![]() ![]() ![]() Howard's Hyborian Age, described in detail in his essay " The Hyborian Age", is a mythical time before any civilization known to anthropologists. This was a mythical place far to the north that was not cold and where things did not age. The name "Hyborian" is a contraction of the Greek concept of the land of " Hyperborea", literally "Super-North-Land". ![]() ![]() Howard devised the Hyborian Age to fit in with his previous and less-well-known tales of Kull, which were set at the time of Atlantis. According to Howard himself (in " The Phoenix on the Sword"): ".between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas." The Conan stories take place on Earth, but in the mythical (created by Howard) Hyborian Age, between the time of the sinking of Atlantis and the rise of the known ancient civilizations. ![]()
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