Monthly Archives: November 2021

Politicians have not been liked for a long time, dating back to ancient times. As Beth Gannon, an Archaeology Correspondent at the Smithsonian, writes in her article, Ancient Greeks Voted to Kick Politicians Out of Athens if Enough People Didn’t Like Them , “In the 1960s, archaeologists made a remarkable discovery in the history of […]

Voting has been around for a long time. One of the earliest historical evidence of voting is documented on a coin from Pompeii. As Dr. Virginia Phillips has documented, “This coin, a denarius of Publius Nerva dated to 113-112 BC,  is probably the best depiction of voting that survives antiquity. It illustrates the process used both […]