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Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Includes material on the Notre Dame Cathedral at Chartres, Stonehenge, the Delphi oracle, the Tower of Babel, North American mounds, Shangri-La, Atlantis, the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Nazca Lines Site in Peru, Easter Island, Machu Picchu in Peru, the Pueblo sites in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Teotihuacan, Mexico, Angkor, Cambodia, Troy, Jerusalem, Mecca, the English leys, and Eldorado.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
An historical and scientific study of the Great Sphinx of Egypt, using computer simulations of ancient skies and examining archaic rebirth texts, myths, and scriptures, to uncover what the authors call an "astronomical language," that reveal who and what the Sphinx really is.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Evan Connell has long been attracted to the visionary and eccentric, to those people and events slightly outside the mainstream of human experience. His subjects are people of passion and purpose, events of legend and desire, the quixotic obsession for the new, the hidden, the unattainable." "These are tales of fabulous advances in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy and linguistics, stories of the Anasazi, the "old ones" of the southwestern desert,...
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Curious kids itching for real-life Indiana Jones-like intrigue will get swept away with the next book in this spine-tingling series about solving puzzles of the past--from whole civilizations that have vanished to mystifying monuments and urban legends."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Element
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The present world will end on December 22, 2012. So prophesied the Maya 5,000 years ago - the mysterious people whose ruined pyramids and temples in the depths of the Central American rainforests are alive with inscriptions that baffled scholars for centuries. Who were the Maya? Where did they come from and why did they suddenly disappear? Will we suffer floods, volcanic eruptions, and chaos in 2012?
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Why were the Easter Island heads erected? What really happened to the Maya? Who stole the Irish Crown Jewels? The first book in this exciting new series will cover history's heavy-hitting, head-scratching mysteries, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke, the Bermuda Triangle, the Oak Island Money Pit, Stonehenge, the Sphinx, the disappearance of entire civilizations, the dancing plague, the Voynich manuscript, and so many more. Chock-full of cool...
Author
Series
Publisher
What on Earth Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Giant gemstones, precious artworks, architectural wonders, intriguing ruins, moon rocks, and more! Treasures both natural and man-made make an appearance in a tour which stretches across thousands of years and all around the globe. Discover sunken wrecks loaded with pirate gold, the abandoned tombs of the world's most powerful rulers, and even meteorites--treasures from outer space! A central foldout map reveals the locations of all the treasures...