The Livingstone Chronicles: Rift in Time

After learning about Jebel El Lawz and all of the historical findings there, I remembered a set of books I read years ago—that were still on my bookshelf: The Livingstone Chronicles by Michael Phillips.

This series follows world-renowned British archeologist and explorer Adam Livingstone on some daring discoveries and adventures. In fact, the first book, Rift in Time, opens with his discovery of Noah's Ark in Turkey's Ararat region (this isn't a spoiler... it says so on the cover, haha).

Published in 1997, I probably first read this book and its successor (see next post) in the early 2000s. So I didn't remember all of the details; just that it was about an archeologist looking for ancient Biblical things. 

Imagine my shock when I re-read the book and realize that Livingstone and his crew travel to the Red Sea from Cairo, cross over by boat at the underwater land bridge of Nuweiba and head toward the mountain with the burned peak. They are in search of something other than Mount Sinai (I won't say what), but acknowledge that this is likely the place (even after acknowledging and glimpsing the traditional site of Mount St. Catherine's in Jordan), noting things of interest like a plain where people could camp, the fence keeping people out, the many caves in the area, and a split rock. 

Now that I have seen this documentary, I can see Livingstone, Rocky McCondy, and Juliet Halsey climbing to the peak of Mount Sinai and it's pretty cool. And throughout the books are drawings and maps - check this one out:

Wow!

Reading this books as a teen, I loved them because I love archeology, especially Biblical history, and adventure. I kept these books for almost 20 years for this reason, having read them at least 3 other times. But only just now was I able to "see" what the author was talking about. Pretty cool!

I definitely recommend this series (and hope to re-read and review book 2 next week), but I will say that it is written in the "Christian literature style of the 90s", so it's definitely different than the books out there today (pre-internet and shorter attention spans). I love it, even with all the commentary... that's why it's going BACK on my bookshelf!