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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate	Maria Teschler-Nicola	xvi, 528 p. : 29 cm	OL10020139W
The pyramids of ancient Egypt	Zahi A. Hawass	iv, 52 p. : 23 cm	OL1018342W
The eternal light of Egypt	Sarite Sanders	"The monuments of Ancient Egypt have been photographed over and over again, but never as in these wonderfully dark, edgy, atmospheric images. Using infra-red film, they hint at the transience of all …	OL10241791W
Return to Babylon	Brian M. Fagan	In the barren landscape between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, adventurers of the nineteenth century suspected that the remains of fabled kingdoms lay beneath the sands. As they dug into the mounds…	OL103269W
The great journey	Brian M. Fagan	How, where, when, and why did human beings take the first steps in their journey to populate North America? First published in 1987, The Great Journey tells the story of the search for the first Amer…	OL103273W
Central Himalayas	D. P. Agrawal	Study refers to the megalithic period.	OL1069765W
Excavations at Carnac (Brittany)	James Miln	Detailed outline and illustrations of the main Carnac excavation.	OL10709695W
Artifact	Gregory Benford	The discovery of a mysterious artifact in an ancient Greek tomb--an object concealing both the secret of Atlantis and an unimaginable power--leads Americans John and Claire into confrontation with Gr…	OL108299W
Jade	Berthold Laufer	a study in Chinese archaeology and religion.	OL1087122W
The ancient earthworks and temples of the American Indians	Lindesay Brine	xvi, 429 pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates : 22 cm	OL1089822W
Maps of old London	Geraldine Edith Mitton	This is a book of fold-out maps with some short descriptions. Unfortunately the scanned copy of this book does not contain the folded out maps, only the unfolded portions. Thus, most of the true cont…	OL1094841W
The Lost Cities of Ceylon	Geraldine Edith Mitton	The romance of dead cities and a lost civilisation makes an almost inexpressible appeal. There are in Ceylon remains of ancient buildings, records of a history that was all but forgotten. The book te…	OL1094845W
The story of the American Indian	Radin, Paul	An account of Indian culture from the rise of the Mayan civilization, and of the great tribal movements that have taken place on this continent.	OL1118664W
The Greeks	Paul Cartledge	"The Greeks were the inventors of history as we understand it. Yet their historiography remained rooted in myth, and the social context of the inventions for which we rightly treasure their achieveme…	OL112502W
Glastonbury	Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune)	Dion Fortune's description of Glastonbury remains one of the most evocative and poignant accounts of this wild yet holy place; a power center polarizing with distant Jerusalem and linking and harmoni…	OL114594W
The mummy	Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge	Museum officials tell us that mummies get more attention from museum-goers than any other ancient objects. Although many Egyptian customs and practices were to be found in other parts of Africa, mumm…	OL1146258W
Archaeology in the Bedford Region	Michael Dawson	This volume on the archaeology of the English county of Bedford and its environs brings together the results of five excavations over a four year period in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It includes…	OL11706023W
Cosa, the coins	Theodore V. Buttrey	174 p. : 20 cm	OL11713655W
Cazadores-recolectores de altura en los Andes meridionales	Gustavo A. Neme	The subject of this study is hunter-gatherer adaptations to high altitude, focussed around the little-known valley of the River Atuel in the province of Southern Mendoza, Argentina. The research is o…	OL11736472W
Les pipes de la quarantaine	Philippe Gosse	The collection of almost 1,000 clay pipes from the quarantine port of Pomègues provides a unique insight into pipe production and use throughout the Mediterranean and further afield. The author's ex…	OL11741085W