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The author 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 Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlan, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...
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Emmeline Truelove novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove, north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archaeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by the artifact: a suit of clothing, which, according to family legend, once belonged to a selkie who rose from the sea in ancient times and married...
8) Pyramids & tombs of ancient Egypt: an in-depth guide to the burial sites of an ancient civilization
Author
Publisher
Southwater
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Yusuf Khalifa novels volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
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IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.
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Free Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Discoveries of biblical archaeology have shed powerful light on the characters in the Bible. Here, archaeologists Finkelstein and Silberman focus on the first two great kings of the Bible as a lens through which we can see the evolution of the entire era. The Bible's verses on David and his son were written in stages, over many hundreds of years, by authors living in very different circumstances. The earliest folklore about David depicts a bandit...
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Publisher
Te Papa Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Who were the Aztecs, how did they become so powerful, and where did they go? This new book traces the Aztec Empire's 200-year span, from its mythical beginnings to its abrupt and brutal collaps - and its legacy in present-day Mexico." --Back cover.
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"The crumbling Victorian had been abandoned long before Jane ever discovered it as a child. It was painted a sweet violet color, and the gingerbread trim was blue and green, but inside was shambles--broken glass, a dollhouse ravaged by mice, bedsheets twisted as though someone had left in a hurry. Still, the house became a hideaway whenever Jane needed to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years later, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to...
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