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In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l'Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition...
2) Historium
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Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Welcome to the museum! Here you will find a collection of objects from ancient civilisations. Objects of beauty, functionality, war, life, death and burial. As you wander from room to room, explore the magnificence of what civilisations have left behind over thousands of years of human history!
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Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should be practiced. Ultimately, revulsion at the work of nineteenth-century...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2018
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English
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When Spaniards invaded their realm in 1532, the Incas ruled the largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas. The Incas did not disappear in 1532, and the volume continues into the Colonial and later periods, exploring not only the effects of the Spanish conquest on the lives of the indigenous populations, but also the cultural continuities and discontinuities. Moving into the present, the volume ends will an overview of the ways in which the image...
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Worthy Books, an imprint of Worthy Publishing Group, a division of Worthy Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017].
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English
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Explore the stories behind the story of the vision come-to-life with the historically significant Museum of the Bible. Drawing on detailed firsthand accounts, this book brings the museum's creation to life, retelling the full background of the museum, including the colorful stories of the museum's characters, concept, collection, and construction. This book has immediate appeal to museum donors and visitors, and also introduces new readers to the...
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Lucasfilm Ltd
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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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.
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2023.
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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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Vista Higher Learning, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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Zelia Nuttall fue una mujer excepcional para su tiempo, cuando no se permitía a las mujeres trabajar en "cosas de hombres". Fue descubridora, investigadora, arqueóloga y pionera en la antropología y la arquelogía mexicanas. Es recordada como la arqueóloga que desafió la creencia de que los aztecas eran unos "salvajes sedientos de sangre que no tenían nada en común con la humanidad civilizada". ¿Quieres conocer a Zelia? ¡Abre este libro y...
11) Argylle
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A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The Eternal City, Rome offers endless insights through its millennia of history, its centrality to European art and religion, and the generations of travelers that have sought it out. This book from philosopher Scott Samuelson offers readers a thinker's tour of Rome. Samuelson's aim is to provide an eclectic guide to Rome and happiness-a portable approach, blending history and philosophy, for tourists and dreaming readers alike.
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Albatros Media Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Over 5,000 years ago, a civilization developed along the Nile River whose sights and remnants are still enchanting people from all over the world. Huge wonderful pyramids, stone temples, decorated tombs, larger-than-life statues of rulers, tall columns, obelisks, and other memorials can be seen in Egypt wherever you look. Still, many sights are waiting to be freed from the African sands and it remains somewhat mysterious how Egyptian builders could...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five hundred years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbor cities, a few heroic men and women decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own thinking minds to the conundrums of life. These great innovators shaped the beginnings of western philosophy. Nicolson takes us to the dawn of investigative thought and makes the fundamental...
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