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Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water,...
Author
Publisher
Mrs. Thomas E. Daniels
Pub. Date
1963]
Edition
[1st ed.
Physical Desc
63 p. illus. 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The main purpose of this book is to make Vermonters and other interested people aware of the prehistoric and historic Indian cultures that flourished in this area, some of which date back to several centuries B.C....this book should teach the reader to recognize, and correctly identify, what he is seeing when he walks along the stream banks and valleys of Vermont" -- From pages 10 & 11.
Author
Series
Vermont. University volume Monograph 3
Publisher
C. E. Tuttle Co
Pub. Date
[1971]
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 107 p. illus. 23 cm.
Language
English
5) Acqua alta
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Series
Language
English
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The Venice commissioner, Guido Brunetti, investigates the murder of a museum director who was involved in the traffic of Chinese antiques. Suspicion falls on a wealthy collector. By the author of Death and Judgment.
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Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A photo essay on ancient Egypt and the people who lived there, documented through the mummies, pottery, weapons, and other objects they left behind. Describes their society, religion, obsession with the afterlife, and methods of mummification.
8) Ancient Rome
Author
Publisher
DK, in association with the British Museum
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Step into the world of ancient Rome and meet its emperors, gods, soldiers, and gladiators. Who were Rome's most famous emperors? What was everyday life like for a soldier in the Roman army? How did the citizens of ancient Rome live? Did gladiators really fight to the death in the mighty Colosseum? Find out the answers to all these questions, and many more, in Eyewitness Ancient Rome. Photographs of real artefacts and detailed illustrations will help...
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English
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In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages : map, ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking. Tirelessly trekking across miles of the Thames’ muddy shores, where others only see the detritus of city life, Maiklem unearths evidence of England’s captivating, if sometimes murky, history―with some objects dating back to 43 AD, when London was but an outpost of the Roman Empire. From medieval mail worn by warriors on English...
Author
Publisher
Velco
Pub. Date
2011]
Physical Desc
42 p. : ill., maps ; 22 x 28 cm.
Language
English
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"This handbook describes the archaeological studies undertaken by the University of Vermont Consulting Archaeology Program (UVM CAP) and the Archaeological Services at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in advance of the Vermont Electric Power Company's (VELCO) Northwest Reliability Project -- the NRP -- in Rutland, Addison, and Chittenden Counties, 2005-2007."
17) Egypt
Author
Series
Publisher
Madison Square Press
Pub. Date
[1972]
Physical Desc
188, [4] p. illus. (part col.) 34 cm.
Language
English
19) The pharaoh key
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 5
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxvi, 707 p. : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this original and thought-provoking book, Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, has selected one hundred man-made artifacts, each of which gives us an intimate glimpse of an unexpected turning point in human civilization. A History of the World in 100 Objects stretches back two million years and covers the globe.
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