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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,...

En un mundo como el actual los historiadores necesitan un enfoque global; pero eso no se consigue con una simple extensión del campo examinado en las viejas historias de estados y naciones, sino que requiere métodos nuevos, adecuados al estudio de los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo. Sebastian Conrad examina aquí el desarrollo de las distintas visiones de la historia mundial, desde Herodoto o Ibn Jaldun hasta Toynbee, McNeill o Wallerstein, y las respuestas recientes —historia comparada, transnacional, postcolonial, de la globalización...— para proponernos los fundamentos de un...

"An accurate and objective account of the political events in Chile. . . . An important document for those who want to know what happened, and for those who should not forget."—Isabel Allende