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Guardian (Karen Robards) volume 2
Language
English
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Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does - the way her father trained her to - hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins' crosshairs trained on her, Bianca's ready to take fate into her own hands. It's kill or be killed, and she's got her finger flush against the trigger. But as Bianca races to outmaneuver her tireless pursuers,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers--and hearts--in ruins. Archaeologist Dr. Socorro "Corrie" Mejía has a bone to pick. Literally. It's been Corrie's life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of the long-lost remains of her ancestor, Chimalli, an ancient warrior of the Aztec empire. But when she is invited to join an all-expenses-paid dig to do just that, Corrie...
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Publisher
LucasFilm
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA.
6) Heir of Ra
Author
Series
Blood of Ra volume 1
Publisher
Kingsmill Press
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
An excavation of the fabled Hall of Records beneath the Sphinx unleashes an ancient disease that leaves Alyssa Morgan's father fighting for his life. As seventeen-year old Alyssa races to find a cure, she stumbles onto an impossible artifact that could unveil the link between the traceless disappearance of Atlantis and the birth of Egyptian mythology. She finds unexpected help from Oxford University student, Paul Matthews, and brilliant computer geek,...
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Unearthing the Bible, Dr. Titus M. Kennedy presents 100 objects from more than 50 museums, private collections, and archaeological sites, to offer strong and compelling evidence for the historical accuracy of Scripture" --
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Series
Gideon Crew volume 5
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation...
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Information circular. Division of Mines and Geology) volume no. 30
Language
English
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11) The Maya
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English
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Coe (emeritus, anthropology, Yale U.) presents a brief account of the Central American people for students, travelers, and the general public that visitors to the region could carry while observing the ruins of the great civilization. Over the decades since the first edition in 1966, interest in the Maya has increased dramatically, and the progressive decipherment of the hieroglyphs has made it possible for him to rely ever more heavily on Mayan accounts...
12) The ark
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English
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When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah's Ark - the artifact her father had long been searching for - and the possible death of billions. After giving Dilara a man's name to contact, Sam collapses and dies.
Publisher
American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This attractively produced, well-illustrated volume begins with chapters addressing early exploration and archaeology, art and architecture, daily life, women, adornment, food, and ceramics, among other topics, including the efforts to save Nubia's legacy. The section that follows documents 49 individual sites (from south to north) with description of excavations, photos, drawings, and references. The four Egyptologist editors (who are also contributors)...
Publisher
J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
This beautifully illustrated book offers a wide-ranging overview of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries from ancient Greece. The contributors--a veritable who's who of the most venerable names in Greek archaeology--include both those who have excavated at the sites in question and scholars who have spent a lifetime studying the monuments about which they write. Presented here are the legendary sites of ancient Greece, including the Athenian...
15) The treasure
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Romanian
Description
Costi is a workaday family man whose cash-strapped next-door neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family's country home and split the profits. But as the two men dig, they unearth more than they bargained for, excavating not only dirt, but traces of Romania's often tumultuous history.
17) The lost realms
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Earth chronicles volume 4
Language
English
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In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquerors came to the New World in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. Instead, they encountered inexplicable phenomena that have puzzled scholars and historians ever since: massive stone edifices constructed in the Earth's most inaccessible regions . . . great monuments forged with impossible skill and unknown tools . . . intricate carvings describing events and places half a world away. Who were the bearded...
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English
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The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as the author argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization and today's industrialized societies. Drawing on startling...
Series
Digging for Britain volume season 3
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alice Roberts follows an entire year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations. The results are astonishing, and sometimes disturbing.
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