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This Italian mountain town near to the Austrian border features the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. The Ötzi museum, as it is also known, charts the history of South Tyrol (Alto-Adige) from the first glacial period (150 000 BC) to the Carolingian period. The famous Ötzi is the star attraction. The “iceman” was found in [...]

The quality of healthy aging
From the day we are all born, we age everyday. As a young person, we don’t think about the later years in our life. We live in a very fast pace world today and it causes a lot of stress in our lives and as time goes on, the stress will [...]

Paper was not invented by the Italians, but by the Orientals, but its manufacture was greatly developed and improved by them and furnished an extremely important adjuvent for the art of printing. Fabriano of Anoona made excellent paper early in the fourteenth century and the extant manuscripts on Italian paper from that period excite admiration [...]

We owe to Italy the first books in Greek and Hebrew types. The first complete fonts of Greek types were used in Rome in 1465 and in Venice in 1472, as quotations in Latin text. The first book in Greek was printed in Milan in 1476. Before Aldus first book in Greek (1495), thirty-four Greek [...]

Although the Italians are not usually associated with naval development some of the most important evolutions in naval vessels have been suggested from Italy. In the second part of 19th century they made the first very large iron clads of the Dandolo type. Cuniberti conceived and designed the battle cruiser type with unit calibre guns [...]