La vida cotidiana en el Antiguo Egipto

"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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«Como historiador formado en la escuela de los Annales, alumno de Lucien Febvre y de Fernand Braudel, creo en la larga duración. Pienso que lo más importante se va tejiendo y destejiendo lentamente al hijo de las generaciones. Nuestra modernidad no se comprende bien si no se tiene en cuenta el tiempo presente que ella misma ha construido sin poner en tela de juicio sistemas que le han legado una parte de los elementos de los que son herederas las civilizaciones de la época moderna. Trataremos de ver y comprender, desde la Modernidad lato sensu y la Cristiandad latina occidental,...

As loathsome as it was, the Third Reich also arouses great fascination, which causes everything around it to hold a certain vivid and inextinguishable interest. Whoever approaches these pages will experience what Germans felt during those turbulent years.