Florentzia, 1886. Carlo Collodi Le avventure de Pinocchio eleberri ezagunaren egileak zera idatzi zuen pizzari buruz: “Labean txigortutako ogi orea, gainean eskura dagoen edozer gauzaz egindako saltsa duena”. Pizza hark “zikinkeria konplexu tankera” zuela... [+]

Today’s Venice is built on an archipelago of 118 islands. These islands are connected by 455 bridges. The city is based on mud rather than Lura. Millions of trees in the area were cut down from the 9th century onwards to build piles and cement the city. Years have passed and... [+]

Although it was thought that in most of the cities of the Roman Empire there were jails, little remains have been found of the prisons of the time in the fields.

Recently, however, the archaeologist at the University of Copenhagen, Matthew Larsen, has identified the Roman... [+]

Since they discovered the corpse of Ötzi in the Alps in 1991, the 5,000 years preserved in very good condition have been used for numerous investigations. From the beginning, the 61 tattoos he had on his skin were the ones that cared for him. Experts believed these tattoos were... [+]

Venice, 24 April 1459. The monk and cartographer Fra Mauro finished the map of his world in his cartography workshop in the monastery of San Michele in Murano. This work was done on behalf of the Portuguese king Alfonso V.aren and, once the map was completed, it was sent to... [+]

A group of researchers from the Italian University of Padua analyzes a small stone boat discovered in Iran in 2001. In particular, the fingerprints inside the bottle have been analysed and have been shown to contain fine hematite – red mineral oxide, manganite, braunita and... [+]