Archaeology
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
$32.50 Add to cartThe recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in the
- Author: Freidel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: December 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0688112048
- Language: English
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In Search of the Indo-Europeans
$34.95 Add to cartAn archaeological and linguistic monograph on the origins and expansion of the Indo-European
- Author: Mallory, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0500276161
- Language: English
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Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fueled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely no… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Norman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198795920
- Language: English
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The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations
$43.50 Read moreIn this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan shines fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, e… [more below]
- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Berdan, Frances F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1789143608
- Language: English
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Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt
$34.95 Add to cartA Book Riot 100 Must-Read Book on Ancient History
Death, burial, and the afterlife were as important to the ancient Egyptians as how they lived. This well-illustrated book explores all aspects of deat- Author: Ikram, Salima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 9774166876
- Language: English
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Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology
$30.60 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology–from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is today
In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun’s t- Author: Cline, Eric H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183236
- Language: English
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What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
$36.67 Add to cartWas it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of … [more below]
- Author: Clottes, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 022626663X
- Language: English
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Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
$21.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz explores the reality behind the bestselling fiction she writes (as Elizabeth Peters) and casts a dazzling light on a remarkable civilization.
Afascinating chro
- Author: Mertz, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0061252778
- Language: English
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Wakan Tanka: On Human Origins, Spirituality and the Meaning of Life
$23.99 Add to cartWhere did we come from? Why are we here? Is there a god? In our modern world, many people yearn for answers to these most fundamental of life’s questions, having become disillusioned with trite explan… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1525576941
- Language: English
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Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History
$19.99 Add to cartOver the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovere… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0684859203
- Language: English
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The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation
$29.95 Add to cart“[My] story is a sash woven of many strands of language. The first strand is the remembered wisdom of the Abenaki community. The second strand is our history and that of our relatives, written down by
- Author: Wiseman, Frederick Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 1584650591
- Language: English
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
$28.00 Read more“Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.”–The New York Times Book Review
“[A] bold and magnificent at- Author: Sykes, Rebecca Wragg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 147293749X
- Language: English
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The History and Archeology of the Iroquois Du Nord
$61.78 Add to cartIn the mid-to late 1660s and early 1670s, the Haudenosaunee established a series of settlements at strategic locations along the trade routes inland at short distances from the north shore of Lake Ont
- Series: Mercury
- Author: Von Bitter, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0776639803
- Language: English
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The City of Babylon
$32.00 Add to cartThe 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Dar… [more below]
- Author: Dalley, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: July 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1316501779
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
$21.95 Add to cartThomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, “the most valuable of my possessions.” For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyd
- Author: Heath, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062993
- Language: English
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Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History
$27.00 Add to cartThe world’s greatest archaeological finds and what they tell us about lost civilizations
Renowned archaeologist Patrick Hunt brings his top ten list of ancient archaeological discoveries to life in t- Author: Hunt, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0452288770
- Language: English
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Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art in the Black Hills Country
$24.95 Add to cartAncient petroglyphs and paintings on rocky cliffs and cave walls preserve the symbols and ideas of American Indian cultures. From scenes of human-to-animal transformations found in petroglyphs dating
- Author: Sundstrom, Linea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0806135964
- Language: English
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The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations
$18.00 Read moreNow in paperback, a brief introduction to the mysteries of the enigmatic, ancient civilization in the area of modern Italy.
The Etruscans were a powerful people, marked by an influential civilization- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Shipley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1789148324
- Language: English
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Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World
$31.99 Add to cartIt is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of dazzling items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on … [more below]
- Author: Brier, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0197635059
- Language: English
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The Complete Tutankhamun: 100 Years of Discovery
$50.00 Read moreOn November 4, 1922, Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter’s long search in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings drew to a triumphant close: Tutankhamun’s tomb had been found. As news of the discovery spread, and a
- Author: Reeves, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0500052166
- Language: English
