History

On the second day of fighting, the Greek Ephialtes revealed to Xerxes that there was a mountain path that could be used to bypass the Greek positions and get to their rear.

Xerxes took power at the end of 486 BC.

We owe the Sumer the invention of the wheel.

Kurchatov received more than 30.000 pages of secret documents from the Americans.

The participants of the expedition had photographic equipment and kept diaries.

Construction of the Mayak combine lasted from 1945 to 1948.

According to Herodotus, of the 300 Spartans who fought at Thermopylae, two did not take part in the battle due to violent eye pain.

To date, the source of the outbreak has not been identified.

Today, in the Thermopylae ravine, the barrow where the Spartans were buried has a stone tablet engraved with an inscription by the Greek poet Symonides: “Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.”

At its peak, Mali was the largest empire in West Africa.