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The Search for El Dorado by Time Life Publisher Comments Readers assume the role of archaeologists, uncovering secrets of ancient civilizations. Stunning photographs and illustrations, plus detailed cutaways, maps and diagrams.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium by R Holloway Publisher Comments The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century; most recently with the discovery of the shrine of Aeneas at Lavinium and the reports of the walls of the Romulan city discovered on the city slopes of the... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Ancient Egypt: An Introduction by Erik Hornung Publisher Comments Erik Hornung begins his account by taking a brief look at the prehistoric era in Egypt. He then focuses on political events during the period beginning with the reign of "Menes" and closing with the conquest by Alexander the Great. Building on insights... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tomb of the Eagles by John W. Hedges Publisher Comments Isbister in the Orkneys is one of those extraordinary archaeological sites where the remains of Neolithic man and his works have been so well preserved that they give us an amazingly clear picture of the life and people of 5000 years ago. In Tomb of the... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Jamestown, the Buried Truth by William M Kelso Publisher Comments What was life really like for the band of adventurers who firstset foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishmentsof these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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From the Mouth of the Dark Cave: Commemorative Sculpture of the Late Classic Maya by Karen Bassie Sweet Book News Annotation Explores the idea that caves formed by the erosive action of underground rivers in the southern lowlands of the Maya region played a major role in the ideology and world view of the Classic Maya. Bassie-Sweet shows how the Mayas' most sacred rituals... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments "This splendidly clear, full and often amusing account of ancient Egypt would surely have met with the approval of Herodotus himself."—Sunday Telegraph.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What Life Was Like When Longships Sailed: Vikings Ad 800-1100 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Israelites by B.S.J. Isserlin Publisher Comments Beginning in the late-13th century BC and ending with the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC, this wide-ranging work looks at Israelite culture and places it within the context of the contemporary Near Eastern world. The book combines recent research with... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally Staff Pick The First Word is a fascinating search for the origins of language, which takes the reader through genetics, evolution, and the process of defining language itself. Christine Kenneally is a capable guide to answering this difficult and complex question... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist by Donald P. Ryan Publisher Comments From the known to the unknown . . . With its spectacular temples, tombs, monuments, and mummies, as well as esoteric metaphysics, legendary historical characters, and connections to the Bible, ancient Egypt has enticed the human imagination for centuries.... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Landscape Revealed by Martin Green Publisher Comments The Down Farm landscape, where the author's family has farmed for generations, is one of the most carefully studied areas in western Europe. The farm is part of the Cranborne Chase, just south of Salisbury, and not only contains the Neolithic Dorset... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancient Persia by Josef Wiesehofer Publisher Comments Of all the great civilizations of the ancient world, that of Persia is one of the least understood. Josef Wiesehöfer's comprehensive survey of the Persian Empire under the Achaeminids, the Parthians, and the Sasanians focuses on the primary Persian... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of the Pharaohs by Pascal Vernus Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-233).... (read more) List Price $54.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lost Chalice: The Real-Life Chase for One of the World's Rarest Masterpieces -- a Priceless 2,500-Year-Old Artifact Depicting the Fa by Vernon Silver Publisher Comments Sotheby's. New York City. On a warm June evening, with the auction-house showroom crammed with the wealthy, the curious, and the press, history was made when an anonymous man in a green golf sweater paid three quarters of a million dollars to win a 2... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Archaeology of War: Human Conflict Since the Dawn of Civilization by Archaeology Magazine Publisher Comments From the flint weapons of prehistory to the sophisticated nuclear missiles of today, archaeologists are unearthing and documenting the dramatic story of warfare--"in so many ways, the story of human history itself. New discoveries have revealed what... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Hunter-Gatherer and Enviromental Data Sets by Lewis Rober Binford Publisher Comments Binford presents and analyzes ethnographic data from 340 historically-known hunter-gatherer societies and from them derives patterns that will allow us to interpret archaeological data from prehistoric peoples.... (read more) List Price $103.75 Your price: $60.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Ancient Olympic Games: [2nd Edition] by Judith Swaddling Publisher Comments For over one thousand years between 776 B.C. and A.D. 395, princes, statesmen, and famous athletes gathered every four years at Olympia in western Greece to compete for the olive crowns of the ancient Olympic Games. Judith Swaddling traces the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Archaeological Insights Into the Custer Battle: An Assessment of the 1984 Field Season by Douglas D Scott Publisher Comments In August, 1983, a grassfire raged up Deep Ravine and across the dry, grasscovered battlefield where, in 1876, men of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer had fought and died at the hands of a Sioux and Cheyenne force led by Sitting... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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