El siglo XVI

Seventeen Egyptologists and archaeologists probe the most compelling mysteries of ancient Egypt in this illustrated collection of 70 brief essays. Answers to age-old questions about Egyptian burial rituals, architecture, and royalty are provided, and recent discoveries are discussed—evidence that Tutankhamen was murdered, boats buried intact deep in the desert beside the tombs of the earliest kings, unexplained shafts inside the Great Pyramids aligned with the stars, and a massive mausoleum built for the many sons of Ramses II. The essays are supplemented with evocative photographs,...

Pocas son las noticias del barón Karol Dembowski y su nacionalidad es aún incierta. A fines de enero de 1838 emprendió su viaje por una España con el doble propósito de analizar la metamorfosis de la sociedad y de captar los “últimos suspiros” de una España tradicional idealizada por los románticos, que cumple a la perfección en estas páginas. Dembowski gustaba de frecuentar las capas populares, pero no todo es pintoresquismo en estas páginas sino que está atento a los cambios políticos que se producen y muestra un buen conocimiento de la situación de España y de la...

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On the assassination of three Salvadoran representatives to the Parlamento Centroamericano, Eduardo D'Aubuisson, William Pichinte and José Ramón González, in Guatemala on Feb. 19, 2007, as well as the crimes that followed it and the associated investigations.