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Top 7 suggested books of the week... [View web version]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Moses and Akhenaten: Brothers in Alms Could Moses have been a real person and could that person have been the Crown Prince Tuthmose, son of Amenhotep III and brother to Akhenaten? Two of the ancient world’s most enigmatic characters: Moses, who led the Israelites from bondage in Egypt to the Promised Land, yet 'archaeologically' didn’t exist, and Akhenaten, the heretical Pharaoh who overturned the religion of Egypt and was deliberately erased from history... [Read more...]( Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- They survived by their wits in a snowbound world, hunting, and sometimes being hunted by, animals many times their size. By flickering firelight, they drew bison, deer, and mammoths on cavern walls- vibrant images that seize our imaginations after thirty thousand years. They are known to archaeologists as the Cro-Magnons-but who were they?... [Read more...]( Icelandic Folk Legends: Tales of apparitions, outlaws and things unseen --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- The Icelandic nation has a long and rich history of storytelling. Throughout centuries characterized by hardship, poverty and dark winters, the Icelanders kept their spirits high and moral values intact by telling each other stories. In this collection of 15 Icelandic folk legends, we get a glimpse of the world-view of the Icelanders... [Read more...]( NEANDERTHAL: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman The story begins at the end of 1968 in New Jersey, when zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans and biologist Ivan Sanderson first hear from a correspondent about the frozen corpse of an extremely hairy man-like creature being exhibited in the Midwest. Upon arrival in Minnesota, the two scientists come face to face with a "hominid" not of our species embedded in a block of ice. An inquiry into the origin of the specimen triggers a bizarre... [Read more...]( Knowledge for the Afterlife: The Egyptian Amduat - A Quest for Immortality --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- WHY THE AMDUAT IS SIGNIFICANT Every evening the sun becomes old and weak and finally sets behind the Western horizon. Yet, it rises again in the morning, rejuvenated. How is that possible? How could the sun for the Ancient Egyptians the Sungod become young and revitalized during the night, during his night journey?... [Read more...]( The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- "Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions?... [Read more...]( On the Trail of the Women Warriors: The Amazons in Myth and History Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and... [Read more...]( Last Week Top Picks //www.stellanovus.com/sendy/l/892pXI7wL9HqTMJqWj763l3X3Q/LofIa0PlI763MvxAvZyKg3ew/HPm2gVaqP3csUUg4sl892mtg You Might Like [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( You have received this email because you have subscribed to [Ancient-Origins.net](. Copyright © 2019 [Stella Novus Limited]( - [Ancient Origins]( [Unsubscribe here](