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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
by Linda Schele
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This is an account of Maya history based on the deciphering of hieroglyphic inscriptions. Because the epigraphic record is too limited to allow a comprehensive reconstruction of Maya history, Schele and Freidel have arranged their story by sites... ( read more)
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The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology
by Jose Arguelles
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Visionary historian Arg?elles unravels the harmonic code of the ancient Maya providing valuable keys to understanding human evolution.... ( read more)
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Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land
by Nina Burleigh
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In 2002, an ancient limestone box called the James Ossuary was trumpeted on the world's front pages as the first material evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ. Today it is exhibit number one in a forgery trial involving millions of dollars worth of... ( read more)
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Guide to Ancient Maya Ruins
by C Bruce Hunter
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"Organized by geographic regions, this guide discusses the major tourist destinations. ... Interesting remarks on the Maya civilization are spread throughout". -- Natural History.... ( read more)
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African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective
by Graham Connah
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Urban settlements and states were a feature of precolonial societies in many parts of Africa. In this study, Graham Connah uses the direct evidence provided by archaeological investigation to demonstrate the complexity of these urban societies, to... ( read more)
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Dover Pictorial Archives #2: Egyptian Magic
by E A Wallis Budge
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Sums up all that is known about magic in Ancient Egypt: the role of magic in controlling the gods, powerful amulets that warded off evil spirits, scarabs of immortality, use of wax images, formulas and spells, the secret name, much more.... ( read more)
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
by Brian M Fagan
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning treatise explores patterns and symbols in the disciplines of mathematics, art, and musical... ( read more)
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Ancient Near East Volume 2
by James Ben Pritchard
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This volume makes available some of the most important discovered source material for the historian of the ancient Near East.... ( read more)
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The Mind in the Cave
by David Lewis-williams
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The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe has the power to dazzle even the most jaded observers. Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet, and Altamira... ( read more)
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The Tomb of Tutankamen (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by Howard Carter
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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)
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In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth
by J P Mallory
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With the skill of a forensic scientist, Dr. Mallory traces the immediate origins of each of the Indo-European peoples of Europe and Asia. By comparing their languages he demonstrates their common cultural heritage, and through the technique of... ( read more)
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
by Christine Kenneally
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The First Word is a fascinating search for the origins of language, which takes the reader through genetics, evolution, and the process of defining language itself. Christine Kenneally is a capable guide to answering this difficult and complex question... ( read more)
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In the Dark Places of Wisdom
by Peter Kingsley
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A set of ancient inscriptions on marble found 40 years ago in southern Italy, recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent about them ... Sensational new information about a group of ancient philosophers who were so intensely practical... ( read more)
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A History of Archaeological Thought
by Bruce G Trigger
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Examining the history of archaeology from medieval times to the present, this book places the development of archaeological thought and theory within a broad social and intellectual framework. The successive but interacting trends apparent in... ( read more)
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Field Guide To Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Sout
by Alex Patterson
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This is the only specifically designed key to the interpretation of American rock art. The Field Guide brings together 600 commentaries on specific symbols by over 100 archaeologists, researchers, and Native American informants. Covers the northern... ( read more)
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Discoveries: Lost Cities of the Maya (Discoveries)
by Claude Baudez
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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)
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Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History (07 Edition)
by Hunt
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The 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 this concise and captivating book. The Rosetta Stone... ( read more)
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Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids
by Rita E Freed
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The age of the pyramids, or Old Kingdom period, was Egypt's crowning moment, known to many as its Golden Age. It was a time when kings and queens commanded stone to be turned into architectural marvels, the human figure to be immortalized, and exquisite... ( read more)
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Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
by Werner Forman
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With the help of Werner Forman's beautiful full-color photographs, Egyptologist Stephen Quirke explains the Pyramid Texts, created for kings and queens ca. 2400 to 2100 B.C.; the Coffin Texts, used by the affluent as well as royalty during the Middle... ( read more)
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Egyptian Religion
by E A Wallis Budge
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The history of the extraordinary beliefs of ancient Egypt, with its numerous systems of gods -- and where the object of every ceremony was resurrection.... ( read more)
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