Ancient Books

Tons Of Free books

New: - The Complete Memoirs of Napoleon by: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Borrienne AND Who was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted To Be, edited by Irwin L. Gordon. Both are PDF- files.
- Nostradamus The Unexplainable Store
- Ancient writings
- The Dead Sea Scrolls
- Prophecies
- Ufology
- Odd maps
- Voynich Manuscript
- Beowulf
- Library

- Birth of Humanity. Sumerian story about Enki from 2500 BC.
- Britains "X-files" revealed.
- Book of the dead, The. (Toth) Ancient Egyptian scrolls. (Pdf-file that opens up in a new window)
- Confucian Analets, The. (ca 500 BC) (Pdf-file)
- Corpus Hermeticum. (Pdf-file)
- Dead Sea Scrolls, The.
- Gilgamesh. The oldest, known, written epic story.
- Latin for beginners. (Pdf-file)
- Leonardo da Vinci, the complete notebook. (Pdf-file)
- Nostradamus
* Preface. The letter to his son Cesar concerning the Quatrains.
* Quatrains. (Centuries). All centuries in original text an translated to english.
* Epistle to king Henry II. A letter about the prophecies.
* Sixains. The disputed sixtains. See if You can tell if they are real or not.
* Almanacs.
*Orus Apollo.
- Parallels between Hopi and Sumerian. Amazing!
- Pine Gap. 'PINE GAP BASE: WORLD CONTEXT' translated from french to english. (Pdf-file)
- Planet-X. Speculations?.
- Project 1947. Top Secret US-program.
- Project Blue Book.
* The FBI-files.
* Comprehensive Catalog of 1.500 Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns.
- Qur'án. The Koran translated to english. (Pdf-file)
- Roswell 1947. FBI memo of July 8, 1947. Scanned document. (Pdf-file)
- The Devils Dictionary. Classic from 1911 by Ambrose Bierce. (Pdf-file)
- The how and why of theMayan end date in 2012 A.D.
- The King James Bible. Old and New Testament. (Pdf-file)
- The Qumran Library. The scrolls and scroll fragments recovered in the Qumran environs represent a voluminous body of Jewish documents, a veritable "library", dating from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E.
- The Satanic Bible. Underground Edition. (Pdf-file)
- The US Government & the Iran case. (Pdf-file)
- The visions of Joe Brandt in 1937. Reprinted from: Living Water, Vol 1X, Number 2, April-May-June Issue 1969
- US Airforce. Classified UFO Manual. (Pdf-file)

- The Maps of Piri Reis, Philippe Buache and Oronteus Finaeus.

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- The Easy way to write. Unique and popular writers resource.

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Mayan Calander Code

The Dresden Codex

A large part of the pre-Columbian Maya book known as the Dresden Codex is concerned with an exploration of commensurate relationships among celestial cycles and their relationship to other, nonastronomical cycles of cultural interest. As has long been known, pages 43b-45b of the Codex are concerned with the synodic cycle of Mars. New work reported here with another part of the Codex, a complex table on pages 69-74, reveals a concern on the part of the ancient Maya astronomers with the sidereal motion of Mars as well as with its synodic cycle. Two kinds of empiric sidereal intervals of Mars were used, a long one (702 days) that included a retrograde loop and a short one that did not. The use of these intervals, which is indicated by the documents in the Dresden Codex, permitted the tracking of Mars across the zodiac and the relating of its movements to the terrestrial seasons and to the 260-day sacred calendar. While Kepler solved the sidereal problem of Mars by proposing an elliptical heliocentric orbit, anonymous but equally ingenious Maya astronomers discovered a pair of time cycles that not only accurately described the planet's motion, but also related it to other cosmic and terrestrial concerns.

The Dresden Codex is found, complete, here: http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/dresden.html . The file is 95,7 MB big, so I do not at the moment have room for it. :( I really need to upgrade my freeweb account...

Were Medieval Knights Good or Bad?

By Will Kalif [ 24/02/2007 ]

There has been a long-standing debate about Medieval Knights. Were they chivalrous and gallant caretakers of their peasants? Or were they vicious and cruel thugs who ruled their people with an iron hand?

The answer to that question is both! But I don’t mean at the same time. Medieval Knights changed over the course of centuries and this change was more than just in their combat techniques, tactics, weapons and armor. They also changed in their attitudes of how they handled their people and how they approached forming and maintaining their lands and kingdoms.

The Early Knights

The period we consider to be the Dark Ages, which started in the 5th century with the fall of Rome, was a very dark time for all of Europe. And it was also a very dark time for the reputation of the Knight. Most of Europe was fragmented into pieces. Trade and prosperity came to a halt, plague hit the continent, and many invading armies came from both the north and the south. To make matters worse, all of Europe was fighting within itself. Small kingdoms were pitted against each other in constant war that lasted for centuries. This overall environment of difficulty, war, and poverty was the breeding ground for Knights that were cruel and unjust. It was a symptom of the times that the only code of the Knight was the code of force. Force was the way that most of the continent acted. It was the predominant way someone could gain and control power, land, wealth and people. Knights from these early centuries were probably very barbaric and bad by today’s standards.

The Rise of Christianity

In the 10th through 12th centuries the behavior of Knights began to change. The Catholic Church was rising in power and it was exerting its power and its tenets over people. In the early centuries many Knights, kings and lords joined with the rising power of the church with their own agendas in mind, but the tenets of the religion in as far as treating people better began to make a foothold into the continent.

The Launching of the Crusades

In 1095 the first crusades were launched. This marked the end of the Dark Ages and the beginning of a new period of Medieval Europe. It began the process of bringing all of Europe together under one leadership. This brought to an end the centuries long warring between small lordships in Europe and this allowed the re-establishment of trade and the return of peace to the continent. It also firmly established the culture and beliefs of the Catholic Church into the social structure of the land. These beliefs included many things including the concepts of killing as a bad thing and that a person of privilege should treat the poor with dignity. Following the religion of Christianity became the most important aspect of a Knight’s life and it is in these later centuries of the Middle Ages when Knights began to change and become more chivalric and good by today’s standards.

We can never really know for certain exactly how things were a thousand years ago. Every Knight was surely different, and to know whether a Knight was villainous or chivalric we would have to look at each one individually. But we do know that the early centuries of the Middle Ages were a difficult and barbaric time and Knights were probably likewise barbaric. And we do know that over the centuries the continent of Europe was transformed into a peaceful place with a religion to live by. And Knights followed this religion. Over these centuries chivalry and a code of conduct slowly evolved and took root in the culture of Europe, and the code of conduct of the Knight.