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Stonehenge by Robin Heath Publisher Comments Once part of a large culture of stone circles, Stonehenge — built around 3000 B.C. and developed over the next 1,500 years — is the most famous. The remains of a once-wealthy and evidently learned tribal community, it reflects the apparently... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mound Builders and Cliff Dwellers 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 $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt (Facts on File Library of World History) by A. Rosalie David Publisher Comments Praise for the previous edition: </B> Recommended...", Booklist</i> ...belongs on the shelves of the public and school library. The breadth and thoroughness of its coverage will serve the beginning student well, and there is nothing... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hidden Tombs of Memphis: New Discoveries from the Time of Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great by Geoffrey T Martin Publisher Comments 'The Hidden Tombs of Memphis' is Professor Martin's first-hand account of his discovery of the tomb of Maya, Tutankhamun's treasurer. Exploration of his tomb, and those of other important officials in the necropolis, has opened a new chapter in our... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Janaab' Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler by Vera Tiesler Publisher Comments Excavations of Maya burial vaults at Palenque, Mexico, half a century ago revealed what was then the most extraordinary tomb finding of the pre-Columbian world; its discovery has been crucial to an understanding of the dynastic history and ideology of... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $38.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Mongols (Peoples of Europe) by David Morgan Publisher Comments The Mongol Empire was the largest continuous land empire known to history, its violent creation the major political event of the thirteenth century world. Yet little is known of the history of Christendom's most formidable and dangerous eastern neighbour.... (read more) Your price $36.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Incidents of Travel in Yucatan Volume 2 by John Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 2 of two-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements--all of which makes this... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert Publisher Comments At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Great Adventures in Archaeology by Robert Silverberg Publisher Comments Egypt, Troy, Babylon, Nineveh, Ur, Nippur, Copán—who is not lured by the fabled civilizations of the ancient world? And who has not wanted to accompany those remarkable archaeologists whose skill, imagination, and perseverance unearthed ruined... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Traces of the Past PB (Contemporary Issues in Museum Cultures) by Joseph B Lambert Publisher Comments Where Stonehenge’s giant bluestones come from? Was the fall of the Roman Empire hastened by lead poisoning? How did amber get from the Baltic to Belize? In exploring these and other historical enigmas, Joseph Lambert expertly details the rich... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Archaeology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Celtic Britain and Ireland by Lloyd Robert Laing Publisher Comments Dozens of sites, in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have turned up numerous treasures of Celtic art, including ceramics, metalwork, manuscripts and coins. Many of the most noteworthy and beautiful, some not previously published, are illustrated and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $11.53 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Angkor and the Khmer Civilization by Michael D Coe Publisher Comments The ancient city of Angkor has fascinated Westerners since its rediscovery in the mid-nineteenth century. A great deal is now known about the brilliant Khmer civilization that flourished among the monsoon forests and rice paddies of mainland Southeast... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Exploring Ancient Egypt (Places in Time) by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments Exploring Ancient Egypt, the fifth volume in the Places in Time series, reveals the excitement of science and history as it tours archaeological discoveries from ancient Egypt. Each of twenty chapters treats a particular site, reflecting a variety of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Animal Bones Interpreting the Past by James Rackham Publisher Comments The bones of animals are common finds on many excavations. Interesting as evidence of the occurrence of animals, both domestic and wild, at various times throughout history, bones can also yield information about the human societies that hunted or kept... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Architecture of Grasshopper Pueblo by Charles R Riggs Publisher Comments The Long History of field research at Grasshopper, a massive, 500-room pueblo in an isolated mountain meadow in east-central Arizona, has produced a wealth of architectural information. Drawing on this extensive research, Charles Riggs reconstructs the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $11.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman Publisher Comments The most thoroughly detailed account -- including material not found in more recent books -- of domestic life, religion, magic, medicine, commerce, and more in ancient Egypt. Illustrations include tomb paintings, carvings, more.... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sather Classical Lectures #53: An Archaeology of Greece: The Present State and Future Scope of a Discipline by Anthony M Snodgrass Publisher Comments Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times. (Second Edition) by Lionel Casson Publisher Comments Written by the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring Lionel Casson, The Ancient Mariners has long served the needs of all who are interested in the sea, from the casual reader to the professional historian. This completely revised edition... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Murder of Tutankhamen a 3000 Year Old Mu by Bob Brier Synopsis A reconstruction of the world of Tutankhamen. Egyptologist Bob Brier seeks to reveal what actually happened to the "Boy King", and uses forensic evidence to show that Tutankhamen was brutally murdered.... (read more) Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans by J Hughes Publisher Comments In Pan's Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from exploitation of the natural world. Focusing on Greece and Rome, as well as areas... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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