I like this book for calm time in a history or even a science class. I think it is interesting for children to be able to unlock new knowledge. This book is easy to read except for a small bit of challenging vocabulary. The illustrations in this book are extremely vivid and keep the reader involved. ( )

Excellent, fun book, likely to appeal to kids with very different interests - budding historians, mystery buffs, fledgling scientists, and action fans. ( )

This book was really long, but I learned a lot. It's full of detail and all around really cool and informative. It even has a table of contents because of length. It begins with Hatshepsut, which with whom I was familiar from reading a picture book. However, I didn't know the background of how they discovered her. I actually didn't know about most of these stories, like the city of Ubar (a city from legends on the Arabian peninsula.) It's real! However, I immediately flipped to the INS Dakar because of Dakar's proximity to The Gambia! Unfortunately, this had nothing to do with Senegal. Instead, it's an Israeli submarine which vanished in the late sixties. I had heard of the Anasazi, but I couldn't have told you a lick about the ancient Pueblo peoples until this book. And, actually, modern Pueblo people, or the Hopi, believe "Anasazi," meaning "enemy ancestors," is offensive, so they prefer the term "Hisatsinom," meaning "people of long ago." This book provides great background for nine reopened cases which later become closed due to methodical archeological and scientific research and investigation. This book includes stories of Sir John Franklin, an explorer and officer with the British Navy and the famous Anastasia, the 20th century "lost" Russian princess which Disney turned into a movie. Turns out she was never lost and was executed with the rest of her family, but of course, Disney extrapolated to make it happy. Another illustrious figure mentioned in this book is Amelia Earhart. Honestly, I'm tired of typing, but this is a great book for anyone. ( )

This was a great book because it talks about mysteries were solved using modern science. A cool book to add to the collection. ( )

I received a review hard cover copy of this book for free.

This is a cute book - nine mysteries of history, solved with modern day forensics. Being a history geek, even as a kid, I loved this book! I've watched a few TV shows that are pretty similar - you are presented with a historical mystery, and then modern science & technology attempts to solve it (such as DNA solving the mystery of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov).

There are wonderful photos & color drawings on each and every page. The book is illustrated by Michael Wandelmaier, and he does a great job of drawing things like mummies in a realistic manner, but not a scary one. Each mystery is explained in a straight forward manner, and the science terms are explained as you go along, much simplified so that a kid would be able to understand it. I think the book is written in such a way that you want to learn more, go out & read more about the subject - which I think is a fabulous thing in a children's book. ( )