The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and offres Murder NEUF

Whats it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber thats been sealed for thousands of years? Where might a blocked doorway or newly excavated corridor lead? And what might this stupendous tomb reveal about the most powerful pharaoh in Egyptian history?

From the jungles of Honduras to macabre archaeological sites in the American Southwest, Douglas Prestons journalistic explorations have taken him across the globe. He broke the story of an extraordinary mass grave of animals killed by the asteroid impact that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, he explored what lay hidden in the booby-trapped Money Pit on Oak Island, and he roamed the haunted hills of Italy in search of the Monster of Florence. When he hasnt been co-authoring bestselling thrillers featuring FBI Agent Pendergast, Preston has been writing about some of the worlds strangest and most dramatic mysteries.

The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.