El empeño industrial de Galicia

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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,...

Las Crónicas de América marcan el primer hito de la literatura hispanoamericana. La voz de los escritores españoles despierta, de súbito, en un mundo mágico y sorprendente. El milagro, el héroe, el monstruo, la Providencia, son flores de ese mundo mágico.

La versión oficial habla del hundimiento de la Armada Invencible, los elementos, una Reina Isabel ambiciosa, un Felipe II enamoradizo y atontado, un héroe como el pirata Drake. Del final de la hegemonía naval y militar de los españoles. En parte, cierto. En parte, falso. Pero las peores mentiras son las que tienen parte de verdad. Por tanto embuste histórico. Monumental. La realidad es que tan solo un año después del episodio, Inglaterra fracasó, igualmente, en el intento de conquistar España desembarcando un ejército colosal desde Lisboa, ¡con la expedición más grande, en...