Articles related to : Origin

Everything has an origin – the moment of time, the place, the reason, the creator. It is sometimes surprising to discover that many things and ideas we take for granted have their origin in the ancient and even prehistoric times. The knowledge of the origin and the history of the ideas and things help us better understand our time and our own world view.

Renaissance

Renaissance Italy stimuli

Renaissance Italy fascinates us, especially since we perceive it as coming from nowhere. Suddenly–from the darkness of Middle Ages–emerges bright and colorful art and productive thoughts. That is how the Italian Renaissance is perceived in popular culture, or used to be perceived, to be precise because that view changes. Historians knew it for quite a […]

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Ancient Greeks sing

For the last several thousand years, a human being did not change much. And our main existential problems remain unsolved. But humans will continue striving to solve them.

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Indo-Europeans came from Ukraine

We used to the theory that Indo-Europeans came from India to Europe. Many researchers spent a lot of time and efforts tracing their tracks. But recently, some new evidence and interpretation of the known facts laid the foundation for placing their origin in the steppes between Dniepr (Ukraine) and Ural river (Russia).

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Machiavelli as a role model

His name is usually associated with something negative. However, he was in fact not a machiavellian (in the typical modern meaning) at all. Let us look into the historical context and see what drove him to write his famous book The Prince.

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They shaped our world

Everything has an origin – the moment of time, the place, the reason, the creator. It is sometimes surprising to discover that many things and ideas we take for granted have their origin in the ancient and even prehistoric times.

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Stonehenge’s last mysteries

The last shroud of mystery around Stonehenge was taken down for me after I had read about recent discoveries about the origin of the bluestones and the idea of building Stonehenge, its purpose, and relatively young age if compared to Göbekli Tepe.

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