This is no boring history lesson. Some of the questions from the distant past include: Who built the pyramids? Why does the hour have sixty minutes? What really happened during the Great Flood? Is the story of Atlantis true? Now you can travel backward in time to unravel some of the misunderstood secrets of history. Follow along and revisit ancient Sumer, Egypt, and Assyria. Meet many hard-to-pronounce characters including Ashurbanipal, Akhenaton, and Utnapishtim, as well as more familiar favorites such as Abraham, Moses, and Samson. Nineteen stories are here, spanning thousands of years and...

This is something you will not expect from a History book: to find interesting, funny and easy-to-follow stories from Antiquity. And yet, in Book Two you will find exactly that. Twenty-two stories, spanning for thousand years and multiple civilizations. Stories about the great empires and great battles that took place in ancient times in the region of the Mediterranean basin. You will find out: Who gave birth to the Minotaur, why the first marathon was run, how to burn 1000 ships, what was happening on the Games, who was Vercingetorix and what happened when black-haired queen met the ruler of...

Middle Ages. The vast majority of us, even at the mention of the Middle Ages, have in mind the image of an indeterminate dark, dirty, and bloody era with charging knights and witches burning at the stake. Which is not far from the truth. The stories in this book will give the reader opportunity to meet the most important figures and events that marked the Middle Ages in an interesting, entertaining, and critical way. When told with "a grain of salt," these tales show that they are not exactly the same as they were presented to us. From Attila the Hun and Charlemagne, Muhammad and Genghis...