Waking the Dead: Puzzles from the Ancient History Decoded

by Don Cox

A time traveller I shall be, would you care to come with me? For I invite you on a journey into the distant past. I am the seventh mortal to have arrived at the entrance to Hades, where I paused before Cerberus, who sniffed me out, to see whether I was dead or alive. He allowed me through to a place of perpetual music and merriment -- the entrance to the afterlife, the Hades of Herodotus and Odysseus. This, as my other travels and research into history will show, transform myths into facts. Scholars will be hard put to refute my claims, which I back up with geographical, biblical and archaeological evidence. My research into the legends of the ancients has taken me to museums, to Egypt, to Africa, to Crete and to Santorini, and above all into books. The fruit of all this is a new and challenging insight into where Odysseus really was during those ten lost years. It was the revered Roman historian, Tacitus, who commented that the Jews had originated in Crete, during the clash of Jupiter and Saturn, the very clash of the Titans. This is a completely new theory unknown as yet to any historian, yet the more the author looked into this, the more he came to believe that Tacitus was right

181 pages, Hardcover

First published June 7, 2001