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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1922, when Lucy is sent to Egypt to recuperate from typhoid, she meets Frances, the daughter of an American archaeologist. The friendship draws the impressionable young girl into the thrilling world of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, who are searching for the tomb of boy pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. As events unfold, Lucy will discover the lengths some people will go to fulfill their deepest desires-- and the lies that become...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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 he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, 'I see wonderful things.' Carter's fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall. Written by Eric Cline, an archaeologist with more...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
PLANETARY has been hailed as a timeless story that turned modern superhero conventions on their heads.Written by Warren Ellis (TRANSMETROPOLITAN) and with stunning art by John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men), this critically acclaimed, landmark series took a look at the inter-dimensional peace-keeping force known as Planetary. The trio on the ground includes Elijah Snow, a hundred-year-old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely powerful woman, and The Drummer,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
Español
Description
"El arqueólogo forense Diego Daza ha sido poseído por Kukulcan y no reacciona: mientras él se cree testigo de los designios de Huitzilopochtli--quien guía a su pueblo hacia la fundación de México-Tenochtitlan--sus amigos, encabezados por el hábil detective Delfino Endoque, preparan el enfrentamiento final contra Gregorio Urquidi y sus secuaces"--back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Debols!llo
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
"En Roma, un hombre se confiesa: 'Padre, me acuso de que voy a matar a un hombre ...' Al mismo tiempo Clara Tannenberg, una joven arqueóloga nieta de un ponderoso hombre de oscuro pasada, anuncia en el transcurso de un congreso el descubrimiento de unas tabillas que. de ser auténticas, serían la prueba científica de la existencia de patriarca Abraham"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Language
English
Description
Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved -- and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl -- and a fabled object known as the Eye...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On a remote archaeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discover an unusual artifact. It's a piece of history that definitely shouldn't exist. And for the head archaeologist in charge, a relic himself, it means something's gone horribly wrong. Elise, Kara, Z, and Patty all find themselves digging here together, but they couldn't be farther apart. Kara's a polished conservator calling off her wedding. Patty and...
Author
Series
[Matt Howard series] volume 1
Publisher
CFI
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Mathilda Howard believes in solid scientific fact, not mythical advanced civilizations or stones that shine. But when an old Tibetan monk shares his experience of the lights that do not die, Matt knows she had to learn more. From a sacred mountain in China to a lost civilization in Brazil, Matt finds that she is digging up more than simple artifacts. Her questions lead her to a new religion, but it may cost her all that she values in...
90) The tomb of Zeus
Author
Series
Laetitia Talbot mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1928, aspiring archaeologist Laetitia Talbot arrives at an excavation site on the island of Crete, where she meets the world renowned and disagreeable archaeologist Theodore Russell, but the dig goes terribly awry when the ancient site becomes the scene of an all too modern murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A paryt of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and fate, and of heritage threatened by progress. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana with a huge task before her--a canyon "as...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist and explorer extrodinaire Lara Croft journeys to a temple, in Greece, sunken underwater that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora's Box, only to have it stolen from her by Chen Lo, the leader of a Chinese crime syndicate, who's in league with a villain named Reiss who wants to use the Box as a doomsday weapon. Facing her greatest challenges yet, the intrepid tomb raider pursues Lo, in order to get her hands back on Pandora's...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An ancient Chinese artifact has been stolen by a villainous archaeologist named Dexter. With the help of his lemming friends, Norm must keep his word and embark on a journey across the world to help recover the artifact for the people of China.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and-decades later-a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry...
Author
Series
Archives of the invisible sword volume 1
Publisher
HQ Young Adult
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
'He thinks you are the thief ... ' Shyla is a researcher who resides in the underground desert city of Zirdai, which is ruled by the wealthy Water Prince and brutal Heliacal Priestess. Even though Shyla is sun-kissed - an outcast, considered cursed by the Sun Goddess - she is still renowned for uncovering innumerable archaic facts, lost artefacts, ancient maps and obscure historical documents. Her quiet life is about to change when Banqui, an archaeologist,...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending a quiet summer at home in Kent, England, when a mysterious messenger arrives. Claiming to be the teenage brother of their dear friend, Tarek, Prince of the mysterious Lost Oasis, the charismatic herald brings troubling news of a strange malady that has struck down Tarek's heir and conveys his brother's urgent need for help only...
100) Skeleton crew
Author
Series
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Archeologist Lindsay Chamberlain puts her life on the line when she joins a treasure-hunting team, searching for a sunken 16th century Spanish galleon off the Georgia coast. The wreck generates greed and murders follow.
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