The Truth About History : How New Evidence Is Transforming the Story of the Past - Hardcover

Reader's Digest

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0276427513 ISBN 13: 9780276427510

Publisher: Readers Digest, 2004

Synopsis

Fascinating new research is overturning long-accepted historical 'facts' and transforming the story of the past. Did you know that the Hindenburg airship exploded because its outer skin was coated with a substance later used to fuel space rockets, not because it was filled with hydrogen? Or that the story of ancient China is being transformed by the sensational discovery of 4000-year-old blond, tartan-clad mummies, who lived there long before Chinese culture began? Even 'myths' may turn out to be true: scientists believe they have now found evidence for Noah's flood in settlements deep beneath the Black Sea. Stories like these give a radically different view of many of the great people and events of the past.

About this edition

• Publisher: Readers Digest
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0276427513
• ISBN 13: 9780276427510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320