Hidden History: Lost Civilizations, Secret Knowledge, and Ancient Mysteries, Brian Haughton [books you need to read .TXT] 📗

MacLeod, R. (ed) The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.

"The Foundation and Loss of the Royal Serapeum Libraries of Alexandria" An article by James Hannam. www.bede.org.uk/Library2.htm.

Website of the new Library of Alexandria. www.bibalex.org/ English / index.aspx.

BBC news article about the possible discovery of the site of the Library of Alexandria. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 1 IN Isci I tech 13707641.stm.

The Great Pyramid: An Enigma in the Desert

Bauval, R. & A. Gilbert. The Orion Mystery : Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids. London: Arrow, 1994.

Edwards, I.E.S. The Pyramids of Egypt. London: Penguin Books, 1993.

James, P. & Thorpe, N. Ancient Mysteries. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.

Lehner, M. The Complete Pyramids. London: Thames & Hudson, 1997.

Mendelssohn, K. The Riddle of the Pyramids. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986.

"This Side up, Rolling Stones, & Building the Great Pyramid. A New Hypothesis." Roumen V. Mladjov, S.E. and Ian S. R. Mladjov, B.A. wwwpersonal. umich.edu / -imladjov / pyramids.doc.

The Nazca Lines

Aveni, A. F. Between the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nazca, Peru. University of Texas Press, 2000.

Hadingham, E. Lines to the Mountain God: Nazca and the Mysteries of Peru. London: Harrap Ltd., 1987.

James, P. & Thorpe, N. Ancient Mysteries. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.

Article about the Nazca lines. www.ctystalinks.com/nazca.html.

"The Nazca Lines Revisited: Creation of a Full-Sized Duplicate." www.onagocag.com/nazca.html.

The Piri Reis Map

McIntosh, G. C. & N.J.W. Thrower. The Piri Reis Map of 1513. University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Soucek, S. Piri Reis and Turkish Mapmaking After Colombus: The Khali Portolan Atlas. London: Khalili Collections, 2004.

"The Mysteries of the Piri Reis Map" by Diego Cuoghi. http: l l xoomer. virgilio. it! dieuoghi / Piri Reis l PiriReis_eng. htm.

The Piri Reis Map at The Internet Sacred Text Archive. www.sacred- texts.com /Piri / index.htm.

The Unsolved Puzzle of the PhaisLos Disc

Butler, A. Knight, C. & R. Lomas. The Bronze Age Computer Disc. Berkshire, U.K.: Foulsham, 1997.

Fagan, B.M. (ed). The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Hagen, 0. The Phaistos Disc Alias the Minoan Calendar. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2001.

Article about the Phaistos Disc on the Interkriti Website. www.interkriti.orgl culture / festos /phaist2. htm.

The Shroud of Turin

Fagan, B. (ed) The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Knight, C. & R. Lomas. The Second Messiah. London: Arrow Books, 1998.

Picknett, L & C. Prince. Turin Shroud: How Leonardo Da Vinci Fooled History. London: Time Warner Paperbacks, 2006.

Schwortz, B. & I. Wilson. The Turin Shroud: The Illustrated Evidence. London: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd., 2000.

"Turin Shroud `shows second face."' BBC World News article. news.bbc.co.uk/ 11 hi / world / europe / 3621931.stm.

"Turin Shroud `older than thought."' BBC News article. news.bbc.co.uk/2/ hi /science I nature 14210369.stm.

Unofficial Shroud of Turin Website edited by Barrie Schwortz. www.shroud.com.

The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

Lothrop, S.K. Archaeology of the Diquils Delta, Costa Rica. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1978.

Stone, D. Introduction to the archaeology of Costa Rica. Museo Nacional. 1966.

Zapp, I. & G. Erikson. Atlantis in America: Navigators of the Ancient World. Kempton, Ill.: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1998.

Stone Balls of Costa Rica. www.ku.eduI -hoopes /balls.

Landmarks Foundation Project Diquis. www.landmarksfoundation.org/ projects_diquis. shtml.

Talos: An Ancient Greek Robot?

Apollodorus. The Library of Greek Mythology (trans. Robin Hard). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998.

Apollonius of Rhodes. The Voyage of Argo (trans. E.V. Rieu). London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1975.

Graves, R. The Greek Myths. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1992.

University of Connecticut-"da Vinci Project." www.engr.uconn.edu/ davinci.

Timeline of Robotics. www. thocp. net / reference / robotics / robotics. html.

The Baghdad Battery

Welfare, S. & J. Fairley. Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. London: Book Club Associates, 1981.

"Experiments with homemade batteries" by Mike Bullivant and Jonathan Hare www.creative-science.org.uk/ seal.html.

"Riddle of Baghdad's batteries." news.bbc.co.uk/1 /hilscil tech! 2804257.stm.

Museum of Ancient Inventions. www.smith.edu l hsc l museum l ancient-inventions / battery2. html.

The Ancient Hill Figures of England

Castledon, R. Ancient Hill Figures of Britain. Sussex, U.K.: SB Publications, 1999.

Newman, P. The Lost Gods of Albion: The Chalk Hill-Figures of Britain. Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1997.

James, P & N. Thorpe. Ancient Mysteries. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.

Westwood, J. (ed) The Atlas of Mysterious Places. London: Guild Publishing, 1987.

The Casa Artifact

Steiger, B. Mysteries of Time and Space. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974.

"The Coso Artifact. Mystery from the Depths of Time" by Pierre Stromberg and Paul V. Heinrich. www.talkorigins.org/faqs/coso.html

"Archaeology from the dark side" http: / / dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/ 2005 / 08 131 /archaeology /index. html.

The Mehra Sky Disc

The Nebra Disc on the Official Landesmuseum Website. www.archlsa.de I sterne.

BBC Horizon documentary of the Disc. www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/ 2004 / stardisctrans. shtml.

"Bronze Age Sky Disc Deciphered." www.dw-world. de /dw /article / 0,2144,1915398, 00. html.

Noah's Ark and the Great Flood

Best, R.M. Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian Origins of the Flood Myth. Winona Lake, Ill.: Eisenbrauns, 1999.

Cohn, N. Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996.

Fagan, B.M. (ed) The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Foster, B. R. (ed) The Epic of Gilgamesh. London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.

Ryan, W. & W. Pitman. Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History. Old Tappan, N.J.: Touchstone, 2000.

The Mayan Calendar

Aveni, A.F. Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.

James, P. & N. Thorpe. Ancient Mysteries. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.

Sharer, R.J. & S.G. Morley. The Ancient Maya. (5th edition) Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.

The Antikythera Mechanism: An Ancient Computer?

De Solla Price, D. Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism -A Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C. New York: Science History Publications, 1975.

James, P. & N. Thorpe. Ancient Inventions. London: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd., 1994.

Russo, L. The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn. Berlin: Springer, 2004.

"The Antikythera Mechanism-The Clockwork Computer" www.economist.com/displaystory. c fm?story_id=1337165.

Ancient Aircraft?

James, P. & N. Thorpe. Ancient Inventions. London: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd., 1994.

"Top Ten Out-Of-Place-Artifacts" by Joseph Robert Jochmans, Lit. D. www.atlantisrising.com / iss ue5 / ar5topten. html.

"Model Airplane?" www.catchpenny.org/model.html.

"The Abydos Mystery" www.enigmas.org/aef/lib/archeo/ abydosm.shtml.

"Prehistoric "plane" flies!" www.philipcoppens.com / bbl_plane.html.

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Baigant, M. &