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En 1829, el escritor norteamericano hizo un viaje por Andalucía que lo llevó hasta Granada. Maravillado por la Alhambra, escribiría luego una obra que la haría famosa en todo el mundo. 

Hacia 1630, los españoles descubrieron en Perú las virtudes de la corteza del árbol de la quina para curar una enfermedad infecciosa que hacía estragos en la época: la malaria. 

Advertido de que dos de sus nueras eran culpables de adulterio, el rey Felipe IV de Francia decidió encerrarlas de por vida y ejecutar de un modo horrible a sus dos amantes. 

In the late 4th century and early 5th centuries two massive largely-Germanic confederations arrived on Roman borders, having been uprooted from their homelands by the Huns. These were the Goths and the Vandals. Both peoples would become prime enemies of the Roman Empires in the E ... Show More

<p>Known as the Eternal City, ancient Rome was one of the greatest civilisations in human history, but how did it come about?</p><br><p>With a turbulent history of Kings, civil wars and imperial desires - Rome has an incredible history. But who founded it? Were Romulus and Remus ... Show More

Roma people from all over Europe met in England for a conference in 1971. The Roma, who migrated from India over a thousand years ago, often used to be called gypsies. Many Roma led a travelling life, moving from place to place doing seasonal work. They suffered persecution and p ... Show More

‏تحدى الطبيعة والزمن ليروي تاريخاً من الحضارة والدم أعمدته تشع عظمة الإمبراطورية الرومانية مدرج الكولوسيوم في روما مع رضاب نهار 

While Caesar was fighting the Gallic Wars, events in Rome and beyond exacerbated the political tensions that would eventually lead to Civil War. 

<p>In 281/280 BC, the Hellenistic King Pyrrhus ventured to southern Italy to aid the Italiote-Greek city of Tarentum against a rising power based in central Italy. This enemy was the Romans. Over the next 150 years this civilisation would rise to become the Mediterranean superpow ... Show More

We continue with the story of Rome's rise to power in the third and second centuries BC, and ask two vital questions: first, did the Romans simply get lucky? Second, how did the Roman legions become the most feared fighting machine of the ancient world?For a free ebook, maps and ... Show More