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| 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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