Two rare cases of post-Pharaonic eunuchism may have been detected in northern Egypt. Bas-relief from the sarcophagus of Princess Kaouit (11th dynasty), where a eunuch pours a drink for his mistress while a servant arranges her hair. Plothin, the minister of Ptolemy XIII, the pharaoh of Egypt who
Archimedes was probably the greatest mathematician of antiquity. He was born in the Sicilian city of Syracuse in 287 BC, then an independent Greek colony. It is surprising how little we know about him and his life, as well as the oblivion in which he fell a few years after his death. His friend He
A curia was one of the subdivisions of the people in ancient Rome, and by extension the place where the Senate met to discuss their affairs was also called that. The best example is, of course, the Curia Hostilia in Rome, built in the Forum according to tradition by the third king of Rome, Tulio Hos
In the Turkish province of Eskisehir there is a city today called Yazilikaya (literally engraved rock ), but also known as the City of Midas . It is known to have been built by the Phrygians sometime between the 8th and 7th centuries BC, although archaeologists suspect it may be much older. The most