Quis ego et qualis ego? Who am I and what kind of man am I? St. Augustine (400 AC) asks an ancient question, that echoes the inscription “Know thyself” over the Apollo temple in Delphi, and repeats the advice given by Solon, who wrote the first laws for Athenian democracy one thousand years earlier . Similar statements are found in the Mahabharata, the Tao Te Ching, and the Dhammapada, showing ...

Certain major ancient engineering constructions, such as aqueducts and qanats, testify to high accuracies in the computation of elevation differences obtained using primitive levelling instruments. Based on the typology of ancient levelling instruments and the analysis of certain key ancient structures such as the (Eupalinos) tunnel at Samos Island (Greece), it became possible to specify the ac...

The article presents documents from Polish archives, first of all, the letters Kosh ataman Ivan Sirko. They talk about describes strengthening Polish-Ukrainian military ties in face enemy onslaught, actions Zaporizhzhia against Ottoman Empire. appendices include, particular, a letter Hetman Yurii Khmelnytskyi, which testifies to his good knowledge culture ancient Greece.