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"A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history--and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the...
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Athens, Greece, is best known for the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient temple completed in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena. But what many people don't know is that it only served as a temple for a couple hundred years. It then became a church, then a mosque, and by the end of the 1600s served as a storehouse for munitions. When an enemy army fired hundreds of cannon balls at the Acropolis, one directly hit the Parthenon. Much of the sculpture...
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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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108 pages : illustrations, color map ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Where is Stonehenge? That's an easy question to answer. It sits on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England. But what is the meaning of these strange circles of stones? Was Stonehenge a religious site to honor the dead? Or a sacred place of healing? Or perhaps an astrological calendar? These are much harder questions to answer. However, in an engaging and easy-to-read account, True Kelley puts forth all theories--past as well as current ones--about...
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Travel Israel-past and present-to learn about its people and its God with Harvard-trained biblical archaeologist, whimsical storyteller, and sunscreen advocate Amanda Hope Haley.
Despite what's seen in the Indiana Jones movies, archaeology isn't a fast-paced quest to recover legendary objects lost to time. Scholar and writer Amanda Hope Haley's digs in Israel have been dusty, rigorous, and objective hunts for clues that reveal the world as it existed...
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Copernicus legacy volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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As Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca continue their search for an ancient relic, Wade's mother is kidnapped by Galina Krause, leader of the present-day Teutonic Knights.
86) Stonehenge
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English
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Discusses the history and archaeological exploration of Stonehenge in Egland.
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Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1994
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IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 8
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168 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
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English
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Detailed essays, extensive photos, and informative sidebars describe life in ancient Rome, focusing on the Forum, Emperor Hadrian's time, and the Roman army, showing the results of significant archaeological digs; also includes a time line and a bibliography.
88) The lost stones
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Bonneville Books
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[2011], ©2011
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English
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When a renowned archeologist disappears, Ammon Rogers and the archeologist's daughter Sariah are thrust headlong into an adventure filled with danger and romance.
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Contents: The Beginning. Zeus. Hera. Athene. Apollo. Artemis. Aphrodite. Hermes. Ares. Hephaestus. Poseidon. Pluto. Bacchus. Demeter and Persephone. Hestia. Ceyx and Halcyone. Aeolus. Herakles. Perseus. Theseus. Jason and the Golden Fleece. The Calydonian Hunt. Oedipus, King of Thebes. Bellerophon. The Trojan War. The Adventures of Odysseus. Agamemnon and His Family. Virgil's Aeneid. The Lesser Gods of the Romans. Interpretation.
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Guardian (Karen Robards) volume 2
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English
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Ultimatum, a master thief is forced to rob a Moscow museum to save her life.
Clever. Cunning. Highly skilled. There's only one Bianca St. Ives. And for her enemies, that's one too many . . .
Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does, the way her father trained her to-hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation...
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Sigma Force novels volume 7
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English
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After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
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Sigma Force novels volume 15
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English
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To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulse-pounding action.
For eons, the city of Troy—whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad—was believed to be
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Mark of the thief trilogy volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Nicolas Calva has Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and he has hidden the dangerous Jupiter Stone, but he still has to find a way to defeat The Mistress, a dragon who contains the soul of the vestalis Atroxia, and who hates Rome, and save his mother and friends, and maybe even the Empire itself--and he is troubled by his sneaking sympathy for Atroxia, who was unjustly condemned.
96) Tomb explorers
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IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Examines the hunt for and discovery of ancient tombs, and the valuable treasures they hold, whether that be gold and jewels, or important artifacts that offer us a window on to the past."--Publisher.
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In recent years, art historians such as Johannes Deckers (Picturing the Bible, 2009) have argued for a significant transition in fourth- and fifth-century images of Jesus following the conversion of Constantine. Broadly speaking, they perceive the image of a peaceful, benevolent shepherd transformed into a powerful, enthroned Jesus, mimicking and mirroring the dominance and authority of the emperor. The powers of church and state are thus, conveniently...
98) Tell
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LoveTime TravelMysterious Artifacts
What could possibly go wrong?
John Hardin, an aging, error prone time traveler finds love and stumbles upon strange artifacts that contradict today's
mainstream archaeology. Along the way he discovers a previously unknown (and somewhat misplaced) civilization in the swampy Mississippi Delta
of the 1700s. As he travels from modern day to the pre-Revolutionary War Deep South, it becomes evident to John...
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Pfarrer Bernd Zimmermann möchte mit diesem Buch über sein Leben ein Zeichen setzen, an seinem Beispiel zeigen, dass die meisten Priester rechtschaffene Menschen sind, die den Glauben mit voller Überzeugung leben – das ist nach seiner Erfahrung die Mehrheit, nicht diejenigen, die kleine Seelen peinigen und Kinder missbrauchen. Zu Themen wie Missbrauch, Frauenordination und Zölibat hat er eine klare Meinung. Der Seelsorger erzählt von Zeiten...
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Sigma Force novels volume 16
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"It begins in Africa... A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle -- known...
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