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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 — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods by Jean Bottero Publisher Comments Our ancestors, the Mesopotamians, invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of history. To give the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancient Near East Vol.1 an Anthology (Princeton Studies on the Near East) by James B Pritchard Synopsis Writings from the cultures of biblical times supplement the Old Testament in documenting the history of the ancient Near East.... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics) by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments The most famous of all ancient Egyptian texts?with an introduction by one of the most celebrated Egyptologists of our time AMONG THE MOST WIDELY read and studied of all ancient writings, The Egyptian Book of the Dead consists of funerary texts that... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome by Peter Connolly Publisher Comments In this superbly illustrated volume, Athens and Rome, the two greatest cities of antiquity, spring to life through the masterful pen of Peter Connolly. For the first time ever, all the evidence has been painstakingly pieced together to reconstruct the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Maya by Peter Schmidt Publisher Comments Early in their civilization, the Maya emerged as undisputed masters of astronomy, chronology, the recording of history, and mathematics. By A.D. 300 they had developed a system of hieroglyphic writing, a calendar, and the first major works of stone... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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Ancient Near East Volume 2 by James Ben Pritchard Publisher Comments This volume makes available some of the most important discovered source material for the historian of the ancient Near East.... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical Atlas of Celtic World (10 Edition) by Ian Barnes Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive history of the Celts, supported by accurate, detailed maps demonstrating the movements of the people and the major military campaigns and conflicts of the Celts, with engaging, informative text. The Celts... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia by Zainab Bahrani Publisher Comments Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical recordsof violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient (ca. 3000-500 BCE) Iraqirituals of war and images of violence constituted part of the magical technologiesof warfare that formed... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya by Mary Miller Publisher Comments The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya is the first-ever English-language dictionary of Mesoamerican mythology and religion. Nearly 300 entries, from accession to yoke, describe the main gods and symbols of the Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Isreal and the Origin of Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein Publisher Comments Is the Bible true? For the last hundred and fifty years a war has been waged over the historical reliability of the Hebrew scriptures. Recent dramatic discoveries of biblical archaeology have cast serious doubt on the familiar account of ancient Israel... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Art of Mesoamerica, Fourth Edition (World of Art) by Mary Ellen Miller Publisher Comments Mary Ellen Miller evocatively surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Columbian civilizations—Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztecas well as those of their less well-known contemporaries. Their pyramids and palaces, jades and brightly... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of Trojan War by Michael Wood Publisher Comments Tales of Troy and its heroesAchilles and Hector, Paris and the legendary beauty Helenhave fired the human imagination for 3,000 years. With In Search of the Trojan War, Michael Wood brings vividly to life the legend and lore of the Heroic Age... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Penguin Historical Atlas of Vikings (95 Edition) by John Haywood Publisher Comments Viking marauders struck fear into the hearts of ninth-century European peasants, monks and nobles alike for two centuries, but the Vikings were more than seaborne terrorists. This atlas illustrates their influence extending from the Holy Land to... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C Mann Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian Fagan Staff Pick In this troubling but well-told tale, Fagan walks us through the history of world climate change — and how it has affected the rise and fall of civilizations. Perfect for fans of history and the environment alike.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb by Daniel Meyerson Review “In the tradition of the great excavators, Meyerson has unearthed untold treasures–the story behind the story, and the one behind that, too. With its cast of colorful characters–tomb robbers, peasant diggers, millionaire dilettantes... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments The classic account of Egypt's most famous queennow fully revised For over a decade, Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world: a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored by her family... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Temples, Tombs, & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz Publisher Comments An eye-opening, edifying, and endlessly entertaining tour through an astonishing bygone world—the acclaimed classic history of ancient Egypt, now newly revised and updated Writing as Elizabeth Peters, world-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz... (read more) Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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