Ancient Sea

This volume, aimed at the general audience, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies.

What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over 200 years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties not founded by a successor of Alexander the Great. Previous histories of Pontos have focused almost exclusively on the career of its last ruler. Setting that famous reign in its wide historical context, Empire of the Black Sea is an engaging account of a powerful yet little-known ancient dynasty.

The navy created by the people of Athens in ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come. The Athenian navy built a civilization, empowered the world's first democracy, and led a band of ordinary citizens on a voyage of discovery that altered the course of history.

Charles Hapgood's classic 1966 book on ancient maps is back. Hapgood produces concrete evidence of an advanced worldwide civilization existing many thousands of years before ancient Egypt. He has found the evidence in many beautiful maps long known to scholars, the Piri Reis Map that shows Antarctica, the Hadji Ahmed map, the Oronteus Finaeus and other amazing maps. Hapgood concluded that these maps were made from more ancient maps from the various ancient archives around the world, now lost.

This book contains several prophecies from the Dead Sea Scrolls. It discusses fragments of Essene commentaries regarding both the major and the minor prophets in addition to Essene commentary on other prophecies from the Bible. This book also contains fragments of non-biblical prophecy books (manuscripts from the School of the Prophets) along with the Essene commentary on these works.

Isolated in a desolate corner of Algeria, Dr. Jade Asher-Reece unearthed the greatest archaeological finds of the century. As she pieces together the lost secrets of the Heroes of the Trojan War, the Hebrew Judges, and the last great Pharaoh, her excavation team is beset by the harsh environment, jealousy, and betrayal. Worse still, dangerous forces are plotting against her. Will she be able to solve the mysteries of the Bronze Age before it is too late?

The Ancient Dead Sea Scrolls speak about a mysterious 364-day solar calendar used by the ancients from the time of Creation to about 170 BC. In the second century BC, it was replaced with a lunar calendar by corrupt Jewish priests. Today we know this corrupt lunar calendar as the modern Jewish calendar. In this book we will learn about God’s original solar calendar and discover what prophecies it reveals. Most Christians know that the Jewish festivals teach prophecy. Festivals like Passover, teach about the First Coming of the Messiah.

Ranging from prehistory to the 21st century, The Great Sea is above all the history of human interaction across a region that has brought together many of the great civilizations of antiquity as well as the rival empires of medieval and modern times.

In 1878, a Jerusalem antiquities dealer named Moses Wilhelm Shapira acquired a curious biblical manuscript consisting of sixteen leather strips. The manuscript, written in ancient, Paleo-Hebrew contained what appeared to be a form of the Bible’s Book of Deuteronomy but with significant variations. It was allegedly discovered by Bedouin tribesmen around 1865, east of the Dead Sea, in a remote cave, high above the Wadi Mujib (biblical Arnon). Shapira believed that his manuscript was both ancient and authentic. In 1883, he presented his scroll to the leading scholars of Europe. Newspapers ...

The ocean guards its secrets jealously. But some mysteries, once disturbed, unleash a terror that infects the soul. An unnatural fog descends upon the Archer's Wake, swallowing the horizon and the crew's courage in its chilling embrace. When a ghost ship, the Vanta Grey—lost to the abyss for half a century yet impossibly preserved—drifts into view, duty and a gnawing curiosity compel them to investigate. What they uncover aboard the silent, eerie vessel is not just a maritime enigma, but a descent into a horror that defies sanity. A forgotten logbook whispers of an ancient, slumbering ...

Best selling history writer Thomas Cahill continues his series on the roots of Western civilization with this volume about the contributions of ancient Greece to the development of contemporary culture. Tracing the origin of Greek culture in the migrations of armed Indo-European horsemen into Attica and the Peloponnesian peninsula, he follows their progress into the creation of the Greek city-states, the refinement of their machinery of war, and the flowering of intellectual and artistic culture.

They vanished without a trace, leaving behind no temples, no monuments, no written accounts of their own. But in the barren caves of Qumran, hidden away for two thousand years, the whispers of their world remained—sealed inside fragile scrolls. The Essenes were not merely a religious sect; they were purists, visionaries, and outcasts who believed they alone held the key to divine truth. Their story is one of discipline, prophecy, and an apocalyptic expectation that would echo through history, shaping both Judaism and Christianity in ways few understand. The lost sect that defied the world...

Pierre Tallet's discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls—the world's oldest surviving written documents—in 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, and combined with Mark Lehner's research, changed what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Here, for the first time, the world-renowned Egyptologists Tallet and Lehner give us the definitive account of this discovery and explore how the building of the pyramids helped create a unified state, propelling Egyptian civilization forward.

It is difficult to know the Sea People intimately because the records on them aren’t very comprehensive. But we set out to explore the many questions people have about this mysterious civilization. Who were they? Where did they come from? Did they do more than simply pillage, and what impact did they have on society and commerce? Would you be shocked to learn that these mysterious people were more than a band of pirates?

Eastern Roman Empire, AD 310. In the shadow of Emperor Diocletian’s anti-Christian edicts, Demitria makes a meager living harvesting coral and pearls for a merchant who turns a blind eye to her faith. By night, Demi goes upriver with her brother, Theseus, to obtain provisions for fellow believers in the port city of Myra. While willing to risk her own life to ensure others are safe and fed, Demi lives with a desperate fear for those she loves and carries secret shame over her greatest failure.

Deep in the Amazon, a catastrophic sinkhole rips a wound in the earth, revealing a lost world that has been isolated for millions of years. For an elite team of scientists and survival experts, it’s the discovery of a lifetime. But their state-of-the-art expedition is unprepared for what awaits them in the crushing depths. The ecosystem they discover is not just ancient—it's actively hostile. When they are cut off from the world above, the team becomes prisoners in a subterranean cavern of impossible scale, hunted by the environment’s apex predator. This is no fossil. It's a nightmare...

The high-level overview includes information about the Armana Letters, Amenemope's Wisdom, Atrahasis Epic, Babylonian Theodicy, Book of Tobit, Cyrus Cylinder, Dead Sea Scrolls, Doctrine of Wiscom, Ebla Tablets, Elephantine Papyri, Enuma Elish, Gezer Calendar, Gilgamesh Epic, Hammurabi's Code, Hymn to the Aten, Ishtar's Descent, Jehoichin's Ration Dockets, Kings List, Lachish Letters, Lamentation Over the Destruction of Ur, Ludlul Ben Nemeqi, Mari Tablets, Merneptah Stele, Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone), Message to the Amen, Mursilis's Treaty with Duppi-Tessub, Nabonidus Chronicle, ...

The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated; other important innovations and accomplishments, however, are unknown or underappreciated. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores the legacy, good and bad, of the ancient Greeks. Full of surprising, often controversial, insights, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea is a remarkable intellectual adventure.

In the crushing abyss of the Pacific, silence is not peace. It's a prelude to damnation. Captain Ortega commands the USS Caspian, a state-of-the-art nuclear submarine and the apex of naval engineering. His mission is routine, his crew the best in the fleet. But when a sudden, inexplicable power failure plunges them into absolute darkness and silence, their training is put to the ultimate test. It's not a system malfunction; it's a suffocating, complete death of the machine. Stranded miles beneath the surface, the crew's discipline begins to fray as impossible phenomena plague the ship. A ...

Beneath the waves, darkness stirs… Most know stories of Atlantis; the downfall of a superior civilization that sank into the ocean. Join these characters on the adventures of a lifetime as they navigate the dangerous depths. From exploring sunken cities where hungry monsters lurk to sanguine sirens that leave bloody trails in their wakes. From selkies stumbling across love to the discovery of elusive creatures like Nessie. Featuring stories from Jo Niederhoff, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Ella Rose, Charles Kyffhausen, M.R. Parsons, and J.E. Feldman.