Ocean State Libraries

In this epic thriller by popular British journalist and author Tom Knox, a secret lurks beneath blazing sands, triggering ritualistic slaughter and threatening the foundations of modern thought. When an archaeological dig in Kurdistan unearths a structure far older than Stonehenge or the Great Pyramids, British reporter Rob Lutrell rushes to the scene. But this intriguing assignment takes a turn for the worse when sabotage and murder cast a frightening...

In the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And, the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The great Biblical flood so described in Genesis has long been a subject of fascination and speculation. In the 19th century the English archbishop James Ussher established it as having happened...

Presents double-page spreads featuring maps, architectural reconstructions, objects and scenes of life during the defining moments in Biblical history.