Books - Ancient History
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race -
Michael Cremo, Richard Thompson
Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients -
David Hatcher Childress
Graham Hancock:
The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant (1993)
English journalist Hancock retells the circumstances and thoughts that led to
his discovery that the Lost Ark of the Covenant really exists. (Note that the
subtitle is not How Indy and I Raided the Lost Ark.) Hancock was in Ethiopia
in 1983, having been hired by the Ethiopian government to write and produce a
coffee-table book extolling that country. He was greatly surprised when told
that Ethiopia's Falasha Jews did not exist, and that many people could land in
jail, or worse, if he went around photographing such nonexistents. Even so, off
he went to Axum, deep in the desert, to see the temples and statuary of the Black
Jews of Ethiopia. What he found was a sect that claimed to have the original
Ark of the Covenant. Refused entrance to the sanctuary of the jealously guarded
Ark, Hancock went home--and saw Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, which
inspired him to investigate the history of the Ark. Built at the foot of Mount
Sinai, Hancock tells us, it ``was deposited [around 955 B.C.] by Solomon in the
Holy of Holies of the First Temple.'' Later, Hancock says, it was stolen by Solomon's
outcast son and carried south to Ethiopia and kept there for 800 years by a Judaic
cult. Then it apparently was seized by the Knights Templar, who thought that
it was the Holy Grail. The Knights converted the Jews, who kept the Ark in a
great church. And to protect the Ark, all of the churches in the cult have their
own replicas of the Ark: The original is never seen, even on the holiest days
of the year. In 1991, during the Gulf War, Hancock returned to Axum to see the
Ark--and was refused. Not as much fun as might be hoped as Hancock digs through
literary and bibical texts while convincing himself that the Ark exists. (Sixteen
pp. of b&w photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates,
LP.
Fingerprints of the Gods: A Quest for a Lost Civilisation (1995)
E.A. Wallis Budge - Amulets & Talismans / Book of the
Dead / Egyptian Magic / Osiris
Phoenix:
The Peoples of the Hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus - Charles
Burney , David
Marshall Lang
Origins: Creation Texts from the Ancient Mediterranean: A Chrestomathy -
Charles Doria, Harris Lenowitz
The Metamorphosis of the Gods - Andre
Malraux - page 115 "Meroe: Bird-Soul" (winged person - statue)
SEE http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/um/uml.html
"The idea of representing souls of the dead as human-headed birds derives
from Egypt, but in Meroe they
were placed at the entrance of tomb chapels."
American Journal of Archaeology - annual summary of finds
by Machteld Mellink
The World's Last Mysteries - Reader's Digest
Last Mysteries of the World: The Latest Research into Nature, History,
Religion, Science
by Reader's
Digest (Editor), Readers
Digest (Editor)
Peoples of the Earth (reference book)
Pleasure of Ruins - Rose,
Dame. MacAulay (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1964 & 1977 - copyright
Thames & Hudson $20)
March
of Archaeology - C.W.
Ceram (NY: Knopf 1958) - fascinating book on early archaelogy
Meadows Taylor was in the service of the Nizam of Hyderbad
& wrote Confessions of a Thug (Borges: The Zahir)
(Hassan ben Sabbah, founder of the sect of the Hashishin or assassins)
Facing
the Void: T'Ang Approaches to the Stars by Edward H. Schaefer -
found on Amazon
Ancient China (Great Ages of Man) by Edward
H. Schafer , Time-Life
Books (1967) - "beautiful book!"
Great Ages of Man - see the other volumes
Half the World: The History and Culture of China and Japan by Arnold
Toynbee (1973) - "great book"
Anatomy of architecture by George
Mansell (NY: A & W Publishers, Inc. 1979) - "great Egypt pix on
back book cover"
The Sea Craft of Prehistory by Paul
Johnstone (Harvard U Press 1980)
Cultural Atlas of Africa (Cultural Atlas Series) by Jocelyn
Murray (Editor)
Shamanic Voices: A Survey of Visionary Narratives by Joan
Halifax (Dutton 1979)
The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt by Brian
M. Fagan (Scribners 1975)
by Thor
Heyerdahl
American Indians in the Pacific (1952) - 800 pages
In
the Footsteps of Adam: A Memoir (2002)
Green
Was the Earth on the Seventh Day: Memories and Journeys of a Lifetime (Kodansha
Globe)
Pyramids
of Tucume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City
Kon
Tiki Expedition
Kon-Tiki
Man: An Illustrated Biography of Thor Heyerdahl by Thor
Heyerdahl, Christopher Ralling
Easter
Island : The Mystery Solved
MALDIVE
MYSTERY
Aku
Aku
The
Tigris Expedition: In Search of Our Beginnings
Early
Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation and Seaborne Civilizations
Albatros/
Enciclopedia del Mar Set 4 vols.
The
Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look at the Theories of Erich Von DAniken by
Ronald Story, Thor Heyerdahl
The
Art of Easter Island
Aku-Aku,
the Secret of Easter Island.
The " Kon-Tiki" Expedition:
By Raft Across the South Seas
They Came Before Columbus by Ivan
Van Sertima
Mexican Cities of the Gods: An Archaeological Guide by Hans,
Helfritz (NY: Praeger 1968)
The Vikings - K.R.G. Pendlesonn (NY: Windward Books 1980)
Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias
Schneebaum
Soil and Civilization by Edward
S. Hyams (Harper Colophon Books 1976, orig Thames & Hudson 1952)
----- "the first book of its kind to cover the vast panorama of human history
from a strictly ecological point of view"
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta : A Muslim Traveller of the 14th Century by Ross
E. Dunn
Louis Dupree: Nuristan: "The Land of Light" Seen Darkly (Hanover, New Hamp: American
Univ s Field Staff Rpt, So Asia Series 15: 6, 1971)
and see more of his books
Schuyler Jones: Men of Influence in Nuristan (NY: Seminar Press, 1974)
G.S. Robertson: The Kafirs of Hindu Kush (Oxford: Oxford Univ Press, 1896)
The Kalash Kafirs - Pakistan (from Asia, Aug 80 p. 12)
The Nag Hammadi Library in English : Revised Edition by James
M. Robinson (Harper & Row 1977 $8.95)
The Mysterious World: An Atlas of the Unexplained by Francis.
Hitching (Holt, Rinehart Winston 1978 - $11.95 paperback)
Origins: Creation Texts from the Ancient Mediterranean: A Chrestomathy by Charles
Doria , Harris
Lenowitz (Anchor Press / Doubleday 1976)
Ancient Egyptians and Chinese in America by R.
A. Jairazbhoy
Red Man's Religion - Ruth Murray Underhill
Lightning Bird: The Story of One Man's Journey into Africa's Past by Lyall
Watson (Simon & Schuster - Touchtone 1986) - marked as having read
Valley of the Forgotten People - George Sava (London, 1946) - mountain Jews of
the northeast Caucasus
Where the Old Are Young: Long Life in the Soviet Caucasus by Paula
Garb
Land of the Departed by B.
Shinkuba , Paula
Garb (Translator) (140 year old man)
Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, a Man to Match His Mountains by Eknath
Easwaran - adopted Ghandhi's approach
Origin of Ancient American Cultures by Paul
Shao (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State Univ Press 1983 - $42.78/14.98) - Chinese &
American Symbols compared! <--------
Northern Mists By Carl
Ortwin Sauer - early travels to North America !!! (Turtle Island Books) (by Norse) ---
http://www.vnlnd.net/author/DL01A987.htm
Seeds, Spades, Hearths & Herds
Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four and Five
of the Huainanzi (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
by John
S. Major
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Joseph Needham: Science and Civilization in China (Cambridge Univ Press 1959
- 3 vols)
Lost America - Arlington H. Mallery (Wash DC: The Overlook Printing Co, 1951)
Alexander Marshak: "Lunar Notation on Upper Paleolithic Remains" (Science,
CSLVI - Nov. 6, 1964)
Gerald S. Hawkins: "Stonehenge: A Neolithic Computer" (Nature, CCII,
No. 4939 - June 27, 1964) 1258-61
--------------------------- "Stonehenge Decoded" (Nature, CC, No. 4909
- Oct. 26, 1963) 306-8
from Charles H. Hapgood: Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings (Chilton Books, 1966)
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Zimmer: The Irish Element in Medieval Culture
The Archive History of the World - Otto Bettman (pix)
Timetables of History - Werner Stein
The Genius of Arab Civilization: Source of Renaissance - John R. Hayes(Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press 1978)
Celtic Heritage - Alwin & Brinley Rees (Thames & Hudson 1961) - "looks
good to read"
Road to Survival - William Vogt - (shrinking forests) - (from Tree Crops p. 306)
Food Plants of the North American Indians - US Dept of Agriculture Misc Pub No.
237, issued July 1936
(from Tree Crops p. 296)
Secret Languages of Ireland - Dr. Macallster
History of the Welsh People - Brynmore-Jones & Rhys
Black Gods & Kings
We, the Navigators - David Lewis (The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific)
(Univ of Hawaii Press 1972)
From Sahlins (great bibliography):
Sir George Grey: Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West & Western
Australia
(London: Boone 1841 - 2 vols) - vol. 2 pp. 259-262
Richard Lee & Irven De Vore: Man the Hunter (Chicago: Aldine 1968)
George I. Quimby: "A Year with a Chippewa Family" (Ethnohistory 9:217-39
- 1962)
Ellman Service
Plagues & People - McNeill
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great opening quote:
Comparing Tasmanians With Modern City Dwellers - C. Daryll Forde
Habitat, Economy & Society (London: Metheun 1934)
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Voices of Our Ancestors - (Cherokee) Dhyani Ywahoo (Shambhala) - Utne July/Aug
1988 p. 112 - Tibetan/Native American tie - see reviews first
Arthur Koestler: The Thirteenth Tribe (Random House 1976)
N. K. Sandars: Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterranean (Thames & Hudson
1978)
Gypsies
of the World: A Journey Into the Hidden World of Gypsy Life and Culture- Nabojsa Bato Tomasevic & Rajko Djuric - have NYT review from 1988
Peoples and Places of the Past: The National Geographic Illustrated Cultural
Atlas of the Ancient World by National
Geographic Staff - GET THIS!
Timeframe series by Time Life:
The Human Dawn
The Age of God-Kings 3000-1500 BC
Barbarian Tides 1500-600 BC
A Soaring Spirit 600-400 BC
Empires Ascendant 400 BC - AD 200
Empires Besieged AD 200-600
The March of Islam AD 600-800
Fury of the Northmen AD 800-1000
Light in the East AD 1000-1100
Divine Campaigns 1100-1200 AD
The Mongol Conquests AD 1200-1300
The Age of Calamity AD 1300-1400
Voyages of Discovery AD 1400-1500
The European Emergence AD 1500-1600
Powers of the Crown AD 1600-1700
Powerts of Revolution AD 1700-1800
The Pulse of Enterprise Ad 1800-1850
The Colonial Overloards AD 1850-1900
The World in Arms AD 1900-1925
Shadow of the Dictators AD 1925-1950
The Nuclear Age Ad 1950-1990
The Natural World
The Domestic World
The Enterprise of War
The Rise of Cities
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The ancient world by Giovanni
Garbini - in series: Landmarks of the World's Art (NY: McGraw-Hill 1966)
Ancient Inventions by Nick
Thorpe (Author), Peter
James (Author)
Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of
the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries
by Brian
M. Fagan (Editor)