A Few Grams Of History

And now they are on my desk... from the height of their 1.6 kg, 800 grams and 400 grams, they have experienced stories, passions, enjoyments and dramas... Think: If I tell you that ' In 1090, the Normans from Sicily arrived in Malta and took power from the Arabs. Then: when the Crown of Aragon took power in Sicily in the 13th century, Malta began to become part of its territory. When the Hospitallers, the knights of the Order of Jerusalem, defeated the Ottomans by resisting the great Turkish siege in 1565, the Grand Master of the Order, Jean de Valette, founded the city of La Valette. well, these weights witnessed all these upheavals...And survived very well. According to Drouot, they appeared between the 13th and 15th centuries. Bibliography: weight and balance and pawn of ancient civilizations, eD 2017 page 173 Rare objects, like those from the Cathedral Museum in Mdinas in Malta and soonon your desk... a few grams with a lot of history to tell...