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The True Treasure of Ancient Egypt

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by John and Colleen Darnell

by Professor John Coleman Darnell and Dr. Colleen Darnell Egyptologists and authors of Egypt’s Golden Couple,…
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Tutankhamun: A Tomb Like No Other

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by Tasha Alexander

Few stories in the history of stories are better than that of…
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How to Find a Lost City

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by Edmund Richardson

So you want to find a lost city? Congratulations: you’ve joined an exclusive…
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Ancient Rome’s Short-Lived Teen Emperor: Practical Joker, Drag Queen, Transgender?

by Steven Saylor

Psssst! Have you heard about Elagabalus? They say he invented the world’s first…
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Inside Egypt’s Rock-Cut Tomb Chapels

by John Romer For the majority of Westerners, the grand tour of Egypt had started in…
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The Bones of John the Baptist

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David Gibson and Michael McKinley The Bones of John the Baptist The island of Sveti Ivan…
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Circumference: Round, Flat, and Egg-Shaped

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by Nicholas Nicastro On a recent trip to Istanbul, I belatedly discovered a museum that I’d…
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Finding Jesus: The Remarkable Story of the James Ossuary

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Our book, which takes six venerated objects connected to Jesus and looks at them through the…
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Featured Excerpt: President Carter

by Stuart E. Eizenstat

Grounding the B-1 Bomber Exclusive picture of President…
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Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday

by Tom Clavin

Depiction of the fighting near Dunker Church by Thure…
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The Finest Rough-and-Tumble Fighter

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by Jack Kelly

Florence Kelley’s father, William, taught his daughter to read in 1866 using books…
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Contrasts in A Place to Hide

by Ronald H. Balson

A Place to Hide is my ninth novel and the seventh set…
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The Notorious Kid Curry

by Tom Clavin

Kid Curry, born as Harvey Logan. Public domain via…
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What Can We Learn from Red Dead Redemption?

by Tore C. Olsson

In his new book Red Dead's History, Tore Olsson reveals the gritty and brutal world that…
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Pat Nixon and “Panda Diplomacy”

by Heath Hardage Lee

As spring came to Washington in 1972, there was little rest for…
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The Decade in Southern History that (Almost) No One Is Talking About

by Tore C. Olsson

Imagine a bookcase large enough to contain all the works ever written…
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