Vida de Miguel de Cervantes

“Las momias –nos dice José Miguel Parra Ortiz- son mucho más de lo que a simple vista parece. Gracias a ellas podemos profundizar nuestro conocimiento de la civilización faraónica y de las personas que la crearon y vivieron”. No se trata tan sólo de las de los faraones: hay millones de momias –tantas que en la Edad Media se exportaron a Europa por centenares de miles para emplearlas en medicina y en el siglo XIX se las usó como combustible en los ferrocarriles-, de modo que a través de ellas nos es posible conocer, no sólo las creencias y los mitos de los egipcios, sino sus...

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Cuando los primeros colonos llegaron a los Estados Unidos de América y comenzaron a buscarse la vida en aquel entorno natural, tan duro y poco familiar para gentes procedentes de Europa, jamás habrían podido soñar que, algún día, esa tierra que pisaban se convertiría en uno de los países más poderosos del mundo.