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Publisher
American Heritage Pub. Co.; book trade distribution by Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
Includes material on the ancient civilization of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Babylonia, the Indus river, Crete, Mycenae, and Anatolia. Also includes material on the Minoans, Etruscans, Khmers, and Maya.
Author
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"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 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...
Author
Series
Earth chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
Over the years, startling evidence has been unearthed, challenging established notions of the origins of Earth and life on it and suggesting the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. The product of thirty years of intensive research, The 12th Planet is the first book in Zecharia Sitchin's prophetic Earth Chronicles series-a revolutionary body of work that offers indisputable documentary proof of humanity's extraterrestrial...
5) Early humans
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs present a description of early humans: their origins; their tools and weapons; how they hunted and foraged for food; and the role of family life, money, religion, and magic.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The ancient world saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. In mainstream history the Classical world is dominated by Greece and Rome, and the Biblical world is centred on the Hebrews. Yet the roughly four-and-a-half thousand years (4000 BC-AD 550) covered in this book saw many peoples come and go within the brawling, multi-cultural mass of humanity that occupied the ancient Middle East, Mediterranean and beyond. While a handful of ancient...
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
c2002, c1992
Language
English
Description
This six part series on three videodiscs explores the influence on ancient culture on our lives today. Host, Michael Wood visits the ancient cities and great ports of India and China, the deserts of Egypt and Iraq, the Mexico of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples, the Greek and Roman monuments of Europe and the jungles of Central America searching for the living legacies of these once great civilizations. The series traces how the institutions that...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Readers can journey back in time to ancient Greece in this visually stunning introduction to one of the world's founding nations that features fascinating information, statistics and facts showing how the ancient Greeks transformed our world.
11) Early humans
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs present a description of early humans: their origins; their tools and weapons; how they hunted and foraged for food; and the role of family life, money, religion, and magic.
12) How people lived
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the everyday lives of those who lived during such important early civilizations as ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, and the Roman Empire.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
Deliberately planned as a co-operative inquiry into the human past. What, if anything, can be said in general about the achievements and failures of man before history, takes up the Tale? We can perceive the history of technology, making and doing as expressed in material objects.
Author
Publisher
PUTNAM
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
A spaceport in the Andes! A computer chart in Egyptian ruins! Primitive sculptures of figures wearing space suits!Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods stunned the world with the archaeological discovery that alien beings once colonized earth. Now, in Pathways to the Gods, von Daniken reveals the story of his travels following the trail of the ancient visitors-from the technologically sophisticated stone ruins in the Bolivian Andes to the sensational...