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Get lost in the world of books... If you cannot see this email properly, please click [here]( Get lost in the world of books... [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( From Eleusis to Florence: The transmission of a secret knowledge The essay From Eleusis to Florence: The transmission of a secret knowledge by Nicola Bizzi is the largest and most complete study ever carried out on the Eleusinian Mystery Tradition, its origins, its history and life through the centuries, from the persecutions perpetuated by the Christians up to the Middle Ages, as well as from the Renaissance to our days. Among the various mystery religions of antiquity, none has ever... [Read more...]( Egyptology: Search for the Tomb of Osiris --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt — and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris... [Read more...]( The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of... [Read more...]( Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins Fifty thousand years ago―merely a blip in evolutionary time―our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its... [Read more...]( Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, Richard Tarnas explores the planetary correlations of epochal... [Read more...]( Carnac, The Alignments: When Art and Science were one --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Howard Crowhurst in this book has presented the most brilliant analysis of a megalithic site in the entire history of archaeology. His elucidations of the geometrical, mathematical, and astronomical principles by which ancient Carnac was constructed prove that megalithic science was astonishingly advanced. The book gives us unprecedented insight into the... [Read more...]( Necropolis: London and Its Dead London. A vast, labyrinthine, ever-moving place that shimmers as the jewel of Britain. But what about beneath it? What of it's history? It's mishaps? It's dead? Catharine Arnold invites us on a gloriously macabre tour - across London's many graveyards, cemeteries and burial plots in a quest to discover whether what has departed can... [Read more...]( Last Week Top Picks //trailer.web-view.net/Links/0X8E0A8E00B41AD0D0C6075610B85D328AF1B50A17892F0F1244C10CD72E5BFA3D13ABCA4F598460773032F8AAD3599F4D050A699E80B0D8CFF711A10B4EB8BE4845BE16A8C025BE03.htm You Might Like [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( You have received this email because you have subscribed to [Ancient-Origins.net](. Copyright © 2020 [Stella Novus Limited]( - [Ancient Origins]( Stella Novus Limited | 6 Abbey Business Park | Baldoyle Industrial Estate | Dublin 13 | D13 N738 | Ireland | +353 876 087 916 [Unsubscribe]( | [Report spam]( Sent with [ActiveTrail](?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=List&utm_campaign=NormalEnglish) software