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Ancient Mexico: An Overview
by Jaime Litvak King Publisher Comments The perfect brief introduction to the pre-conquest archaeological sites of Mexico....
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Frauds Myths and Mysteries Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology 4ed
by Kenneth L Feder Publisher Comments Ancient astronauts? Atlantis? Psychic archaeology? Committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity, this indispensable supplementary text uses interesting archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can truly know things about...
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Discoveries: Fossils (Discoveries)
by Yvette Gayrard Valy 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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Cities of Ancient Mexico Rev Edition
by Jeremy Sabloff Synopsis Ancient Mexico was one of the great independent hearths of civilization. Out of a varied landscape grew some of the richest cultures of the early historic world - Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec. Standard histories tend to focus on the individual...
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The Mummy: Unwrap the Ancient Secrets of the Mummies' Tombs
by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments The Egyptian mummy, whether swathed in its rotten bandages or enclosed in a magnificent sarcophagus, is a familiar and fascinating sight....
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Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History
by J E Manchip White Publisher Comments This fascinating account of ancient Egypt presents predynastic civilization through Ptolemies: social and political structure, daily life, international relations, religion and cult of the dead, arts and crafts, science and medicine, sacred writing, and...
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The Encyclopedia of Mummies
by Bob Brier Publisher Comments The Encyclopedia of Mummies examines every type of preserved body from every culture and time period....
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Daily Life of the Aztecs, on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest: On the Eve of the Spanish Conquest
by Jacques Soustelle Publisher Comments “Soustelle’s great book about the Aztecs . . . takes us deep into the life of this great society. . . . Soustelle has the rare quality of entering into the minds of those he is studying and seeing things from their point of view. . . . [His...
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Grahame Clark: An Intellectual Biography of an Archaeologist
by Brian Fagan Publisher Comments The British archaeologist Grahame Clark was a seminal figure in European and world archaeology for more than half of the twentieth century, but, at the same time, one whose reputation has been outshone by other, more visible luminaries. His works were...
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New York Times Book of Archeology Rev Edition
by Nicholas Wade Publisher Comments Compiles the paper's best reporting on the search to uncover our past presented by award-winning journalists and written for the layman....
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The Old Testament and the Archaeologist (Guides to Biblical Scholarship)
by H Darrell Lance Synopsis The recovery of the history of the ancient Near East through archaeology is one of the major achievements of the modern age. Although the impact of this new knowledge on biblical matters is briefly surveyed, the main concern of this book is with the...
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Pot Luck: Adventures in Archaeology
by Florence C Lister Publisher Comments A lighthearted account of fifty years of archaeological fieldwork, and a serious look at the worldwide role of ceramics in cultural understanding....
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The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
by Howard Carter Publisher Comments This book captures the painstaking, step-by-step process of excavation, and the wonders of the treasure-filled inner chamber. 106 on-the-spot photographs depict the phases of the discovery and the scrupulous cataloging of the treasures....
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The View from Nebo: How Archeology is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East
by Amy Docker Marcus Synopsis This compelling blend of science, history, politics, and biblical scholarship explains how modern archeology is challenging our understanding of the Bible and its accounts of ancient history....
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Reflections of Osiris: Lives from Ancient Egypt
by John Ray Publisher Comments Spanning more than two millennia, Reflections of Osiris opens a small window into a timeless world, capturing the flavor of life in ancient Egypt through vivid profiles of eleven actual people and the god Osiris. Some of the figures profiled here are...
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Stonehenge
by Robin Heath Publisher Comments Once part of a large culture of stone circles, Stonehenge built around 3000 B.C. and developed over the next 1,500 years is the most famous. The remains of a once-wealthy and evidently learned tribal community, it reflects the apparently...
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Dover Pictorial Archives #2: Egyptian Magic
by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Sums up all that is known about magic in Ancient Egypt: the role of magic in controlling the gods, powerful amulets that warded off evil spirits, scarabs of immortality, use of wax images, formulas and spells, the secret name, much more....
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Hidden Tombs of Memphis: New Discoveries from the Time of Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great
by Geoffrey T Martin Synopsis 'The Hidden Tombs of Memphis' is Professor Martin's first-hand account of his discovery of the tomb of Maya, Tutankhamun's treasurer. Exploration of his tomb, and those of other important officials in the necropolis, has opened a new chapter in our...
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Animal Bones Interpreting the Past
by James Rackham Publisher Comments The bones of animals are common finds on many excavations. Interesting as evidence of the occurrence of animals, both domestic and wild, at various times throughout history, bones can also yield information about the human societies that hunted or kept...
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Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age
by Richard Rudgley Synopsis This work presents Stone Age civilization as far more sophisticated than previously believed in terms of its technology, mathematics, medicine, communications (which were worldwide) and art. The author attempts to re-establish Rousseau's notion of the...
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