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Loomis has crafted a good religious-secret-conspiracy-thriller. Over the top like most of these books. Really, who is involved in this many shoot-outs let alone survives them all? The “secrets” about the ark and who Moses might have been as far as Egyptian history is concerned aren’t really all that secret to those who study such things. They are known theories, if not somewhat fantastic (especially concerning the ark). These authors are mining every fringe or alternate theory they can find for these books. But these are better than most, though skeptics won’t like the fact that Moses was a real person. Loomis does better than most on the religious details, maybe because he doesn’t overdo it and pretend he’s a theologian. He’s trying to write an entertaining book. He does fall for the Enlightenment revision that claims Western Civ wouldn’t have come out of the “Dark Ages” without Muslim knowledge. Not quite. The Dark Ages weren’t quite as dark as some may think: see The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. For more on the Ark, see Searching for the Ark of the Covenant: Latest Discoveries and Research. Will try some more of Loomis’ books.