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Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide (Arizona and the Southwest) by David Grant Noble Publisher Comments This indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes thirteen newly opened archaeological sites. Noble provides directions to each site, nearby towns, and campgrounds.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Outline Dictionary of Maya Glyphs by William Gates Publisher Comments In this study of the hieroglyphs in 3 surviving Maya codices, the author has tabulated all character variants, worked out meanings, and has interrelated these meanings with Maya culture. Day, month, numerals, colors, face signs, quasi-facial forms... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Penguin History) by Georges Roux Synopsis This is a political, cultural and economic history which covers the whole of Mesopotamia from the days of prehistory to the Christian Era. The book describes the empires, dynasties and religions of each millennium and suggests something of the splendour... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Maya Cosmos by David Freidel Publisher Comments A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical to the mythological, and envokes the awesome power of one of the richest civilizations ever to... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Olmecs: America's First Civilization (Ancient Peoples and Places) by Richard A Diehl Publisher Comments "The first truly complete and authoritative account of this 3,000-year-old culture."--Michael D. Coe <BR>The Olmecs of southern Mexico are America's oldest civilization and Mesoamerica's "Mother Culture." Famous for their Colossal Heads carved from... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The encyclopedia of ancient Mesoamâerica by Margaret R Bunson Publisher Comments Encyclopedia of Ancient Mesoamerica covers the people, places, and events of the region from the rise of early cultures at the end of the last Ice Age to the demise of the Aztecs after the Spanish conquest. It explores such civilizations as the Aztecs... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Royal Mummies (Duckworth Egyptology) by G Elliot Smith Publisher Comments The classic text on the Egyptian royal... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $11.23 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization by Michael Balter Publisher Comments A veteran "Science" magazine reporter takes readers inside the trenches of Catalhoyuk--an archaeological excavation that has astounded the world with findings that show it to be the origin of modern society.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Celts First Masters of Europe by Christiane Eluere Synopsis Much that is known of the Celts, apart from their weapons and ornaments, has come to us from their enemies, the Romans. Yet we can assemble a portrait of a cultured people. These "barbarians" were driven to the edges of Europe, yet shone out once more in... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Yucatan Before and After the Conquest by Diego De Landa Publisher Comments Only significant account done of Yucatan in post-Conquest era. Describes geography and natural history of the peninsula, gives brief history of Mayan life, discusses Spanish conquest and its effects, and provides a long summary of Maya civilization... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.95 (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   The Egyptians Limit by Michael Hayes Publisher Comments Explores life along the Nile in an imaginative, authoritative look at ancient Egypt.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Maya 7TH Edition by Michael D Coe Publisher Comments The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World's greatest ancient civilization. In these pages Professor Coe distills a life-time's scholarship for the general reader and student. Since the publication of the... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau by James D Keyser Book News Annotation An archaeologist for the US Forest Service provides a semi- technical treatment of the rock paintings and carvings in an area from British Columbia south to Oregon and east to Montana. He discussed their nature and dates, similarities and regional... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pompeii: The Vanished City by Time Life Books 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 $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands 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 whole land". But like Sodom and Gomorrah, Ubar was destroyed by God for the sins of its people. Buried in the desert... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Frauds Myths and Mysteries Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology 4ed by Kenneth L Feder Publisher Comments Ancient astronauts? Atlantis? Psychic archaeology? Committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity, this indispensable supplementary text uses interesting archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can truly know things about... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History by J E Manchip White Publisher Comments Fascinating account of Egypt, predynastic civilization through Ptolemies: social and political structure, daily life, international relations, religion and cult of the dead, arts and crafts, science and medicine, sacred writing. Full reference to recent... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Daily Life of the Aztecs, on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest: On the Eve of the Spanish Conquest by Jacques Soustelle Publisher Comments "Soustelle's great book about the Aztecs . . . takes us deep into the life of this great society. . . . Soustelle has the rare quality of entering into the minds of those he is studying and seeing things from their point of view. . . . (His) book is one... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gods of the Egyptians Volume 2 by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Volume 2 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) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment 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 add to wish list

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