Kirjahaku

..". aquel pueblo ind mito estaba convencido de que la vida sin armas no es tal" As se refer a a los beros el historiador romano Tito Livio. Un pueblo guerrero y orgulloso cuyas armas representaban su dignidad y su condici n de hombres libres, y que no dudaban en quitarse la vida si eran despojados de ellas, porque para ellos eso era peor que la muerte o la esclavitud. Durante los cinco siglos en que su cultura fue evolucionando hasta ser absorbida poco a poco por el mundo romano los beros lucharon contra todos y contra todo, tanto dentro como fuera de la Pen nsula Ib rica. Aunque ese proceso de absorci n no fue sencillo, y es que tanto los cartagineses primero como los romanos despu s, sufrieron lo indecible para reducir a estos ind mitos guerreros, y padecieron en sus carnes los efectos de las armas que los habitantes de Iberia hab an aprendido a forjar a lo largo de los siglos, sobre todo de la temida falcata, la espada curva que levantaba pavor entre las legiones que sufrieron sus estragos. El gigante romano acab aplastando sin miramientos a estos guerreros duros y valerosos, pero al mismo tiempo contribuy a ensalzarlos al dejarnos el relato de la dureza de los combates en los que Roma vio morir a muchos de sus mejores hombres, algo que no ha hecho m s que engrandecer una leyenda que ha llegado plenamente viva hasta nosotros.

If anything could ever stir the imaginations of lovers of the ancient world, and of Pharaonic Egypt in particular, it would be the tombs and treasures left by the kings who died thousands of years ago but left their monuments behind. Such monuments have etched their names into the history of mankind, and they continue to impress us today just as much as the times in which they were built.Curiously, it wasn't inside of these magnificent monuments where the bodies of the pharaohs who made possible these extraordinary Egyptian constructions were found, but they were instead hidden in modest graves and dirty caves, where they managed to evade thieves throughout the centuries. In the following pages we will review some of these findings that once astonished and blew the world away, although it is true that not all of them had the same media coverage. Of course, there is the most famous of all the tombs-that of Tutankhamun-but also others that are not so known, like the necropolis of Tanis, that presented the paradox of being the one that brought out not one, but three intact royal tombs, and yet is also one of the least known episodes of Egyptian archaeology. Not to mention the first major finding, the discovery in the mountains of Deir el Bahari, of a cache with dozens of mummies, among which there were those of some of the most powerful pharaohs of Egypt's history . I hope you enjoy it.Important: This book includes my ebooks: "The Royal mummies' Hideout", "Tutankamun's Tomb and the Curse of the Mummies" and "The Silver Pharaohs (The Royal Tombs of Tanis)".

There are many questions related to sexuality that all of us lovers of ancient Egypt have asked at some point: was the image of depravity that the Romans spread, especially referring to Queen Cleopatra, true? How did they deal with homosexuality? What were their favorite positions in bed? Did they practice bestiality, necrophilia, incest, pedophilia, and other rumored deviancies? The truth is that by studying this aspect of Egyptian life we find truly amazing items, like a pornographic papyrus that scandalized the very Champollion himself, a pharaoh who slips through the night in the bed of one of his generals, a goddess who sleeps with her dead husband, a god who praises the buttocks of another while trying to sodomize him, or a festival in which women copulate with a ram in-front of a crowd. This work pinpoints these issues and many others, including the use of aphrodisiacs and contraceptives, love spells, erotic poetry or the attitude towards adultery, in an entertaining and concise but rigorous way, and accompanied by more than 30 images that will help us understand this important facet of life and social relations of the ancient Egyptians.