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It's 1249 BCE in ancient Egypt and eleven-year-old Henut is sceptical of just about everything, even the gods. But a mysterious break-in, an unsettling dream and a strangely familiar shadowy figure lead her into a dangerous quest she could never have imagined. Will she really venture into a tomb in the Valley of Kings? She might not have a choice… Packed with real historical details of the rule of Pharaoh Rameses II, mummification, hieroglyphs, historical figures and the pyramids of Giza, this page-turning thriller about the myths and magic of ancient Egypt will have everyone gripped.

The Witch Who Faced the Fire: Follow young Ardith Hutton on her journey as a cunning man's apprentice, learning magical cures for diseases and pains. But are they really magical? Does Ardith have the ability to cure the villagers when they seek out her assistance? They might just accuse her of witchcraft... The Lord Who Lost His Head: With royalty, bandits, blacksmiths and gold coins, this tale is packed with humour and trickery. Local village girl Marian needs to play it safe and smart; her family and the village are counting on her.

The Gold in the Grave A group of thieves plot to rob Tutankhamen's tomb of its vast wealth. If they succeed, it'll be the greatest robbery in history. If they fail, the consequences are severe... The Magic and the Mummy When the pharaoh dies, it's Neria's job to mummify his cat. The trouble is, the cat is still alive. Can Neria find a way to save the cat without being caught and punished?

The Lion's Slave The great inventor Archimedes has just one problem – his clumsy servant, Lydia. But when the Romans besiege Syracuse, and the Greeks turn to Archimedes for help, it is she who comes up with the answers… The Tortoise and the Dare Elena's freedom is at stake. She needs all her cunning to make sure her brother wins a race in the Olympic stadium. But will he?

نور مثل النحلة لا تتوقف أبدا عن القراءة ، تحب قراءة التاريخ ، وتحلم طوال الوقت بأن تلتقي بتوت عنخ آمون لكي تذهب معه

يحاكي كيلاني في هذه القصة أحد كلاسيكيات الأدب الغربي بأسلوب مبسط للأطفال.

Renowned author and historian Jackie French takes us back in time to Greece and Rome and explores young heroes in ancient myths and legends whose stories will now be told. Forget what you know about Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen with a fantastic hairstyle. That's only part of the story. Before...

“[A] quiet, deeply moving story.” —The Bulletin Twelve-year-old Micay walks around her fifteenth-century Incan village shielding the scarred side of her face that inspired the cruel name Millay, or “Ugly One.” She escapes to her huaca rock, avoiding the villagers who shun her. Her...

Im Jahr 150 nach Christus erscheint in der kleinen Stadt Abonuteichos ein heiliger Mann. Er nennt sich Alexander und vollbringt Wunder, die die Menschen in Ehrfurcht und Erstaunen versetzen: Eine Schlange, die aus einem Gänseei schlüpft! Eine Schlange mit Menschenkopf, die sprechen kann und die Zukunft voraussagt! Alexander wird zu einem mächtigen Propheten, dem die Menschen zu Füßen liegen. Dabei ist er nichts weiter als ein trickreicher Betrüger.

Shaman by name and shaman by nature – Billy just hasn't found his magic...yet. His selfish globetrotting parents abandon him for yet another summer in Charles Darwin's strange museum-like house, where Billy stumbles across a 200-year-old giant talking tortoise named Charles Darwin, by the famous man himself. Charles D, the tortoise, knows every inch of the house and every artefact in it, and he's keen to help Billy realise his powers and set him on the path to adventure.

No one is more surprised than Billy when he wakes up on a Chinese battlefield. Scooped from the jaws of death by a boy called Han, Billy's far from rescued. Taking refuge in the royal stables, the boys are soon held hostage by the Emperor Wu. He's at war with the Horse King whose powerful and magical herd of horses, the heavenly horses of Ferghana, he wants for his own. It takes all Billy's skills and a very special spirit horse to get Han to safety and Billy back to his friend Charles Darwin, a two-hundred-year-old talking tortoise.

When eleven-year-old Wesley stops by at a mysterious local shop to buy a drink, he does not realise the trouble he is getting himself into. CURSED by the fiendish Pharaoh Akahten IX, Wesley and his friends, Marishana and Aiden, must solve the evil spell quickly or be trapped for all ETERNITY!

Marcus and the Emperor’s Coin is an exciting adventure in the ancient Roman Empire at the time of Christ. Eight-year-old Marcus and his father are on a mission for the emperor and visit a mine and a mint where coins are made. Marcus himself makes a denarius, a coin with the emperor’s image.

Die Jaguarkrieger haben sich gegen den König von Tikal erhoben. Jetzt droht ihnen der Opfertod. Xkik', die Tochter des Großen Jaguars, will das nicht hinnehmen und macht sich auf den Weg ihren Vater und dessen Männer zu befreien. Fred weiß von all dem nichts, als er zusammen mit Opa Alfred in der Morgendämmerung die steile Treppe zum Tempel der Masken hinaufsteigt, um den Sonnenaufgang zu bestaunen. Frühstück über den Baumwipfeln des dampfenden Regenwaldes - das Highlight ihrer Reise durch Mesoamerika.

Twins Scarlett and Thomas are learning about the Romans at school. So Grandad uses his time machine to send them back to Roman Britain. Scarlett finds herself in a Roman camp and is chosen as a slave by the Emperor Claudius's daughter, Antonia. The two become friends and Scarlett sees first hand the glamour and treachery of the Roman court. Thomas joins a rabble of local kids who hate the Romans. Their leader is a small red-headed girl called Boudicca. Even when the kids are overwhelmed and taken as slaves, Bou hatches another plan to attack the Romans.

5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia during a terrible drought, Jomar and Zefa's father must send his children away to the city of Ur because he can no longer feed them. At fourteen, Jomar is old enough to apprentice with Sidah, a master goldsmith for the temple of the moongod, but there is no place for Zefa in Sidah's household. Zefa, a talented but untrained musician, is forced to play her music and sing for alms on the streets of Ur.

As rhythmic as the swish of a loom, and as vibrant as a skein of brightly dyed wool, this lyrical book shares the history and practice of weaving through the centuries and around the world, as imagined by a young weaver learning her craft. At once a celebration of a time-honored art and a meditation on the ways we are interconnected, Woven of the World gathers the threads of weaving—as a technical skill, as a cultural tradition, and as a metaphor for how our lives are knit together—into a radiantly intertwined whole.

Oliver Jeffers shares a history of humanity and his dreams for its future. Where are we going? Oliver starts at the dawn of humankind following people on their journey from then until now, and then offers the listener a challenge: where do we go from here? How can we think about the future of the human race more than our individual lives? How can we save ourselves? How can we change our story? Oliver Jeffers’s exploration of the state of the world today is insightful, moving and powerful.

Mya is transported back in time to ancient Egypt, where she must find Pharaoh Khufu's son, Khafre, in just 72 hours. With danger at every turn and history on the line, Mya must race against time to save Khafre and prevent the present world from being changed forever.

There was once a time when the people of the earth were cave dwellers. In these caves, they knew only what there was around them. Sometimes the elders would speak of a world that existed outside the cave. Many of the cave dwellers longed to see the outside world that their elders had deserted long ago but they were forbidden to do so.

Dido is reconciled to leaving the racing track and staying at home to train horses with Scorpus and Parmenion. But a storm is brewing. It brings with it a fiery black stallion, uncannily like Dido's beloved Porcellus. Word arrives from Rome that her cousin, Abibaal, a talented young charioteer, has been recruited to compete for the evil emperor Caligula. To save Abibaal, Dido must return to the great Circus Maximus track where she once drove to glory herself, confront her enemy Caligula, and face the toughest, most dangerous race of her life.

Ancient Egyptian healer and scribe Sesha is ready for another role: spy.

Vita longs to write plays and poetry - but as a high-born girl in Roman Londinium, her fate is sealed: marriage and children. Then her father is murdered, her mother and brother disappear, and Vita flees from a shadowy enemy. Disguised as a slave at the gladiators' arena, she forges an unlikely bond with Brea, a native Briton gladiatrix - and her wolf. Together, they resolve to discover and bring the killer to justice before Vita's identity is revealed.

Pietro ha quattordici anni, una vita tranquilla e un lavoro che gli piace: cura i maiali del signore di Ateste, il paese dove è nato e dove sa che resterà per sempre. Ma un giorno un cavaliere porta una notizia: arrivano gli Unni! Siamo nel 452 dopo Cristo e le armate di Attila il Grande percorrono le pianure alla volta di Mediolanum, Ravenna, Roma, decise a conquistare ciò che resta dell'impero. È così che nella vita di Pietro cambia tutto: deve arruolarsi e partire per respingere l'invasore.

Mit dem Nachtzug nach Rom! Gleich nach ihrer Ankunft begeben sich Fred und Opa Alfred auf die Spuren der alten Römer. Auf dem Forum Romanum beginnt die Tour. Über Jahrhunderte war das Forum Romanum der Nabel der Welt. Wie sah es damals aus, als die Caesaren sich mit prunkvollen Triumphzügen feiern ließen? Im Kolosseum führt die Bauforscherin Flavia die beiden hinter die Kulissen ins Untergeschoss. Fred darf sogar mit einem nachgebauten Aufzug in die Arena fahren. Doch plötzlich ist alles anders: Er hört Wildkatzen fauchen und Bären brüllen.

A dark river under the world. An Ibis Mummy with an upside-down head. And the whole of Mumphis in peril…from six talking shoes. Boy Pharaoh Bab Sharkey returns to the magic city of the Animal Mummies. Only this time, he faces the grossest weapon ever devised—a giant mummified moth possessed by the spirit of the Unpharaoh herself! Can Bab and his smelly friends defeat this ancient evil?

A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how their parents create beautiful painted manuscripts, or codices. She explains to him how paper is made from local plants and how the long paper is folded into a book. Her parents and others paint the codices to tell the story of their people’s way of life. Inspired by the pre-Columbian codices, this story tells how the Aztec and their neighbors in the Valley of Mexico painted books and records long before Columbus arrived, and continued doing so among their Nahua-speaking descendants for generations after.

Deborah has a gift; she can see the future. As Deborah grows up, so do the date palms that surround her home. Under these trees, people come from far and wide to seek guidance from the great prophetess and judge. In her dreams, Deborah foresees danger to the people of Israel. She summons a general to speak with her beneath the date palms. "War is coming and you must prepare," she tells him. For the girl that grew up under the date palms, her moment of destiny has arrived.

La guerra di Troia è narrata in prima persona da un ragazzo, un umile arciere al servizio del grande Ulisse. Le parole del giovane dipingono un affresco inedito del tragico conflitto che oppose i Greci ai Troiani, nel quale gli eroi del mito non sono più soltanto belli e coraggiosi, ma si mostrano anche avidi condottieri pronti a tutto pur di soddisfare i loro capricci e la loro avidità. Un racconto che riflette sui temi della guerra e della pace: la guerra non procura gloria e onore, ma solo dolore e sofferenza. I veri eroi sono coloro che hanno il coraggio di fermarla.

The Time Hunters and the Wraith’s Revenge is the sixth book in The Time Hunters Saga. After a happy, uneventful year, Becky and Joe Mellor’s world is thrown into chaos when a masked psychopath, The Wraith, kidnaps various members of their family and friends. To their horror, he’s hidden them at different historical disasters in a diabolical game called "The Empedoclean Trials". With time running out, Becky, Joe, and Uncle Percy must solve the clues and rescue the "participants" before they become victims of the disasters themselves!