Some 4,300 years ago a governor of Akkad put in writing the order any worker would recognise on the spot: bring in the harvest, and don't come to me with 'there was an invasion.' The tablet, leaked, proves the boss who won't take excuses is older than the wheel.
Territory of Akkad. The tablet still smells of fresh clay when it reaches my hands. It is signed by one Ishkun-Dagan, a governor in the service of King Shar-kali-sharri, and addressed to some poor devil named Lugalra. There is no prayer in it, no
Sigue en A4Fe de erratas Los errores se corrigen aquí, pronto y por completo — el registro sobrevive al error.
Waning moon · sun sets at 19:48 · high water at 14:20.
1454 — in Mainz the first sheets are pulled with movable type; the news takes years to reach these workshops.
1522 — the Victoria drops anchor at Seville with eighteen men: the first to sail around the world.
Saint Januarius, whose blood, they say, still liquefies.
Un periódico es una nación hablando consigo misma — procuramos que la conversación merezca la pena, y lo bastante pausada para poder escucharla.El Consejo Editorial
Florence, summer of 1348. The plague come from the East has killed, so it is believed, more than a hundred thousand souls between March and July. The dead are buried in pits, in layers, like cargo in a ship's hold. In a half-empty church, ten young people decide that, if the world is ending, it…
Por Fray Guillermo
Rome, July of A.D. 64. The fire caught by night in the shops of the Circus Maximus and in six days devoured the heart of the City. Of fourteen regions, only four are left standing. And a rumour runs through the camps of the homeless: that it burned because someone wanted ground to build on.
Por Livia Tácita
Rome, around AD 146. Gaius Appuleius Diocles hangs up the reins at 42 after 24 seasons, 4,257 starts and 1,462 victories in the Circus Maximus. His fortune— 35,863,120 sesterces—has never been matched by any sportsman. But the strangest figure on his tombstone is another one: that he is alive to…
Por Marco Claudio
Frombork, Prussia, dusk on 24 May 1543. A courier gallops in from Nuremberg bearing the first printed copy of De Revolutionibus. They lay it on the chest of canon Copernicus—hemiplegic, barely conscious. He strokes the title page and dies that same evening.
Por Fray Guillermo
Florence, summer of 1348. The plague come from the East has killed, so it is believed, more than a hundred thousand souls between March and July. The dead are buried in pits, in layers, like cargo in a ship's hold. In a half-empty church, ten young people decide that, if the world is ending, it…
Por Fray Guillermo
Por Livia Tácita
Por Hernando de las Rutas
Hangzhou, 1045. A blacksmith rises to inventor by unveiling the world's first movable-type printing system. We interview him in his workshop — among bowls of fired clay, pine wax, and the frustration of four decades reprinting blocks over a single typo.
Por Sima Shen
Por Hernando de las Rutas
Por Hernando de las Rutas
Panic and relief in Athens! Solon intervenes in the market, cancels the citizens' debts, and devalues the drachma by 27%. Discover the details of the financial bailout and the insider-trading scandal rocking the elite.
Por Pericles
Por Sima Shen
Por James "Vapor" Watt
Some 4,300 years ago a governor of Akkad put in writing the order any worker would recognise on the spot: bring in the harvest, and don't come to me with 'there was an invasion.' The tablet, leaked, proves the boss who won't take excuses is older than the wheel.
Por Bal-Uruk
Por Fray Guillermo
Por Pericles
Whitechapel, December 1850. We descend into a cellar to share a day of sewing with a woman who makes shirts for pennies. The lamp lasts until three in the morning. The sweater calls on Friday to collect his share. A chronicle of the invisible labour that clothes England.
Por Eleanor Carlisle
Por Hernando de las Rutas
Por Cueva Press
Rome, 24 January AD 41. Midday. Leaving the Palatine Games, Emperor Caligula is intercepted by two praetorian tribunes in a vaulted passage. Thirty stab wounds. His wife and his one-year-old daughter, murdered that same afternoon. The Senate debates restoring the republic.
Por Livia Tácita
Por Vía Apia Agency
Por Livia Tácita
Athens, spring 399 BC. The sacred ship returns from Delos and the sentence can finally be carried out. Socrates has spent thirty days in chains and has refused the escape Crito bought from the jailer. Before dusk he drinks the cup and leaves one instruction: a rooster for Asclepius.
Rome, 24 January AD 41. Midday. Leaving the Palatine Games, Emperor Caligula is intercepted by two praetorian tribunes in a vaulted passage. Thirty stab wounds. His wife and his one-year-old daughter, murdered that same afternoon. The Senate debates restoring the republic.
Por Livia Tácita
Whitechapel, December 1850. We descend into a cellar to share a day of sewing with a woman who makes shirts for pennies. The lamp lasts until three in the morning. The sweater calls on Friday to collect his share. A chronicle of the invisible labour that clothes England.
Por Eleanor Carlisle