An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.
Hatshepsut—the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne—was expected to bear the sons who would...Read more
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Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 13:04
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This fourth edition of David Grant Noble's indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes updated text and many newly opened archaeological sites. From Alibates Flint Quarries in Texas to the Zuni-Acoma...Read more
Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 13:02
The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut their story from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving only a hint of a father’s...Read more
Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 13:01
In this "energetic" (Kirkus Reviews) re-creation of Anne Boleyn's tragic life -- and death -- Robin Maxwell offers a pitch-perfect version of a bawdy and exuberant time filled with lust, betrayal, love, and murder.
When the young...Read more
Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 13:00
Has East always been East? If it was not, would ancient civilizations have left us clues where it was located in the past? Mills uses his knowledge of the Hopi Creation Story to explain Stonehenge, the Pyramids, the Mayan Temples, and...Read more
Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 12:57
The mysteries of an unprecedented historical event and of the secret cult at its roots in an accurate and highly documented investigation: from the esoteric society from which Nazism was born to the SS search for the Grail, an exciting...Read more
Saturday, February 22, 2020 - 17:03
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
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 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 - 15:00
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
First Published in 1921, when the author was the British Ambassador in Tokyo, Hinduism and Buddhism provides