We already talked about Hennig Brand at the time. , a German merchant who was enabled by his wifes dowry to devote his time to the noble art of alchemy to get gold by distilling urine… in the end he discovered phosphorus. Today we return to the fray with another enlightened who intended to turn whea
Just as we recently discovered a coin from Rome in the shape of a ham, we now have the spintriae , coins or tokens in which different sexual positions were represented on the front and a number on the back... What were these types of coins used for? The most conservative and least original vers
On a recent visit to Nuremberg, I was able to see the remains of some architectural elements that respond to Hitlers own megalomania and were of great importance during the Nazi era. It must be remembered that Nuremberg was the city chosen by Hitler to celebrate the great annual concentrations of th
The Romans left a political and cultural legacy that influenced the world for centuries and that still remains in time today. The history of Rome lasted for more than a thousand years and, for better or worse, is rooted in our political, cultural and literary traditions, and even in our way of think