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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

The World’s Last Mysteries

Daniel Levin

Like new, except minor shelf wear on the jacket and a few faint markings near spine as shown in last picture.

Florida

Jonathan Marcus, a young American lawyer and a former doctoral student in classics, has become a sought-after commodity among antiquities dealers, but when he is summoned to Rome to examine a client's fragment of an ancient stone map, he stumbles across a

The Last Ember

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#hardcover #educational #africa #history #archaeology #mystery #world

Colorado

In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

A leading archaeologist addresses the complex puzzle about the origins of the first humans to settle in North America, reassessing common myths about early human migration and lifestyle, arguing that the first Americans most likely arrived by boat, and exploring questions about the role of women in early American society, the origins of Native Americans, and more. 30,000 first printing.

The First Americans

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Charles R. Pellegrino

New Jersey

Bible Stories from Archaeologists

Chronicles the work of archaeologists, scientists, and theologians who have drawn on the stories of the Old Testament to uncover the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah

Return to Sodom and Gomorrah

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Christopher Catling

How to study an excavation: a practical book for the amateur archaeologists, with more than 300 photographs, maps and detailed illustrations.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

The Science and Practice of Studying Excavation Materials and Ancient Sites with 300 Colour Photographs, Maps and Detailed Illustrations

With a total of 300 photographs and illustrative artworks, this is a fantastic reference book for new and experienced archaeologists alike.

Discovering the Past Through Archaeology

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William G. Dever

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

This book addresses one of the most timely and urgent topics in archaeology and biblical studies -- the origins of early Israel. For centuries the Western tradition has traced its beginnings back to ancient Israel, but recently some historians and archaeologists have questioned the reality of Israel as it is described in biblical literature. In "Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?" William Dever explores the continuing controversies regarding the true nature of ancient Israel and presents the archaeological evidence for assessing the accuracy of the well-known Bible stories. Confronting the range of current scholarly interpretations seriously and dispassionately, Dever rejects both the revisionists who characterize biblical literature as pious propaganda and the conservatives who are afraid to even question its factuality. Attempting to break through this impasse, Dever draws on thirty years of archaeological fieldwork in the Near East, amassing a wide range of hard evidence for his own compelling view of the development of Israelite history. In his search for the actual circumstances of Israel's emergence in Canaan, Dever reevaluates the Exodus-Conquest traditions in the books of Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, and 1 & 2 Samuel in the light of well-documented archaeological evidence from the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Among this important evidence are some 300 small agricultural villages recently discovered in the heartland of what would later become the biblical nation of Israel. According to Dever, the authentic ancestors of the Israelite peoples were most likely Canaanites -- together with some pastoral nomads and small groups of Semiticslaves escaping from Egypt -- who, through the long cultural and socioeconomic struggles recounted in the book of Judges, managed to forge a new agrarian, communitarian, and monotheistic society. Written in an engaging, accessible style and featuring fifty photographs that help bring the archaeological record to life, this book provides an authoritative statement on the origins of ancient Israel and promises to reinvigorate discussion about the historicity of the biblical tradition.

Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Overview of the history of the Scrolls: their discovery, their origin, their translation, and the contention over their intellectual "ownership."

The Dead Sea Scrolls after Forty Years

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California

Old Bones

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#paperback #nonfiction #history #ancientcivilizations #mesopotamia #ancienthistory #archaeology #iraq #ancient #asia

Arizona

Portrait of a Dead Civilization

"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.

Ancient Mesopotamia

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Roderick Gordon

Brian Williams

Pennsylvania

Taking it down a whole 'nother level, Will and Chester journey to the center of the earth in FREEFALL. By the authors of the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller TUNNELS and its sequel DEEPER!

DEEPER sent Will and Chester into FREEFALL-- tumbling through the subterranean Pore with the evil Rebecca twins in hot pursuit, both toting phials of the lethal Dominion virus. When, where, will they ever land?! Just when the drop seems infinite, the boys hit bottom, and find themselves in a realm of near-zero gravity atop a giant spongy fungus stuffed with artifacts from some lost golden age. But they are not alone. And above ground, black-clad Styx are sprouting like poison mushrooms, dead-set on spreading their plague!

Freefall

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Alabama

Treasures From Bible Times

New York

When his friend, archaeologist Rafi Wanounou, discovers the tomb of a French Templar knight that contains a Viking pagan relic, retired Army Ranger John Holliday, intrigued by this discovery, joins Rafi in Africa and together they try to unlock a mysterious past rooted in centuries of Templar secrecy. Original.

The Templar Legion

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Archaeologists Dig For Clues

Douglas Preston

Indiana

A True Story

The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.

The Lost City of the Monkey God

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Elly Griffiths

North Carolina

A Mystery

The discovery of a missing woman's bones force Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own in this not-to-be-missed Ruth Galloway mystery from USA Today bestselling author Elly Griffiths.

When builders discover a human skeleton during a renovation of a café, they call in archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with DCI Nelson. The bones turn out to be modern--the remains of Emily Pickering, a young archaeology student who went missing in 2002. Suspicion soon falls on Emily's Cambridge tutor and also on another archeology enthusiast who was part of the group gathered the weekend before she disappeared--Ruth's friend Cathbad.

As they investigate, Nelson and his team uncover a tangled web of relationships within the archeology group and look for a link between them and the café where Emily's bones were found. Then, just when the team seem to be making progress, Cathbad disappears. The trail leads Ruth a to the Neolithic flint mines in Grimes Graves. The race is on, first to find Cathbad and then to exonerate him, but will Ruth and Nelson uncover the truth in time to save their friend?



The Last Remains

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Illinois

Alaska

After the unveiling of the Magyar Venus--a head and torso of a woman carved from mammoth ivory during the Upper Paleolithic period--one of Lara's friends commits suicide. Determinedly tracing the Venus's provenance to Budapest, Lara discovers a truth that arises from the secrets of the past.

The Magyar Venus

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Hardback with dust jacket and acetate cover in like new condition with no markings in text. 
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I am selling my personal theological library of approximately 1500 volumes. They all have the Library of Congress classification number on the spine and most have my name stamped in them. Most are in like new or excellent condition. 

Arkansas

The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered 

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Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Great Discoveries in Archaeology and the Search for Human

The author details several dozen great discoveries including: King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings; the Rosetta Stone, the long sought-after key to Egyptian hieroglyphics; China's buried clay army of Qin-Shi-Huang; and the lost cities of Troy and Herculaneum.

Stones, Bones, and Ancient Cities

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#paperback #UnearthingAtlantis #Archaeology #ArthurCClarke #CharlesPellegrino, #TherAIsland #Minoans #Atlantis box 15

Texas

An Archaeological Odyssey

In a synthesis of historical and literary, archaeological and paleontological detective work, Charles Pellegrino transfixes us with his exploration of the origins of Atlantis.

Unearthing Atlantis

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#Mystery #Thriller #Archaeology #Romance #Suspense 


Overseeing the excavation of an ancient skeleton at a small-town construction site, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook copes with accidents and rumors that the project is cursed, a situation that is complicated by a stranger's claims about her past.

Birthright

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Tucker Malarkey

Virginia

It's 1948, and British nurse Gemma Bastian travels to Cairo to close the affairs of her late father. While she's there she stumbles across her father's last and most closely guarded archaeological project, one that could change the Christian world forever: the discovery of the legendary Lost Gospels. Gemma finds herself caught in an intricate web of love and betrayal where she fights to resurrect her own shattered life and a faith that was lost to all of humanity.

Resurrection

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George E. Stuart

Beginnings--The polar regions--The west--The southwest--The southeast--Mesoamerica--The Andes & Beyond.

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The World’s Last Mysteries

Daniel Levin

The Last Ember

James Adovasio; Jake Page

The First Americans

Charles R. Pellegrino

Return to Sodom and Gomorrah

Christopher Catling

Discovering the Past Through Archaeology

William G. Dever

Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?

Hershel Shanks; James C. VanderKam; P. Kyle McCarter; James A. Sanders

The Dead Sea Scrolls after Forty Years

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Old Bones

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Ancient Mesopotamia

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Freefall

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Treasures From Bible Times

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Freefall

Paul Christopher

The Templar Legion

Kate Duke

Archaeologists Dig For Clues

Douglas Preston

The Lost City of the Monkey God

Elly Griffiths

The Last Remains

Douglas Preston

The Lost City of the Monkey God

Lyn Hamilton

The Magyar Venus

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The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered

Lawrence H. Robbins

Stones, Bones, and Ancient Cities

Charles R. Pellegrino

Unearthing Atlantis

Nora Roberts

Birthright

Tucker Malarkey

Resurrection

George E. Stuart

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