Acknowledgements | p. 2 |
Chronological Tables | p. 5 |
Introduction | p. 15 |
The old people | |
The men who beat the Romans | |
The warriors from The Song of Roland, the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Eneid | |
The birth of civilization | |
The incredible travelers | |
Discovering America | |
Circumnavigating the world | |
Famous ancient women | |
The roots of Europe | |
The Oldest Europeans | p. 22 |
The city of the wolves | |
D'Artagnan goes to Paris | |
Touche! The magic of Cyrano | |
The Song of Roland | |
The terrible almogavars | |
The Men from the Stone | p. 32 |
Words straight from the Stone Age | |
Ice Age survivors | |
Sheep raisers and wine makers | |
The "discoveries" of Jean Cartier | |
The men who circumnavigated the world | |
Dances from the Paleolithic | |
The ancestral Euzkos | |
The Blood Trail | p. 40 |
The Early-European blood group | |
What the geneticists are telling | |
Boyd and the Early European Race | |
Basques, Scots and Scandinavians | |
Irish and Welsh | |
Etruscans and Pelasgians | |
Meet a warrior from antiquity: the name is Bond, James Bond | |
The cryptic language of the ancient stone masons | |
The Pompeii from the Neolithic | |
The Italian Euzkos | p. 49 |
The Roman kings | |
The stone builders | |
Creating and training the Roman Legions | |
The expansion of Rome | |
The Etruscan legacy | |
Bishops, tribes and fasci | |
The double ax | |
The music people: histrios and subuli | |
The masterpieces which inspired the Renaissance | |
The Sino-Caucasian group of languages and its link with a living tongue | |
The Greek Euzkos | p. 63 |
An unparalleled window to the past | |
The building Cyclops | |
The Indo-Europeans are coming!! | |
The Minoan civilization | |
Bulls, rituals and the good life | |
The double ax again | |
Eolians and Ionians or some Aryans really like to go native | |
Acheans and the end of a civilization | |
Dorians and harsh rule | |
Rebirth | p. 75 |
The rebirth of a civilization: the Ionian world | |
The racial war | |
The siege of Troy | |
Philosophers, poetry and music | |
Nice harbor at Samos | |
Water supply at Pergamon | |
Go plan a city Hippodamus! | |
Athens and Sparta | |
The Peloponnessian conflict | |
The Pelasgian language of Lemnos | |
Cherchez la Femme | p. 85 |
What makes the Europeans different? | |
The shocking European woman | |
The Latin-Greek macho tradition | |
The peculiar Etruscan and Pelasgian females | |
The Indo-European family: burning widows in India | |
The Euzkan inheritance | |
Women's rights and Rh distribution | |
Of Roman kings (and queens' daughters) | |
The prehistoric Basque family | |
Women's rights among the ancient Basques | |
The Old Religion | p. 97 |
The ubiquitous Venus figurines | |
The incoming gods | |
The names of the Goddess | |
Sacred numbers and chimeras | |
Nymphs and beer producers | |
The priest of Diana at Nemi | |
Snake processions today? | |
The Great Mother and the Hero | |
The king must die | |
Hey, how many Hercules can there be? | |
Herodotus and his doubts | |
A mistletoe for Christmas | |
Sacred islands and Charon | |
Blowing the tuba at royal funerals | |
Mara succeeds Laima | |
A sacrifice in Minoan Crete | |
Sacrificial kings in Lascaux and Trois Freres? | |
Bull games in Crete | |
The Olympic games have started | |
The right way to choose a king | |
The Founding Fathers | p. 123 |
Herodotus and his troubles | |
The vanishing leaders | |
Why those Acheans? | |
Some help from Washington and Lincoln | |
Oracles and sun-moon cycles | |
The new kings: why to die if you can live longer? | |
The Beginning of the End | p. 129 |
How to become a Hero by killing a monster | |
Logos and chimeras | |
Bellerophon, Theseus and Hercules | |
Getting a date with Hippolyte | |
The reluctant Hero | |
How to maroon a Hercules | |
The Garden of the Hesperides | |
Medea and her crush for Jason | |
An advice from the Centaurs maybe can help a troubled marriage | |
Deianeira and her solution | |
The one and only but not the last Hercules or how to confuse people | |
The Fall | p. 139 |
War at Troy | |
All for just a woman | |
Homer, the master storyteller | |
The counsels of Jove must be fulfilled | |
The pious killers | |
Where were you during the sacred war? | |
The art of literary tricks | |
Orea Eleni | p. 145 |
The best way to kidnap a princess | |
Helen, the dream girl | |
Portrait of a Queen-Priestess at Lacedemonia | |
Herbs, rituals and business managing | |
Hallucinogens anyone? | |
Chignons, indiscreet moles and tiaras | |
What a dress!! | |
The dazzling beauty parades at the procession | |
To be the social and political center | |
Some marriages can be difficult | |
Helen makes a political move | |
Menelaus looks for help | |
Priam's ambitions | |
Pelasgian backing? | |
The fall | |
Julius Caesar's revenge | |
Agamemnon gets the double ax | |
Menelaus and his worries | |
Helen's viewpoint | |
The last days of Helen | |
The last feminine political bastion | |
Sudden night for women | |
Basques had said it all | |
The Wanderer | p. 164 |
Odysseus goes to the west | |
Telemachus needs some help | |
The Metonic cycle or replacement time has arrived | |
Let's kill a priestess | |
"Go implore Arete!" says Nausicaa | |
Why was Homer told to choose Odysseus? | |
Penelope takes her time | |
The wisdom of a priestess | |
The Witch Hunt Starts | p. 173 |
Never heard of a wizard hunt? | |
The old craft of the witches | |
Victims and victories | |
Purifying sacred islands or how to be one of the Seven Sages of Greece | |
Iona: Macbeth and Duncan, together at last | |
Dionysiac fraternities and Mysteries | |
Cybeles | |
The coming of Christianism | |
Mari of the Caves | |
The Prolific Mother | |
Carnival and Halloween | |
Renaming the solstice | |
Lycanthropy at full moon | |
Euripides, hallucinogens and Apollo priestesses | |
The remarkable fungus | |
Licking toads and other pastimes | |
Befriending cobras in India | |
Apollo slays Pytho | |
An Arab travels through Viking lands | |
Public coition among the Euzkans | |
Ergotism, epidemics and witch hunting | |
Bog mummies | |
Witch trials in Basque land | |
Our Own Stone Roots | p. 194 |
The ancient roots of language | |
To skin a sheep | |
Azkonas and skeans | |
Love and hate prehistory | |
Words from the Cro-Magnon and Neandertals? | |
Tsk, tsk | |
Getting hide and shelter | |
The words of our forefathers | |
An Astonishing Map | p. 204 |
Hey, Vosgos can't be Basque! | |
The problem with that boar... | |
Rivers, valleys and fossil names | |
Munchen is in a mound! | |
Names, names, names everywhere | |
The Oldest Language | p. 209 |
Oldest surviving language in the world | |
From woman to woman and from man to man | |
How to climb a philogenetic tree | |
The age of Eve | |
Paleolithic roots | |
Looking in Saudi Arabia | |
Watch out! Opportunists are entering Europe! | |
Cromagnons really like ivory! | |
How to touch a Cromagnon today | |
Disaster at Last Glacial Maximum | |
A handful of survivors | |
Let's talk an Aryan language now | |
Crossing the Atlantic before Columbus | |
The way Asterix's ancestors traveled | |
What Homer did not Tell | p. 221 |
The Euzko heritage | |
Venus statuettes from the Gravettian | |
Isis-Adonis and the coming of Aton-Rah | |
Sleeping naked on earth | |
The Chartres tradition | |
The Polish Virgin | |
The Road of St. James | |
Basques, Scots, Irish and Welsh | |
Basques and Neandertals | |
A tomb in Arkhanes | |
Getting buried in a ship | |
The beauty from Lulan | |
The lady from the kurgan and her weapons | |
Amazing Amazons | |
Penthesileia and her friends | |
Why you didn't tell it all, Homer? | |
Return | p. 240 |
Courtly love | |
Eleanor d'Aquitaine | |
Catherine de'Medici | |
The unusual man-woman relationship in Europe and some of its former colonies | |
The Giant from Cerne Abbas | |
We are all one, at least! | |
Further Readings | p. 247 |
A quick glance | |
A pictorial travel | |
Magazines | |
References | |
Index | p. 259 |
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