To us, residents of the 21st century, it often seems that the past is forever left in the past. Agree, has that ever happened?
What, indeed, is the connection of all those people from bygone eras, who didn’t even have running water, to us — to people who easily handle high-tech gadgets from preschool age?
But remember how it is: you leaf through an old family album and suddenly stop in amazement when you come across a faded photograph of a person whose facial features are exactly like those of their distant descendant.
As if it is he himself, only dressed "in antique style." At that moment, you suddenly understand clearly: the past is always here, it lives within us, we are its heirs.
The past reliably keeps its secrets and, as we all know, reveals them to far from everyone who claims there are no secrets of history from them.
The famous writer Kir Bulychev — a man who believed in the future, the creator of the captivating books about Alisa Selezneva — was a magnificent connoisseur of the past.
For under this pseudonym was none other than Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko — a true great scholar in the field of oriental studies, who dedicated his entire life to the professional study of history.
You are in for a remarkable journey through the Ancient World and the world of the ancient era accompanied by a truly unique guide — the master of words Kir Bulychev and scholar I. V. Mojeiko in one person.