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Talisman is an exciting intellectual journey through the hidden streets and underground canals of history in search of traces of the secret religion that shaped the world, hidden in architecture and monuments.
Michael A. Cook, Princeton professor of Islamic history, provides an overview of human history from the Neolithic to the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001 in this witty and intelligent synthesis, asking the key question: why did everything happen exactly th
The book is the most readable and complete overview of the evidence that human civilization has already been nearly wiped out of the universe once – and that such cycles may repeat themselves every few tens of thousands of years.
American researcher Edward Malkowski claims in his book Before the Pharaohs that Egyptian civilization is the successor to a much older, more technologically advanced culture that existed at least 10–12 thousand years before the dynastic period.
British historian Ian Wilson (known for his books on the Shroud of Turin and Jesus) offers the most thorough defense of the thesis that the biblical flood was a real historical event, not just a myth, in his work Before the Flood.
British author Adrian Gilbert (co-author of The Mayan Prophecies from 1995) in The End of Time offers the most thorough and sober modern interpretation of the Mayan calendar and the so-called "2012 prophecy", completely rejecting New Age hysteria.