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The Origin Map by Thomas G Brophy Publisher Comments On a desolate plain in the Egyptian Sahara desert, west of Aswan, there is a very remote prehistoric site called Nabta Playa. There, a recently discovered complex of extremely ancient man-made megalithic structures have baffled the archaeologists who... (read more) Your price: $6.00 DRM-Free PDF - Electronic 
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Very Short Introductions #10: Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction by Paul G Bahn Publisher Comments Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects -- from Islam to Sociology, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Field Guide To Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Sout by Alex Patterson Publisher Comments This is the only specifically designed key to the interpretation of American rock art. The Field Guide brings together 600 commentaries on specific symbols by over 100 archaeologists, researchers, and Native American informants. Covers the northern... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Barber Publisher Comments Some of Ürümchi's mummies date back as far as 4,000 years--contemporary with the famous Egyptian mummies but even more beautifully preserved. Surprisingly, these prehistoric people are not Asian but Caucasoid--tall, large-nosed and blond with thick... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Egyptians by Cyril Aldred Publisher Comments Ancient Egypt may have been, to paraphrase Herodotus, "the gift of the Nile", but Egypt's civilization was no less the product of her god incarnate, the pharaoh. These twin themes -- the overwhelming importance of the annual inundation of the Nile and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Egypt by Jon E Lewis Publisher Comments In this new Mammoth volume's variety of firsthand accounts--from papyri, chiseled tablets, court records, temple texts, graffiti, classical Greek and Roman histories--the ancient Egyptian way of life is unfolded in colorful detail with dramatic immediacy.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Book of the Dead by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Indispensable reference by noted Egyptologist contains every word of ancient Egyptian text, vital repository of Egyptian religious doctrine, grouped according to hieroglyphic symbols in the standard scholarly system of Roman alphabetization. A phonetic... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Discoveries: Aztecs (Discoveries) by Serge Gruzinski Synopsis The Aztecs were noted for their impressive architecture, majestic sculpture, luxurious clothing, and fine goldworking--but they also practiced human sacrifice. The seemingly contradictory aspects of this fascinating culture are examined here, from its... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Search for El Dorado by Time Life Publisher Comments Readers assume the role of archaeologists, uncovering secrets of ancient civilizations. Stunning photographs and illustrations, plus detailed cutaways, maps and diagrams.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tomb of the Eagles by John W. Hedges Publisher Comments Isbister in the Orkneys is one of those extraordinary archaeological sites where the remains of Neolithic man and his works have been so well preserved that they give us an amazingly clear picture of the life and people of 5000 years ago. In Tomb of the... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments "This splendidly clear, full and often amusing account of ancient Egypt would surely have met with the approval of Herodotus himself."—Sunday Telegraph.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Celts (Sacred Symbols) by Thames & Hudson Publisher Comments The last significant tribal culture in Europe, the Celts are today associated with a particularly rich body of symbolism and mystery. Rituals, omens and signs were central to their religious beliefs, and these were expressed in a variety of beautiful... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Archaeology of War: Human Conflict Since the Dawn of Civilization by Archaeology Magazine Publisher Comments From the flint weapons of prehistory to the sophisticated nuclear missiles of today, archaeologists are unearthing and documenting the dramatic story of warfare--"in so many ways, the story of human history itself. New discoveries have revealed what... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Daily Life of the Etruscans by Jacques Heurgon Publisher Comments The Etruscans were the most important--and remarkable--of the peoples who inhabited early Italy. But when the Romans gained supremacy, the distinctive Etruscan culture gradually disappeared. This masterly re-creation of the lives of a now-forgotten... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ancient Olympic Games: [2nd Edition] by Judith Swaddling Publisher Comments For over one thousand years between 776 B.C. and A.D. 395, princes, statesmen, and famous athletes gathered every four years at Olympia in western Greece to compete for the olive crowns of the ancient Olympic Games. Judith Swaddling traces the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Early Man and the Cosmos by Evan Hadingham Publisher Comments To a degree incomprehensible to the modern mind, skywatchers of the ancient past found the night sky a source of wonder and mystery. As Evan Hadingham so brilliantly demonstrates in his latest book, they found the skies an enormous challenge as well... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Murder of Tutankhamen: A True Story by Bob Brier About the Author Dr. Bob Brier has spent more than twenty years studying ancient Egypt, focusing on paleopathology, the study of disease in the ancient world. He is one of the world's most authoritative and respected Egyptologists and the author of two previous books... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Archaeology: Down to Earth by David Hurst Thomas Publisher Comments The 1996 discovery near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: who owns history? Many Indians see... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller by James Patterson Publisher Comments A secret buried for centuries Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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God's Gold: A Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem by Sean Kingsley Publisher Comments In 70 AD, the Roman emperor Vespasian and his son Titus plundered the great Temple of Jerusalem, claiming for themselves a priceless hoard. The golden candelabrum, silver trumpets, the bejeweled Table of the Divine Presence—the central icons of... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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