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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Did the Israelites' exodus from Egypt really happen? There's evidence that it did. Traveling from the United States to Israel and England, filmmaker Timothy Mahoney sifts through archaeological and historical clues, as well as comments from scholars and experts, to determine the truth as he builds a new case for an ancient, and often controversial, story.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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xi, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables, photographs, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family ancestor George Herbert--the famed Egyptologist, world-traveler, and 5th Earl of Carnarvon behind it--whose country house, Highclere Castle, is the setting of the beloved series Downton Abbey. Drawing on Highclere Castle's archives, the Countess of Carnarvon...
125) Diablo Mesa
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 3
Description
New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child continue with the wildly popular series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical...
126) Herod's lost tomb
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores an Israeli archaeologist, Ehud Netzer's, decades-long search for the King of the Jews' fabulously carved mausoleum and coffin.
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Pub. Date
c1995
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xxi, 248 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Description
Three thousand years ago, Native Americans on Washington's Olympic Peninsula occupied a key seasonal fishing camp on a bar of the Hoko River, close to the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Over the centuries, these ocean-oriented peoples discarded cordage, basketry, bent-wood fishhooks, woodworking tools, faunal and floral remains, and other cultural materials at a bend in the Hoko River. The perishable items were remarkably preserved in...
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In this thriller set in the Middle East of 1914, Somerville, a British archaeologist, and his team are excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace when an American geologist from an oil company posing as an archaeologist arrives one day and insinuates himself into Somerville's group. But he's not the only one working undercover to stake a claim on Iraq's rich oil fields.
133) Raising the Hunley
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discover the secrets of the Confederate hand-powered submarine, the H. L. Hunley, as researchers raise it and open it for the first time in more than a century.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xx, 251 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
The 1931 excavation season at Olynthus, Greece, changed how archaeologists study material culture, and was the nexus of one of the most egregious cases of plagiarism in the history of classical archaeology. Kaiser draws on the private scrapbook that budding archaeologist Mary Ross Ellingson compiled during that dig, and recounts how the unearthing of private homes emerged as a means to examine the day-to-day of ancient life in Greece. He shows that...
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Pub. Date
2009
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xxvii, 240 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Description
In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet the state continued its project, disturbing hundreds of burials and unearthing more than 10,000 artifacts at Tse-whit-zen village, the heart of the long-buried homeland...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
151 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Description
"What links shipwrecks, Egyptian treasure, and fossilized Viking poop? They're all things that have been discovered by archaeologists! Pick up your shovel and Indiana Jones hat and dig into the world of archaeology in this nonfiction kids' book by YouTuber Stefan Milosavljevich. Alongside beautiful illustrations by Sam Caldwell you'll find incredible tales from history, including: The ancient Egyptian city found at the bottom of the ocean The terracotta...
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