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Seeking fame and fortune, Hiram Bingham treks into the mountainous central regions of Peru in search of the Lost City of the Incas. When he emerges, he is an exploration superstar; the recipient of such adulation, he is able to parlay it into a career in the U.S. Senate. Following a trail of rumor and legend, he wanders far into the sacred valleys, where he discovers a series of mountain-top sanctuaries used by the Incas to hide from the Spanish Conquerors. Machu Picchu chronicles the arduous, near-mystical journey of a man consumed by ambition and reveals the astonishing remains of a vanished culture, hidden beneath the encroaching jungle and beyond the mists of time.

Roy Andrews was an adventurer. Protege to the head of New York's Museum of Natural History, Andrews sets out to prove his patron's theory that mammals had first developed on the continent of Asia. Backed by the exploration-mad financial giants who head up New York society, Andrews outfits the first automotive expedition to the burning sands of Mongolia's Gobi Desert. There he battles the inhospitable climate, the machinations of the local government and the ever-present threat of violent bandits and marauding warlords. In a quest that would cost him his eyesight, his happy marriage and, very nearly his life, The Dragon Hunter's discoveries add immeasurably to mankind's knowledge of evolution.

Millionaire Arthur Evans is consumed by the belief that the legends of Greece point to an earlier civilization that formed the basis for the legend of the Lost Continent of Atlantis. He spends his life and most of his fortune, uncovering this earliest of all European societies. Deciphering the artifacts of this unknown culture, Evans finds clues that his "Minoans" (named for the legendary king, Minos) produced a highly-evolved, intelligent an artistic society that reached out through trade and disappeared forever in mysterious circumstances. Atlantis presents the story of a vanished race whose epic history was long believed to be nothing more than myths--fanciful inventions from the songs of poets.

1922 stieß der englische Archäologe Howard Carter bei Grabungen im Tal der Könige auf ein Grab. Dieses enthielt ein unbeschädigtes Siegel. Der Forscher stand vor dem unversehrten Grab des Kindkönigs Tut-Ench-Amun: Die Weltsensation der Archäologie war perfekt.