
Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History
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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
American researcher Edward Malkowski claims in his book Before the Pharaohs that Egyptian civilization is the successor to a much older, more technologically advanced culture that existed at least 10–12 thousand years before the dynastic period.
Introduction to the Danubian Script by Harald Haarmann (2010) is the first systematic introduction to the oldest writing system in Europe – the Old European or Danubian script (c. 5300–3200 BC), which emerged within the framework of the Danubian Civilizat
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.
British author Adrian Gilbert (co-author of The Mayan Prophecies from 1995) in The End of Time offers the most thorough and sober modern interpretation of the Mayan calendar and the so-called "2012 prophecy", completely rejecting New Age hysteria.