Scattered across our planet and entangled in our history are physical remnants and elaborate stories of lost worlds and mysterious creatures. These artifacts and legends leave us with incomplete pictures, mere glimpses in time we have only begun to fully understand. From the extinction of the dinosaurs to the quest for the Holy Grail, from the Druids of the "Old World" to the Incas of the "New", Mysteries of the Ancient World gathers the prehistoric puzzles of yester-year into one beautiful and revealing collection. Using the high-tech tools of modern archaeology, geology and astronomy, a host of preeminent writers lead the reader on a dramatic adventure into the distant past to solve some of the greatest enigmas of all times. We may never have the answers to all the questions of history, but here at last, is an explanation and exploration of so many of the mysteries of the ancient world.
Author
Judith Flanders was born in London, England, in 1959. She moved to Montreal, Canada, when she was two, and spent her childhood there, apart from a year in Israel in 1972, where she signally failed to master Hebrew. After university, Judith returned to London and began working as an editor for various publishing houses. After this 17-year misstep, she began to write and in 2001 her first book, A Circle of Sisters, the biography of four Victorian sisters, was published to great acclaim, and nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. In 2003, The Victorian House (2004 in the USA, as Inside the Victorian Home) received widespread praise, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards History Book of the Year. In 2006 Consuming Passions, was published. Her most recent book, The Invention of Murder, was published in 2011. Judith also contributes articles, features and reviews for a number of newspapers and magazines.
