knowledge about it, nor many means at their disposal, they managed as they could, putting all their inventiveness
Nile crocodile. From its dung combined with honey, a contraceptive for women was obtained If men got away with making a rudimentary condom (https://www.pilloledistoria.it/4321/storia-antica/preservativo-degli-antichi-egizi), the women of Ancient Egypt relied on contraceptive methods to say the lea
Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, first in Hannibals personal ranking of the greatest leaders in history Obviously, drawing up rankings is an ancient custom, since even the brilliant Carthaginian strategist Hannibal he couldnt resist compiling his own. Topic? And which one, if not that of the condot
Cleopatra in a 19th century painting by Alexandre Cabanel The Latin writer Pliny the Elder Cleopatra called “ queen meretrix , A strong expression and anything but friendly, there is no doubt. But was she really the last of the Ptolemies, that is, an unscrupulous woman inclined to the most
Liz Taylor in “Cleopatra” with an elaborate Egyptian make-up Impossible not to be fascinated by the elaborate make-up of the women (and men) of Ancient Egypt :the archaeological finds show the use of vivid, bright colors, so vivid and beautiful that they are the envy of the best cosmetic com
The death of Cleopatra according to Rosso Fiorentino On the fact that Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and last of the Ptolemies, she took her own life when she was only 39, we have absolute certainty:proud and proud, much more than what the Roman sources, adverse to her, wanted to make us believe, she
Aztec men who eat. The Aztecs routinely consumed chocolate If there is a reason why we inhabitants of the Old Continent must be grateful to Christopher Columbus and to his overseas shipments, this is undoubtedly the cocoa. This wonder of nature was imported from the discovered lands, allowin
Face of Tutankhamun Thanks to the new and sophisticated equipment that historical investigations can use today, the characters of the past, even those furthest away from us, have (almost) no more secrets. A fairly recent careful analysis, for example, revealed that the pharaoh Tutankhamun, die
The Celts. The staple of their cuisine was the “ragout” The cuisine of the Celts , or rather the inhabitants of present-day France whom the Romans called Gauls, it was characterized by strong flavors and by the relative variety of foods, which was not taken for granted in the gastronomy of anc
Food processing scenes in Egypt (detail of wall painting from the tomb of Ramesses III) How food preservation took place in Ancient Egypt? How did the Egyptians manage to keep food for a long time, without adequate refrigeration means and in decidedly difficult climatic conditions? How could
Daily life in Ancient Egypt Do you want to make the omelette of leeks, courgettes and pine nuts? Not just any omelette, however, but a dish that actually derives from a delicacy already appreciated in Ancient Egypt, albeit with some differences. Among its main ingredients are chicken eggs
A thick female hair in Ancient Egypt. The anti-hair loss remedies used were really extravagant Even in Ancient Egypt, thousands of years ago, people suffered from various forms of baldness and alopecia , which for those affected were a hard gripe to accept exactly as it happens today. As we
Polish-Ukrainian relations have not been sweet since the Second Republic was established. However, the internal conflict escalated before the outbreak of World War II. Historian Jan Kęsik claims that as a result of the actions of our army, desperate Ukrainians began to look for the Nazi troops as sa
Portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria Skilled politician, intelligent and upright woman in private and public life, Maria Theresa of Habsburg (1717-1780), Empress of Austria, wife of Francis Stephen of Lorraine and a loving mother of as many as 16 children , including Marie Antoinette of Fra
A typical ice cream cone The invention of the ice cream cone as we know it today, the edible wafer dates back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. Actually thanks to the poet Giuseppe Parini, which mentions “rigid cones , We know that as early as the 1700s it was customary to eat ice cream k
psychotropic drug The Depression it is a psychic pathology that has accompanied man since the dawn of time, but for centuries, also due to the lack of knowledge about it, it has been treated with methods that are, to say the least, questionable. Until the middle of the last century it was not