Secrets of history 2024, October

This bet between the Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her splendid lover, the Roman military leader Mark Anthony, is considered the most expensive in the history of the world since the creation of the world

There is a beautiful legend that the mistress of Egypt, Cleopatra, after spending the night with the man, in the morning ordered him to be killed so that he could not boast that he shared a bed with the queen. Even Pushkin could not resist this legend

An inaccessible beauty "for all times", a devoted lover, who fell victim to her spiteful critics and envious people and her beloved men - it is in this form that the "canonical" image of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra has stuck in the heads of many generations

Clovis people disappeared almost 13 thousand years ago Traces of platinum, a metal associated with the fall of a meteorite, are considered the main proof of the clovis theory of disappearance

By the beginning of the 16th century, Spain and Portugal were the most powerful colonial powers. But by this time, sea trade routes had moved from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, and in this regard, the Netherlands and England strengthened

Scientists have reconstructed the appearance of a woman who lived about 1.2 thousand years ago in Peru. Her grave was discovered in 2012 near the coastal town of Warmay

It is now generally accepted that the first people in America appeared during the last glaciation, which led to a significant decrease in sea level. From Siberia to Novy Svet, they crossed the bridge formed then, which is sometimes called Beringia - in honor of the Bering Strait that now overlies it

War is a collective madness that challenges the human mind. But even this madness has its limits, outlined by the limits of the "moral health" of each particular warring soldier and the warring nation as a whole.The Americans generally have a rather specific relationship with the bodies of their enemies

The novel about the adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (remember, we discussed who the English intelligence officer Daniel Defoe was) has long been a classic. It is known that the plot was based on a real story that happened with a Scottish sailor

A fascinating book about Robinson Crusoe by the famous writer Daniel Defoe has probably been read by each of us. But not many people know who is the prototype of the protagonist

Ottoman scholars have also created a submarine, Anadolu reports, citing a senior researcher at the British Center for the Study of Islamic Culture

The world famous novel about the extraordinary adventures of Robinson Crusoe has long been ranked among the classics

Lithuanian archaeologists have discovered the remains of the legendary Pilenai castle, which is called "the castle of suicides", near the border with the Kaliningrad region. The Danzig corridor of the Middle Ages In the west of Lithuania there is a historical region called Zhem

50 years ago, in 1968, the first official lecture in the Soviet Union on astrology took place

Have you noticed that there are topics in our society that are not customary to talk about? It seems that this is not prohibited by law, but some things are trying to bypass. For example - prostitution.Yes, we all know that it exists. Moreover, some know firsthand

Beggars in Russia have always been a separate class. Walking across Russia was not a shameful thing, but a special practice. Beggars gathered in artels, living by their own laws, and even changed society. Kaliki Of all the beggar communities, the Kaliki is perhaps the most famous

Sati - ritual burning of a widow at a funeral pyre after the death of her husband - this is perhaps the most famous custom outside India

Far from the capital cities, on the edge of our country, is Chukotka, which has long been inhabited by the indigenous inhabitants of the Far North - Chukchi and Eskimos. The huge peninsula remains a little-known land for most of the inhabitants of Russia

On February 28, in the evening, in Kuntsevo, at Stalin's Near Dacha, there was, as usual, a dinner for some of the leaders. We parted at about five in the morning. Stalin was in a good mood, he saw off the guests and went to bed

Sannikov land - it is a ghost island in the Arctic Ocean that some explorers allegedly saw north of the New Siberian Islands

A large limestone monolith called the Rock of Gibraltar, towering over a small British overseas area near the southwestern tip of Europe in the Iberian Peninsula, has long been a natural defense for Gibraltar

In Kenya, an international team of researchers in the Panga-i-Saidi cave have discovered the most inhabited place in the history of mankind. A cave with a "living area" of almost 300 sq. meters has been occupied by Homo sapiens for 78,000 years

Hunting in all ages has been one of the favorite pastimes of the male half of humanity. The hunting trips of the Russian sovereigns were distinguished by a special scope. Back in the 16th century, Ivan the Terrible chose Tver forests full of wild beasts and game birds for "Okhotsk affairs"

Strategic defeat in the East forced the masters of the West to seek a new "living space"

For the first time, little Maria met Peter during the epic with the Prut campaign and the flight of the family from Moldova to Russia. She was eleven then. Peter was captivated by Catherine

It is very difficult, if not impossible, for a foreigner to understand a Russian person. Despite possessing one of the most beautiful languages in the world, slang words are often used in everyday communication in Russia, denoting certain objects or actions

Two hundred years ago, in 1812, the Russian settlement of Fort Ross appeared in northern California, which became the southernmost Russian colony on the American continent

The feat of the Panfilovites (official version) Panfilovites - soldiers of the 316th Infantry Division (from November 18, 1941 - 8th Guards, from November 23 - named after its deceased commander, Major General I.V

It would seem that history has highlighted the accents long ago. We know well the range of cultivated plants known to one or another people of the Ancient World. Middle Easterners cultivated wheat and barley, laying the foundations for the Old World economy

The fate of the Flores hobbits continues to thrill the truth-seeking minds of scientists. Are these the descendants of the Javanese Pithecanthropus, stuck on the paradise island?

In March 2020, part of the previously classified archives of the Holy See, relating to the period of World War II, will become available. According to the Vatican, "the church is not afraid of history." If this is really so, it means that historians will have the opportunity to finally determine who Pope Pius XII was - "a man of great holiness" or a loyal ally of Nazi Germany

The Vikings entered the territory of Greenland for the sake of harvesting walrus tusks, which they held a monopoly on trade for four centuries

The small glacial lake Roopkund is located in the Nanda Devi National Park in the state of Uttarakhand in northern India. The lake is located at an altitude of about 5029 meters above sea level, in an inaccessible saddle between the two magnificent peaks of the Himalayas Trisul and Nandgungti, and its water is bound by a dense ice shell for most of the year

A piece of clay with an imprint of a seal where the inscription "Isaiah the prophet" is visible became the proof of the prophet's real life. Scientists have discovered the first material evidence of the real life of the biblical prophet Isaiah

Adolph Luetgert came to the United States from Germany in the 1870s and settled in Chicago. He immediately began to establish his own sausage business here, and these sausages were very popular with the locals.Adolf's first wife died in 1877, leaving him with four children, and a few months later he already married a German woman named Louise Biknez

It is a well-known fact that the English kings renounced their claims to the French throne.only at the very beginning of the 19th century. Which coincides with the end of the "Second Hundred Years War" in 1815.- Salik.bizShortly before the end of the First Hundred Years War, King Charles the Sixth went mad in France

In 2017, numerous archaeological discoveries were made, which researchers associate with stories in the Bible, including historical information about the tomb of Jesus Christ

Sungir is one of the most famous sites of ancient people in Russia, dating back to the Paleolithic. It is located on the eastern outskirts of Vladimir at the confluence of the stream of the same name into the Klyazma River. The site itself was discovered in 1955 during the construction of the plant, and in 1964 the burials of ancient people were discovered in this place

During excavations at the Gamurzievsky settlement in Ingushetia, structures were discovered that testify to the presence of a developed system of artificial irrigation and water supply among the ancestors of the Ingush in the first millennium BC, Interfax-Yug was told

In 2013, during city excavations in Vologda, scientists discovered an interesting stone object that seemed to them like part of a complex mechanism. The subject interested not only archaeologists, but also scientists, and he was sent to the laboratory for study