The examples come from great museums and from private collections, chiefly that of the noted gem dealer Benjamin Zucker.The author, one of the world's leading jewelry historians, draws on artistic and literary sources to make the rings' contexts come alive with paintings, drawings, and vivid quotations.

    Verses about Africa and biblical characters of African descent are highlighted, and full-color maps show where important African/Edenic events and places mentioned in the Bible occurred in the Ancient World.

    This book consists of three parts to coincide with the terms of trinity. It demonstrates that the major biblical ancestors of the biblical Jesus are all Ancient Egyptian prominent characters, and that the Christian tenets are all Egyptian in origin.