The Spell of Egypt is a 1910 travel book by the British writer Robert Hichens. It was originally published in 1908 as Egypt and Its Monuments. Hichens...
Tamburlaine the Great is a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur (Tamerlane/Ti...
The history of Egypt from the earliest times to the conquest by Alexander the Great, covering the development of Egyptian civilization: science, relig...
HERODOTUS was born at Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in the early part of the fifth century, B. C. Of his life we know almost no...
The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World is a list of masterpieces of architecture and art of classical antiquity. First compiled in the second century BC,...
The chronicle of a bishop who spent his time traveling from ascetic to ascetic listening to stories and documenting his time with them, the Lausiac Hi...
Knowing the Egyptian as I know him, I cannot but think that he is greatly misunderstood, even by those who are sincerely anxious to befriend him. His...
The Book of is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ("In the be...
Starters, main courses and desserts from around the world, one dish for every day of the year. From Turkey to China, from India to England, from Austr...
William Matthew Flinders Petrie – the father of Egyptian Archaeology – developed and applied statistical analysis to pottery from prehistoric sites an...
A film company shooting a movie in Egypt becomes embroiled in events that happened in ancient Egypt. A supernatural adventure story about a pharaoh's...
The present work contains the Coptic versions of ten Greek Homilies on fasting, repentance, the end of the world, the Incarnation, etc., which are att...
Embark on an extraordinary journey through the desolate expanses of the uncharted Libyan Desert, where secrets of ancient civilizations lie buried ben...
Embark on a thrilling journey through the sands of time in The Wanderer's Necklace by the acclaimed author H. Rider Haggard. Set against the backdrop...
In Robert Bloch's classic science fiction novella, Before Egypt, a team of astronauts is sent to investigate a mysterious planet that is eerily simila...
What happens after we die?
The Book of the Dead, an ancient Egyptian funerary text, provides guidance for the soul on its journey to the afterlife. T...
LibriVox volunteers bring you sixteen different recordings of Ozymandias of Egypt, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry project for the...
Genesis is the story of the Creation and the people that followed it. The place is Canaan which is the land of Israel and the adjoining nations. The B...
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in 1888 at ho...
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical travelogue in in 1873. The book describes her travels through a relatively un-visited area in the South Tyrol...
The author, a British journalist and novelist, is interested in the feel of the places he visits. He describes at length a visit he has made to Egypt,...
Lord Ernest Borrow and Captain Anthony Fenton think they know a secret - a secret that could make them both rich. En route, they are sidetracked by Si...
A tragic love triangle between a beautiful English girl, an English gentleman, and a half-English, half-Egyptian plays out among the ruins and under t...
"Genesis (Greek: "birth", "origin") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible, and the first of five books of the Pentateuch or Torah. It recounts the wor...
