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Amelia Peabody volume 17
Language
English
Description
The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.
Author
Language
English
Description
The dark legends of Scotland were an archaeologist's dream. Verity Grey was thrilled to be at a dig for an ancient Roman camp in the Scottish village. But danger was in the air--in the icy reserve of archeologist David Fortune. In the haunted eyes to the little boy who had visions of a slain Roman sentinel. And in the unearthly sound of the ghostly Shadowy Horses, who carried men away to the land of the dead.
3) Labyrinth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Description
Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, becomes a target after discovering a pair of crumbling skeletons in the Pyrenees mountains, while eight hundred years in the past, Alaïs, the daughter of a crusader, must safeguard the location of the Holy Grail.
6) 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...
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Series
Language
English
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An ancient artifact is discovered in a dusty antiquities shop in Alexandria, Egypt. The long forgotten trinket soon becomes the center of the most deadly archaeological hunt in history. The 20,000 year-old relic is inscribed with what appears to be the long lost language of Atlantis.
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.
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...
13) Dig to disaster
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Miss Mallard investigates a headless demon and a series of mysterious accidents that threaten Dr. Dusty Duck's archaeological expedition in the jungles of Central America.
Author
Series
Isabelle Webb volume 2
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Former Pinkerton spy Isabelle Webb and her friends decide to join up with Isabelle's fromer guardian Genevieve Montgomery upon discovering that she is funding an expedition to a burial site near Luxor with an entourage of Egyptology experts. At the excavation site--a cave rumored to be the tomb of a pharaoh's disgraced daughter--tension builds when several newcomers arrive and Isabelle finds that some of the royal treasure in the ruthless pharaoh's...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Narrowly escaping with her life after a gunman storms the University of Texas campus, classics professor Sophie Chase joins an expedition to recover ancient papyrus manuscripts buried in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and uncovers the gripping story of an ancient Roman slave girl, while a secret and powerful cabal will stop at nothing to gain control of the scrolls.
Author
Series
[Thomas Lourds novel] volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An old friend summons linguistics professor Thomas Lourds to Jerusalem to examine an ancient text. But Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also wants the same document. Khamenei and many others believe that the book contains a secret that will allow its owner to rule all of Islam and wage a Global Jihad the likes of which has never been seen before.
17) Floodgates
Author
Series
Faye Longchamp mystery volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Penn
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans, archaeologist Faye Longchamp and her team of archaeologists are horrified when a corpse surfaces that's far too new to be an archaeological find. Faye and her fianc Joe Wolf Mantooth are drawn into the investigation by a detective who believes their professional expertise is critical to the case. They quickly learn that trouble swirled around the victim, Shelly Broussard, like winds around the still, quiet eye of a hurricane. Does...
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Language
English
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"Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy--after all, it's only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden of her historic Tradd Street home has been a huge millstone, both financially and aesthetically. Local students are thrilled by the possibility of unearthing more Colonial-era artifacts at the cistern,...
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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
Liam Campbell mystery volume 5
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Labor Day in Blewestown, Alaska, and it seems most of the town's thirty-five hundred residents have turned out to celebrate - or to cause trouble. Liam Campbell is checking out the local watering hole in his new town. He's finally made it out of Newenham and is ready for a quiet life with his wife. He has been in town for about a week when an archaeologist invites him out to his dig site outside of town. He's on the verge of a momentous discovery,...
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