Jerusalem, 70 AD: As the invading Romans destroy the Holy Temple, a young Jewish boy is hidden away-chosen as the guardian of a great secret. And for seventy generations, the secret is kept safe... But now, in order to ignite a new conflict between Israel and the Arab world, a Jewish radical is prepared to reveal what has been hidden for centuries. The only ones who can stop the coming bloodshed are a beautiful young Palestinian journalist and...

Describes the techniques and the reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt.

Explains the Egyptian pharaohs' beliefs about life after death, details the technique of mummification, and describes pyramids as burial places.

Discusses seven spectacular monuments of ancient Egypt--the Great Pyramid, the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut's tomb, the Great Sphinx, the Karnac temple complex, the temple of Rameses, and Mount Sinai.

Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears-and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue. At...