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Once the largest library in the ancient world, and containing works by the greatest thinkers and writers of antiquity, including Homer, Plato, Socrates and many more, the Library of Alexandria, northern Egypt, is popularly believed to have been destroyed in a huge fire around 2000 years ago and its volumous works lost. Read more >>

Dating back at least 2700 years, the ancient temple complex of Delphi was known throughout ancient Greece as the home of the Oracle of Apollo, the Greek god of prophecy, music, healing, and light. One controversial aspect of the ancient Oracle is the trance state attained by the sanctuary’s priestess (or Pythia). Read more >>

“Those of you who saw the movies Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull or The Mummy 3, know that they had some fantastical stories of ancient cultures, magical places, and locations in the world . . . What if you were to find that many of these weren’t fiction but based on a retelling of past events? Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places is a book that explores these very things. Written in 2008, you get a current look at the history and lore of earth’s sacred ground”. Read more >>

Regarded by the Romans as “fatale monstrum”- a fatal omen, was Cleopatra merely the lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony? Or did she play an important role not only in the history of Egypt, but also in that of the mighty Roman Empire? Read more >>