Books by Suzanne Olsson

Jesus in Kashmir, The Lost Tomb
She gained the nickname Indiana Sue for her formidable, and sometimes considerably risky, efforts to research a variety of sites across Northern India and Pakistan, including the alleged grave of Mary at Murree. Sadly, the Murree site has since been commandeered by the Pakistan military, who have built a communications tower directly over the grave. Roza Bal has also been recently fell on hard times and is badly desecrated. In spite of this, Olsson very nearly succeeded in uniting India and Pakistan, at a time of heightened tension, in this joint archeological venture. Her aims were to compare samples from the two tombs. Her research has uncovered a wealth of valuable new information.

A true citizen of the world, Olsson has lived on every continent. This gives her the unique advantage to spend quality time deeply researching the history of each religion, histories that usually lay buried under local languages. Olsson is the first to successfully link many new Sanskrit words to Biblical English counterparts.

Excerpted from Jesus, Last King of Kashmir: Life After the Crucifixion by Suzanne Olsson
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We tend to carry in our minds very stereotypical images of the Biblical patriarchs. They are usually clad in white robes and wear sandals. But when we allow ourselves to step outside Hollywood stereotypes, we realize these men and women traveled great distances through all kinds of terrain, and often under difficult and hostile circumstances. They impacted on cultures across vast distances stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Himalayas, where records of their visits still exist today. I think of them more as super action heros, supreme leaders, CEO's of the Board, captains of the Star Fleet. They faced constant dangers and traveled where none had gone before. These were our great prophets and teachers and uriahs, who brought us messages from the gods, who fought wars and rode fast horses, who carried swords and mighty scepters of authority, who traversed vast distances across lands and seas, and some would even say to the very stars beyond. Searching through the Bible, through ancient texts in far-off Himalayan monastaries, and even through their ancient DNA, we can follow their trails in ways never before imagined. If DNA is obtained, this can be matched with the Shroud of Turin, with known ancient relatives, and even with you or me.