John Gaudet
Articles by John Gaudet
December 08, 2010
Theme Park in Kentucky sends the wrong message. Why not show kids a Green Ark?
February 18, 2009
The problem of restitution and return of artifacts is here to stay and it´s not going to disappear into the woodwork.
August 19, 2008
Money, pottery, parsley and the theft of 5,000 year old antiquities, papyrus expert, John Gaudet, puts them all together, and remember, you saw it first on AmericanChronicle.com.
April 06, 2007
Among many of the controversies swirling around the rising star of the Democratic party, Barack Obama, there is the implication that, as an American of African descent, he knows nothing of the pain and tribulation experienced by the descendents of slave families, especially the survivors of the civi...
January 03, 2007
“Go to Africa,” an inner voice told me. I had been trained up as an ecologist in the States but had been languishing in American universities reading and thinking about tropical plants. My special area was swamp ecology and I was intrigued by the most famous marsh plant of all times, papyrus, a pr...
November 28, 2006
The other day I was listening to Robert Harris the bestselling British author of historical novels being interviewed on PBS. His latest, Imperium, was being discussed, along with the basis in Roman times for absolute authority. Which reminded me that historical novels are not the place to look for ...
November 08, 2006
So for all practical purposes anyone could have simply smashed the cryptex with a hammer and thus gained access to the map showing the location of the Holy Grail. There really was no need for all that palaver, or secret codes, though it certainly made for a very exciting read.
“Papyrus.”
I st...
October 30, 2006
In his book, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, Lt. Col. John Patterson describes in detail how he put paid to two famous lions who ravaged the railway camps in 1898 during the construction of the Uganda Railroad, infamously known in London as, “The Lunatic Express,” or to the Africans in Kenya as, “The Iron ...
October 15, 2006
It started innocently enough. I was about to be published. My new novel was headed for the presses and I had been told by my publisher to assemble every address of every friend and relative, every work colleague and every passing acquaintance. His promotional plans called for a mailing list once ...
October 05, 2006
They’ve all had the experience of riding on a railway completed in 1901 in Kenya. That line variously called the ‘Iron Snake’ by the Africans, the ‘Lunatic Line’ by Victorian tabloids, was later known as the ‘Lunatic Express.’ It is still in use today.
The trip from Nairobi to Mombasa, a...