How Do We Even Know When the Battle at Marathon Took Place?
In March 2021, Künker auctioned off an extensive collection of coins of Roman Alexandria. Among them are 14 specimens of the zodiac series of Antoninus Pius. These pieces tell us something about how we know when events took place in ancient history.
Imagine there were no clocks and no calendar: how would we measure time? Basically, our ancestors developed two methods for this:
