According to the collective imaginary, the role of the woman in the Celtic society was not always highlighted; on the contrary, when we think about the Celts, what takes shape in our…
Mese: Settembre 2020
Dhanushkodi was an Indian city placed right in front of Sri Lanka, the last human outpost before the strait between the two nations. The meaning of its name is “End of the…
In 2018 in Padua, Italy, it has been inaugurated the new installation at the Museum Giovanni Battista Morgagni for their section about Pathological Anatomy. The museum, dedicated to the doctor considered as…
For the ancient Egyptians death was not the end of the journey but a break along the way for an intricate, demanding, sometimes dangerous trip to the afterlife. One of the important…
The Highgate Cemetery was opened up in 1839 when the English capital, completely lacking of room for burial, decided to make use of the “Magnificent Seven”, seven big cemeteries placed in the…
Love postcards are a trend that, since the dawn of time, get exchanged between lovers, or aspiring so. The Valentines, for example, were envelopes decorated with flower motifs already since 1500 but…
It seems that a subtle line has linked devastating epidemics and folk uprisings throughout the centuries. In Syracuse, Italy, in 1837, cholera lighted up the fuse of a revolt for the alleged…
The SS Ayrfield is one of the many disused ships in the bay of Homebush, on the Western side of Sydney, Australia. What distinguishes it from the other abandoned watercrafts though is…
The birth of Poppea (in Latin Poppaea Sabina), has been set between 30 and 32 AD, daughter of Titus Ollius (praetor during the ruling of Tiberius) and Poppaea Sabina the Elder. Of…
In the current Chinese province of Lianoning 125 millions of years ago 2 Ornithopods dinosaurs had found shelter in their own cave trying to rest, or perhaps escaping some big predator nearby.…