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Category: History & Myths

In History & MythsPosted January 15, 2023

The enemy brothers and the making of the world

The cosmogonic concept of the enemy brothers is present is most of the significant Indo-European...

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In History & MythsPosted August 7, 2022

Ancient curses and “voodoo dolls”

Witchcraft was always used to fulfil personal desires, whether good or bad. Models of human...

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In History & MythsPosted March 25, 2022

Evzones – the surprising live “statues” of Athens

If you ever visited Athens, you certainly noticed the “statue” soldiers (evzones) guarding the Tomb...

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In History & MythsPosted January 27, 2022

Stolperstein – The plates of memory

The presence of Jews in Thessaloniki is recorded ever since the Hellenistic period, when several...

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In History & MythsPosted April 7, 2021

The Bogomils | The graves of a long-forgotten cult (Greece)

On the 16th of March 1244, in France, at the Château de Montségur, after a...

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In History & MythsPosted March 31, 2021

The country where the independence of three Balkan states started from

The Balkan region is full of beauty and mystery, but with a troubled and contrasted...

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