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The penultimate volume of the History edition opens up a vast panorama of world history from 1190 to the present day, encompassing the Middle Ages, the Modern Age, and the Modern Era.
The article presents a classic analysis of archaeological findings from the Hellenistic period (3rd-2nd century BC) in the necropolis north of ancient Budva (today's Montenegro), discovered in the 1950s.
Hancock's evidence reveals not only the clear footprints of an unknown civilization that flourished during the last ice age, but also the terrifying truth about the scale of the catastrophe that wiped out almost all traces of it.
Debenham (1883–1965), a British geographer and glaciologist, a participant in Scott's Antarctic expedition Terra Nova (1910–1913, surviving as only one of five), here synthesizes the history of exploration as an epic story of human curiosity and courage.
Michael A. Cook, Princeton professor of Islamic history, provides an overview of human history from the Neolithic to the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001 in this witty and intelligent synthesis, asking the key question: why did everything happen exactly th