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 LARSummary: " ... 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