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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... (read more)  List Price $12.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Kinder 
Publisher Comments In September 1857, the S.S. Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the gold fields of California, went down during a hurricane off the Carolina coast. More than 400 men — and 21 tons of gold — were lost. In the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christiane Eluere Synopsis The story of the Celtic people begins with their expansion throughout Europe in the 4th century B.C. Because they left no written record, their culture has been reconstructed entirely from archaeological finds and accounts left by Roman historians... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Snell Synopsis In this sweeping overview of life in the ancient Near East, Daniel Snell surveys the history of the region from the invention of writing five thousand years ago to Alexander the Great's conquest in 332 B.C.E. The book is the first comprehensive history... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $16.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Mithen Publisher Comments 20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing the threat of extinction. But these people live on the brink... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J P Mallory Synopsis With the skill of a forensic scientist, Dr. Mallory traces the immediate origins of each of the Indo-European peoples of Europe and Asia. By comparing their languages he demonstrates their common cultural heritage, and through the technique of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Atwood Publisher Comments Roger Atwood knows more about the market for ancient objects than almost anyone. He knows where priceless antiquities are buried, who is digging them up, and who is fencing and buying them. In this fascinating book, Atwood takes readers on a journey... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Grant (edt) Noble Publisher Comments Startling discoveries and impassioned debates have emerged from the Chaco Phenomenon since the publication of New Light on Chaco Canyon twenty years ago. This completely updated edition features seventeen original essays, scores of photographs, maps, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jacques Soustelle Publisher Comments The Aztecs were fierce, honorable, death-obsessed, and profoundly religious. A famed scholar evokes the life of this complex culture on the eve of its extinction, when the Spanish arrived and conquered them--imprisoning Montezuma and strangling Atahualpa.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments The sacred wisdom of the priests of ancient Egypt and the experiences of the soul after death: one of the most important books in Egyptian history. Includes full hieroglyphic text along with a transliteration of sounds, word-for-word translation, and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Volume 1 of the work providing thorough coverage of numerous gods of ancient Egypt by foremost Egyptologist. Information on evolution of cults, rites and gods; the cult of Osiris; the Book of the Dead and its rites; the sacred animals and birds; Heaven... (read more) Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Graham Hancock Publisher Comments What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins that have never been found—until now. In this explosive new work of archaeological detection... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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