Ancient Bactrian is located in northern Afghanistan, on the border with the former Soviet Union. Today the region borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In 330 BC, when Alexander the Great overthrew the Persian Empire, he arrived in Bactria in pursuit of its satrap, Byssus, who had killed
Logically, Charles Darwin did not wake up one morning in 1859, after a night of dreamlike revelations, and start writing The Origin of Species . Science, like evolution, is always based on the past. Darwin, in addition to using the evidence he gathered on his expedition on the Beagle voyage in the 1
A strange friendship This old poem forms the basis of a strange friendship. If you ask people on the street in Hungary which country is their most important ally, you almost always get the same answer:Poland. For centuries they were neighbors and partners, they would never have gone to war. They co
Greece and Turkey (Ottoman Empire) clashed, unofficially, several times after the revolution of 1821. The great crisis finally broke out with the explosion of the new Cretan revolution, in 1896. In February 1897, the Greek government sent to Crete a mixed detachment under the command of colonel Timo