The Colosseum was built on an ancient marshy area, where there once was a small artificial lake belonging to Nero. Roman engineers cleverly took advantage...
The history of tea dates back about 5000 years in China, where according to legend, Emperor Shennong discovered this drink by chance when some leaves...
Frida Kahlo was never afraid to confront the representations of the female body head-on. She openly paints her own physical sufferings after her terrible accident: multiple fractures,...
For thousands of years, almost all royal tombs were looted by gold-hungry thieves immediately after their closure. The tomb of Tutankhamun, by miracle, escaped this...
For the Maya, the universe was a vast web connecting humans, gods, and celestial bodies. They believed that the sky reflected the earthly world and...
Before Gutenberg, books were slowly copied by hand, often by monks locked away in their abbeys. It was a lengthy, costly process and thus reserved...
During Shakespeare's time, Elizabethan England highly valued male friendship and idealized the beauty of youthful masculinity, seen as pure, noble, and virtuous. This cultural context...
In several ancient civilizations such as the Egyptians or the Mayans, death represented more of a transition rather than a definitive end. According to their...
The sacred animals of ancient Egypt primarily represented embodied deities on earth. The Egyptians believed that a god could temporarily inhabit a specific animal to...
About 4000 years ago, the thriving civilization of the Indus Valley suddenly vanished, leaving behind abandoned cities with no clear signs of invasion or obvious...
