Have you ever wondered how we really know what year it is? Part detective story, part conspiracy theory, part scientific history, The Lost Millennium explores the astonishing possibility that our calendar is out by a thousand years. A chance conversation at a conference in Mexico started mathematician Florin Diacu on an amazing journey to make sense of one of the strangest — and if true, most revolutionary — theories you’ll ever encounter. To understand how scientists could be sceptical about what year it is, Florin Diacu explores the fascinating history of chronology — from Egyptian horoscopes to the work of Isaac Newton, with cameos by Voltaire and Edmund Halley — making the startling discovery that our calendar is far from ironclad. It all depends, rather, on the dating of ancient events — about which there is real controversy. At once accessible and profound, The Lost Millennium examines the arguments of present-day chronological revisionists such as the Russian scholar Anatoli Fomenko, who claims that our system of dating is horribly askew. Fomenko cites evidence from ancient astronomy, linguistics and cartography, and a crucial manuscript by Ptolemy, staking his scientific prestige on a theory so controversial that it will change the way you think about time, history and the calendar on your wall. The field has also inspired its share of now-discredited cranks, such as Immanuel Velikovsky, a media celebrity of the 1950s. His notorious book Worlds in Collision argued that biblical events are incorrectly dated. Beautifully written and peopled with fascinating characters from past and present, The Lost Millennium is essential reading for anyone who believes they’re living in the year 2005.

Join the author as he pushes further and further in search of the truth.

Egyptology: The Missing Millennium brings together for the first time the disciplines of Egyptology and Islamic Studies, seeking to overturn the conventional opinion of Western scholars that Moslims/Arabs had no interest in pre-Islamic cultures. This book examines a neglected period of a thousand years in the history of Egyptology, from the Moslem annexation of Egypt in the seventh century CE until the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century. Concentrating on Moslem writers, as it is usually Islam which incurs blame for cutting Egyptians off from their ancient heritage, the author shows not only the existence of a large body of Arabic sources on Ancient Egypt, but also their usefulness to Egyptology today. Using sources as diverse as the accounts of travelers and treasure hunters to books on alchemy, the author shows that the interest in ancient Egyptian scripts continued beyond classical writers, and describes attempts by medieval Arab scholars, mainly alchemists, to decipher the hieroglyph script. He further explores medieval Arab interest in Ancient Egypt, discussing the interpretations of the intact temples, as well as the Arab concept of Egyptian kingship and state administration—including a case study of Queen Cleopatra that shows how the Arabic romance of this queen differs significantly from Western views. This book will be of great interest to academics and students of archaeology, Islamic studies and Egyptology, as well as anyone with a general interest in Egyptian history.

They are the first time travelers--guinea pigs in an experiment that cannot fail. From a future ravaged by plague, they must travel thousands of years into the past to the dawn of civilization. Among tribes of primitive hunters, they will trace a fatal chain of events--and alter history to save humanity from itself.

Heavily illustrated with a wealth of old photos, this book is a treasury of information on the most mysterious of islands, Easter Island (Rapa Nui).

Contrary to the prevailing view in the West that the 500-year dominance of Western civilization points to it being the only universal civilization. Can Asians Think? argues that other civilizations may yet make equal contributions to the development and growth of mankind. Hailed as “an Asian Toynbee” and “the Max Weber of the new Confucian ethic”, Mahbubani continues to illuminate his central arguments with new essays in this fourth edition.

When a designer plague threatens every living thing on earth, a desperate world sends two 21st century soldiers back in time. Their mission is to win a war that was lost six thousand years ago and change human history from conquest to cooperation. Now, believing their goal accomplished, they return to a world radically altered, but perhaps not for the better in Lost Days. The world is healthy and at peace when Lieutenant Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear return from 4,000 B.C. But a different sort of plague has infested society. Suspicion and hostility poison the air. Racial and ethnic hatred are sanctioned by the powers that be, and it is not only Jack's people who are confined to "reservations." Now the two are contemplating a journey back to the Neolithic period - in a desperate attempt to change history once more. But this time, there is no guarantee they will ever return.

A designer plague threatens every living thing on earth...and a desperate world sends two 21st-century soldiers back in time to win a war lost six thousand years ago.Now, in the thrilling follow-up to First Dawn and Second Fire, Lieutenant Launa O?Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear return from 4,000 B.C.--and discover a radically changed civilization, and a society infested with a different sort of plague...