Laroche, Giles
Summary: Describes life in settlements from the Temple of Karnak in ancient Egypt, Herculaneum, and Great Zimbabwe to Fatepur Sikri in India and Jamestown, Virginia, and explains how they became lost cities, how they were found, and what is unusual about them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 930.1 LARKelly, Lynne
Summary: In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 301 KELMcManus, Lori
Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 MCMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 MCMNunn, Patrick D.
Summary: The traces of much of human history - and that which preceded it - lie beneath the ocean surface. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused on in recent decades. This is the first book to present the science of submergence in a popular format. Patrick Nunn sifts the fact from the fiction, using the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.94 NUNHart, Will
Summary: Explores evidence for the theory of directed panspermia--that life on Earth and the landscape of Earth itself was engineered by extraterrestrials
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bear & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.9 HARStiebing, William H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 STECahn, Jonathan
Summary: "Is it possible that behind what is taking place in America and the world lies a mystery that goes back to the gods of the ancient world...and that they now have returned? The Return of the Gods is the most explosive book Jonathan Cahn has ever written. It is so explosive and so revealing that no description here could do it justice. Jonathan Cahn is known for revealing the stunning mysteries,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FrontLine 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.308 CAHMatyszak, Philip
Summary: The ancient world saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. In mainstream history the Classical world is dominated by Greece and Rome, and the Biblical world is centred on the Hebrews. Yet the roughly four-and-a-half thousand years (4000 BC-AD 550) covered in this book saw many peoples come and go within the brawling, multi-cultural mass of humanity that occupied the ancient Middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Ltd 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 MATHancock, Graham.
Summary: "The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. But there were survivors-- known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.94 HANMaloy, Jackie.
Summary: Provides information about the ancient Maya, discussing farming, daily life, beliefs, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972 MALDäniken, Erich von
Contents: Letter to my readers -- Impossible buildings -- Crazy facts -- False doctrines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.942 DANCantor, Norman F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 CANSomervill, Barbara A.
Summary: Examines the culture and history of ancient Mayas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972 SOMNewman, Sandra
Summary: Provides facts about ancient Greece, discussing the early Greeks, their government, the gods they worshipped, the first Olympics, arts and sciences, and the rise of the Roman empire, and considering the influence of the ancient Greeks in modern times. Includes maps, a time line, and photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 938 NEWFagan, Brian M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 573.2 FAGSummary: " ... The 19th century marked the real beginning of modern archaeology. Even so, those in the vanguard were more often romantic adventurers or heedless plunderers than trained scientists. Properly interpreting an unfolding series of discoveries has taken decades of exhausting, meticulous digging and sifting through the humble remains of houses, drains, and garbage pits ... Silent artifacts and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 1981
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 930 SPLSummary: Includes material on the Notre Dame Cathedral at Chartres, Stonehenge, the Delphi oracle, the Tower of Babel, North American mounds, Shangri-La, Atlantis, the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Nazca Lines Site in Peru, Easter Island, Machu Picchu in Peru, the Pueblo sites in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Teotihuacan, Mexico, Angkor, Cambodia, Troy, Jerusalem, Mecca, the English leys, and Eldorado.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ATLRiggs, Christina
Summary: "A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932 RIGLassieur, Allison.
Summary: Discover the civilization of ancient Greece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 LASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J938 LASSchomp, Virginia.
Summary: Discover the civilization of ancient China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 931 SCHSonneborn, Liz.
Summary: Read about the ancient civilization of China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 931 SONFinan, Catherine C.
Summary: "Whether going for a sail or hitting the road on anything with wheels, you may need to thank the people from Mesopotamia. Did you know this ancient civilization inspired and invented a lot of things that we can still find in our modern lives? The Cradle of Civilization brought us board games and astrology, maps and soap, and so much more. But there are some things we may be glad to leave behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2022