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Return to Babylon
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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… |
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Grahame Clark
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Brian M. Fagan |
"To chronicle the intellectual life of Grahame Clark (1907-1995) is to participate in the history of the discipline of archaeology, which Clark - almost single-handedly at first - transformed from an… |
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Encyclopedia of archaeology
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Tim Murray |
"This three-volume work bridges a long-existing gap by successfully filling the space between scholarly and popular coverage. Taking a global perspective, this 500-entry set contains articles on the … |
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Finding the walls of Troy
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Susan Heuck Allen |
The relentlessly self-promoting Heinrich Schliemann took entire credit for discovering Homer's Troy. For over 100 years that credit has been accorded to him, and generations have thrilled to the tale… |
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Pioneer in space and time
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Brent Richards Weisman |
"This biography of John Mann Goggin recounts the story of Florida archaeology from its nineteenth-century beginnings to the present through the life of its most influential pioneer, a charismatic per… |
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Three stones make a wall
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Eric H. Cline |
"In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening h… |
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Young Lawrence
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Anthony Sattin |
A biography of Lawrence of Arabia in the years that formed him. |
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Journeys to the Mythical Past
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Zecharia Sitchin |
The paperback release of the second volume of Sitchin’s autobiographical account of the investigations and discoveries that led to The Earth Chronicles series
• Zecharia Sitchin tells how his life… |
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Alfred Maudslay and the Maya
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Ian Graham |
"In this biography, the first published about Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya ruins." "Maudslay, … |
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With Lawrence in Arabia
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Lowell Thomas, Sr. |
1 online resource |
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