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by Rosemary A Joyce  Publisher Comments Historic black-and-white photographs and striking color images of archaeological and ethnographic objects enhance this introduction to one of the world's most significant Central and South American anthropological collection. Encounters with the... (read more)  List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Johan Reinhard Publisher Comments Johan Reinhard's discovery of the 500-year-old frozen body of an Inca girl made international headlines in 1995, reaching more than a billion people worldwide. One of the best-preserved mummies ever found, it was a stunning and significant time capsule... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Mcintosh Publisher Comments The Practical Archaeologist is an introduction to archaeology with a user-oriented approach. Researchers of all ages will learn how archaeologists work and how they interpret the evidence they discover. More than 200 full-color and black-and-white... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John H Taylor Publisher Comments Horemkenesi was an Egyptian priest and official who lived at Thebes in the eleventh century B.C. The unwrapping and scientific examination of his mummified body (the last such investigation to have been carried out in Britain) provided a rare opportunity... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Beginning with a history of ancient Egypt, the author then discusses daily life of the people, examines the Egyptian family and school, furniture, jewelry, food and drink, work and play; the Egyptian religion, medicine, much mmore.<BR>... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zahi Hawass Publisher Comments In his newest book, Egypt's leading archaeologist takes readers on a personal tour of the fascinating sites he has excavated over the last 33 years. His stirring descriptions of his life's work, accompanied by many previously unpublished photographs... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Pierre Mohen Publisher Comments 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 $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by O T P Dickinson Publisher Comments Oliver Dickinson has written a scholarly, accessible and up-to-date introduction to the prehistoric civilizations of Greece. The Aegean Bronze Age saw the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The cultural history of the region emerges... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Phil Grabsky Publisher Comments Uncover the many mysteries of the long-missing "eighth wonder of the world." Built by a now-forgotten civilization that flourished even as Europe languished in the Dark Ages, Borobudur in Central Java is the world's largest Buddhist temple, erected out... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Toth Publisher Comments The earliest traces of proto-human technology emerged over 2.5 million years ago on the African continent. Called the Oldowan after the famous site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, these technologies herald a major evolutionary shift in the human lineage... (read more) List Price $74.95 Your price $65.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Colin Burgess Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [380]-390) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Mertz Publisher Comments A complete history of ancient Egypt aimed at the non-specialist reader, recommended to all those planning a trip to Egypt.... (read more) Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Grant Noble Book News Annotation Revision of a book that has enjoyed much popular appeal since 1981. Descriptions of sites with comment upon the cultures responsible. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Byron E Shafer Publisher Comments Five distinguished scholars summarize the state of current knowledge about ancient Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with their use. This first volume in English to survey the major types of Egyptian temples from the Old Kingdom to the Roman... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Allen Publisher Comments The relentlessly self-promoting amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann took full credit for discovering Homer's Troy over one hundred years ago, and since then generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions and achievements. But Schliemann... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $3.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Claude Moatti Publisher Comments Though Rome has been destroyed and rebuilt over and over again, traces of the ancient city--the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Trajan's Column--have never completely disappeared. Scholars and treasure hunters, archaeologists and artists, popes and poets have... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R I Page Publisher Comments In Orkney, Shetland and the Scottish Islands, in Ireland, the Isle of Man and above all in Scandinavia, travelers still come upon great memorial stones, inscribed with the curious angular alphabet called runes. This is the story of these inscriptions... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Reeves Synopsis The tomb of Tutankhamun, with its treasures, has exerted a hold on the popular imagination ever since its discovery in 1922. This book is a detailed and comprehensive study of the archaeological discovery that has until now remained only a partly told... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kay Almere Read Publisher Comments This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was... (read more) Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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