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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...
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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
by Israel Finkelstein Publisher Comments In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman draw on recent archaeological research to present a dramatically revised portrait of ancient Israel and its neighbors. They argue that crucial...
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Incas People of the Sun
by Carmen Bernard 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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Discoveries: Lost Cities of the Maya (Discoveries)
by Claude Baudez 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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Search for Ancient China (Discoveries)
by C Debaine Francfort 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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Pompeii Day a City Died
by Robert Etienne 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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The Celts: A History
by Peter Berresf Ellis Publisher Comments By the third century B.C., at the height of their greatest expansion, the Celts had spread from their Rhineland home as far west as Ireland and east to Turkey's central plain, as far north as Belgium and south to Cadiz in Spain. They had crossed the Alps...
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Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh
by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments Ramesses II was the archetypal Egyptian pharaoh: a mighty warrior, an extravagant builder, husband of the beautiful Nefertiti, and father of scores of children. Even today, epic tales of Ramesses endure. Using a combination of historical and...
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The Sea Hunters
by Clive Cussler Publisher Comments A steamboat goes up in flames...and down to the bottom of the sea. A locomotive plunges into a creek...and vanished into mystery. A German U-boat sends an American troop transport, and eight hundred on board, to a watery grave, on Christmas eve. Clive...
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Civilization before Greece and Rome
by H.W.F. Saggs Publisher Comments "Saggs has a knack for drawing together the most telling details from the jumble of cultural data and presenting them in such a way that we truly see each culture as it was at its zenith, and its heritage to the world. An especially informative look at...
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The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
by Nicholas Clapp Publisher Comments 'The most fabled city in ancient Arabia was Ubar, described in the Koran as \"the many-columned city whose like has not been built in the entire land.\" But like Sodom and Gomorrah, Ubar was destroyed by God for the sins of its people. Buried in the...
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The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology
by Jose Arguelles Publisher Comments Visionary historian Arguelles unravels the harmonic code of the ancient Maya providing valuable keys to understanding the next twenty years of human evolution....
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An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs
by Sylvanus Griswold Morley Publisher Comments Best introduction to the topic — easily accessible to beginners. Extremely full in interpretation; very thorough in exposition of variants and unusual features, with reproductions of many inscriptions unavailable elsewhere. Material from Old and...
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Egyptian Language
by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Budge gives the history of hieroglyphic writing, its evolution into hieratic and demotic scripts, and the fascinating tale of its decipherment by Young, Champollion, Åkerblad, and others....
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Beloved Beasts: Animal Mummies from Ancient Egypt
by Salima Ikram Synopsis The Animal Mummy Room in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo throws an interesting light on the role of animals in ancient Egyptian, both as sacred totems of religious cults and as beloved household pets. This catalog of the animal mummies in the Museum - from...
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Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
by Graham Hancock Publisher Comments The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to...
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Discoveries: Khmer (Discoveries)
by Thierry Zephir Publisher Comments 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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Discoveries: Prehistoric Art and Civilization (Discoveries)
by D Vialou 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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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments Examines the impact of Egyptology on various aspects of popular culture such as cinema, fiction writing and opera....
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Popol Vuh : The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The Dawn Of Life And The Glories Of Gods and Kings
by Dennis Tedlock Publisher Comments Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a...
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