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by Abeer El Shahawy Publisher Comments The Luxor Museum houses a fine collection of Egyptian antiquities that is beautifully exhibited. This illustrated volume highlights some of the masterpieces found in ancient Thebes. There are glorious examples of ancient artifacts from tombs and temples... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Davi Lewis Williams Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-314) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Salvatore M Trento Synopsis Maverick archaeologist Sal Trento guides the curious explorer to hundreds of inexplicable sites, geological and archaeological, from the Taos "Hum" to the "Winter Solstice Sunrise Petroglyphs" of Los Angeles. Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Rice Publisher Comments In "Egypt's Legacy," Michael Rice reviews the majesty of the history of Ancient Egypt from 3000-30 BC. Drawing upon Jungian analytical psychology, he argues that our interest in Egypt stems from a conscious acknowledgement of its achievements and an... (read more) Your price $60.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Tsouras Publisher Comments He surrendered the throne of his forefathers and an empire to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by R Hamilton Synopsis The story of this spectacular ers is still unfolding; the land has yet to divulge all of its secrets. Ancient Egypt: Kingdom Of The Pharaohs relates the story to date, the key facts and the theories which have emerged in the 200 years since Egyptology... (read more) List Price $15.98 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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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 $24.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Juan De Betranzos Publisher Comments One of the earliest chronicles of the Inca empire was written in the 1550s by Juan de Betanzos. Although scholars have long known of this work, only eighteen chapters were actually available until the 1980s when the remaining sixty-four chapters were... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Jim Bennett Publisher Comments The popularity of collecting ancient Indian artifacts is at an all-time high, bringing with it thousands of new collectors. This increase in demand for authentic ancient artifacts has brought with it a huge increase in the number of fraudulent... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Suzel Ana Reily Publisher Comments "Voices of the Magi explores the popular Catholic musical ensembles of southeastern Brazil known as "folias de reis (companies of kings). Composed predominantly of low-income workers, the folias reenact the journey of the Wise Men to Bethlehem and back... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Heather Pringle Synopsis In 1998, Heather Pringle visited the remote Chilean port of Arica for the World Congress on Mummy Studies. This book introduces us to the eccentric world of the researchers and academics who investigate such phenomena as the child mummies of the... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Catherine Orliac 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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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