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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
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Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo · 237 pages
The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island's barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have bui
In Search of the Indo-Europeans
J.P. Mallory · 288 pages
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved
Peter Vilhelm Glob · 200 pages
From archaeological and scientific knowledge and the evidence of classical writers, a picture is drawn of the lives of Danish Iron-Age people found preserved in peat bogs.
Archaeological Explorations by the Literary and Scientific Society of Madisonville, Ohio
Literary and Scientific Society of Madisonville, Ohio · 74 pages
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island
Thor Heyerdahl · 368 pages
Ancient, Polynesian, Archaeological, Expedition to verify the ancient relationship of the Easter Island Polynesian with the indigenous Peruvian peoples.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · 660 pages
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race
Michael A. Cremo, Richard L. Thompson · 914 pages
The Language of the Goddess
Marija Gimbutas · 388 pages
History of religious symbols about the dominance of the Great Goddess based on archeological finds and art.
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
Heather Pringle
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
Samuel Noah Kramer · 372 pages
A depiction of the Sumerian civilization in ancient Mesopotamia based on excavated literary tablets. Describes all that was understood about the civilization at the time of its writing. Tells of how the Sumerians were found from archaeological studies and then goes into interpretation of their history, society, religion, literature, education, character, and legacy among later cultures.
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
James David Lewis-Williams · 320 pages
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay · 448 pages
The True History of Chocolate
Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe · 280 pages
"The food of the gods": Delicious indulgence or cause of migraines? Aphrodisiac or medicinal tonic? Religious symbol or Mesoamerican currency? This tale of one of the world's favorite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, socioeconomics and culinary history to present for the first time a complete and accurate history of chocolate. The story begins some 3000 years ago in the jungles of lowland Mex
Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
C.W. Ceram · 212 pages
The Lost Tomb
Kent R. Weeks · 330 pages
The world was astonished when American Egyptologist Kent Weeks discovered an elaborate tomb deep beneath the surface of Egypt's legendary Valley of the Kings. Soon he realized that this was the centuries-old burial site for the sons of Ramesses II. Previous to this discovery, no one had been certain where - or even if - this spectacular tomb existed. Now, in The Lost Tomb, Weeks takes readers into
Lost City of the Incas
Hiram Bingham · 263 pages
In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital city of the last Inca ruler, Manco Inca. With a combination of doggedness and good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of Machu Picchu perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 feet above the torrent of the Urubamba River. The buildings were
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Jeremy Narby · 272 pages
For ten years, Jeremy Narby explored the Amazonian rain forests, the libraries of Europe, and some of the world's most arcane scientific journals, following strange clues, unsuppressible intuitions, and extraordinary coincidences. He collected evidence and researched the seemingly impossible possibility that specific knowledge might somehow be transferred through DNA, the genetic information at th
A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain & Ireland and Its Associated Grave-goods
John Abercromby · 234 pages
The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation & the Evidence That Could Change History
Simcha Jacobovici, Charles Pellegrino · 240 pages
In 1980, workers at a Jerusalem construction site accidentally uncovered a cache of bone boxes from early Christian times. When reports about the crypt discovery leaked out 16 years later, the London Sunday Times headlined the story as "The Tomb That Dare Not Speak Its Name." Now the full story will be told. In 2005, documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici obtained permission to break through the
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
Graham Hancock · 769 pages
From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans.While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigu
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman · 400 pages
"In The Bible Unearthed two leading scholars, an archaeologist and a historian, combine a tour of the field of biblical archaeology with a explanation of how and why the Bible's historical saga differs so dramatically from the archaeological finds. They explain what the Bible says about ancient Israel and show how it diverges sharply from archaeological reality. They then offer a new version of t
The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History
Mircea Eliade · 195 pages