Himera, todays Termini Imerese on the north coast of Sicily, was a Greek city founded in 648 BC. by settlers from Zancle (Messina). Its location, the westernmost of all the Greek cities on the island, made it a strategic enclave on the edge of the territory controlled by Carthage, which occupied the
A controversy has recently erupted between historians and the restriction of access to certain archival documents. Between Kafka and the Office of Captions , trip to the classified Secret or Confidential funds of the National Archives. Interview with Emmanuel Rousseau, its director. Example of a d
We werent there, cant come up with an answer absolute about what ancient Rome was really like . We dont really know how vivid the red color was in some peoples clothing, or how dirty their streets were, or what the sources really tell us; in fact, in a perfectly literal sense we dont know what we ar
This species is known to be one of the greater skill in the use of tools possesses; especially to feed, for example, by splitting coconuts and other fruits. But they are not the only ones, chimpanzees, for their part, use toothpicks to collect termites. Capuchin monkeys in Brazil individually select