Arqueología

The day Heinrich Schliemann discovered Troy, the legendary city spoken of in Homer's poems, he burst into tears like a little child. The year was 1870, he was almost 60 years old, and he had been searching for her his entire life. The discovery of Troy was irrefutable proof of something that until then was believed to be just a myth. From that moment on, Schliemann and others who followed him recovered for history a wonderful civilization, the Mycenaean. Although it is undoubtedly one of the most famous, Schliemann's has not been the only discovery that has revealed civilizations, cities or characters that had been lost in the mists of oblivion. In this book, you will find the history of the 20 most important discoveries in archaeology. You will open the tomb of the enigmatic Tutankhamun with Howard Carter, you will accompany J.L. Burckhardt in his first walk through Petra to Hiram Bingham on the first ascent of Machu Picchu, the city swallowed by the jungle, and you will be shocked when you unearth the terracotta warriors of Xian with Harding and Vaux. But, above all, you will feel the same emotion that they felt when discovering the hidden secrets of history.