Epic in scope, yet filled with detail, this illustrated guide takes readers through the whole of our human past. Spanning the dawn of human civilization through the present, it provides a tour of every site of key archaeological...Read more
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Saturday, February 22, 2020 - 17:03
In his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on...Read more
Saturday, February 22, 2020 - 17:01
In this superbly illustrated volume, Athens and Rome, the two greatest cities of antiquity, spring to life through the masterful pen of Peter Connolly. For the first time ever, all the evidence has been painstakingly pieced together to...Read more
Saturday, February 22, 2020 - 16:59
Plato came from a wealthy, connected Athenian family and lived a comfortable upper-class lifestyle until he met an odd little man named Socrates, who showed him a new world of ideas and ideals. Socrates taught Plato that a man must use...Read more
Saturday, February 22, 2020 - 16:44
“Tarot from A to Z: history, Major Arcana, Minor Arcana, divination, games to do alone and in company and many ideas for apprentice writers and artists.
The book "I TAROCCHI DELLA NUOVA ERA" is dedicated to all the Researchers who...Read more
Saturday, February 22, 2020 - 16:33
A first-hand exploration of how to consciously step out of your body and navigate the Quantum Akashic Field
- Details a step-by-step process of engaging extrasensory, out-of-body travel
- Examines the quantum landscape of
...Read more
Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 16:06
When we look at the incredible feats of engineering that our ancestors were able to achieve, it leaves us in awe. Not just because these structures are beautiful and shrouded in mystery, but because they were constructed on a scale we...Read more
Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 16:05
This account of the Valley of the Kings brings together its art, archaelogy and history in one volume arranged thematically. Famous as the burial place of the great New Kingdom pharaohs - such as Tutankhamun, Ramesses the Great and...Read more
Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 16:05
A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that...Read more
Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 16:04
From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination. Now, in Egyptian Mythology,...Read more
Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 16:04
For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the...Read more
Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 15:09
Investigates and questions the scientific consensus on the origins of civilization
Do we, the human species, really know who we are or where we came from or how we originated or our place in the cosmos? Or is much of what we have...Read more
Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 15:00
A journey into the most ancient past of a land that has yet to reveal to all of humanity its stories and its wonders.
India is the country of dichotomies, a place that from the most remote past has preserved its history and its...Read more
Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 01:16
"Unveiled Mysteries" describes an encounter between the author and St. Germain, an Ascended Master, virtually a God, who is able to manipulate the fabric of reality. The author, Guy Ballard, using the pen name "Godfré Ray King,"...Read more
Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 01:16
For over a decade, Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world: a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored by her family, and worshipped by her people.
Her image and...Read more
Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 01:15
Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of readers throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. An intellectual detective story...Read more
Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 01:14
The reminders of the Ancients are everywhere. They are saved in remnants in archaeology. They are found in reminiscences in mythology. They are recorded in books, story, song, and stone. Who were these people, aliens, man-or-myths? Do we...Read more
Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 01:14
First Published in 1921, when the author was the British Ambassador in Tokyo, Hinduism and Buddhism provides
Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 01:13
The Mahabharata, an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is the epic struggle between five heroic...Read more
Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 00:50
Magic Doors? Alchemical Doors? Mystical Doors? Interdimensional doors?
Italy, here and there hides testimonies from a distant past, testimonies that lead back to an era - for another always current ... - in which Man has tried to...Read more
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The Kalash (known also as the Kalasha) are an indigenous people living in what is today Pakistan. Although Pakistan is an Islamic Republic, with more than 95% of its population being adherents of Islam, the Kalash people hold on to their own religious beliefs, along with their own identity, way of life, and language.
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The Norimitsu Odachi is a huge sword from Japan. It is so large, in fact, that it was said to have been wielded by a giant. Apart from the basic knowledge of it having been forged in the 15th century AD, measuring 3.77 meters (12.37 ft.) in length, and weighing as much as 14.5 kg (31.97 lbs.), this impressive sword is shrouded in mystery.
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The Kalash (known also as the Kalasha) are an indigenous people living in what is today Pakistan. Although Pakistan is an Islamic Republic, with more than 95% of its population being adherents of Islam, the Kalash people hold on to their own religious beliefs, along with their own identity, way of life, and language.
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Halfway up a near-vertical ravine in the Andes, someone carved an inverted V-shaped entrance into the mountainside. Then they sliced the bedrock with great precision to create a shallow door that...
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