A young adult story of a journey through time and history that begins with an unusual discovery in the vast desert of Egypt in the midst of World War II. Will, Dez, Isaac and Amy didn't expect their summer would be anything more than ordinary...but once destiny took hold extraordinary was a better word. From the beginning, with the discovery of a vintage comic book to its finale set around the innocents of a small Cape Cod town a mystery is unraveled by those you least expect. Yet, within the clues also lie an unbreakable friendship shared by four kids. This coming of age mystery-adventure delivers the bravery found in all of us and the fortune destiny reserves for the few. Danger lurks within the shadows, but the help of a power gift awaits those who choose to find the hero within themselves.

In Byblos in the Late Bronze Age, Marwan Kilani reconstructs the “biography” of the city of Byblos during the Late Bronze Age, exploring its interactions and development in relation with the contemporary local and macroregional cultural and geopolitical reality.

True evil is real, profound and wicked, when manifested within the human mind. Whether psychological or supernatural its mere existence is terrifying. TRYPOPHOBIA, an extreme or irrational fear or aversion at the sight of clusters of tiny holes. An estimated 9.1% of Americans, more than 19 million have a specific phobia. Symptoms typically begin in childhood; the average age-of-onset is 7-years old. Ben Brennan is one of those children. When single father Brian Brennan's son begins to suffer from the terrifying images of tiny holes. Brian is mystified and desperate to find the cause and help his son. As the trauma engulfs his family and career he turns to the help of a clinical psychologist and in doing so finds a key that unlocks a chilling past, an unforgivable sin. Making this psychological horror novel a ground- breaking page turner that will shatter your nerves.

According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal has been published annually since 1974. It contains scholarly articles and shorter notes pertaining to objects in the Museum’s seven curatorial departments: Antiquities, Manuscripts, Paintings, Drawings, Decorative Arts, Sculpture and Works of Art, and Photographs. The Journal includes an illustrated checklist of the Museum’s acquisitions for the precious year, a staff listing, and a statement by the Museum’s director outlining the year’s most important activities. Volume 20 of the J. Paul Getty Museum Journal contains an index to volumes 1 to 20 and includes articles by John Walsh, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Barbara Bohen, Kelly Pask, Suzanne Lewis, Elizabeth Pilliod, Anne Ratzki-Kraatz, Sharon K. Shore, Linda A. Strauss, Brian Considine, Arie Wallert, Richard Rand, And Jacky De Veer-Langezaal.

In the 660s BC Egypt was a politically fragmented and occupied country. However, this was to change when a family of local rulers from the city of Sais declared independence from the Assyrian Empire, and in a few short years succeeded in bringing about the reunification of Egypt. The Saites established central government, reformed the economy and promoted trade. The country became prosperous, achieving a pre-eminent role in the Mediterranean world. This is the first monograph devoted entirely to a detailed exploration of the Saite Dynasty. It reveals the dynamic nature of the period, the astuteness of the Saite rulers and their considerable achievements in the political, economic, administrative and cultural spheres. It will appeal not only to students of Egyptology but also, because of the interactions of the Saite Dynasty with the Aegean and Mesopotamia worlds, to anyone interested in ancient history.

For Egyptologists as well as archaeologists, and even now Bible scholars, the answer to the question: Who was the pharaoh of the Exodus, the answer is obvious: there was nobo because the biblical story was a myth (Dever: 2003, 233). Consequently, who to believe: Moses or Egyptologists? Several scholars (Finkelstein, Dever and others) posit that the Exodus narrative may have developed from collective memories of the Hyksos expulsions of Semitic Canaanites from Egypt, possibly elaborated on to encourage resistance to the 7th century domination of Judah by Egypt. For these scholars the liberation from Egypt after the "10 plagues", as it is written in the Book of Exodus, is quite different from the historical "war of liberation against the Hyksos". What are the Egyptian documents underlying this hypothesis: none, and what is the chronology of this mysterious war: nobody knows! Consequently, who to believe: Moses or Egyptologists? This study will give the answer.