Digging For The Truth King Solomon's Gold Summary

Although he has already won a very large sum of money because of Buck, Thornton decides to go off to try and discover even more wealth. Greed consumes him, as he embarks on a quest with Hans, Pete, and the sled dogs to discover a legendary gold mine in the uncharted wilds of the Yukon Territory, far from civilization. The book states, “This lost mine was steeped in tragedy and shrouded in mystery. No one knew of the first man. The oldest tradition stopped before it got back to him. From the beginning there had been an ancient and ramshackle cabin. Dying men had sworn to it, and to the mine the site of which it marked, clinching their testimony with nuggets that were unlike any known grade of gold in the Northland.” , (London 111). To illuminate the quote, though the chance of survival is slim, Thornton still goes in search of this lost gold mine. As said in the novel, “Each day they worked earned them thousands of dollars in clean dust and nuggets, and they worked every day. The gold was sacked in moose hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag, and piled like so much firewood outside the spruce-bough lodge. Like giants they toiled, days flashing on the heels of days like dreams as they heaped the treasure up. There was nothing for the dogs to do, save the hauling of meat now and again that Thornton killed, and Buck spent long hours musing by the fire. The vision of the

The destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem by the Babylonians (586 BC) and the subsequent

On November 4, 1922 Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt. Howard Carter spent almost his whole life looking for King Tut’s tomb and when he found it he was over the moon. King Tut’s tomb was very important, it helped us learn more about earlier civilizations, and showed us what king tut's reign was like while he was king.

After their exile, around fifty-thousand Jews returned to Jerusalem which was now called Judaea. The leader of Judea, the Persian King Cyrus, allowed the Jews to return and to build another place of worship (Fisher 251). The second temple was built in 515 BCE and according to the text Living Religions, became “the central symbol to a scattered Jewish nation” (Fisher). The temple became a place where the Torah was formed and where the religion prospered. However, Jewish prosperity was not going to last. After four centuries of Roman rule, that was domineering and dreadful, a group of Jews decided to rebel against their oppressors. This led to Jews being slaughtered by the Romans and to the second Temple being destroyed. All that is left of the Temple are foundation stones which are referred to as the Western Wall. The temple has never been rebuilt and the Western Wall has become a place for prayer and remembrance for Jews all over the world. Jewish people look at the Western Wall as a representation of the hardships and oppression that their religion and people have endured. According to the article, Mystical Secret of the Western Wall:

Some people found gold nuggets. They also mined for gold. Some mines are still around today! Frank was one of the lucky few that made a prophet of mining for gold. Most of the miners where single men who came to find a fortune. I was very dangerous. There were bandits and thief’s that would try to steel the gold.

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been described by numerous scholars and biblical commentators as one of the most important finds in archeological history. (Top 10 Most Important Historical Finds) The find occurred in 1947 when a Bedouin shepherd came across sealed jars in a cave containing leather scrolls. The scrolls which were subsequently brought to an antiques dealer in Bethlehem were purchased by a Syrian Orthodox Archbishop named Mar (Athanasius) Samuel. ( HYPERLINK "http://bible.org/byauthor/2658/Patrick%20Zukeran" Zukeran) He recognized that the scrolls were in Hebrew and were possibly very ancient. These scrolls were then examined by a prominent Middle East archaeologist, Dr. William Albright, and were confirmed as originating between the first and second century B.C. ( HYPERLINK "http://bible.org/byauthor/2658/Patrick%20Zukeran" Zukeran)

He gradually fills in the pieces, with the help of Susan Byrd and a nonsensical child's song: he is the grandson of Jake and Sing; Jake was the youngest son of a slave named Solomon and his wife Ryna. Solomon is supposed to have had the power of flight, and to have flown back to Africa. Ryna was miserable about his disappearance, and these facts are now recorded in the cliff called Solomon's Leap and the howling valley called Ryna's Gulch.

Breaking away from the issues in one’s life is a coward act to take, which resembles Milkman escaping his issues and running away from them as in leaving Hagar who was his lover. “After all, it served him right, messing with his own cousin.” (Morrison 129) Milkman got involved with his cousin in sexual relations and when he didn 't feel as if he was the right guy to marry her he ended it, but Hagar upset about it tries to kill him various times. He avoided confrontation and wrote her a letter, making her more upset by

In Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, delusions dance along the storyline, allowing characters to find their true selves, as well as identify the masks that divide dreams and actuality to reveal these true selves to those around them. Fantasies are seen as wondrous, magical daydreams, interwoven and filled to the brim with light, amazement, happiness. However, there are also more ominous sides to these fantastical visions, stemming from envy, rejection, and misunderstandings. When readers first open this novel, they are greeted by a regular man claiming he can fly. This, obviously, is a fantasy in and of itself - or is it? Just before the last page is turned, the impossible becomes possible when Milkman flies towards Guitar “as fleet and bright as a lodestar”. Morrison leaves her audience with much to ponder and hypothesize, but she makes clear how character development leads to impossibilities becoming real in individual fantasies. This scene was dreamed up to frame the idea of fantasy being dangerous. Everyone has been or is stuck inside their own fantasy - whether they know it or not - and while trapped there, they might unknowingly cause damage to the people around them.

According to Zahi Hawasse, Before the discovery of the tomb workers that were living in huts built on Tut’s tomb which is one of the reasons why Tut’s tomb was barely touched by grave robbers. Carter spent a long time looking for the tomb and in 1922 he knew that it was his last time to look for it. (Hawasse 12) When The Team was looking for the tomb they had pointed water cups. You had to dig hole to be able to keep the cups from falling over and spilling. One guy who was digging the holes hit a step. He ran to go tell Carter and not the guy in charge of him so he could get a reward. (Hawasse 17) As recorded by the Smithsonian, Carter was saying in a mud brick house at the time. The house now serves as a museum. (Smithsonian) Stated by National Geographic, there were 5000 artifacts found in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings which is located near Luxor, Egypt. When Carter found king tut he tried to get him out of his sarcophagus, while doing this he was rough with King Tut. Now it is hard to tell when and How he died. This also led to the theory that king Tut was murdered. This is the significance of the finding of Tut’s

The coin is about 2,000 years old. This coin is very rare. There are not very many of this coin. There are only a couple left. They think that it’s very rare that a coin so old would just be laying in the eastern Galilee. The eastern Galilee is where Jesus walked on water.

He is miraculously described as one of the best known pharaohs of ancient Egypt, the 12th king of the 18th century Egyptian dynasty, successor to this dynasty following his powerful father King Akhenaten, his historic name possess the meaning "the living image of Aten.” Who is this almighty historic discovery, that was perhaps one of the most remarkable in Egyptian excavation? He is King Tutankhamun, more commonly referred to as King Tut. The discovery of his tomb on Novermber 4, 1922 led to findings that included jewelry, gold furniture, and countless remaining artifacts. Now, according to the book king Tutankhamun himself was not discovered until Howard Carter (an English archeologist) “pierced the wall separating the anteroom from the actual

To the ancients, the temple was a constitution and the source of all things in life. Walton describes it as the center of the cosmos. Because of this significance, the central focal point was the power produced through their god’s presence in the temple that was able to bring world order and peace. Alike the Israelites, the temple was not the source of power, but the presence of the deity itself was the uniqueness of this place. Therefore, it is possible to find similarities with the Solomon temple for Jehovah. The fact is, that the OT has the same views as the ancients since both groups use the temples so that the presence of their Gods dwelt in among

Robert W. Hamilton, a British archaeologist, carried out excavations against the north wall of the Old City of Jerusalem almost 70 years ago from the years 1937-1938. Hamilton began several test soundings in order to determine the age of the accumulations at various points and to fix the approximate levels at the time of the last major reconstruction – in the middle of the sixteenth century A.D by Suleiman the Magnificent. The wall of the Old City of Jerusalem was rebuilt in the sixteenth century by the Ottoman Turkish ruler Suleiman the Magnificent. As such, Hamilton decided to determine the age of the accumulations of earlier construction sites by cleaning up the outside area of the North Wall of Jerusalem and Hamilton hoped the

     Concerning the actual Temple, one must be reminded that King David’s original intentions were to create a memorial against the Canaanite deities and paganism. However, when Solomon was given responsibility of the construction, he seemed to have forgotten this. Some of the symbolism on the alter was derived from Phoenicia, and can be traced back to older Canaanite symbols from Mesopotamia. A serious spiritual weakness was starting to materialize in the Temple during this time. “Its elaborate organization and its heavy indebtedness to Syro-Phoenician religious architecture and practice. The danger of syncretism became very great- so great that the following centuries were characterized by bitter intermittent conflict between religious assimilators and religious separatists”(Albright 150). In other