Archeological Mysteries

An ancient medallion is unearthed in Pueblo, Colorado, revealing a secret that will rewrite the history of North America - the Vikings somehow made it to the continent's interior, centuries before Columbus made landfall, and there they built a city of gold. But today the Coelho medallion has been stolen, and a linguist and researcher has been abducted in connection with the crime. Could the abductors be after the fabled city of gold? Or do they have a more sinister plot in mind?

The ingenious plot of this thriller is full of twists and turns, excitement and adventure, archaeology and technology. Listeners will meet fascinating characters they'll never forget: a high-tech billionaire, a quick-witted professor, his beautiful young student, and her still-tough grandfather, a retired Marine gunny sergeant. Cornell University professor Robert Johnson and his star PhD student are hired by a billionaire entrepreneur to solve a 500-year-old archaeology mystery in northern Peru. But first, they will have to survive corporate skullduggery and drug lord thuggery.

A plane crash in the Amazon jungle. A desperate struggle for survival. A hidden Inca treasure. Ruthless grave robbers. Ecuador. A dream holiday turns into a nightmare when two men are stranded in the Amazon rain forest after a plane crash. With no hope of being rescued, they decide that their only chance of survival is to find their way back to civilization. And so they set off on a daring journey, struggling through the dense underbrush, totally unprepared for the dangers that lie ahead. When they stumble upon some ancient ruins where fabulous treasures might be hidden, it all goes wrong ...

For Johnson and his colleague, brilliant and beautiful assistant professor Abbey Summers, it becomes the adventure of a lifetime in Mongolia and The Golden Eagle, a new mystery thriller from author Bradford G. Wheler. Cyber security threats, high-tech spying, and Chinese agents mix in this ingenious and thrilling plot of full of twists and turns. Somewhere in spectacular snowcapped Altai Mountains of western Mongolia there is a mysterious object that people are willing to kill for. Listeners will meet fascinating characters they'll never forget.

This assiduously researched, fast-paced novel brings archaeology, bioengineering, and cyber espionage to life against an international backdrop of five continents. Listeners will meet a fascinating cast of characters on the trail of the elusive international criminal killers. Mixing the action of David Baldacci’s The Hit, the tech thrills of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, and the dialogue of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels, The Zulu Curse is a true pleasure to listen to.

A hidden artifact. A deadly conspiracy. A past that won’t stay buried. Lucas Thorne never expected to be pulled back into the shadows. But when a mysterious artifact linked to his forgotten past surfaces, he and Professor Isobel Hart are thrust into a dangerous web of secret societies and ancient secrets. What begins as a plea for help quickly unravels into a high-stakes conspiracy with global implications. As Lucas confronts ghosts from a world he tried to leave behind, Isobel follows the trail of her father’s disappearance—one that leads deep into the heart of a powerful faction ...

“As the paddle wheels of the 'Belle Epoque' slowly turn like the pages of a vintage Agatha Christie detective novel, a contemporary ‘mock murder’ mystery game was supposed to commence aboard the luxury Nile cruise boat,. But all is not as it seems...” Death on the Nile gets a modern twist in ‘Murder on the Nile Mystery Cruise.’. It was supposed to be a ‘mock murder mystery’ game aboard an atmospheric cruiser. The luxuriously refurbished paddle wheeler, the Belle Epoque - on a lockdown cruise. But suddenly the group mystery murder game turns deadly serious. Daniel, guest ...

Treasure of Babylon is Part 2 of the Avalon Adventure series – fast-paced mystery thrillers featuring a crew of friends who fly around the world in their own plane, risking everything on wild archaeological adventures. When Selena Moore’s father is brutally kidnapped in Jerusalem, the crew of the Avalon are drawn into a desperate struggle to save his life and stop an insane enemy from getting possession of the most famous missing relic in the world – the lost Ark of the Covenant. Tested to the limit, Mitch Decker and the rest of the crew must use everything in their arsenal to save ...

First they tried to kill him. Then they took his daughter . . . Anthropologist Simon Dracup knows that his only hope of finding her alive lies within the pages of his grandfather's diary, the record of a near century old expedition to Mount Ararat, legendary resting place of the great Ark of Noah. When the CIA pays him a visit Dracup learns that something was found on the Ark. Something priceless. Now its owners have taken it back, but they want revenge and Dracup is their prime target . . .

Non-stop action. An enthralling treasure hunting adventure with a tinge of romance. A high-octane thriller full of unexpected twists and turns that will take you on a roller coaster ride of mystery and edge-of-your-seat suspense into the heart of the Amazon jungle, to Paris and harsh, semi-arid plains of south western Spain. When Didier embarks on a quest to recover a priceless artefact, he gets entangled in more than he has bargained for. Meanwhile, the ruthless treasure hunters resolve to go back to the ancient ruins hidden deep in the Amazon jungle with the aim of finding other intact ...

When the body of a renowned archaeologist is discovered deep within the haunting caverns of Wookey Hole, a rusted trowel lodged in her throat, the echoes of ancient history awaken a modern-day murder mystery. DI Harriet "Harry" Lambert and DS Tom Reed return in this gripping sequel to The Taunton Tension, drawn into a web of academic rivalries, buried secrets, and dangerous obsessions. What begins as a tragic death soon unearths something far older—and far deadlier. A lost Saxon sword, a hidden chamber, and a cryptic warning suggest the past is not as silent as it seems. As the ...

Twenty miles east of Devils Tower, in the sleepy town of Cascade, Wyoming, a cryptic letter is found. It mentions a "wealth of a nation", and reads as nothing more than fanciful fiction, except that its author was one of the most influential men in American history, famed explorer and former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. The letter also references the Seven Sisters of Native American folklore. The correlation between the two subjects is unknown, even to Chatan, the message’s discoverer, a young man with Lakota ancestry.

Join Joe Hawke and the famous ECHO team as they charge into their twentieth adventure! After a mysterious intruder breaches Elysium's defences, the entire team is on high alert, but they soon unravel a connection with the Zaugg Dynasty and set out once again in a race against time to stop their oldest enemy from acquiring the most powerful force ever seen in history. Their determination to settle the oldest of scores and bring Hugo Zaugg's daughter Helga to justice throws them into a high-speed chase across Washington DC, Prague, Munich and the Aegean Sea until they finally discover the ...

Gus Voigt has been many things. A weapons smuggler, a barroom brawler, and the enforcer for a biker gang. After some bad choices, he finds himself hiding out in South America, scraping by as the captain of a river boat on the Amazon. There, he struggles to make ends meet while trying to take care of his wayward nephew, Jesse. Gus’ fortunes suddenly change when a mysterious Hollywood producer approaches him with a film crew and a map to Paititi, an ancient lost city of gold.

A deadly relic. A lethal enemy. A fatal countdown. When a crack team of Congolese and Belgian mercenaries steal an ancient relic with a deadly secret, Hawke and the rest of the ECHO team are offered the task of retrieving the stolen object. Left reeling from the shock of Faulkner’s takeover of the American Presidency and their new fugitive status, they agree to take on the job for the money they need to rescue Alex Reeve and her father, President Brooke, both imprisoned on Tartarus, a notorious CIA black site. With their backs up against the wall like never before, events rapidly escalate...

The tomb of China’s First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terra-cotta warriors, has remained sealed for more than 2,000 years. Though it’s regarded as one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world, the Chinese government won’t allow anyone to open it. Why? That question is at the heart of a dilemma faced by former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone, whose life is shattered when he receives an anonymous note carrying an unfamiliar Web address.

In a tunnel under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Michael, a teacher of investigative journalism, has to confront a powerful opponent. Will he succeed in his race against time? Will he prevail in his attempt to stop Armageddon? To succeed in his mission, Michael must delve into ideas, measurements, and calculations written 300 years earlier by Sir Isaac Newton.

A rosary once passed from Queen Isabella of Spain to King Charles disappeared long ago. While Queen Isabella possessed it, she claimed to receive spiritual visions from the Virgin Mary, which may have begun the Inquisition. Chyna Stone and her remaining Found History team partners go on a quest for Queen Isabella’s rosary. While it’s believed to possess great spiritual power, legend has it that anyone outside her bloodline who touches her rosary will go mad. When Chyna and the Found History team hear reports of a growing disturbance that mimics the legend, they fly to Cordoba to seek ...

Jad Malek has grown wealthy from a life of adventure, but when a mysterious stranger sells him an ancient map, his comfortable life spirals into chaos. The map’s origins trace back to the Caucasus Mountains, and it promises a discovery that could alter history, if only Jad can survive long enough to unearth it. Within hours of acquiring the map, Jad finds himself targeted by a deadly assassin. Forced to flee his home, the treasure hunter embarks on a globe-spanning journey, from the deserts of Pakistan to the high mountains of Nepal.

The search has begun. And death has been unleashed... A team of scientists is missing. An explosion has devastated a ship carrying the latest group of academics and scientists, and a mysterious killer lurks among them. For over seven decades a secret has remained hidden on one of the world’s most remote islands—South Georgia—closer to Antarctica than to civilization. South Georgia is uncivilized, and indeed, savagery has awoken at the remote abandoned whaling station of Grytviken. Stranded at Grytviken, shipwreck expert and maritime historian Jake Sands is caught in the middle. He and...