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121) The last testament
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
As the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient clay tablet in a long-forgotten vault . At a rally for the signing of a historic deal between Israel and the Palestinians, an assassin pushes through the crowd towards the Israeli Prime Minister. Bodyguards shoot the man dead. But in his hand there is no gun: only a blood-stained note. A series of apparently random tit-for-tat killings follows as tensions boil over....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"La más importante revelación arqueológica se ha descubierto durante las excavaciones para el Metro en la Ciudad de Mexico. Un monolito que encierra el misterio que compartieron las antiguas civilizaciones: la gran serpiente emplumada. Pero además, marca la migración que transformó a Quetzalcóatl en Kukuléan. Este es el inicio de la profecía que siglos atrás advirtió la caída del hombre. Pero el monolito desaparece misteriosamente antes...
Author
Language
English
Description
September 1896: As an aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into a very male-dominated field and find work at some of the world's most famous excavation sites. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in philanthropist Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously. But when a simmering conflict between Greece and Turkey...
125) Wrath of poseidon
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuries in this exciting adventure in the bestselling series by the Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure"--
127) Game of bones
Author
Series
Sarah Booth Delaney mystery volume 20
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Dr. Frank Hafner is working on excavating a new-found Native American temple site in the Mississippi Delta when he discovers the ritualistic murder of one of his archaeological crew. Taken in for questions, Hafner hires Sarah Booth to clear his name. She uncovers a number of possible suspects, but can't narrow them down fast enough to stem the continuing violence that seems to trace back to Dr. Hafner's dig. When Peter Deerstalker, a...
128) A face to die for
Author
Series
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 28
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships--revealing...
129) Diablo Mesa
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child continue with the wildly popular series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical...
131) The survivor
Author
Series
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 30
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to an island in Southeast Asia, archaeologist Riley Smith is aware of the threat from treasure hunters who have no qualms about killing to get what they want. When she successfully evades them and finds the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior, it is just what she needs to entice Eve Duncan to join her. As they seek answers to the questions the body has raised, their discovery will change history-- if they can escape the island and...
132) British noir
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
They met in the dark: Discharged for treason, a former Navy commander sets out to expose the espionage ring that destroyed his career.
The October man: After a traumatic brain injury, a young engineer tries to repair his life. But his recovery is thwarted when a woman is found strangled and he becomes the prime suspect.
Snowbound: A British Army vet exposes a plot by ex-Nazis to reclaim a stash of gold bullion hidden at a ski resort.
The golden...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson -- think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones -- and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the 'Wild East' during the age of empires, kings, and spies. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2002].
Language
English
Description
First published in 1976, John Mack's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography humanely and objectively explores the relationship between T.E. Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Extensive research provides the basis for Mack's sensitive investigation of the psychological dimensions of Lawrence's personality and with the history, sociology, and politics of his time.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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
Series
[Matt Howard series] volume 4
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Matt inherits a house and five acres in the rugged Uinta Mountains, she plans to sell the property and end her current out-of-money experience. She loads the car with her massive dog, Zeus, and heads for the hills to check out possibilities. What she finds is an old Victorian house with a dead zone in the front yard, a cold spot in the hall, and a locked trunk, too heavy to move, in the bedroom. By the time she solves the mysteries, she is trapped...
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
For centuries the tombs of the Pharaos were haunted by a deadly curse. And when two eminent archaeologists have died mysteriously, Judith Osmond was certain that it was the curse at work. Then, overnight, her life changed. There was an unexpected inheritance. Then Tybalt, a young archaeologist and the man she adored, asked her to marry him. But Tybalt planned a honeymoon amid the tombs of the Pharoahs, and suddenly it looked as if the curse of the...
138) Queen of the desert
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the legendary T.E. Lawrence.
139) Planetary Omnibus
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,...
140) 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.
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