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Author
Series
Mistborn volume 6
Language
English
Description
When a researcher returns to Elendel with images of a mythical Lord Ruler artifact, believed to grant wearers his power, Waxillium Ladrian conducts an investigation in the southern city of New Seran, where he makes unsettling discoveries about the true goals of The Set.
Author
Language
English
Description
Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities -- such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital -- were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...
6) Croco'nile
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A crocodile saves a brother and sister from kidnappers in ancient Egypt
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi. David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi-the name means "enemy ancestors" in Navajo-who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than...
Author
Series
Mark of the thief volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
14) Stargate
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A scholar of ancient languages and hieroglyphics is recruited to help the military penetrate the mystery of a stone gateway, which, in fact, leads to another universe.
16) Mesopotamia
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of Mesopotamia by examining the archaeological excavations of its historical sites and the artifacts found at those sites.
Author
Series
Code Busters Club volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A trip to a museum to learn about Ancient Egypt turns into a new case for the Code Busters when they discover that someone may be stealing artifacts and replacing them with cunning forgeries"--
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