Memory Of Empires

Descripción

Empires are born. Empires reach theirpeak. Empires die, but leave theirmark through their architecture andartistic achievements. From these specksof dust of memory, 40 centuries of historyshape our world of the 21st century. Thepower of ancient Egypt was followed bythe influence of Greece, which broughtthe Persian East together in the conquestsof Alexander the Great. After Cleopatra,the last queen of Egypt, Rome became thepower that ruled part of the world, finallydying out in the fall of the ByzantineEmpire on 29 May 1453. The authorstake the reader on a journey through timeand space and highlight the succession ofthese civilisations that rubbed shoulders,even fought against each other and led ustowards a more enlightened humanity.