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Megaliths Stones of Memory
by Jean Pierre Mohen  Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology 2ND Edition
by Warwick Bray Synopsis From the Abbevillean handaxe and the god Baal of the Canaanites to the Wisconsin and Wurm glaciations of America and Europe, the Yang Shao culture of neolithic China and Zinjanthropus, this dictionary describes the sites, cultures, periods, techniques...
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Engineering the Pyramids Engineering the Pyramids
by Dick Parry Publisher Comments In Engineering the Pyramids, author Dick Parry - a civil engineer - assesses the design of the pyramids and the likely methods of quarrying, transporting and raising the stones. Basing his ideas on both the archaeological record and the basic principles...
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Discovering the World of the Ancient Greeks
by Zofia Archibald Synopsis Like an enchanting travelogue back into time, this book takes an extraordinary approach to one of history's greatest civilizations--the world of ancient Greece. It recounts, through a spectacular array of full-color photographs and text, the great...
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Archaeology : a Very Short Introduction (96 Edition)
by Paul Bahn Synopsis This volume aims to reflect the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic discipline, encompasses the whole globe, and surveys 2.5 million years....
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Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy King
by Christine El Mahdy Publisher Comments When Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in 1922, even the most experienced archaeologists joined the international community in marveling at the incredible wealth-and seemingly bizarre rituals-of ancient Egypt. What kind of society could produce such...
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Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History
by Peter Green Synopsis Discusses the intellectual and political developments that distinguished the country's history from the beginnings of Minoan culture to the death of Alexander....
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Mummy: The Inside Story
by John H Taylor Publisher Comments 1. This book offers an unbeatable combination of Ancient Egypt and modern digital technology. 2. People are fascinated by mummies--now, for the first time, a mummy is virtually unwrapped, and its secrets revealed. 3. This is the perfect book for art...
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Egyptian Mummies
by Carol Andrews Publisher Comments Why did the Egyptians try to preserve their dead for eternity? How did they succeed? Carol Andrews answers these questions in a fully illustrated survey of the techniques of mummification, the religious beliefs that lay behind the practice, the ornate...
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Discoveries: Golden Treasures of Troy (Discoveries)
by Herve Duchene Synopsis A German businessman-turned-archaeologist, Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) had a lifelong dream: to find the world of Homer--the mythical cities of Troy, Ithaca, and Mycenae--and search for its long-hidden riches. Now, this fascinating volume reveals the...
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Monarchs of the Nile
by Aidan Dodson Synopsis A concise account of the lives and times of some of the more significant occupants of the Egyptian...
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Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-King (Us)
by Christine El Mahdy Publisher Comments The spectacular excavations at Bawiti, Egypt, in the summer of 1999 captured headlines all across the United States and rekindled America's fascination with Ancient Egypt. In that spirit comes this timely volume on the young monarch whose mummified...
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Life & Death of Druid Prince
by Anne Ross Synopsis This thrilling human drama and spellbinding scientific discovery--the most sensational archaeological find of the decade--unlocks the mysteries of the Druid past. "Mesmerizing . . . a tour de force of scientific sleuthing".--Chicago Tribune....
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Landmarks :an exploration of great rocks
by David Craig Publisher Comments This is an account of the author's travels around the world—in Africa, America, Australia, and Europe—to discover the significance of great cliffs and outcrops, to see at first hand how people have lived in their shadows or on their faces and...
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Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
by C W Ceram Publisher Comments C.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the...
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The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaelogy
by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more....
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Broken Spears Aztec Account Exp Edition
by Migue Leon Portilla Publisher Comments 'In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints...
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The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
by Nicholas Clapp Publisher Comments 'No one thought that Ubar, the most fabled city of ancient Arabia, would ever be found-if it even existed. Buried in the desert without a trace, it had become known as \"the Altantis of the Sands.\" Many had searched for Ubar, including Lawrence of...
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What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village
by Janet D Spector Synopsis This pioneering work focuses on excavations and discoveries at Little Rapids, a 19th-century Eastern Dakota planting village near present-day Minneapolis....
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Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century
by Eberhard Zangger Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-307) and index....
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