DescriptionDuraid Ai Simmu and his beautiful wife, Royan, were the first to discover the tomb of Queen Lostris and, with it, the scrolls that record the burial of Pharaoh Mamose with all his vast treasure. But as their present-day search for the treasure moves from the Nile to the uplands of Ethiopia, a savage battle begins. For others will stop at nothing to claim the prize as their own. When Duraid is brutally murdered, Royan seeks refuge in England with eminent archaeologist Nicholas Quenton-Harper. With him she can find the courage to unlock the dreams of an ancient Pharaoh.
DescriptionExplorer and inventor, soldier and poet, archaeologist and diplomat, Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) was the most versatile and remarkable man of his age. But he was foremost an adventurer: "an adventurer in the intellectual and the spiritual as well as the physical world". The pioneering traveler in Central Africa who discovered Lake Tanganyika was also the translator of The Arabian Nights and the secret translator of Oriental sex manuals, like The Perfumed Garden . The man who made a dangerous pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise also produced major writings on reptiles and religion, mining and mountain-climbing, slavery and sexuality. Byron Farwell brilliantly recreates the sheer excitement of Burton's achievements and his astonishing range of interests in this fascinating biography.
DescriptionYoung listeners will be captivated by this entertaining mix of history, mystery and unique characters. In a dark, long-forgotten antechamber in the Temple of Harthor, an astonishing hieroglyphic discovery has been made! What have the hieroglyphs got to do with the legendary Transilient Scepter of Rameses? Is it true that this dust-smothered ancient scepter could possibly have the astounding powers attributed to it? Will this power once again see the light of day in this modern age? Cairo Jim, that well-known archaeologist and little-known poet, and his friends Doris the macaw and Brenda the Wonder Camel, find out that all that glitters is NOT gold in this, the 14th startling mystery of history from Geoffrey McSkimming's vast cache of the relentlessly bizarre and whimsical.
DescriptionIn this 16th title, Cairo Jim and his friends set out to save King Midas' daughter and stop Captain Neptune F. Bone's greedy pursuit of the world's total gold resources.
DescriptionNurse Amy Leatheran is recruited to care for the frightened wife of an American archeologist at an excavation in the Iraqi desert. Are the wife's fears mere hallucinations? When she is found bludgeoned to death, her paranoia proves - too late - fully justified. Famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, nearby on another mission, gets involved and realizes that every member of the team could be a suspect. Can Poirot stop the murderer before he or she strikes again?
DescriptionIt has served us well, this myth of Christ. Pope Leo X, 16th Century The Last Templar opens with a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291. A young Templar knight, his mentor, and a…
