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1	The lost army of Cambyses more books like this by Paul Sussman add to wishlist In 523 BC the Persian Emperor Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's Western Desert to destroy the oracle of Amun at Siwa. Somewhere en route through the burning wastes, the army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and destroyed. Fifty thousand men were buried beneath the desert sands. Two and a half thousand years later an antiques dealer is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.21! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium more books like this by Elizabeth Peters (Editor), Kristen Whitbread (Editor), Dennis C Forbes (Designer) add to wishlist The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiquity. Now, with this monumental volume of Egyptian culture, history, and arcania, readers will be able to immerse themselves in the great lady's world more ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $21.36! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tut's Mummy: Lost...and Found more books like this by Judy Donnelly add to wishlist "Beginning with the death of Tutankhamen, the book moves forward to archaeologist Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb. Information about ancient Egyptian life is interspersed in a clear, smooth fashion throughout. A good way to get readers into nonfiction".--Booklist. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Genesis Secret more books like this by Tom Knox add to wishlist In this debut thriller of spectacular sweep and brilliant turns, a secret with shocking consequences is buried deep in the Middle Eastern desert--challenging everything the modern world knows about the origins of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. see all copies from $3.39! new only from $5.94! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction more books like this by William R Biers add to wishlist William R. Biers wrote The Archaeology of Greece to introduce students, teachers, and lay readers to the delights of exploring the world of ancient Greece. The great popularity of the first edition testifies to his success. In his preface to the second edition, Biers points out that, while the field of Greek archaeology may seem conservative and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.73! \| first editions
6	Guardian of the Horizon more books like this by Elizabeth Peters add to wishlist This 16th book in the Amelia Peabody series returns to people and places last seen in THE LAST CAMEL DIED AT NOON and occurs during 1907 and 1908, a period of time not previously covered by author Elizabeth Peters. A young man arrives at the Emersons' home in England and says he is the brother of their friend Tarek, prince of the secret desert ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Night Villa more books like this by Carol Goodman add to wishlist Bestselling author Goodman's novel sweeps across the dramatic skies of present day Texas to ancient Capri, evocatively telling a tale of intrigue, romance, and treachery that changes two women's lives centuries apart. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries more books like this by Brian M Fagan (Editor) add to wishlist Archaeology has an aura of romance and a long history of startling discoveries wrested from clinging soil. Indeed, patience and persistence can lead to spectacular finds, as they did for Howard Carter in November 1922. After seven years searching the Egyptian desert, Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, and in these vivid words he described ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.10! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs more books like this by Time-Life Books, Dale Brown (Editor) add to wishlist Readers assume the role of archaeologists, uncovering secrets of ancient civilizations. Stunning photographs and illustrations, plus detailed cutaways, maps and diagrams. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
10	Come, tell me how you live more books like this by Agatha Christie add to wishlist Agatha Christie's memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s. She took enormous interest in all his excavations, and when friends asked what her strange ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.24! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Questionable Remains more books like this by Beverly Connor add to wishlist Forensic archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain unearths a dangerous cover-up when she investigates the two-year-old deaths of several men found sealed in a cave in Georgia. see all copies from $5.47! new only from $28.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War II more books like this by Carl Hoffman add to wishlist Part history, part travelogue, part adventure tale, "Hunting Warbirds" is the extraordinary tale of the men who collect, salvage, and restore vintage World War II aircraft, a treasure that has grown more valuable as it has grown increasingly scarce. of photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Land of Marvels more books like this by Barry Unsworth add to wishlist Unsworth, a writer with an "almost magical capacity for literary time travel" ("New York Times Book Review") has written a thriller set in 1914, in which he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. see all copies from $2.93! new only from $13.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Catalhoyuk more books like this by Ian Hodder add to wishlist This is a brilliantly argued, first-hand account of the author's major discoveries at the renowned archaeological site Catalhoyuk in Turkey, described by Professor Colin Renfrew as one of the most ambitious excavation projects currently in progress. This tour de force of archaeological writing offers many insights into past lives and momentous ... see all copies from $20.96! new only from $20.97! \| first editions
15 view cover	Tutankhamun the Exodus Conspiracy: The Truth Behind Archaeology's Greatest Mystery more books like this by Andrew Collins, Chris Ogilvie-Herald add to wishlist The tomb of Tutankhamun was undoubtedly among the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time, and everyone knows about the troubles which beset this remarkable find. The untimely death of Lord Carnarvon just after the opening of the tomb, and his appetite for the occult, swiftly gave rise to rumours of a curse. Also the presence of certain ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.89! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor more books like this by Jane Portal, John Williams, Esq (Photographer), Saul Peckham (Photographer) add to wishlist Often described as the eighth Wonder of the World, the massive, underground army made from fired clay evokes both awe and curiosity. Who was this powerful Emperor of the Qin Dynasty who needed these warriors to guard him in the afterlife? How were nearly 8,000 figures made on such a vast scale so long ago? This lovely little book, based on the ... see all copies from $6.26! new only from $6.35! \| SVS
17 view cover	La Biblia de Barro more books like this by Julia Navarro add to wishlist En Roma, un hombre se confiesa: Padre, me acuso de que voy a matar a un hombre..." "Al mismo tiempo, tambien en Roma, cuando Clara Tannenberg anuncia en el transcurso del Congreso de Arqueologos y Antropologos el descubrimiento de unas tablillas pertenecientes a la Biblia de Barro no es consciente de los mecanismos que esta poniendo en marcha y ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.53! \| SVS
18 view cover	They wrote on clay; the Babylonian tablets speak today more books like this by Edward Chiera, George Glenn Cameron add to wishlist Edward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entertainingly available to laymen. More remarkable, Chiera had extraordinary gifts to equal to his desire. "They Wrote on Clay" combines fascinatingly the fruits of sound and painstaking archeology with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization more books like this by Michael Balter add to wishlist In "The Goddess and the Bull", veteran "Science" magazine reporter, Michael Balter takes you inside the trenches of one of the world's most important archaeological excavations and the biggest prehistoric village ever discovered: 9,500 year old Catalhoeyuek, in south-central Turkey. Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt, a ... see all copies from $3.56! new only from $9.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated more books like this by John Dominic Crossan, Jonathan L Reed add to wishlist The renowned biblical scholar joins an expert on Middle Eastern archaeology to peel back the layers on the search for the historical Jesus, analyzing the archaeological discoveries of the past centuries that have shed light on this vexing question. see all copies from $2.34! new only from $6.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective more books like this by Graham Connah, Douglas Hobbs (Illustrator) add to wishlist This major new edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa over the last four thousand years. Graham Connah focuses upon the archaeological research of two key aspects of complexity, urbanism and state formation, in seven main areas of Africa: Nubia, Ethiopia, the West ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $25.34! \| SVS
22 view cover	Pompeii: The Living City more books like this by Alex Butterworth add to wishlist This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beginning with the earthquake which all but destroyed Pompeii and ending with the volcanic eruption which has become part of our collective popular imagination. Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence have synthesised the latest research into Pompeii to bring this period ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.89! \| first editions \| SVS
23	The Greek Treasure: A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemann more books like this by Irving Stone add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Herculaneum, Italy's Buried Treasure more books like this by Joseph Jay Deiss add to wishlist A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.48! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine more books like this by Brian Hicks, Schuyler Kropf add to wishlist This in-depth history of the Confederate submarine the Hunley includes its mysterious sinking in 1864 and its raising by a salvage operation in 2000. The authors offer an account of early submarine design, as well as of the fierce search to determine the location of the lost ship. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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