Last month I went for a very fast trip to France and more particularly to Arras. Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department, which is in the northern part of France at the confluence of the Scarpe river and the Crinchon River. Established during the Iron Age by the Gauls, the town of Arras was...
Garlic and onion have a common history, similar usage and common properties. Botanically speaking they are a short of brothers as they both belong to the allium category. Although garlic comes from central Asia, it was very well known in ancient Greece and Egypt as well. Herodotus mentions in his writings, that the slaves who...
During the course of history different cities have had the name of “Città Eterna”, for example Jerusalem or Kyoto, but Rome is the first and the only one to have preserved it for over two millennia. The naming of Rome as this is attributed to Albio Tibullo (A.D. 55-19-18 B.C.), a Latin poet that today...
While many kinds of merchandise traveled along the Silk Road, the name comes from the popularity of Chinese silk in the west and especially in Rome. The Silk Road routes stretched from China through India, Asia Minor, up throughout Mesopotamia, to Egypt, the African continent, Greece, Rome, and Britain. This Road was an ancient network...
What connects lemons with mob? Is it possible that all this illegal system started from lemon production? From a study in the “Journal of Economic History” we learn that all this craziness started back at the end of 19th century because of lemons. During the Napoleonian wars, scurvy was the main reason of sailors’ death...
