Myths & Legends: Hidden Truths?
Introduction
1 The Garden of Eden
2 The Biblical Flood & Noah's Ark
3 Moses & the Exodus: Myth or Reality?
4 The Lost Cities of Sodom & Gomorrah
5 Atlantis: Fact or Fiction?
6 The Trojan War
7 Theseus & the Minotaur
8 Jason & the Argonauts
9 The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
10 The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant
11 The Star of Bethlehem
12 King Arthur & the Holy Grail
13 The Turin Shroud
14 Maya Myth: Will the World End in 2012?
15 Aztlan & the Myth of the Aztec Migration
16 Memories of the Dreamtime

Mysteries of the Stone Age
Introduction
17 The Puzzle of Human Origins
18 How Did Language Evolve?
19 What Happened to the Neanderthals?
20 The Enigma of Palaeolithic Cave Art
21 Who Were the First Australians?
22 The First Americans & Kennewick Man
23 What Wiped Out the Big Game Animals?
24 How Did Farming Begin?
25 The Mysteries of Rock Art
26 The Meaning of the Megaliths
27 Was There a Mother Goddess Cult?
28 The Iceman: Shepherd or Shaman?
29 How Did They Build Stonehenge?
30 Where Did the Indo-Europeans Come From?

Ancient Civilizations
Introduction
31 Were the Ancient Egyptians Black Africans?
32 How Did They Erect Pyramids & Obelisks?
33 The Riddle of the Sphinx
34 Where Was the Land of Punt?
35 Was Tutankhamun Murdered?
36 The Tarim Mummies: Who Were They?
37 Were the Olmecs African?
38 Why Did the Carthaginians Sacrifice Children?
39 Ancient Oracles: Prophets or Profiteers?
40 Who Were the Celts?
41 Bog Bodies: Murder Victims or Sacrifices?
42 The Lost Legions of Rome
43 The Mysteries of Mithraism
44 Lost City of the Maya: The Hunt for Site Q
45 The Mystery of the Nazca Lines
46 Who Built Tiwanaku?
47 Why Did the Incas Sacrifice Children?
48 How Did the Polynesians Find Their Homeland?
49 Statues & Survival on Easter Island

Tombs & Lost Treasures
Introduction
50 The Puzzle of Tomb 55
51 The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great
52 The Tomb of China's First Emperor
53 The Hidden Treasure of the Dead Sea
54 The Tomb of Christ

Ancient & Undeciphered Scripts
Introduction
55 The Origins of Writing
56 The Proto-Elamite Script
57 The Indus Script
58 Linear A & the Phaistos Disc
59 The Origins of the Alphabet
60 The Etruscan Alphabet
61 The Meroitic Script
62 The Zapotec & Isthmian Scripts
63 Runes & Pictish Symbol Stones
64 Rongorongo

The Fall of Civilizations
Introduction
65 The Thera Eruption & the Fall of the Minoans
66 The Fall of Rome
67 El Ninos & the Collapse of Moche Civilization
68 Why Did Maya Civilization Collapse?
69 What Happened to the Anasazi?
70 Catastrophic Impacts from Outer Space?

Further Reading
Sources of Illustrations
Index