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Blake & Mortimer, Vol. 2: The Mystery of the Great Pyramid Part 1: The Papyrus of Manethon
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William Dietrich · 400 pages
Ethan Gage, assistant to Ben Franklin and expatriate American in post–Revolutionary France, wins an ancient––and possibly cursed––medallion in a card game. Covered in seemingly undecipherable symbols, the medallion seems linked to an ancient Masonic mystery. That night, Ethan is framed for a prostitute's murder and barely escapes France his life. Faced with either prison or death, Gage is offered
Tomb Raider: The Ten Thousand Immortals
Dan Abnett, Nik Vincent · 304 pages
Indiana Jones Omnibus, Vol. 1
William Messner-Loebs, Mike Richardson, Hal Barwood, Noah Falstein, Lee Marrs, Dan Barry · 352 pages
Tomb of the Golden Bird
Elizabeth Peters · 470 pages
In New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Peters's most eagerly anticipated Amelia Peabody adventure to date, the incomparable Emerson clan is a hairbreadth away from unearthing the legendary site they've been searching for. But a sinister plot and a dark family secret stand in the way of their ultimate ambition -- and threaten to change things forever. . . .Tomb of the Golden BirdConvinced t
Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx
Max McCoy · 208 pages
The Lost Army Of Cambyses
Paul Sussman · 592 pages
An adrenaline-packed adventure thriller set in Egypt about the hunt for a fabulous lost treasure.In 523 BC, the Persian emperor Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle of Amun at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Sand Sea his army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and destroyed. Fifty thousand men were lost. Two and a half thousand y
Target Practice
Mike Maihack · 176 pages
When Cleopatra finds a mysterious tablet that zaps her to the far, REALLY far future, she learns of an ancient prophecy that says she is destined to save the galaxy from the tyrannical rule of the evil Xaius Octavian.
The Seventh Scroll
Wilbur Smith · 656 pages
Set in present-day Africa, yet indelibly linked to the world of River God nearly four thousand years ago, The Seventh Scroll is another magnificent adventure from a master storyteller. A fading legacy from beyond the grave, the Seventh Scroll holds the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time. Duraid Al Simmu and his beautiful half-English, half-Egyptian wife, Royan, were t
Kingdom of Darkness
Andy McDermott · 515 pages
What's the connection between a dig in Alexandria for Alexander the Great's tomb and a wanted Nazi war criminal? Nina and Eddie about to find out as they go on a search across the globe, from Egypt to Argentina and Italy to Iran, to find the truth. They have located the most exciting archaeological treasures the world has ever known - they have found Atlantis and walked in the Garden of Eden, they
Pharaoh
David Gibbins · 378 pages
1334 BC: Akhenaten the Sun-Pharaoh rules supreme in Egypt. The young Tutahkhamun is groomed to be his successor. But then Akhenaten disappears and his legacy is seemingly swallowed up by the sands that lie under modern Cairo and the great pyramids of Giza ... AD 1885: A half-crazed man appears claiming to know of a vast lost labyrinth beneath modern Cairo, of canals and palaces and tombs. His stor
Map of Bones
James Rollins · 540 pages
The bestselling master of astonishing adventure James Rollins delivers his most relentlessly exciting page-turner to date -- a gripping and explosive novel of an ancient conspiracy to create a terrifying new world order out of the ashes of modern civilization.The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany
The Venetian Betrayal
Steve Berry · 600 pages
In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting place--unknown to this day--remains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure hunters. Now the quest for this coveted prize is about to heat up. And Cotton Malone--former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer--will
Sahara
Clive Cussler · 572 pages
1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from en
Thea Stilton and the Secret City
Thea Stilton · 161 pages
"When Paulina gets a phone call from home telling her that a friend is missing, the Thea Sisters travel to Peru to help solve the mystery. There, the five mice climb the Andes Mountains in search of a missing archaeologist. Along the way, they stumble upon clues leading them to a mysterious hidden city. Will the Thea Sisters find Paulina's friend, and the treasure of the Secret City?" -- P. [4] of
Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology
Warren Ellis · 224 pages
This collection of Earth-shattering adventures from Windstorm stars a team of super-powered archaeologists who have uncovered evidence of super-human activity that spans the centuries. The team includes the ancient -- and incredibly powerful -- Elijah Snow, hot-tempered Jakita Wagner, and the seemingly insane Drummer, as they deal with the abrupt appearance of a new mountain range in America and t
People of the Silence
Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear · 568 pages
By A.D. 1150 the Anasazi had created an empire in the Southwest that would never again be equalled in North America. Master astronomers, traders, and architects, they built extraordinary roads linking thousands of square miles. Their Great Houses stood five stories tall and contained hundreds of rooms. Yet at the height of their civilization, cataclysm struck; the Anasazi began to destroy themselv
The Secret of the Sphinx
Geronimo Stilton, Demetrio Bargellini · 56 pages
Mystery of the Maya
R.A. Montgomery · 134 pages
The reader faces deadly dangers as a writer on assignment in Mexico to explore the ruins of the Mayan Indians and solve the mystery of why the ancient civilization collapsed. By choosing specific pages, the reader determines the outcome from among a number of possible endings.