Reader's Digest the Truth about History: How New Evidence is Transforming the Story of the Past

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Readers Digest, 2003 - 319 pages
Fascinated by history's mysteries, legends, and lore? The famous and infamous? Chances are you could rattle off facts and figures about many historical events in this book. "And chances are you'd be wrong. Really! Amazing new theories born of cutting edge technology have forced scholars to revise and shatter accepted facts and cherished beliefs, including those in this meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated oversize book. The result? Stories more compelling than any fiction you could read! Dazzling maps, sidebars and photographs add to the wonder of discovering new information on subjects as varied as how meat eating led to monogamy, how mosquitoes brought about the fall of the Roman Empire, the secret weapon of World War II, the bizarre travels of Adolf Hitler's bones, the truth about Noah's flood, and much more. Perfect for students and history buffs, this book runs the gamut of historical fact and fiction from the origins of man to death and disaster--a more exciting read than any novel.

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Contents

Origins
9
People are missing
16
The truth to be found
22
The first Americans
28
Preaboriginal
34
In search of Egypts
43
How the olive tree
50
Kiltclad Westerners
54
Roman gladiators did
75
a writer
82
The vanishing first
88
the man
94
The real reason
121
What the stars tell
128
A new perspective
134
The comical farce
140

The Greek text that
60
built with
66
murder
146
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