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"What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley...
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"From harvesting herring eggs to hunting humpback whales, humans have had a relationship with the world's oceans for more than 100,000 years. What can archaeology tell us about how our marine envornments have changed over time, and the effects of climate change? Tools, campsites, fishing technologies and even garbage can show us how people lived and how they used the oceans. With these clues we can help keep our oceans healthier today and in the future"--Back...
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"In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No...
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Esta Breve historia de la arqueología nos narra los asombrosos descubrimientos de los mayores arqueólogos del mundo: tumbas egipcias, ruinas mayas, las primeras colonias europeas en Norteamérica, los misterios de Stonehenge, los sobrecogedores eventos de Pompeya y muchos otros. A lo largo de cuarenta breves capítulos, Brian Fagan cuenta la evolución de la arqueología desde sus orígenes en el siglo XVIII hasta sus mayores avances tecnológicos...
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Clark Spencer Larsen is the chair of the Department of Anthropology and Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio State University. He is a former president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and is currently Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. He is the author of Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton.
The dead tell no tales. Or do they? In this fascinating...
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"Winner of the J.I. Staley Prize" Sherry B. Ortner is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of two previous books on the Sherpas of Nepal, Sherpas through Their Rituals and High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism (Princeton), and has also written books on social, cultural, and feminist theory. She has received numerous prestigious awards, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...
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Este libro expone los resultados de un reconocimiento regional sistemático en un área de 277 Km² que incluyó parte de los actuales municipios de Tunja, Motavita, Cómbita, Oicatá, Chivatá, Boyacá, Samacá, Sora y Cucaita, (Boyacá-Colombia). Su objetivo fue aportar en la comprensión del origen y desarrollo del cacicazgo de Tunja, descrito por los españoles en el siglo XVI como uno de los dos más grandes en el altiplano cundiboyacense, mediante...
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Roger Atwood knows more about the market for ancient objects than almost anyone. He knows where priceless antiquities are buried, who is digging them up, and who is fencing and buying them. In this fascinating book, Atwood takes readers on a journey through Iraq, Peru, Hong Kong, and across America, showing how the worldwide antiquities trade is destroying what's left of the ancient sites before archaeologists can reach them, and thus erasing their...
9) Ibb Memories
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Ibb is a governorate of Yemen. It is located in the inland south of the country with Ta'izz Governorate to the southwest, Ad Dali' Governorate to the southeast, Dhamar Governorate to the north, and short borders with Al Bayda' Governorate to the east and Al Hudaydah Governorate to the west. Ibb city is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, located about 117 km northeast of Mocha and 194 km south of Sana'a. Through these simple words in...
10) Resurrecting the Brother of Jesus: The James Ossuary Controversy and the Quest for Religious Relics
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In 2002 a burial box of skeletal remains purchased anonymously from the black market was identified as the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus. Transformed by the media into a religious and historical relic overnight, the artifact made its way to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, where 100,000 people congregated to experience what had been prematurely and hyperbolically billed as the closest tactile connection to Jesus yet unearthed. Within...
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The Danish Archaeological Expedition to Hama in Syria in the 1930s discovered an ancient town lived in for thousands of years. Members of the Expedition also fell in love with the town around the ancient mound, which they explored on their days off. The archive of the Expedition is held by the National Museum of Denmark. Rare, gritty photos of bustling city life are interspersed with strictly composed artwork, where the past appears in vivid colour....
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Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the same...
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Carl Kerényi was professor of classics and the history of religion in his native Hungary and later became a citizen of Switzerland. He died in 1973 at the age of 76. His works include Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter and, with C. G. Jung, Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis.
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in...
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Jan N. Bremmer is Professor of the History of Religion at the Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, Holland.
Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes and was active only outside the body, as in dreams,...
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Jean Seznec was for many years a member of the faculty at Harvard University, and up until his death in 1983 he taught at All Souls College, Oxford, England.
The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader first a discussion...
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Este libro es una propuesta novedosa, crítica y actualizada que invita a reconsiderar ciertos postulados sobre la arqueología del norte de Colombia. El autor, con base en su experiencia como etnógrafo de la arqueología, hace un análisis de los conflictos inherentes al patrimonio arqueológico regional, dada la existencia de diversas ontologías que determinan visiones y particularidades sobre materialidades llamadas arqueológicas. Para hacer...
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Richard Janko, Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. This wide-ranging conversation covers Prof. Janko's research on the Derveni Papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript from the 4th century BCE and the most important text relating to early Greek literature, science, religion and philosophy to have come...
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"The narrative conveys Fletcher's enthusiasm for her work and is supplemented with an excellent bibliography. Highly recommended." - Library Journal
"Fascinating...Fletcher picked up on the tiniest of clues to track down what she believes could be the missing queen." - Daily Mail (London)
"A learned and intensely personal book... compelling revelations... a thrilling examination." - Publishers Weekly
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Ever since embarking on his first expedition to Mt. Ararat, Bob Cornuke, a biblical investigator and real life Indiana Jones, has had a passion shared by only a select group of explorers. Follow Cornuke as he brings this adventure to life and tries to be the one who makes the greatest archaeological discovery in human history - finding the remains of Noah's Ark. This documentary uses the Bible as a road map for uncovering its ancient mysteries. Based...
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Maren Elisabeth Schwab teaches postclassical Latin and history of knowledge at the University of Kiel. She is the author of Antike begreifen. Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. His books include Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe and Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton).
A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture...
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