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"True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called "most beautiful woman in the world," headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This amazing tale not only inspired the blockbuster film Raiders of the Lost Ark but stands on its...
2) The Jesus family tomb: the discovery, the investigation, and the evidence that could change history
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The Jesus Family Tomb tells the story of what may very well be the greatest archaeological find of all time-the discovery of the family tomb of Jesus of Nazareth. Following the accidental bulldozing of a tomb during the building of a housing complex in suburban Jerusalem in 1980, archaeologists from the Israeli Antiquities Authority were immediately called to the scene. Inside, the archaeologists found ten ossuaries-limestone boxes that served as...
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Draws on relevant archaeological findings to reconstruct what may have actually occurred in the final days of Jesus's life, exploring such sites as a first-century house where Jesus may have been imprisoned, the trial site, and a tomb at the foot of Mount Zion.
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2023 Read Widely: The Middle East & North Africa
Archeological Discovery
Great Cities
Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
Archeological Discovery
Great Cities
Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
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"A sweeping history of Jerusalem and the pivotal role that archaeology has played--both in its invention as a modern holy city and as the match that lit a geopolitical fire beneath it In 1863, a French politician and adventurer heard a rumor of biblical treasures beneath Jerusalem. At the time, Jerusalem was a venerable backwater, not the thriving religious center we think of today. Archaeology itself was in its infancy--more a pastime for treasure-hunting...
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Jerusalem's eight gates represent the spiritual gateways of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and each plays a vital role in Jerusalem's past, present and perhaps future. Through the description of these gates, this documentary traces the history of the most troubled and the most revered city in the world from Abraham to modern time.
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A recent major archeological discovery in Jerusalem is revolutionizing understanding of Jesus and the earliest years of Christianity. The authors have examined a sealed tomb in Jerusalem, where they have found the earliest evidence for a belief in the resurrection of Jesus, based on what appears to be the oldest Christian iconography ever discovered.
10) Tomb of Christ
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"For centuries, visitors to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem believed that they stood within what was merely a symbolic representation of Jesus' burial place. But what if the edicule within the church, an ancient crumbling structure, really does house Christ's actual tomb? Oxford archeologists Martin and Birthe Biddle reconstruct Jesus' final day and trace the history of the various incarnations of the edicule, looking for evidence that...
12) True raiders: the untold story of the 1909 expedition to find the legendary Ark of the Convenant
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"This book tells the untold story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who headed a secret expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. In 1908, Monty is approached by a scholar named Valter Juvelius who claims to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that reveals the location of the Ark. Monty assembles a group of adventurers to engage in a secret excavation just outside Jerusalem. Using records from the original expedition and several...
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Three thousand years of Jerusalem's history, told by families who are deeply rooted in the city. In these three programs, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim families share their knowledge and express their own special feelings for the city of peace that remains a city of conflict.
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