Page 5 - HISTORY ANGKOR

VOL. 8 NO. 1

KNIGHTLY IDEAL
The French knight Boucicaut, a
paragon of valor and piety, prays in
a 15th-century miniature. Musée
Jacquemart-André, Paris

Features Departments

18 Beware the Ides of March 6 NEWS

Riled by Julius Caesar’s ambition, on March 15, 44 b.c., an elite group of A new study of footprints in New
Romans stabbed him to death. Piecing together the sources, historians can Mexico dates them to the Ice Age,
recount the intrigue behind the most famous assassination of all time. rolling back the arrival of humans in North
America to as far as 23,000 years ago.

32 Splendor of Angkor 8 PROFILES

Amid the lush forests and waterways of Cambodia, the temples of In 1843 math mastermind Ada
Angkor form the world’s largest religious complex—built as the Khmer Lovelace wrote an algorithm for
Empire began its religious shift from Hinduism to Buddhism. an adding machine, immortalizing herself as
the world’s first computer programmer.
46 Knights in Shining Armor
12 SNAPSHOTS
The “superheroes” of the Middle Ages, European knights acted according The pizza Margherita is named
to a code of valor and courtesy and inspired great works of medieval
literature, even as new trends in warfare made their military role obsolete. for a queen—or so the tale goes.
Historians suggest the facts behind this
origin story may be a little half-baked.
62 Sofonisba, Superstar
With raw talent that could not be ignored, Sofonisba Anguissola attracted 14 MILESTONES
the attention of Renaissance greats, including Michelangelo. Army officers falsely accused
Her skilled portraiture launched her career as a Alfred Dreyfus for selling secrets
Renaissance court painter for the king of Spain. to the enemy in 1894, a scandal steeped in
anti-Semitism that tore France apart.

78 Saving Nunalleq 92 DISCOVERIES
Rising temperatures are threatening indigenous When a queen’s tomb was
artifacts made of ivory, antler, and wood that found near the Great Pyramid
were once preserved and protected by the in 1925, archaeologists were astounded
permafrost at the Yupik site of Nunalleq, Alaska. at the 4,000-year-old treasures inside.

“IDES OF MARCH,” COIN COMMEMORATING
CAESAR’S ASSASSINATION, CA 43-42 B.C.