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Author
Series
Creepy and true volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Creepy and True series explores strange phenomena, fun facts, and out of the ordinary discoveries.
Have you ever wondered what lies beneath our feet? Bones have a story to tell and not always a happy one.
Bones Unearthed investigates remarkable discoveries of skeletal remains and what they reveal about human civilization. Combining fascinating history with science, award-winning author Kerrie Logan Hollihan unearths the truth about famous bones...
7) Archeology
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Here is a spectacular and informative new guide to the fascinating world of archaeology. Superb, full-color photographs of bronzes, buildings, paintings, and pottery offer a unique "eyewitness" view of the world's great civilizations.
8) Archaeology
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the science of excavating and examining the debris of centuries of human life, from the Iron Age to recent history.
10) Historium
Author
Series
Publisher
Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the museum! Here you will find a collection of objects from ancient civilisations. Objects of beauty, functionality, war, life, death and burial. As you wander from room to room, explore the magnificence of what civilisations have left behind over thousands of years of human history!"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters—sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander
Archaeologist Verity Grey has been drawn to the dark legends of the Scottish Borderlands in search of the truth buried in a rocky field by the sea, in this darkly
...17) Excavation
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A classic adventure from James Rollins, the author of The Doomsday Key, The Last Oracle, The Judas Strain, Black Order, and other pulse-pounding, New York Times bestselling thrillers, Excavation carries readers deep into the jungles of South America, and into the terrifying heart of dark mysteries that should never be unearthed
Author
Language
English
Description
The role of monuments in the Roman imperial cult.
"Davies sets out to ask, How did the Romans bury Caesar? And with what monuments did they sing his praises? . . . The architectural elaboration of these structures, their siting in the capital, the lines of vision and approaches that exposed them to view, the paths their complex outworks formed for visitors to walk, are all picked out with skill and presented with care in Death and the Emperor."
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19) The lost goddess
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From acclaimed author Tom Knox, the international best-selling author of The Genesis Secret, comes this gripping tale-an exciting blend of adventure, horror, mystery, and suspense. In France, archaeologist Julia Kerrigan makes a chilling discovery-an ancient skull with a hole bored through the forehead. Soon after, her mentor is killed. In Southeast Asia, a similar find draws photographer Jake Thurby to Laos. Julia and Jake want answers, but powerful...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Two shipwrecks, separated by two thousand miles and two centuries, share a common history of life, death, and rebirth. The first is the Henrietta Marve, a slave trader that sunk off Florida in 1700. The second, an elegant steamer with crew members from a thriving middle-class black community in Maine. Each of their stories starts with underwater exploration, one a search for fabled gold, the other for families lost at sea. Find out what underwater...