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The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria’s last great king, held an astonishing collection at the forefront of knowledge in its day, from ancient traditions in religion and literature to the latest developments in magic and medicine. When the Assyrian empire fell, the library burned to the ground, and its contents, clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing, lay buried for thousands of years until a team of Victorian archaeologists discovered the remnants in modern-day Iraq. The clay had baked and hardened; the very fire that consumed the library had helped its texts to survive for millennia.

Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely journeys. All four languages—along with hundreds of others, from French and Gaelic, to Persian and Polish—trace their origins to an ancient tongue spoken as the last ice age receded. This language, which we call Proto-Indo-European, was born between Europe and Asia and exploded out of its cradle, fragmenting as it spread east and west.

The work of archaeology uncovers fascinating vestiges of humanity’s past, greatly enriching our knowledge of our ancestors and ourselves. Over the last century, archaeologists have increasingly ventured underwater, making spellbinding finds and opening an incredible new frontier for archaeological discovery. In the 12 delightful and eye-opening lectures of Underwater Archaeology: Mysteries of the Deep, Professor Lemke, an expert underwater archaeologist working in the field, invites you to discover astonishing treasures of history that lie beneath the waves.

In The Buried City, Gabriel Zuchtriegel takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Pompeii and reveals new archaeological finds that are being unearthed at the site’s biggest dig in a generation. As director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, Zuchtriegel presents a uniquely intimate perspective on this city that was tragically destroyed and frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Among the ruins, we find unmade beds, dishes left drying, and bodies of victims encased in ash, but Zuchtriegel shows that we’ve only begun to understand this fascinating place.

Ancient truths hidden in plain sight for thousands of years. A gradual realization has been dawning, first among ancient alien theorists, and then among the general public, that the Bible has been hiding secret UFO stories. This book closely examines the scriptures, employing exegesis and etymology of eighty-six Hebrew words to get to the bottom of forty-five separate biblical UFO encounters as recorded by over a hundred credible witnesses, including the likes of Moses, Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Paul, John, and many other patriarchs, prophets, and apostles. At a time of crossroads between ...

A drought lasts for decades, a disease rips through a city, a civilization collapses. When we finally uncover the ruins, we ask: What happened? The good news is, we’ve been here before. History is long, and people have already confronted just about every apocalypse we’re facing today. But these days, archaeologists are getting better at seeing stories of survival, transformation, and even progress hidden within those histories of collapse and destruction. Perhaps, we begin to see, apocalypses do not destroy worlds, but create them anew.

Después de sobrevivir por los pelos a una repetición de las plagas del Éxodo, Jeanne no quería saber nada más de pergaminos antiguos ni de leyendas sobre Magdalena. Lástima, porque la Magdalena todavía tiene asuntos pendientes con Jeanne. Ella había planeado tomarse unas vacaciones tranquilas y relajantes. En cambio, Jeanne se ve envuelta en un complicado y confuso juego del gato y el ratón con fanáticos de la Iglesia, un loco que cree en la Segunda Venida y una misteriosa hermandad. Los viejos amigos pueden convertirse en nuevos enemigos, mientras que algunos viejos enemigos ...

As the planet emerged from the last ice age, a language was born between Europe and Asia, by the Black Sea. This ancient tongue, which we call Proto-Indo-European, soon exploded out of its cradle, changing and fragmenting as it went, until its offspring were spoken from Scotland to China. Today those descendants constitute the world’s largest language family, the thread that connects disparate cultures: Dante’s Inferno to the Rig Veda, The Lord of the Rings to the love poetry of Rumi. Indo-European languages are spoken by nearly half of humanity. How did this happen?

¿Te apasiona el mundo romano? ¿Querrías saber más sobre la antigua Roma? En este libro encontrarás anécdotas y datos curiosos de esta civilización descritos de una forma amena y didáctica. Descubrirás los episodios y acontecimientos más singulares, y conocerás más detalles de algunos de los grandes personajes que marcaron su historia, abarcando tanto la época republicana como la imperial. ¿Sabías que? Un paseo por la antigua Roma es el segundo volumen de la colección sobre historia ¿Sabías que? del autor e historiador Sergio Alejo Gómez.Pasa un buen rato con esta obra ...

¿Te interesa el mundo antiguo? ¿Querrías saber más sobre él? En este libro encontrarás un recopilatorio de curiosidades, personajes y aspectos de la sociedad durante la antigüedad contados de una forma amena y didáctica. Un repaso que te llevará desde la antigua Babilonia, hasta la Grecia clásica, sin perder de vista curiosos detalles de la historia de la todo poderosa Roma y de sus herederos de Oriente, los llamados bizantinos. ¿Sabías que? Curiosidades del mundo antiguo es el primer volumen de la colección sobre historia ¿Sabías que? del autor e historiador Sergio Alejo ...

En 2019, durante el confinamiento por la COVID-19, Jeanne-Marie de Nord, una traductora canadiense de pergaminos antiguos, desenterró una caja con tablas cuneiformes sumerias. Se cree que fueron excavadas en la biblioteca de Asurbanipal, en la ciudad perdida de Nínive, entre 1853 y 1920. Al parecer, fueron descubiertas, enviadas al Museo Británico, almacenadas y luego olvidadas. Jeanne se encarga de traducirlas y descubre que contienen el Libro de Enlil, el Génesis sumerio. Se cree que fueron escritas alrededor del 5000 a. C. y cuentan una historia muy diferente a la del Génesis ...

The history of humanity is one of devastating, once-in-a-thousand-year events: rising seas that make land uninhabitable, decades-long droughts, civilisational collapse, epidemics like the Black Death and the Spanish Flu that reduce a city’s population by fifty percent. And yet, despite enormous destruction and very real tragedy, these catastrophes all share one common denominator: we survived. In APOCALYPSE, Lizzie Wade reframes the story of human history to show how we can learn from these apocalyptic moments, seeing them not just as violent, world-ending events but as moments of progress.