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by Anthony F Aveni  Publisher Comments The Nasca Lines are one of the world's great enigmas. Who etched the more than 1,000 animal, human, and geometric figures that cover 400 square miles of barren pampa in southern Peru? How did the makers create lifelike images of monkeys, birds, and... (read more)  List Price $39.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by David B O Connor Synopsis Although the study of Egyptian culture spurned its own discipline, Egypt is and always has been part of Africa. These twelve essays re-open the debate on the influence of Egyptian culture on the rest of Africa from early times to the Christian period... (read more) Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda L Hasten Publisher Comments This eighth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: ARCHAEOLOGY provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Heather Ann Pringle Publisher Comments Almost unimaginably immense, North America stretches from a few degrees short of the North Pole to a few degrees shy of the equator. Archaeologists are now racing to unravel the mysterious past of the forgotten peoples who once inhabited this sprawling... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments Examines the impact of Egyptology on various aspects of popular culture such as cinema, fiction writing and opera.... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Erik Hornung Synopsis Ancient Egyptian antiquities are dominated by art and artifacts depicting the Netherworld -- the alternate universe mummified bodies would enter at the end of their physical lives, where they would live on for eternity. In this dazzling book, photographs... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Parkinson Publisher Comments THE ROSETTA STONE has become an instantly recognizable icon of script and decipherment and is one of the most famous Egyptian antiquities in the world. Discovered by Napoleon's troops at the village of Rosetta in the western Delta in 1799, the granitoid... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon James Publisher Comments "Richly illustrated… sheds a strong light on the art and life of a gifted people."--"Houston Chronicle" <BR>Warlike, flamboyant, courageous--the ancient Celts had a fearsome reputation. For five hundred years they dominated the lands north... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Timothy Champion Publisher Comments The study of European prehistory has been revolutionized in recent years by the rapid growth rate of archeological discovery, advances in dating methods and the application of scientific techniques to archaeological material and new archaeological aims... (read more) List Price $74.95 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Wilson Publisher Comments This provocative anthropological study offers insights into the thousands of paintings found in small, raised caves on cliff faces in the remote and rugged Kimberley Ranges of Northwest Australia. With lithe, graceful, human figures depicted in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laura Foreman Publisher Comments In 30 b.c., against the backdrop of Alexandria, Egypt, one of the most majestic of all ancient cities, a great queen proudly and defiantly took her life. More than two thousand years later, the world remains fascinated and haunted by this most intriguing... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Josh Bernstein Publisher Comments Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel's hit series Digging for The Truth, takesreaders beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing, remote, and physically challenging locations on the planet as... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Clive Gamble Publisher Comments Gamble reconsiders the remarkable record of geographical expansion that began with the early hominids of sub-Saharan Africa. Through this astonishing dispersal of humans, which exceeds that of all other mammals, he traces calculated responses to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Li Publisher Comments The Incas were the last great pre-Columbian civilisation to evolve in South America. Believing themselves the chosen people of the Sun God, they combined military might with skilful diplomacy and masterly administration to forge a vast empire that... (read more) List Price $14.49 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brenda Rosen Publisher Comments Some of the most extraordinary ancient cities that have been abandoned, forgotten, or hidden by time are now revealed in their full splendor. Examining the role of natural and man-made disasters, rulers and their hostile neighbors, and the fate of cities... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Herman Sigal Publisher Comments For the preconquest Maya, sexuality was a part of ritual discourse and performance, and all sex acts were understood in terms of their power to create, maintain, and destroy society. As postconquest Maya adapted to life under colonial rule, they neither... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Jordan Publisher Comments "I strongly recommend this book. A valuable contribution."<BR>"--Dr. Rosalie David, Keeper of Egyptology, The Manchester Museum" When we think of "The Sphinx," two notions come to mind: the massive carving at the edge of the Libyan desert by Cairo... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lar Hothem Publisher Comments Projectile points of American Indians have long been objects of interest to students and historians. This arrowhead book has hundreds of photos, information about geographic origin, methods of production, sizes, and a special section on detecting fakes... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Jones Publisher Comments Colour shapes our world in profound, if sometimes subtle, ways. It helps us to classify, form opinions, and make aesthetic and emotional judgements. Colour operates in every culture as a symbol, a metaphor, and as part of an aesthetic system. Yet... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Carter Publisher Comments Introduction by Anthony Brandt.<P>“ Feverishly we cleared away...the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.... We made a tiny breach in the top left hand corner to see what was beyond.<P>... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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