Introducción a la historia de España

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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,...

La venta callejera de diarios acompañó la vida urbana desde fines del siglo XIX, cuando la prensa moderna comenzó a basar su notable expansión en esta modalidad comercial, fenómeno que otorgó un inusual protagonismo a los niños de la calle. Desclazos y vestidos con verdaderos harapos, los suplementeros comenzaron a ganarse un espacio y dieron vida a un influyente gremio, que luchó por mejorar sus condiciones de vida y borrar el estigma de la marginalidad. En este libro se reconstruye la historia de estos niños y adultos, a lo largo de más de siete décadas, mostrando la imagen...

La economia y el comercio; la indumentaria y los usos; la organizacion social, politica y sacerdotal; la literatura y la escritura; la medicina; la idea del tiempo y la historia; las matematicas, la astronomia y la cronologia; la religion, la cosmologia y la cosmogonia; lo ritual; la arquitectura, la pintura y la escultura... el universo Maya, simplemente.