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Readers have long wondered what befell the Emerson clan during the years before the Great War. Now, at last, the silence is broken and the truth revealed of a perilous journey to a secret and mysterious place hidden deep in the heart of the unforgiving desert. An adventure prompted by loyalty to an endangered friend — and spurred on by lies and treachery — it leads Amelia Peabody and her intrepid family into a nest of vipers lying in

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In the summer of 2016 acclaimed archaeologist Richard Freund and his team made news worldwide when they discovered an escape tunnel from the Ponar burial pits in Lithuania. This Holocaust site where more than 100,000 people perished is usually remembered for the terrible devastation that happened there. In the midst of this devastation, the discovery of an escape tunnel reminds us of the determination and tenacity of the people in the camp and the...

An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2,000-year-old nightmare, a secret that should have remained buried.

"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...

Describes the work of archaeologists who have uncovered the artifacts of ancient India.

Reconstructs the events of the New Kingdom thyat led to the building of the royal tombs to provide an understanding of the civilization and culture of ancient Egypt, the sequence of its dynasties, and its famous pharaohs.