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The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. 1 by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Volume 1 of a two-volume set by one of the foremost Egyptologists contains 16 chapters including The Gods of Egypt, Primitive Gods and Nome-Gods, Hell and the Damned, Ra the Sun-God and His Forms, Hathor and the Hathor-Goddesses, The Horus Gods, and... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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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... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs by Linda Schele and Peter Mathews Publisher Comments This unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America. For readers at every level -- from the casual tourist to the serious student -- The Code of Kings... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry by Guillerm Gomez Pena Review "Guillermo Gomez-Pena is one of the handful of great performance artists in America today." --Peter Sellars... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt by Peter A Clayton Synopsis This work traces all the rulers and dynasties of Egypt in their chronological order, from Narmer, who first united all the lands along the Nile, to Cleopatra 3000 years later. Timelines and other visual aids are used throughout this book.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mesoamerica's ancient cities :aerial views of precolumbian ruins in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras by William M Ferguson Publisher Comments A grand tour of over fifty of the major precolumbian ruins of Central America. With more than 250 color photos, this volume is a superb reference for archaeologists and a must for any serious traveler to the region. "The aerial and ground-level black-and-... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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In Language of Kings : an Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature, Pre-columbian To the Present (01 Edition) by Miguel Leon-portilla Publisher Comments From new interpretations of the glyphic writings of the Maya through the poetic response to events in modern Chiapas, here is a history of Mexico and Central America from the Indian point of view. In these pages the reader will encounter, often in new... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Return to Midway by Robert D Ballard Publisher Comments It has been called "the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar." On June 4, 1942, near a tiny island 1,500 miles from Hawaii, the course of the Pacific War changed dramatically. Before the battle of Midway the forces of Imperial Japan seemed unstoppable.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Life Under the Pharaohs by Leonard Cottrell Publisher Comments This book, written by one the masters of popular history, is for the interested amateur and reconstructs every day life in the Egypt of 1500 BCE. The central character, a real person whose tomb still exists, is Vizier Rekhmire. You meet with him and go... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Voyages of the Pyramid Builders by Robert Schoch Publisher Comments Is it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found throughout our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces in geography and time, such as the ancient Egyptians; early Bud-dhists; the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations of the Americas; the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghosts of Vesuvius: a New Look At the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections (04 Edition) by Charles R. Pellegrino Publisher Comments The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent destruction of the thriving Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum are historic disasters of monumental proportions, resonating across millennia and remembered to this very day. Now Dr... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City by Thor Heyerdahl Synopsis Thor Heyerdahl, who is well-known for his daring expedition around the globe, recently returned to Peru, where he learned of the pre-Columbian site of Tucume, containing 26 pyramids. In this book, he describes his experiences and the ambitious programme... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Historical Archaeology: Why the Past Matters by Barbara J Little Publisher Comments What is historical archaeology and why is it important? Well-known archaeologist Barbara Little addresses these key questions for introductory students in this concise, inexpensive, and well-written text. Little covers the goals of historical... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Vikings (10 Edition) by Robert Ferguson Publisher Comments A comprehensive and thrilling history, based on the latest scholarship, offers the definitive portrait of the Vikings Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose their... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript by Gisele Diaz Publisher Comments First publication of remarkable repainting of outstanding Mexican codex — priceless original is in Vatican Library — thought to have originated in the Cholula area, ca. AD 1400. 76 large full-color plates show an astounding array of gods, kings,... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau by James D Keyser Book News Annotation An archaeologist for the US Forest Service provides a semi- technical treatment of the rock paintings and carvings in an area from British Columbia south to Oregon and east to Montana. He discussed their nature and dates, similarities and regional... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Island of Fogs: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigations of Isla Cedros, Baja California by Matthew Des Lauriers Publisher Comments Located off the west coast of the Mexican state of Baja California, Isla Cedros—Island of Fogs—is site to some of the most extensive and remarkable archeological discoveries on the continent. Two sites dated to before 12,000 cal BP have been... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $42.00 Used - Hardcover
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Ancient Egypt: A Social History by Bruse Trigger Publisher Comments 'The processes of political, social and economic change are traced in an original survey of the ancient societies that flourished in the Nile Valley from the predynastic period to the conquest by Alexander the Great.'... (read more) List Price $58.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature - Pre-Columbian to the Present by Miguel Leon Portilla Synopsis The first anthology to present the full trajectory of new interpretations of the glyphic writings of the Maya through the poetic response to events in modern Chiapas, here is a history of Mexico and Central America from the Indian point of view. "In the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Time and Reality in the Thought of the Maya by Miguel Leon Portilla Publisher Comments In this second English-language edition of one of his most notable works, Miguel León-Portilla explores the Maya Indians remarkable concepts of time. At the books first appearance Evon Z. Vogt, Curator of Middle American Ethnology in Harvard... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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