Download or read book Lost World of the Golden King written by Frank L. Holt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on ancient historical writings, the vast array of information gleaned in recent years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and startling archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, Frank L. Holt sets out to rediscover the ancient civilization of Bactria. In a gripping narrative informed by the author’s deep knowledge of his subject, this book covers two centuries of Bactria’s history, from its colonization by remnants of Alexander the Great’s army to the kingdom’s collapse at the time of a devastating series of nomadic invasions. Beginning with the few tantalizing traces left behind when the ‘empire of a thousand cities’ vanished, Holt takes up that trail and follows the remarkable and sometimes perilous journey of rediscovery. Lost World of the Ancient King describes how a single bit of evidence—a Greek coin—launched a search that drew explorers to the region occupied by the tumultuous warring tribes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Afghanistan. Coin by coin, king by king, the history of Bactria was reconstructed using the emerging methodologies of numismatics. In the twentieth century, extraordinary ancient texts added to the evidence. Finally, one of the ‘thousand cities’ was discovered and excavated, revealing an opulent palace, treasury, temple, and other buildings. Though these great discoveries soon fell victim to the Afghan political crisis that continues today, this book provides a thrilling chronicle of the search for one of the world’s most enigmatic empires.
Download or read book Confession And Communion For Religious And For Those Who Communicate Frequently written by Mother Mary Loyola and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains a collection of Christian prayers designed to aid and inspire people when confessing and giving thanks 'Confession And Communion For Religious And For Those Who Communicate Frequently' is highly recommended for all modern Christians, and it is not to be missed by collectors of vintage literature of this ilk. Contents include: 'Prayer for Light and Help', 'Examination of Conscience', 'Contrition', 'Firm Purpose of Amendment', 'Thanksgiving', 'Christ our Lord as the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity', 'Christ our Lord as Judge', 'Christ our Lord as Saviour', 'Christ our Lord as Guest', 'Christ our Lord as Master', etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition complete with the original text and images. This book was first published in 1900.
Download or read book Mansa Musa written by Akbarali Thobhani and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A synthesis of the life and times of Mansa Kankan Musa, which introduces the readers to the facinating history of the medieval Western Sudan.
Download or read book The King of the Golden River written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden King written by Zahi A. Hawass and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated story of Tutankhamun by leading Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass that reveals details of the boy king's life and dynasty, archival photographs of Howard Carter's discovery in 1922, and images of artifacts that were buried with the pharaoh.
Download or read book The King of the Golden City written by Mother Mary Loyola and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on 1921 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating tale which breathes into the heart of the child, a deep understanding of Holy Communion and an intimate affection for Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
Download or read book Golden King of the Forest written by Juha Yrjänä Pentikäinen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The King s Golden Beard written by Klaas Verplancke and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who's to blame when a vain, heedless king meets his comeuppance? He is, of course! Fans of Tomi Ungerer's mischievous humor and Jon Agee's sly morality tales will be delighted by this hilarious read-aloud about a long, long beard and its short-sighted royal owner, by a popular Belgian illustrator, designer, and animation whiz. The lush, golden royal beard is a wondrous thing - especially to the king himself. He spends his days admiring and grooming it, and passes laws making it a crime punishable by death for anyone else's face to sport even a single hair. As the people of the kingdom nervously shave daily, the royal beard grows and grows until it appears at the palace's back gate. What happens next will have readers laughing along -- and cheering for the astronomers who, unlike the tyrannical king, know that the earth is round.
Download or read book River of Lost Souls written by Jonathan P. Thompson and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A vivid historical account…Thompson shines in giving a sense of what it means to love a place that's been designated a 'sacrifice zone.'" —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Award–winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh realities, Thompson explores how a new generation is setting out to make amends. JONATHAN THOMPSON is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He has been an environmental journalist focusing on the American West since he signed on as reporter and photographer at the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in 1996. He has worked and written for High Country News for over a decade, serving as editor–in–chief from 2007 to 2010. He was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and in 2016 he was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalists' Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market. He currently lives in Bulgaria with his wife Wendy and daughters Lydia and Elena.
Download or read book A Dominant Strategy of E A Golden King written by Amanda Howell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flight of A King : The Strategy, The Skill, The War, The Kill, The Models, The Justice for One Brave Woman to try and take on the bias effigy of his estranged partner, the dog Marmaduke, Selma’s re engagement and the truth of vulnerability Written in Classical Stanza for Full Production, Witty, Cool and very very comprehensively written for awards in the future...the characters are introduced in the first book and developed forwards into the second very very cleverly written as Cantona plays himself, some of the characters and they are funny.... Written for the Royal Family in Sandringham and a favourite of Prince Harry not Prince George
Download or read book The Lion King Disney The Lion King written by Justine Korman and published by Golden/Disney. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting tale of Simba, a young cub who earns his place in the Circle of Life, is retold in the classic Little Golden Book format. Children ages 2-5 will roar with excitement as they read this retelling of Disney's The Lion King.
Download or read book Tutankhamun written by Zahi Hawass and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious boy king Tutankhamun returns to the U.S. in 2008, bringing rare treasures never before seen outside Egypt. For the millions of fans wanting a keepsake and chronicle of this magnificent new exhibition, this book will delight. Created by world-renowned art historians under the guidance of Zahi Hawass—director of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and a well-known media personality—it surveys 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history by focusing on the lives and lifestyles of great pharaohs. Master photographer Sandro Vannini spotlights every dazzling artifact, using an innovative technique that makes the image jump off the page. The book’s design echoes the exhibition, grouping objects representing family life, religious practices, funerary rituals, and gold. In each artifact—a queen’s eye makeup container, a likeness of a princess eating duck, a sarcophagus made for a prince’s cat—we glimpse the life of ancient Egyptian royalty: exotic and fascinating, yet so human. Gold gleams in a leopard-mask of gilded wood, a brilliant pendant bearing tiny goddesses, even the golden finger and toe covers of Tutankhamun himself, meant to protect his extremities in the afterlife. Featuring more than 120 treasures, a dozen evocative landscape and archaeology photos, and illuminating text, this book makes palpable the excitement, riches, and mysteries of ancient Egypt. It will be prominently displayed in all exhibition venues, and its contents will interest visitors to the show as well as Tut enthusiasts across the country. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.
Download or read book The King s Gold written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From international bestselling author Arturo Pérez-Reverte comes the fourth adventure of Captain Alatriste in the “series [that] recalls the great adventure novels of Dumas and Scott”(The New York Times). Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Iñigo Balboa, accept a risky job involving a dozen swordsmen and mercenaries at their command, a dazzling amount of contraband gold, and a heavily guarded Spanish galleon returning from the West Indies. The job offer comes from the king himself, for at stake is nothing less than the Spanish Crown, and its dominion over the wealth of the Americas. But for Alatriste, a very personal surprise awaits him on that galleon.
Download or read book King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table written by Emma Gelders Sterne and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he pulls a sword from a stone, Arthur fulfills his destiny to become king of England and together with his knights of the Round Table ushers in a golden age of chivalry.
Download or read book King of the Beasties written by Ann Braybrooks and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asking his friends for forgiveness for his commands, Tigger accepts a king uncrowning.
Download or read book The Golden Goblet written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and published by Viking Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1961 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donation July/04.
Download or read book King Midas and the Golden Touch written by Charlotte Craft and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-09-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There once lived a very rich king called Midas who believed that nothing was more precious than gold." So begins this imaginative and breathtaking retelling of the myth of the man with the golden touch. When a mysterious stranger offers to reward Midas for a kindness, the king does not hesitate: He wishes that all he touches would turn to gold. To his delight, his wish is granted and he soon sets about transforming his ordinary palace into a place of golden beauty. But to his dismay, when he accidentally turns his beloved daughter into a golden statue, Midas learns that what at first seems a blessing can also become a curse.
