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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"A sweeping history of Jerusalem and the pivotal role that archaeology has played--both in its invention as a modern holy city and as the match that lit a geopolitical fire beneath it In 1863, a French politician and adventurer heard a rumor of biblical treasures beneath Jerusalem. At the time, Jerusalem was a venerable backwater, not the thriving religious center we think of today. Archaeology itself was in its infancy--more a pastime for treasure-hunting...
63) Ancient Rome
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Series
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling history of the West's scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time. From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt's ancient past took place in an atmosphere of grand adventure and international rivalry. In A World Beneath the Sands, the acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson chronicles...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The Viking Age--between 750 and 1050--saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North America and the Asian steppe. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology, their art and culture. From Björn Ironside, who led an expedition...
68) Lovelock cave
Author
Series
University of California publications in archaeology and ethnology volume 25, no. 1
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
English
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70) The sanctuary
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Language
English
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Description
On a typical Baghdad day in April of 2003, elite elements of the First Cavalry Division stealthily surround their objective--the cement compound of a mysterious Westerner that terrified Iraqis call Hakeem, "The Doctor." After neutralizing fierce resistance and seizing the compound, U.S. troops find haunting evidence of unspeakable experimentation--but no sign of the ghastly doctor himself.
71) The Mayans
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Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Publisher
School for Advanced Research Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"This book is about a place, the Great Basin of western North America, and about the lifeways of Native American people who lived there during the past 13,000 years. The authors highlight the ingenious solutions people devised to sustain themselves in a difficult environment. The evidence of their success is often subtle and difficult to interpret from the few and fragile remains left behind for archaeologists to discover. These ancient fragments...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on monuments and painted on pottery and bark books. This program highlights the ingenious breakthroughs that cracked the code, unleashing a flood of dramatic new insights about the ancient civilization.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It is time for a new book about bog bodies: the number of known bodies is growing. Lindow Man, the famous 'Pete Marsh' discovered in Cheshire in the 1980s, has been joined by new finds from Ireland and elsewhere. Who were these unfortunate people, and why were they killed?
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the excavation of a secret tomb at Giza, Egypt, in 1925, told through the experiences of a young boy who accompanies his father on an archeological dig.
80) Pyramids
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Describes the pyramids of Egypt and the Americas and their significance in the social, political, and religious life of long-vanished civilizations.
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