title: Scarab: Reflection of Ancient Egypt
author:  Daphna Ben-Tor 
description: This book is an expo catalog. The introduction part presents the historical background of the importance of scarab in the ancient Egypt. There are 87 pictures in presentation text as line drawing and full page color plates, also photographs. In the second part, the catalog itself presents 268 scarabs, each front, back, some also side 268 scarabs both front and back, sometimes the sides too.
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  Tubb E. C.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Eye of the Zodiac
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  E.C. Tubb
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Eye of the Zodiac
  
  #13 in the Dumarest series
  
   _E.C Tubb_
  
   _Chapter One_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  At night the sound was that of a monster, a feral roar which rose to the skies
  and was carried on the wind, a hungry growling interspersed with staccato
  explosions which thickened the air and left an acrid taint. At day the monster
  was revealed as a conglomeration of men and machines which tore into the flank
  of a mountain, delving deep, gutting ancient stone and pulverizing rock for
  the sake of the metal it contained.
  
  A dual operation, the metal helping to pay for the pass and tunnel which would
  link inhabited areas, a passage which would rob the sea and sky of expensive
  and dangerous transport.
  
  One day it would be completed-but Dumarest had no intention of seeing it.
  Already he had stayed on Tradum too long.
  
  He stood by the door of the hut which housed fifty men, looking towards the
  west, seeing 