National Geographic History - May.June 2017

National Geographic History - May/June 2017

English | 100 pages | True PDF | 34.9 mb


Features

18 The Hieroglyphics Puzzle

Centuries of dogged, scholarly efforts to crack the hieroglyphic code saved the meanings once locked inside Egypt’s sacred script.

30 Agatha Christie in Mesopotamia

A sojourn to the Middle East changed the crime writer’s life, leading to a lifelong love affair with archaeology and an archaeologist, Max Mallowan.

42 The Truth About Archimedes

Colorful writings paint the ancient Greek inventor as a brilliant scientist with a knack for being at the center of a good story

52 The Roman Underground

Miles of catacombs covered in vivid wall a monuments to early Christianity in the Roman Empire

66 The Testimony of Notre-Dame

Through massive walls, soaring arches, and leering gargoyles this Gothic masterpiece tells the story of Franc

80 Amerigo Vespucci

Vespucci transfixed 16th-century Europe with true (and not-so-true) tales of a new continent.