"Clear and straightforward . . . From the most holy to the most bizarre (sometimes combining the two), this book covers the breadth of human and pre-human history."

– Charlotte Observer

“Thoroughly researched and entertainingly presented."

– The Boston Sunday Herald

“This book is perfect for learning about well-known artifacts and miscellaneous historical stuff. The histories and legends are lively accounts of who, what, when, how, and sometimes why."

– The Bloomsbury Review

“Provides a series of entertaining and educational essays on familiar and obscure objects associated with world events and renown personages which history buffs and the popular reading audience alike will enjoy learning more about.”

– Steven K. Rogstad, Lincoln Herald

“In Lucy’s Bones, Sacred Stones, and Einstein’s Brain, author Harvey Rachlin unearths the whole truth about the past by examining the stories behind the historical effects we all know — or think we know. Beginning in antiquity and moving right on through the space age, this book offers an irresistible look at the stuff of legends . . . With a traveling companion like Lucy’s Bones, Sacred Stones, and Einstein’s Brain, we can be sure that any voyage of historical discovery we embark upon will surely be an enjoyable one.”

– History Book Club Review

"A pleasant diversion for both browsing and reference."

– Booklist

“It reads like a collection of plot summaries for future Indiana Jones movies. Rachlin manages to give the book enough teeth to please both a history buff and a National Enquirer enthusiast.”

– Los Angeles Reader

“The book . . . is either on the list (or very close to it) of the best dozen books I ever read. ‘Fascinating’ is a good word for it. So is ‘intriguing’. And ‘spellbinding’ or ‘captivating’ or even ‘beguiling’ if you’re trying to describe the book, because it really is a prize . . . I’ll tell you this. I’ve read, I suppose, far more than a thousand books and I never read a better one.”

– Broox Sledge, The Lamar Democrat and Sulligent News

“A fascinating trivia book . . . sprightly and often witty . . . soundly researched.”
 

– Library Journal

“Entertaining and enlightening . . . a pageant of human aspiration, achievement, obsession and belief.”

– Publishers Weekly