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61) Haunted ground
Author
Series
Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire series volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery-the perfectly preserved head of a young woman with long red hair-Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence. Because the bog's watery, acidic environment prevents decay, it's difficult to tell how long the red-haired girl has been buried-two years, two centuries, or even much longer. Who...
62) The whisper
Author
Series
BPD-FBI series volume 4
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery--the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them--as the Fargos are about to find out.
65) Pharaoh: a novel
Author
Series
Jack Howard novels volume 7
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
1334 BC: Akhenaten the Sun-Pharaoh rules supreme in Egypt. The young Tutahkhamun is groomed to be his successor. But then Akhenaten disappears and his legacy is seemingly swallowed up by the sands that lie under modern Cairo and the great pyramids of Giza... AD 1885: A half-crazed man appears claiming to know of a vast lost labyrinth beneath modern Cairo, of canals and palaces and tombs. His story won't be believed for almost thirty years, with the...
66) Grave error
Author
Series
Arnold Landon novels volume 19
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Conrad Yeats thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An archeologist discovers in the ruins of the Third Reich a key to an ancient conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of international governments and involves Hitler's quest for Atlantis.
68) Inquisition
Author
Series
Jack Howard novels volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The latest Jack Howard thriller from internationally bestselling mastermind David Gibbins. 258 As the blood of martyred Christians runs through Rome's catacombs, Pope Sixtus entrusts their most sacred object to a devoted follower. Soon after, the Holy Grail disappears into the darkness of time. 1684 While overseeing the evacuation of the English colony of Tangier, Samuel Pepys attempts to retrieve a treasure which has resurfaced after more than a...
Author
Publisher
Our Sunday Visitor
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave. This surprising discovery launched a secret quest that would last decades -- a quest to discover the long-lost burial place of the apostle Peter. From earliest times, Christian tradition held that Peter -- a lowly fisherman from Galilee, whom Christ made leader of his Church -- was executed in Rome by Emperor Nero and buried on Vatican Hill. But his tomb had been...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her -- a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar. The vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there's...
73) Atlantis
Author
Series
Jack Howard novels volume 1
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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74) Aphra
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Following her time in the clutches of Darth Vader, Doctor Aphra has barely escaped with her life. If he ever learns of her survival, he'll hunt her to the ends of the galaxy. But for now, it's time for a return to what she does best. With the droids 0-0-0 and BT-1 in tow, she's off in search of rare artifacts from the galactic center to the Outer Rim and everywhere in between. Aphra's got debts to pay after all. Just as long as she can stay one step...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Description
It's 1922, and The Great War is over. With the world at peace, Amelia and her family return to the Valley of the Kings to explore its storied sands. But they are quickly troubled by treacherous secrets and murder. A woman presents them with a priceless but dangerous artifact--a golden king said to bring death to all who possess it. The woman's husband has already fallen, and now she needs help to return the relixc to its tomb.
76) Shadow zone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A discovery by submersible designer Hannah Bryson suggests a possible cause of mythical Atlantis's mysterious demise that has potentially cataclysmic consequences for the modern world.
Author
Series
Babylon rising volume 4
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Michael Murphy is a scholar of Biblical prophecy, but not the sedate and tweedy kind. Murphy is a field archeologist who defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from Biblical times.
Author
Series
Yusuf Khalifa novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
79) A baby's bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It was a secret burial. Maybe even murder..." Archaeologist Sage Westfield has been called in to excavate a sixteenth-century well, and expects to find little more than soil and the odd piece of pottery. But the disturbing discovery of the bones of a woman and newborn baby make it clear that she has stumbled onto an historical crime scene, one that is interwoven with an unsettling local legend of witchcraft and unrequited love. Yet there is more...
80) The tombs
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder. As they follow the trail through Hungary, Italy, France, Russia and Kazakhstan, the Fargos will find themselves pitted against a thieving group of amateur treasure...
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