In the Middle Ages, setting out on pilgrimage was far more than simply undertaking a journey. It meant breaking, however temporarily, with one’s former life—a radical choice filled with faith, hope and mysticism, and often undertaken as an act of penance.
In the 13th century BC, during the 66 years of his reign, Pharaoh Ramses II found himself facing a powerful political counterweight in Asia Minor: the Hittites.
There are things that official archaeology is unable to explain; indeed, at times it ignores them by looking the other way. In this chaos, there are people who continue to carry out their work as independent researchers, desperately but with great determination.
Saint Cyprian, bishop of Antioch, should not be confused with Saint Cyprian of Carthage, another early Christian bishop who was martyred about 50 years earlier.
The church of San Pietro ad Oratorium (8th – 12th century) is part of an ancient Benedictine monastery built in 722 by order of the Lombard king Desiderius
