Help me choose a new cover for The Last Climb!

I think the super wealthy have an obligation to go forth and entertain the rest of us.

Not through drama (we don’t need rich folks to generate that,) and certainly not by starting wars. History is peppered with the super wealthy acting on the misguided belief that a nice little war would liven us all up.

With normal water sources failing, the Nazca built an elaborate system of underground aqueducts to tap into subterranean aquifers. Tunnels carried the water from village to village. To keep the water flowing, they built “chimneys” into the underground canals in the shape of corkscrewing funnels, which caught prevailing winds and channeled them into the tunnels, increasing air pressure and helping to move water through the aqueducts.

1. Ancient men were just people, and people haven’t changed. Exhibit A: Doodle made by a child over a thousand years ago when he should have been doing his schoolwork. Here, ancient man exhibits classic signs of humanity: as with any modern child, Onfim (he signed it) has made himself the victor. On the top right…

He had every reason to believe he was the only human left, and he knew what extinction meant. After all he’d seen several species that once inhabited his barren little island go extinct. On the Pacific Ocean’s Henderson Island lies a heap of bones and refuse three hundred meters long and thirty meters wide. The…

In 1963, a man in Derinkuyu, Turkey, couldn’t keep his chickens from disappearing. The chickens were kept in an apparently safe location; his basement. No wild animals, no place for the feathered beasts to hide, right? So where did they go? One day he entered the basement in time to see a fluffy feathered rear…

Have you ever noticed that our expectations for ancient man are similar to those for toddlers?   Hear me out:1. They aren’t allowed to use power tools.2. They can’t be motivated by practicality.3. They must believe in Santa Claus and bogeymen under the bed. Yes, I know, it sounds weird, but let’s look at Gobekli Tepe. Discovered in 1994, this site…