Ergebnis für "Buried Secrets" in Geschichte

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.

Talkin' about the paranormal, the occult, and weird and forgotten history. Deep dive into stories about ghosts, ouija boards, cemeteries, obscure and bizarre stories from New York City, urban legends, paranormal investigations, and more!

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".

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.

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.