Ani It was an Armenian city of medieval origin that had between 100,000 and 200,000 inhabitants, a walled perimeter with up to 40 gates and so many religious buildings that it was known as the city of 1001 churches . Today it is a vast desert wasteland dotted with ruins and forgotten. The problem is
In the year 409 B.C. Carthaginian troops razed the Greek city of Selinunte , in Sicily, killing or imprisoning its more than 20 thousand residents. A few thousand remained in the city as tributaries of Carthage. Years later, in 250 BC, the entire population was moved to Lilibea, and they would never
It is not the plague that would have struck down Saint-Louis in front of Tunis during the VIIIth crusade in 1270. New analyzes carried out by a team of scientists point to other pathologies. The death of Saint-Louis in Tunis, on August 25, 1270, during the VIIIth crusade. Miniature taken from the
In a remote rural area of the municipality of Rus (Jaen), nestled in an olive farm that extends over the current Giribaile reservoir, there is an exclusive Visigothic monument called the Cuevas de Valdecanales. His story is as follows: At the beginning of the Middle Ages, the political situation