Monaldi & Sorti : Mysterium Berlin · 2022 Uwe Topper topper Review of a novel by Monaldi & Sorti: Mysterium In Addendum II to “Hardouin – Settling Accounts”, following Rainer Scmidt’s hint, I have already referred to the book “Mysterium” by Monaldi & Sorti, which is praised as bestseller and translated into many languages. After

The Beginning of the Metal Age Uwe Topper Berlin, 1999 Summary The invention of metal casting turned the development of mankind in a completely new direction. Up to now, historiography has more or less neglected this highly interesting moment. Although the results of archaeological excavations have brought to light many details, their compilation is still

Measuring the Size of the Earth in Antiquity Uwe Topper Berlin · June 2001 Abstract Eratosthenes supposedly determined the size of the earth, and his calculations were not surpassed until 1800 years later. Even worse: According to historiographers Ptolemy’s erroneous tablets and maps were imposed on the medieval world and only laid aside in the

Good-bye to Chris Marx Berlin · June 2016 Uwe Topper and colleagues topper Christoph Marx on February 26th, 2007 in Berlin (Foto U.Topper) Christoph Marx died on May 18th, 2016, peacefully in his home in Basel at the age of 84 years, as Jochen Seelig notified via e-mail all near and distant friends. How can

The prophecy of Saint Malachy of Ireland Berlin · 2013 Uwe Topper topper Part of this article was written in German in 1988, republished in Synesis nr. 106, 2011. It has been augmented in 2013 (here on the site) and translated into English in Febr. 2015 1. The occasion Popes do not die so often.

born 25. oct. 1928 in Warna [Bulgaria] – died 10. sept. 2014 in Erlangen (near Nuremberg, Germany) One of the last great German Orientalists is gone: Dr. Günter Lüling Writing an obituary is painful. Yet an evaluation of this man is a necessity now. I jump straight to his most important book, “A Challenge to