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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat ... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Aztecs: An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen Publisher Comments Inga Clendinnen creates a vivid and dramatic picture of life in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, once the nerve centre of the Aztec tribute empire. She explores the worlds of Aztec women, of priests and of warriors, in an extraordinary recreation of... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter Publisher Comments Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.... (read more) List Price $48.75 Your price: $19.95 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: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction by Geoffrey E Braswell Publisher Comments I can say unequivocally that this volume will become a basic and heavily used reference and source of ideas. . . . Geoff Braswell is to be commended for bringing together so solid, comprehensive, pertinent, and balanced a compilation of research and... (read more) Your price: $75.00 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mycenaean World by John Chadwick Publisher Comments An extensively illustrated general account of Greece in the 14th and 13th centuries B.C., as reconstructed from contemporary documents and archives by a leading world authority who presents a vivid picture of a long-obscure era.... (read more) List Price $32.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost Cities of North & Central America (Lost Cities Series) by David H Childress Publisher Comments Rogue adventurer and maverick archaeologist Childress takes the reader on unforgettable journeys in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries. Join him as he crosses deserts, mountains, and jungles in search of legendary cities, vast gold treasure... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Medici Conspiracy (06 Edition) by Peter Watson Publisher Comments The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Time Detectives: How Archaeologist Use Technology to Recapture the Past by Brian M Fagan Publisher Comments University of California Professor of Anthropology Brian Fagan offers a fascinating look at how the key archaeological discoveries of the past 50 years were made--and how new techniques and devices have led to new insights into ancient civilizations. of... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary Volume 2 by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Volume 2 of the monumental work containing about 25,000 words or terms that occur in texts ranging from 3000 B.C. to 600 A.D. Each entry consists of a transliteration of the word, the word in hieroglyphs, and the meaning in English. Indispensable to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Buried Alive : the Startling Truth About Neanderthal Man (98 Edition) by Jack Cuozzo Publisher Comments In 1979, New Jersey orthodontist Jack Cuozzo was granted access to the world's most famous Neanderthal skeletons in Germany, France, and Israel. His interest in the mysterious remains began as mere curiosity about these ancient creatures. His findings... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ten Thousand Scorpions by Larry Frolick Publisher Comments The desert tribes of Yemen call her Bilqis. In the high plateaus of Ethiopia, she is revered as Makeda. And in the fertile valleys of Anatolian Turkey, she is known as Saba Sultana. Who was the mysterious Queen of Sheba, and why has her legend survived... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Discoveries: Vikings (Discoveries) by Yves Cohat 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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $1.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Atlas of World Archaeology by Paul G Bahn Publisher Comments The Atlas of World Archaeology is an... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $11.25 Used - Hardcover
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Moundbuilders : Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America (04 Edition) by George R. Milner Publisher Comments This comprehensive survey of the Pre-Columbian Indian societies of eastern North America covers the entire sweep of Eastern Woodlands prehistory with an emphasis on how societies developed from hunter-gatherers to village farmers and town-dwellers.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character by Samuel Noah Kramer Publisher Comments The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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