Uncovers the academic scandal par excellence of the 20th century. This book presents the story of how and why up to 75 per cent of the 800 ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, hidden for 19 centuries, remained concealed from the world. It has interviews, historical analysis and a close study of b[...]

Since the seventeenth century, science has been contending with philosophy, organised religion and the arts for domination over Western civilisation and society. This book traces the history of this philosophy - which has much in common with contemporary holistic thought - charting its origin in the[...]

A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village which enables him to amass a fortune of. This tale begins with buried treasure and turns into a historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, and th[...]

After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk - later canonized as St Dominic - took up the cudgels by establishing a kind of secret police to ferret out heresy - thus began the infamous Inquisition. Baigent and Leigh tell the whole extraordinary stor[...]

The authors of the bestselling Holy Blood, Holy Grail continue their controversial exploration of the Messiah in this fascinating and enlightening book for anyone interested in religion, history, and the complex problems of today's world.[...]

The oldest Biblical manuscripts in existence, the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves near Jerusalem in 1947, only to be kept a tightly held secret for nearly fifty more years, until the Huntington Library unleashed a storm of controversy in 1991 by releasing copies of the Scrolls. In this gripping[...]

Coauthors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh recount the events that led to the strange and sudden disappearance of the Knights Templar in the fourteenth century and their reappearance in the court of excommunicate Scottish king Robert the Bruce. Following the survival of ce[...]

Könige, Ketzer, Tempelritter - die rätselhafte Botschaft eines Geheimordens unserer Tage Das Buch beginnt wie die Geschichte einer spannenden Schatzsuche. Dann wird es zum aufregenden - und verblüffend aktuellen - Bericht über den Templerorden, bis es schließlich in einer kühnen Schlussfolger[...]

Almost one hundred years after the death of Jane Austen, this book details Jane's birth, childhood, adolescence, and maturity; the everyday minutiae of her life, the circumstances in which she wrote her juvenilia and her six novels, and her early death. It uses Jane Austen's own letters, and additio[...]