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La hija de Catón el Joven fue una mujer de firmes convicciones políticas, que repudió la dictadura de Julio César y apoyó a su marido, Bruto, cuando decidió acabar con aquél. 

En 1799, el descubrimiento de una estela con un texto en griego, en jeroglíficos y en demótico dio inicio a la carrera para el desciframiento de la antigua escritura egipcia, que culminaría el francés Champollion en 1822. 

Antes del siglo XIX, los aguadores llevaban el agua en cántaros desde las fuentes públicas hasta las casas. 

‏هي عاصمة الشرق الجزائري. بناها الفينيقون، واتخذها النوميديون عاصمةً لمملكتهم. انتقلت بعدها من حكم الرومان إلى البيزنطيين، إلى العرب المسلمين، ثم إلى العثمانيين، وكان لها دورها العظيم في مقاومة الاحتلال الفرنسي وتحقيق استقلال الجزائر. قسنطينة، مدينة الصخر العتيق والجسور المعلقة. 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the North African privateers who, until their demise in the nineteenth century, were a source of great pride and wealth in their home ports, where they sold the people and goods they’d seized from Christian European ships and coastal towns. Nominal ... Show More

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the North African privateers who, until their demise in the nineteenth century, were a source of great pride and wealth in their home ports, where they sold the people and goods they’d seized from Christian European ships and coastal towns. Nominal ... Show More

Saladin was one of the greatest Sultans of the middle ages, and the first sultan of Egypt and Syria. He famously defeated the Crusader army at the Battle of Hattin, and recaptured Jerusalem. The Christian armies of the west never recaptured the Holy City. Saladin's legacy still h ... Show More

After the Fall of Constantinople, the Ottomans became the most powerful dynasty in existence. But the great empire began to decline, and in the early 20th century, a leader named Talaat and a group of radical nationalists worked to remove the ineffectual sultan and restore the Ot ... Show More

<p>May 1453 saw Constantinople under siege - the culmination of an age long struggle between Christianity and Islam for control of the Eastern Mediterranean.&nbsp;The Ottoman leader Mehmed II had dreamed of possessing the city since he was a boy, and now the shining light of Chri ... Show More

<p>1099 - 1302 - After the conclusion of the First Crusade, four Christian nation states were established in the Levant. &nbsp;These Crusader States would have to battle for their survival over the next two hundred years, and this episode focuses on that protracted battle.</p> 

‏<p>طوال 6 قرون، كان لوجود العثمانيين في قلب العالم القديم تأثيرات حضارية &nbsp;كبيرة في كافة مناحي الحياة، سواء الدينية و السياسية، أو الأدبية و الفنية</p>