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A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discovery: a near-complete royal burial, an ancient mummy and golden riches beyond imagination. The lost tomb of Tutankhamun ignited a media frenzy, propelled into overdrive by rumours of a deadly ancient curse. But amid the hysteria, many stories—including that of Tutankhamun himself—were distorted or forgotten. Tutankhamun: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma takes a familiar tale and turns on its head.

When the European armies of the Third Crusade were defeated at the Battle of Hattin in 1187 CE, the region of what is today southern Jordan was overrun by Saladin's armies, and over the following five centuries knowledge of Petra's existence was lost to the people of Europe. The ancient city and center of civilization hidden in the desert became a myth, drawn largely upon Biblical accounts of the people and places in the Holy Land.

An investigation of how Moses was deceived and murdered by his father-in-law, Reuel: this audiobook shows how the magician Reuel staged the Burning Bush that spoke to Moses and assumed Moses’ identity after his murder; explains how early scribes edited the Exodus story to cover Moses’ assassination and replacement and fabricated Moses’ origin story; and builds upon the Moses research of Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, and Sigmund Freud - who spent the last 40 years of his life obsessed with solving Moses’ murder....

"كبيرة الورد" رواية قصيرة بنيت على أحداث تاريخية وقعت في مطلع القرن الأول بعد الميلاد.

"Parádeisos" - "Paradies" nannten die Griechen die Gartenanlagen der Perser: grüne Oasen mit Bäumen, Pflanzen aller Art und einem Gehege für zahme und wilde Tiere - oft mitten in der Wüste und Steppe gelegen. Noch heute liegt das "Paradies auf Erden" voll im Trend: ganz gleich ob Grünanlagen um Schlösser und Klöster, Erlebnisgärten, Erholungsoasen, aber auch Nutzgärten zum Anbau von Obst und Gemüse. Eben Rosen und Rüben - ganz so, wie es auch in der Antike gepflegt wurde, als Schöngeister und Praktiker ihren Boden bearbeiteten und das Schöne mit dem Nützlichen verbanden. Marion Giebel durchstreift die Gärten der Antike.