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An account of how counterfeiter Benjamin Boyd's gang stole the body of Abraham Lincoln and demanded Boyd's release from jail and two hundred thousand dollars as ransom and the efforts of the Secret Service to recover the remains.

Describes the archaeological discovery of thousands of life-sized terracotta warrior statues in northern China in 1974, and discusses the emperor who had them created and placed near his tomb.

An illustrated biography of Nebamun, an official and nobleman who lived in ancient Egypt during the eighteenth dynasty, that examines various paintings from his tomb that were removed in ancient times.

Provides an account of the attempted theft of President Abraham Lincoln's corpse in 1876 by a gang of Chicago counterfeiters who planned to hold the body for ransom, shares the secret of where Lincoln and his young son were buried after the robbery attempt, and discusses the return of the remains to their present location.

Illustrations and easy-to-follow text describe the army of clay soldiers that were created by China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, and how twentieth-century farmers uncovered the army, which had been buried for over two thousand years.

Grave robbers devise an elaborate plan to steal King Tutanhkhamen's riches after his funeral.

A concise study of the Terra Cotta army of China's first Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, who died in 210 B.C., and the extensive excavation of the region surrounding Qin's burial mound that began in the mid-1970s.

Discusses the building of the Egyptian pyramids, strange stories associated with them, and possible powers possessed by pyramids.