Drusus, Tiberius and Varus' disaster (part 1).

 

Octavius. Vatican Museum, Rome.
Photo: Till Niermann.

Through history, it can be seen, that some trivial happenings, have had a great impact for many people. An alliance or a family conflict. Perhaps a divorce or an early widowhood; a belated message, a sudden or accidental fatality... Betrayals, premonitions, missed coups. Even a simple product of chance, as a broken vase! have become the trigger factor for events of major significance, with undeniable consequences.

Rome, the eternal (part 4).

 

Ruins of Pompei. Photo: Daniel Delgado, 2010.

Among the basic objectives, in the study of the events of the past, is the correct interpretation of the available data. It permits an increase in the probability to get closer to the historical truth. Of course, most of the time is not an easy task. It may happen the same as the Ancient Egypt: plenty of clues, but difficult to understand. Or as the Sumerian, with their history buried under tons of sediments. Perhaps, by chance, as it happened with Pompei. What to say about Troy and its discovery, by someone who believed in Homer´s legends? But it is also possible to face hard to solve riddles...

Roman Britain and the Rebellion of Boudica (part 1).

Queen Boudica, by John Ospie

On the present is not easy to imagine the British Isles with a mainly Latino cultural heritage. But it could have happened like this. There was a time when most of those lands known as Britain, were part of the Roman Empire... When Rome began to extend to the north, by the hand of Julius Caesar, they conquered and anexed Gaul (France), in 58 BC. The celts from the northern islands had good trade relations with the gallics, so they tried to help them. But it caused frictions with the romans, starting the military pressure over Britain.