Download or read book The Lost Millennium written by Florin Diacu and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how we really know what year it is? Part detective story, part conspiracy theory, part scientific history, The Lost Millennium explores the astonishing possibility that our calendar is out by a thousand years. A chance conversation at a conference in Mexico started mathematician Florin Diacu on an amazing journey to make sense of one of the strangest — and if true, most revolutionary — theories you’ll ever encounter. To understand how scientists could be sceptical about what year it is, Florin Diacu explores the fascinating history of chronology — from Egyptian horoscopes to the work of Isaac Newton, with cameos by Voltaire and Edmund Halley — making the startling discovery that our calendar is far from ironclad. It all depends, rather, on the dating of ancient events — about which there is real controversy. At once accessible and profound, The Lost Millennium examines the arguments of present-day chronological revisionists such as the Russian scholar Anatoli Fomenko, who claims that our system of dating is horribly askew. Fomenko cites evidence from ancient astronomy, linguistics and cartography, and a crucial manuscript by Ptolemy, staking his scientific prestige on a theory so controversial that it will change the way you think about time, history and the calendar on your wall. The field has also inspired its share of now-discredited cranks, such as Immanuel Velikovsky, a media celebrity of the 1950s. His notorious book Worlds in Collision argued that biblical events are incorrectly dated. Beautifully written and peopled with fascinating characters from past and present, The Lost Millennium is essential reading for anyone who believes they’re living in the year 2005.
Download or read book The Lost Millennium written by Walt Richmond and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Lost Millennium written by Florin Diacu and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the author as he pushes further and further in search of the truth.
Download or read book Egyptology The Missing Millennium written by Okasha El Daly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egyptology: The Missing Millennium brings together for the first time the disciplines of Egyptology and Islamic Studies, seeking to overturn the conventional opinion of Western scholars that Moslims/Arabs had no interest in pre-Islamic cultures. This book examines a neglected period of a thousand years in the history of Egyptology, from the Moslem annexation of Egypt in the seventh century CE until the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century. Concentrating on Moslem writers, as it is usually Islam which incurs blame for cutting Egyptians off from their ancient heritage, the author shows not only the existence of a large body of Arabic sources on Ancient Egypt, but also their usefulness to Egyptology today. Using sources as diverse as the accounts of travelers and treasure hunters to books on alchemy, the author shows that the interest in ancient Egyptian scripts continued beyond classical writers, and describes attempts by medieval Arab scholars, mainly alchemists, to decipher the hieroglyph script. He further explores medieval Arab interest in Ancient Egypt, discussing the interpretations of the intact temples, as well as the Arab concept of Egyptian kingship and state administration—including a case study of Queen Cleopatra that shows how the Arabic romance of this queen differs significantly from Western views. This book will be of great interest to academics and students of archaeology, Islamic studies and Egyptology, as well as anyone with a general interest in Egyptian history.
Download or read book Egyptology The Missing Millennium written by Okasha El Daly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egyptology: The Missing Millennium brings together for the first time the disciplines of Egyptology and Islamic Studies, seeking to overturn the conventional opinion of Western scholars that Moslims/Arabs had no interest in pre-Islamic cultures. This book examines a neglected period of a thousand years in the history of Egyptology, from the Moslem annexation of Egypt in the seventh century CE until the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century. Concentrating on Moslem writers, as it is usually Islam which incurs blame for cutting Egyptians off from their ancient heritage, the author shows not only the existence of a large body of Arabic sources on Ancient Egypt, but also their usefulness to Egyptology today. Using sources as diverse as the accounts of travelers and treasure hunters to books on alchemy, the author shows that the interest in ancient Egyptian scripts continued beyond classical writers, and describes attempts by medieval Arab scholars, mainly alchemists, to decipher the hieroglyph script. He further explores medieval Arab interest in Ancient Egypt, discussing the interpretations of the intact temples, as well as the Arab concept of Egyptian kingship and state administration—including a case study of Queen Cleopatra that shows how the Arabic romance of this queen differs significantly from Western views. This book will be of great interest to academics and students of archaeology, Islamic studies and Egyptology, as well as anyone with a general interest in Egyptian history.
Download or read book Lost Days written by Mike Moscoe and published by Ace. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A designer plague threatens every living thing on earth...and a desperate world sends two 21st-century soldiers back in time to win a war lost six thousand years ago.Now, in the thrilling follow-up to First Dawn and Second Fire, Lieutenant Launa O?Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear return from 4,000 B.C.--and discover a radically changed civilization, and a society infested with a different sort of plague...
Download or read book Lost Days written by Mike Shepherd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a designer plague threatens every living thing on earth, a desperate world sends two 21st century soldiers back in time. Their mission is to win a war that was lost six thousand years ago and change human history from conquest to cooperation. Now, believing their goal accomplished, they return to a world radically altered, but perhaps not for the better in Lost Days. The world is healthy and at peace when Lieutenant Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear return from 4,000 B.C. But a different sort of plague has infested society. Suspicion and hostility poison the air. Racial and ethnic hatred are sanctioned by the powers that be, and it is not only Jack's people who are confined to "reservations." Now the two are contemplating a journey back to the Neolithic period - in a desperate attempt to change history once more. But this time, there is no guarantee they will ever return.
Download or read book First Dawn written by Mike Moscoe and published by Ace. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are the first time travelers--guinea pigs in an experiment that cannot fail. From a future ravaged by plague, they must travel thousands of years into the past to the dawn of civilization. Among tribes of primitive hunters, they will trace a fatal chain of events--and alter history to save humanity from itself.
Download or read book First Dawn written by Mike Shepherd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a designer plague threatens every living thing on earth, two 21st century soldiers must travel back in time. They are the only hope for a desperate world. Their mission: to win a war that was lost six thousand years ago. The odds against them are impossibly long. What they find goes beyond anything ever expected as the sun begins to rise on the First Dawn. 4,000 B.C. - Among the tribes of the Danube River basin, the People of the Badger survive by hunting and trading, but their peaceful existence is threatened. A bloodthirsty clan tames the horse and swaths a path of rape, death, and destruction across the land. This is the destine that awaits the People of the Badger. Until a woman and a man appear out of nowhere to lead them. On an epic quest to save humanity, these warriors from the future must destroy the innocence of the past and teach the hunters to take up arms and same themselves from an onslaught, the consequences of which will be six thousand years in the future.
Download or read book The Lost Millennium written by Walter Richmond and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems for the Lost Millennium written by Anthony Panzardi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love in the New Millennium written by Can Xue and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can only be reached underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions. Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love's many guises—satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling—against a kaleidoscopic backdrop drawn from East and West of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, sex and romance.
Download or read book Millennium Book One The Fall Of Terok Nor written by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the climactic close of the TV series of Star Trek Deep Space Nine the forces of the Federation and their allies finally overcame the Dominion invaders and averted the threat of totalitarian rule. And yet ... the future of the Alpha Quadrant is by no means as safe as it seems. Deep within the bowels of Deep Space Nine is a secret that has been kept for seven years. When it is uncovered the very heart of the Federation will be ripped apart, succeeding where the shapeshifting Founders failed. The destruction of the Federation is at stake. Only the crew of Deep Space Nine can stop it - but will they be in time?
Download or read book Second Fire written by Mike Shepherd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a designer plague threatens every living thing on earth, a desperate world sends two 21st century soldiers back in time to change their own history. Their mission: to win a war that was lost 6,000 years ago and change human history from conquest to cooperation. The odds against them are impossibly long as the war between two primitive tribes ignites into a Second Fire. The horsemen have brought war to the People of the Badger, a tribe that never had a reason to fear or kill another human being. With their 21st century knowledge, Lieutenant Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear must lead the people down a new path or watch them face extinction. As dissension reigns among the tribe, between those who would learn to fight, Jack and Launa are called upon to sacrifice their own lives to complete their mission. Only they know that the People of the Badger are civilization's only hope to erase the thousands of years of brutality that lie ahead for the human race.
Download or read book Lost Days written by Mike Shepherd and published by Kl & MM Books. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you win a war lost 6000 years before you were born? Worse, what if you've won that war, and the word you've made isn't quite what you expected? Problem is, now you're 6000 years away from the on-going fight -- again! Here's the exciting conclusion of the Lost Millennium Trilogy as Launa and Jack set out to do it all over again!
Download or read book The Mystery of Easter Island written by Katherine Routledge and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavily illustrated with a wealth of old photos, this book is a treasury of information on the most mysterious of islands, Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
