Darius Arkwright – författare

From the storm-lashed highlands of ancient Anatolia rose one of the most powerful civilizations of the Bronze Age world — a kingdom that rivaled Egypt, commanded vast chariot armies, ruled from the fortress-capital of Hattusa, and preserved thousands of clay tablets hidden beneath the earth for over three thousand years. In this second volume of the Ancient Kingdoms Series, Hittites: The Lost Civilization of Hatti takes readers deep into the forgotten empire of the Hittites, uncovering the kings, battles, sacred rituals, treaties, gods, collapses, and rediscovery of a civilization that nearly vanished from human memory. Drawing upon archaeology, royal archives, inscriptions, mythology, and the ruins of ancient Anatolia, this book reconstructs the world of Hatti in vivid historical detail.Inside, readers will encounter the rise of the Great Kings, the Battle of Kadesh against Ramses II, the sacred world of the "e;thousand gods of Hatti,"e; the royal city of Hattusa, the mysteries of Yazılıkaya, the collapse of the Bronze Age, and the astonishing modern rediscovery of the Hittites through archaeology and decipherment. Written for readers fascinated by ancient civilizations, archaeology, mythology, empire, and lost worlds, this volume in the Ancient Kingdoms Series brings the Hittites back to life as one of the great forgotten powers of antiquity — a civilization of stone gates, storm gods, royal archives, and imperial ambition buried for centuries beneath the soil of Anatolia.

In the far reaches of the Pacific Ocean lies Easter Island—a remote volcanic outpost where nearly a thousand colossal stone figures rise from the earth, their silent faces turned toward a vanished world. These are the megaliths of Rapa Nui, among the most mysterious creations in human history.How did an isolated island society, with limited resources and no advanced tools, carve, transport, and raise these towering giants? What knowledge, belief system, or lost tradition made such an achievement possible? And why do the island's monuments, myths, and even its undeciphered script hint at connections far beyond the Pacific?This book explores the full depth of the Easter Island enigma—from the first ocean voyagers who reached its shores, to the rise of its megalithic culture, to the dramatic transformations that reshaped its world. Through archaeology, oral tradition, and comparative ancient history, it uncovers a story of ancestors, sacred power, and a civilization that turned stone into memory.At the edge of the world, the giants still stand—watching, waiting, and guarding a mystery that has yet to be fully understood.

What if the origins of civilization are far older than we've been told?Hidden beneath the lush highlands of West Java, Gunung Padang may not be just a sacred hill—but a vast, buried pyramid built in multiple phases across thousands of years. Subsurface scans and core samples suggest depths reaching back into the Ice Age, challenging everything we thought we knew about early human history.Was this part of a lost world in Sundaland, now swallowed by rising seas? Did ancient builders possess advanced knowledge long before the first known civilizations?Blending cutting-edge research with global archaeological mysteries, Gunung Padang Hidden Pyramid explores one of the most controversial sites on Earth—and the possibility that our past is far more complex than we ever imagined.

For centuries, the world has looked westward when speaking of pyramids—toward the sands of Egypt or the jungles of Mesoamerica. Yet far from those familiar landscapes, across the plains of Shaanxi and beneath the silent waters of Yunnan, another monumental tradition has waited in obscurity.Ancient Chinese Hidden Pyramid uncovers the vast and little-known pyramid landscapes of China: imperial mausoleums rising like artificial mountains near Xi'an, the sealed tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the legendary "e;White Pyramid"e; glimpsed by wartime pilots, and the mysterious submerged stone structures beneath Fuxian Lake.Blending archaeology, ancient cosmology, myth, engineering, and global comparison, this book explores whether these monuments were simply imperial tombs—or something far more profound. Were they artificial sacred mountains aligned to the heavens? Instruments of cosmic order? Echoes of a forgotten architectural science? Or remnants of a deeper, older memory embedded in the land itself?Drawing from historical records, modern research, and comparative analysis of pyramid traditions worldwide, Ancient Chinese Hidden Pyramid challenges conventional boundaries and invites readers into one of the most intriguing and overlooked mysteries of the ancient world.The pyramids of China do not dominate postcards. They do not gleam in desert sunlight. They stand disguised as hills, sealed beneath earth, guarded by history—and waiting to be understood.

Beneath the blazing sun of Egypt lies a world that was never meant to be seen.Hidden below the Giza Plateau, deep within sealed chambers and forgotten passageways, a question lingers that challenges everything we think we know about the ancient world: how did they see in the dark? The absence of soot, the mystery of enclosed spaces, and the strange accounts of light that behaved unlike fire all point toward something far more advanced than simple torches and oil lamps.Ancient texts speak of "e;Light-Makers."e; Philosophers described underground chambers that illuminated themselves. Witnesses told of glowing tubes that dimmed when touched, and of silver liquid that escaped like living metal when broken. Across civilizations, echoes of this mystery appear again—shining pearls in Solomon's temple, metallic spheres in ancient cities, and lamps said to burn without fuel or flame.Were these myths… or fragments of a lost technology?Lost Light Technology of Ancient Egypt takes you into the heart of one of history's most enduring enigmas. Drawing on archaeology, ancient testimony, material science, and forgotten traditions, this book explores the possibility that the ancient Egyptians possessed a method of illumination now lost to time—clean, controlled, and perhaps far more sophisticated than we ever imagined.This is not just a story about light.It is a story about knowledge that vanished, secrets buried beneath stone, and a civilization that may have mastered darkness in ways we are only beginning to rediscover.

The Sumerians created the world's first great civilization in the river plains of ancient Mesopotamia. They built the earliest cities, developed writing, raised monumental temples, organized kingship, mapped the heavens, and produced myths and epics that continued to shape later civilizations for thousands of years. From Uruk and Ur to Eridu and Lagash, this book explores the rise of the first urban society through archaeology, ancient texts, religion, trade, warfare, and the daily realities of life between the Tigris and Euphrates. This volume of the Ancient Kingdoms Series brings together the gods of Sumer, the invention of cuneiform writing, the Epic of Gilgamesh, sacred kingship, flood traditions, temple economies, science, astronomy, and the survival of Sumerian culture after its political decline. Written in a vivid and accessible style, it is a journey into the civilization that laid the foundations of the ancient world.

The Maya were never truly lost. Their cities were. Their books were burned. Their kings were buried beneath stone, jungle, and centuries of bad history. Last Kingdom of the Maya follows the long recovery of one of the great civilizations of the ancient world: from the first Spanish glimpse of a trading canoe off Guanaja in 1502 to the decipherment of royal names carved into stone at Piedras Negras, Tikal, Copán, Palenque, Chichén Itzá, Mayapán, and beyond. For centuries, outsiders misunderstood what they were looking at. Ruined cities were treated as mysteries without people. Glyphs were dismissed as ornament. Maya communities were pushed into the background while explorers, friars, collectors, and theorists argued over Egypt, Atlantis, lost tribes, and every explanation except the obvious one: the builders were American, and their descendants had never vanished.This book follows the evidence that survived the damage. Burned books and colonial manuscripts. Carved stelae and broken altars. Cenotes filled with offerings. Reservoirs cut into limestone. Painted codices preserved in European libraries. Dynastic inscriptions that name births, accessions, wars, captives, deaths, and royal bloodlines. It moves through conquest, excavation, decipherment, drought, warfare, sacred geography, trade, household life, and the collapse of southern lowland courts without reducing Maya history to disappearance. The result is a sweeping account of cities, kings, gods, scribes, warriors, farmers, traders, and living memory — a history scarred by destruction, but not erased. The Maya world did not end in the rainforest. It had to be recovered from stone, water, ash, and silence.

FORBIDDEN HISTORY: FORGOTTEN AGE OF GIANTSWhat if the legends were never meant to be myths?Across the ancient world, civilizations separated by oceans, languages, and thousands of years preserved the same haunting memory: a forgotten age when giants walked the Earth. They appear in sacred scriptures, royal chronicles, tribal histories, buried tombs, and the ruins of vanished civilizations. From the Nephilim of the ancient Near East to the Titans of Greece, from the giant kings of Egypt to the red-haired giants remembered in Native American traditions, the story returns again and again with astonishing consistency. Forbidden History: Forgotten Age of Giants journeys deep into this mysterious legacy, exploring the lost world of colossal rulers, demigods, pre-Flood civilizations, and the ancient memories humanity refuses to forget.Blending mythology, archaeology, sacred texts, ancient history, and controversial discoveries, this book investigates the enduring global traditions surrounding giant beings and the civilizations connected to them. Explore the Watchers and the Book of Giants, the sons of Anak, Atlantis and the Titans, the giant pharaohs of Egypt, Lovelock Cave and the Paiute legends, oversized relics, mysterious skeletal remains, and the possibility that humanity inherited the Earth from an earlier and more powerful age. Rather than dismissing the ancient accounts as fantasy, this work examines why so many cultures preserved the same extraordinary traditions and why giants remain connected to the origins of kingship, catastrophe, and civilization itself.Forbidden History: Forgotten Age of Giants is a journey into the shadows of forgotten antiquity, where myth, memory, and lost history converge. For readers fascinated by ancient mysteries, forbidden archaeology, biblical enigmas, lost civilizations, and the hidden origins of mankind, this book opens the gate to one of humanity's oldest and most controversial legends: the memory of a world that came before our own.

From the grand palaces of Knossos and Phaistos to bustling trade routes that stretched across the Mediterranean, the Minoans created one of the most sophisticated societies of the ancient world. Drawing on archaeology, history, architecture, religion, and the latest discoveries, this book reconstructs the remarkable story of Bronze Age Crete and the sea-going civilization that helped shape the foundations of the Aegean world. Inside, readers will discover the rise of the first palaces, the mystery of Linear A, the role of religion and sacred kingship, the brilliance of Minoan art and engineering, the realities of maritime trade, and the enduring questions surrounding the civilization's decline. Written for history enthusiasts, archaeology lovers, students, and anyone fascinated by lost civilizations, this book brings the world of the Minoans vividly back to life while exploring one of the most intriguing chapters in the ancient Mediterranean.

The Assyrian Empire was one of the most feared powers of the ancient world, rising from the sacred city of Ashur and reaching its height in the vast palaces, temples, libraries, and walls of Nineveh. Often remembered for siege warfare, deportation, royal violence, and carved palace reliefs, Assyria was also a society of scribes, priests, merchants, engineers, soldiers, farmers, craftsmen, and subject peoples whose lives can still be traced through clay tablets, inscriptions, letters, contracts, canals, city ruins, and excavated households. This book follows Assyria from its early roots beside the Tigris through the growth of royal power, the building of imperial capitals, the machinery of warfare, the struggle with Babylon, and the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE, before turning to the rediscovery of Assyria through buried palaces, carved stone panels, and colossal winged bulls. Written for readers who want archaeology, primary sources, kings, cities, temples, texts, and material evidence, Assyrian Empire, Nineveh and Ashur in the Ancient Near East presents Assyria not as a simple symbol of brutality, but as a real civilization built from land, labour, belief, violence, administration, and memory.