By conceiving a timeless setting – a vanished age – and by carefully choosing names that resembled our history, Howard avoided the problem of historical anachronisms and the need for lengthy exposition. Howard had an intense love for history and historical dramas however, at the same time, he recognized the difficulties and the time-consuming research needed in maintaining historical accuracy. Rippke's date, however, has since been disputed by Jeffrey Shanks, who argues for the more traditional placement at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum. More recently, Dale Rippke proposed that the Hyborian Age should be placed further in the past, around 32,500 BC, prior to the beginning of the Last Glacial Maximum. Sprague de Camp and Roy Thomas placed the Hyborian Age around 10,000 BC. Most later editors and adaptors such as L. Howard described the Hyborian Age taking place sometime after the sinking of Atlantis and before the beginning of recorded ancient history. The word "Hyborian" is derived from the legendary northern land of the ancient Greeks, Hyperborea and it is rendered as such in the earliest draft of Howard's essay " The Hyborian Age". Howard, serving as the setting for the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian. The Hyborian Age is a fictional period of Earth's history within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Another version of the map, drawn by David Kyle for the 1950 Gnome Press edition of Conan the Conqueror.
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