The salty pleasures of the doorstopper history of an ocean
A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...
Greek Reporter12h
First Map of Known World Created by Ancient Greek Anaximander
The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.
Interesting Engineering12h
Hiker discovers 280-million-year-old fossils predating dinosaurs in Alps
The discovery in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in Lombardy dates back 280 million years to the Permian period, the age immediately prior to dinosaurs, ...
La Brújula Verde10h
The World’s Richest Man in the First Half of the 19th Century Was a Chinese Merchant Who Lent Money to American Millionaires
If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...