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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. Hessler is a superb literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of wonder that he gets to watch the history of this grand city unfold, one day at a time.” —Wall Street Journal...

Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain.

One day in 1872, self-taught Assyriologist George Smith was sifting through a pile of clay tablets when he realized he was reading about "a flood, storm, a ship caught on a mountain, and a bird sent out in search of dry land". This is the riveting story of the discovery of the world's first literary epic, the "Epic of Gilgamesh".

"Buried" is a gripping true crime podcast that delves deep into mysterious cold cases, unsolved murders, and forgotten disappearances. Each episode uncovers dark secrets and untangles complex investigations, bringing you chilling stories from across the globe. Prepare to be captivated by suspenseful storytelling and in-depth analysis of the most perplexing cases buried in history.Disclosure: The content of this podcast is researched and created by real people. To deliver the episodes, we use Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology for narration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...

The Buried podcast focuses on various true crime cases, ranging from murders and disappearances to strange mysteries. The crimes often take place in Asia, but the podcast also covers some lesser-known cases from other regions. New episodes are released once a week on Wednesdays.

If we are to believe many modern commentators, science has squeezed God into a corner, killed and then buried him with its all-embracing explanations. Atheism, we are told, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede the progress of science. In this audiobook, John Lennox invites us to consider such claims very carefully. Is it really true, he asks, that everything in science points towards atheism? Has science buried God? God's Undertaker is an invaluable contribution to the debate about science's relationship to religion.

Welcome to Buried in the Attic: Stories Grandma Never Told Us. I’m your host, Lynette, and I’m a genealogist. Each month I’ll share stories I’ve stumbled across in my own research and interview other genealogists, both professional and amateur. We’ll discuss surprising, fascinating, and sometimes unsettling discoveries we’ve made in our genealogy journeys. I’ll even take submissions from YOU, the listeners. So come with me as we climb the stairs, open the door, and see what we find buried in the attic.Buried in the Attic is produced, written, and recorded by me, Lynette Kleisner....

Welcome to the Buried Riches Podcast, where we invite you to dig deeper—beyond the noise, beyond yourself—to uncover the meaningful adventure you were created to live. Here, we explore the stories, struggles, and hidden treasures that shape extraordinary lives. Every episode, we sit down with real people who’ve unearthed something timeless beneath the surface—truth, purpose, passion—and we ask: What are your buried riches? This isn’t just another podcast—it’s a journey toward what really matters. Our hope is that each conversation encourages you to slow down, tune in, and ...

In The Buried City, Gabriel Zuchtriegel takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Pompeii and reveals new archaeological finds that are being unearthed at the site’s biggest dig in a generation. As director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, Zuchtriegel presents a uniquely intimate perspective on this city that was tragically destroyed and frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Among the ruins, we find unmade beds, dishes left drying, and bodies of victims encased in ash, but Zuchtriegel shows that we’ve only begun to understand this fascinating place.

Carey Mae Parker has been missing from northeast Texas since 1991. People go missing every day, but there's something unusual about Carey's case. After two decades without answers, family members made a shocking discovery: Police never launched an investigation. We spent a year searching for clues about Carey's disappearance. And about the people who let it happen.

You scream, but no one hears you. The coffin swallows every sound. The soil presses down, heavy and final. Your chest burns, your arms cannot rise, your legs cannot move. Death is not a quiet sleep — it is a prison without escape. For centuries, people have feared one fate above all others: being buried alive. From ancient myths and medieval plagues to safety coffins, graveyard bells, and real-life cases of the “dead” awakening beneath the earth, this book uncovers the chilling history of premature burial. Step into the shadows of folklore, superstition, and science.

"Leave now, or die!" From the heart of the Midwest to the Deep South, from the mountains of North Carolina to the Texas frontier, words like these have echoed through more than a century of American history. The call heralded not a tornado or a hurricane, but a very unnatural disaster: a manmade wave of racial cleansing that purged black populations from counties across the nation.

What was communism really? And why won’t the dream die? In this book, JJ strips away the Cold War cartoons, authoritarian cosplay, and capitalist propaganda to ask a much simpler question: What if we didn’t have to live like this? COMMUNISM: The Dream That Got Buried isn’t a defense of tyrants or a call for revolution. It’s a story about the dream that said we could build a world without bosses, billionaires, or survival-for-sale economics. A dream that terrified the powerful, got twisted by dictators, and was buried under branding before it ever got a real chance.

This second book in the bestselling Forbidden Secrets series goes even deeper into the shocking, suppressed, and true stories of modern and ancient history—featuring classified military programs, secret weapons, unsolved scientific anomalies, and documented human experiments backed by evidence, sources, and historical records. From Cold War operations and CIA mind control to Nazi black ops, lost civilizations, and bizarre natural events, this book is a treasure trove of hidden knowledge.

What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting, and those curious about the birthplace of the United States are left to turn to dramatic and often highly fictionalized reports.

In the harrowing words of this compelling narrative, delve into the tragic events that unfolded on December 11 and 12, 1981, in the remote village of El Mozote. Uncover the untold stories of the courageous individuals who faced unimaginable brutality, caught in the crossfire of a war that scarred a nation. This book is a journey through the darkest chapters of history, exploring the resilience of the human spirit against the backdrop of unspeakable atrocities.

This audiobook is the journal of a Romanian orphan who survive and escaped Ceausescu's communist regime. This is a healing journal. Life itself wrote this journal. All I can offer you is my reality, my simple truth. It burst out of my journal with its own identity after 20 years of weekly confessions. What happened under the streets of Bucharest will sink into your mind and take you back into the dark communist times.

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Forbidden Secrets & Hidden Files of the World takes you deep inside the declassified files, buried records, and long-suppressed truths from the United States of America, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, the Soviet Union, and beyond. Packed with real-world government cover-ups, military secrets, and firsthand accounts, this book exposes the stories too wild—and too real—to be fiction.

In the Buried Legends podcast we go digging for the strange and often terrifying stories that would be, maybe should be, forgotten.We all know that nothing stays buried forever... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.