Gold Was Our Grave

Author : Henry Wade
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471918537

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Gold Was Our Grave by Henry Wade Pdf

Hector Berrenton returns home from hospital after a serious car accident to find a terse note: San Podino. This is yours. Fallon next. Suspecting Berrenton's car has been tampered with, the North Sussex Police call in Scotland Yard. Chief Inspector John Poole, put in charge of the investigation, quickly discovers that three years earlier Berrenton and his partner, Jocelyn Fallon, had been on trial accused of fraud. The crime they were accused of was in connection with a Bolivian goldmine, San Podino, and though the two men were acquitted, a number of investors suffered considerable financial loss. Soon Inspector Poole is dealing with attempted murder . . .

Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404812709

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The Gold in the Grave by Terry Deary Pdf

Grave robbers devise an elaborate plan to steal King Tutanhkhamen's riches after his funeral.

Author : John Hunter,Ann Woodward
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782976943

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Ritual in Early Bronze Age Grave Goods by John Hunter,Ann Woodward Pdf

The exotic and impressive grave goods from burials of the ÔWessex CultureÕ in Early Bronze Age Britain are well known and have inspired influential social and economic hypotheses, invoking the former existence of chiefs, warriors and merchants and high-ranking pastoralists. Alternative theories have sought to explain the how display of such objects was related to religious and ritual activity rather than to economic status, and that groups of artefacts found in certain graves may have belonged to religious specialists. This volume is the result of a major research that aimed to investigate Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age grave goods in relation to their possible use as special dress accessories or as equipment employed within ritual activities and ceremonies. Many items of adornment can be shown to have formed elements of elaborate costumes, probably worn by individuals, both male and female, who held important ritual roles within society. Furthermore, the analysis has shown that various categories of object long interpreted as mundane types of tool were in fact items of bodily adornment or implements used in ritual contexts, or in the special embellishment of the human body. Although never intended to form a complete catalogue of all the relevant artefacts from England the volume provides an extensive, and intensively illustrated, overview of a large proportion of the grave goods from English burial sites.

Author : François-René de Chateaubriand
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681371306

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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800 by François-René de Chateaubriand Pdf

Written over the course of four decades, Francois-ReneÅL de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Auster, and W. G. Sebald. In this unabridged section of the Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks back on the already bygone world of his youth. He recounts the history of his aristocratic family and the first rumblings of the French Revolution. He recalls playing games on the beaches of Saint-Malo, wandering in the woods near his father’s castle in Combourg, hunting with King Louis XVI at Versailles, witnessing the first heads carried on pikes through the streets of Paris, meeting with George Washington in Philadelphia, and falling hopelessly in love with a young woman named Charlotte in the small Suffolk town of Bungay. The volume ends with Chateaubriand’s return to France after eight years of exile in England. In this new edition (the first unabridged translation of any portion of the Memoirs to be published in more than a century), Chateaubriand emerges as a writer of great wit and clarity, a self-deprecating egoist whose meditations on the meaning of history, memory, and morality are leavened with a mixture of high whimsy and memorable gloom.

Author : Alex Bayliss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351576451

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Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD by Alex Bayliss Pdf

The Early Anglo-Saxon Period is characterized archaeologically by the regular deposition of artefacts in human graves in England. The scope for dating these objects and graves has long been studied, but it has typically proved easier to identify and enumerate the chronological problems of the material than to solve them. Prior to the work of the project reported on here, therefore, there was no comprehensive chronological framework for Early Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, and the level of detail and precision in dates that could be suggested was low. The evidence has now been studied afresh using a co-ordinated suite of dating techniques, both traditional and new: a review and revision of artefact-typology; seriation of grave-assemblages using correspondence analysis; high-precision radiocarbon dating of selected bone samples; and Bayesian modelling using the results of all of these. These were focussed primarily on the later part of the Early Anglo-Saxon Period, starting in the 6th century. This research has produced a new chronological framework, consisting of sequences of phases that are separate for male and female burials but nevertheless mutually consistent and coordinated. These will allow archaeologists to assign grave-assemblages and a wide range of individual artefact-types to defined phases that are associated with calendrical date-ranges whose limits are expressed to a specific degree of probability. Important unresolved issues include a precise adjustment for dietary effects on radiocarbon dates from human skeletal material. Nonetheless the results of this project suggest the cessation of regular burial with grave goods in Anglo-Saxon England two decades or even more before the end of the seventh century. That creates a limited but important discrepancy with the current numismatic chronology of early English sceattas. The wider implications of the results for key topics in Anglo-Saxon archaeology and social, economic and religious history are discussed to conclude the report.

Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408116074

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Egyptian Tales: The Gold in the Grave by Terry Deary Pdf

Tutankhamen has been buried in his rocky tomb. But there is a plot to rob the grave of its vast wealth as soon as possible after the funeral. A motley gang of villains have all the skills they need to undertake the crime - the key member of the team is young Paneb, who is small and lithe and the only one who can slip through the tunnel and into the funeral chamber. It's a risky venture, because, if he's caught, the punishment is slow torture and death.

Author : Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 1632 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781462924141

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Golden Lotus by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng Pdf

"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." --Pearl S. Buck A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese literature, joining the Four Great Classics: Journey to the West, The Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone), and is recognized as one of the Four Masterworks of the Ming novel. Golden Lotus tells the story of Ximen Qing, a wealthy, unscrupulous merchant who takes the beautiful and ambitious widow Pan Jinlian as his fifth wife. Jinlian is not content to accept her position and schemes to dominate her husband and improve her standing in society by using sex as her weapon. As the story unfolds, Ximen Qing embarks on a series sexual conquests and Pan Jinlian exploits her husband's lust, ultimately causing the downfall of the entire family. The story's dramatic climax vividly portrays the lengths to which ambitious people will go to gain influence. It also lays bare the rivalries within wealthy families of privilege while chronicling their rise and fall. Iconic in China, Golden Lotus has been alternately banned and lauded for centuries, all the while still avidly read as a popular page-turner. This new Tuttle edition, now available in a single unabridged volume, includes a superb introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, who explains the book's importance as the first novel in the Chinese tradition attributable to a single author.

Author : Paul Bahn
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588345912

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Archaeology by Paul Bahn Pdf

Epic in scope, yet filled with detail, this illustrated guide takes readers through the whole of our human past. Spanning the dawn of human civilization through the present, it provides a tour of every site of key archaeological importance. From the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux to Tutankhamun's tomb, from the buried city of Pompeii to China's Terracotta Army, all of the world's most iconic sites and discoveries are here. So too are the lesser-known yet equally important finds, such as the recent discoveries of our oldest known human ancestors and of the world's oldest-known temple, Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. A masterful combination of succinct analysis and driving narrative, this book also addresses the questions that inevitably arise as we gradually learn more about the history of our species. Written by an international team of archaeological experts and richly illustrated throughout, Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past offers an unparalleled insight into the origins of humankind.

Author : Jeri Westerson
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780109725

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The Deepest Grave by Jeri Westerson Pdf

Crispin Guest must tackle a number of strange occurrences involving St Modwen’s Church and a missing relic in this latest medieval noir mystery. London, 1392. Strange mischief is afoot at St Modwen’s Church. Are corpses stalking the graveyard at night, disturbing graves, and dragging coffins? When a fearful Father Bulthius begs Crispin Guest for his help, he agrees to investigate with his apprentice, Jack Tucker, intrigued by the horrific tales. Meanwhile, an urgent summons arrives from Crispin’s former love, Philippa Walcote. Her seven-year-old son, Christopher, has been accused of murder and of attempting to steal a family relic – the missing relic of St Modwen. Who is behind the gruesome occurrences in the graveyard? Is Christopher guilty of murder? Crispin faces a desperate race against time to solve the strange goings-on at St Modwen’s and prove a child’s innocence.

Author : Lao NaShiFaHai
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648975653

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Grave-robbing: Treasure Legend by Lao NaShiFaHai Pdf

The first time I stole a tomb, I actually dug out a fairy woman from the Donghan tomb. In order to break free from the shackles of fate, I will head south to the Northern Ocean, west to the Kunlun Mountains, and use an ancient "Heavenly Book" to enter the Netherworld, slay the Black White Spinach, and search for the truth that has been buried by the flood of history! One by one, the mysteries of the buddhist dao from a thousand years ago were revealed.

Author : Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044088787296

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Athens and Its Immediate Environs by Karl Baedeker (Firm) Pdf

Author : DL Havlin
Publisher : TouchPoint Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000359929

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The Grave with Greener Grass by DL Havlin Pdf

The Grave with Greener Grass—“I don’t know how to say this without sounding like the stereotypical greedy relative.” This statement thrusts Sly Harrell into a mystery that seems to have more dead ends than an undeveloped subdivision. A descendant of one of Florida’s first families pursues a family ritual with the promise of a treasure at its solving. Annually, the senior living female of the heritage line is obligated to stand in front of a gravestone and recite from a letter passed from mother to daughter. The major clue: the grass covering the grave is always greener than those around it. But why? And after over a hundred years is the clue meaningless? The potential heir believes she knows “in general,” where the grave is and what’s in it but needs to decipher a clue to prove her theory, and she wants Sly’s influence and help to solve the mystery. But they find what they did not expect: a body incased in phosphate lies on top of the patriarch’s coffin. Is it a true dead end? Two 124-years-old corpses aren’t the only clues. Another clue stands unrecognized in plain sight. When Sly finally unravels the secret, he has one last challenge to reclaim a treasure of gold coins . . . and to stay alive.

Author : Eirini M. Dimitriadou
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770883

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Early Athens by Eirini M. Dimitriadou Pdf

This volume is one of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronze Age--ca. 1200 BCE--to the Archaic period, when Athens became the largest city of the Classical period, only to be destroyed by the Persians in 480/479 BCE. From a systematic study of all the excavation reports and surveys in central Athens, the author has synthesized a detailed diachronic overview of the city from the Submycenaean period through the Archaic. It is a treasure trove of information for archaeologists who work in this period. Of great value as well are the detailed maps included, which present features of ancient settlements and cemeteries, the repositories of the human physical record. Over eighty additional large-scale, interactive maps are available online to complement the book.

Author : Linette Widen
Publisher : Linette Widen
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1932581626

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Grave Talker by Linette Widen Pdf

In 1890, 17-year-old Jim Foster headed west from his Ozark home to pursue a new life on a cattle station. Things didn't go as planned and he found himself instead in the gold mines of Cripple Creek, Colorado, and finally, in the silver mines of Wallace, Idaho.

Author : Pausanias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Greece
ISBN : IND:32000000128829

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Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias Pdf