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61) The mummy case
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero--or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a thief? Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs's riveting new book is a ghost story--an intense, impassioned investigation into the nature of the past and the things we leave behind. We visit lonesome desert canyons and fancy Fifth Avenue art...
67) The whisper
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It was meant to be an adventure, a night alone on a remote Irish island. Archaeologist Sophie Malone never expected to find Celtic treasure or to end up in a fight for her life in a dark, desolate cave. Now, a year later, she's convinced answers to the mysteries of that night lie in Boston. Who has the priceless gold artifacts that disappeared from the cave ... and who is responsible for the whispers she heard in the dark? Nearly killed in an explosion...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer,...
69) Cold earth
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A team of six archaeologists from the United States, England, and Scotland assembles at the beginning of the Arctic summer to unearth traces of the lost Viking settlements in Greenland. But as they sink into uneasy domesticity, there is news of an epidemic back home, and their communications with the outside world fall away. Facing a Greenland winter for which they are hopelessly ill-equipped, Nina, Ruth, Catriona, Jim, Ben, and Yianni, knowing that...
Author
Publisher
Our Sunday Visitor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave. This surprising discovery launched a secret quest that would last decades--a quest to discover the long-lost burial place of the apostle Peter. From earliest times, Christian tradition held that Peter--a lowly fisherman from Galilee, whom Christ made leader of his Church--was executed in Rome by Emperor Nero and buried on Vatican Hill. But his tomb had been lost to...
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 28
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships-revealing...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The mythical story of a dangerous half-human, half-fish creature lurking in the depths of the Amazon. After discovering a unique prehistoric claw fossil on an expedition deep in the jungle, archaeologists investigates its origins which lead them directly to a mysterious creature. Led by marine life specialist David Reed, the men try to capture the monster who has become obsessed with David's assistant Kay.
74) The scroll
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Dr. David Chambers, a biblical archaeologist, has sunk into an abyss of doubt because his unanswered questions have ripped him from both his academic pursuits and his fiancée, Amber; now David must decide if he will take one final dig to unlock the key to the political turmoil of the Middle East.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
"Irresistible....Amelia is still a joy."
—New York Times Book Review
The intrepid archeologist Amelia Peabody and her fearless family, the Emersons, are back in Egypt, and something very nasty is afoot in Lord of the Silent—New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters's sparkling adventure with more riddles than the Sphinx and more close calls and stunning escapes than an Indiana Jones movie. Reviewers
...77) The tomb of Zeus
Author
Series
Laetitia Talbot mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
78) The last remains
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a missing woman's bones force Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own in this not-to-be-missed Ruth Galloway mystery from USA Today bestselling author Elly Griffiths.
When builders discover a human skeleton during a renovation of a café, they call in archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the threatened
...80) The Lucifer code
Author
Series
Thomas Lourds novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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