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Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Porter Stone is leading a team of archaeologists on a search for King Narmer's tomb in the Sudd, a hellish swamp in northern Sudan. The dig, itself, is a nightmare, but the tomb's true horrors have yet to be fully revealed. When several disturbances lead the team to believe they have unleashed a centuries-old curse, Professor Jeremy Logan is called in to investigate.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking masterpiece of ingenuity and intrigue that spans 50,000 years of human history, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins takes us to mankind's next great leap. But will it mark a new chapter in our development. or our extinction? A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today. In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist...
3) Diablo Mesa
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 3
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...
6) Labyrinth
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When her brother goes missing after contacting her from the site of an Icelandic rescue mission, Kristin is pursued by vigilantes from the U.S. Army and discovers a conspiracy involving a crashed World War II plane and the fate of its survivors.
Author
Series
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,...
Author
Series
Thomas Lourds novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When the ancient ruins of Atlantis are discovered along the Spanish coast, linguist and archaeologist Thomas Lourds joins a violent competition to be the first of its explorers, an effort marked by a series of puzzles that must be solved in order to gainentry into the lost civilization.
16) National Geographic investigates ancient Greece: archaeology unlocks the secrets of Greece's past
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
17) The Exodus quest
Author
Series
Daniel Knox novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams's second adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox"--Provided by publisher.
19) The ruins
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jeff and Amy are an American couple who go to Mexico for a vacation. They find themselves in the most brutal struggle when, on an archaeological dig into the jungle, they are ambushed by hostile Mayans and forced to the top of an ancient temple. There, a monstrous and diabolically clever entity awaits them among the ruins.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 11
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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