Item 5065Royal Tombs of Sipan
Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1994. second edition. softcover. 4to. 229pp. full color photographs. see pictures for synopsis. #05148 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.
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Item 4642The Dwellers on the Nile
New York: Dover Publications, 1977. softcover. 8vo. 326pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04723.
Item 2071Gods, Graves, and Scholars
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. hardcover. 8vo 428pp + index, with 49 photographs and 72 drawings. from front flap: "Ninevah, Babylon, Troy, Crete, the Valley of Kings, Karnak, Assurbanipal's Palace, Pompeii, Herculaneum, the Rosetta Stone, Ur, Chichen-Itza, the Pyramids of Teotihuacan--here are the glamorous names of archaeology. No science.....
Item 2399Gods, Graves, and Scholars
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Second, Revised and Substantially Enlarged Edition (BCE). hardcover. 8vo 428pp + index, with 49 photographs and 72 drawings. Book Club Edition. from front flap: "Ninevah, Babylon, Troy, Crete, the Valley of Kings, Karnak, Assurbanipal's Palace, Pompeii, Herculaneum, the Rosetta Stone, Ur, Chichen-Itza, the Pyramids.....
Item 295The Secrets of Tutankhamen's Tomb
Dell, 1967. first thus. mass market paperback. Dell 7711 Mayflower Book 128pp. first printing October 1967. pictures and illustrations. #00436.
Item 3584The Art of Buda and Pest in the Middle Ages
Budapest: Akedemiai Kiado, 1971. first edition. hardcover. 4to. 146pp. + 140 B/W photographic plates. from front flap: "Reent large-scale reconstructions in the town of Budapest made extensive excavations possible, from which the exploration of the one-time Royal Palace stood out in significance. The latter was conducted by the author who.....
Item 2454The Return of Cultural Treasures
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 361pp. Introduction by Magnus Magnusson. from front flap: "The return to their homelands of cultural treasures such as the Elgin Marbles has become in recent years a potent political issue. Joining a heated public debate conducted in general from partisan points.....
Item 450Conquest by Man
Harper and Brothers, 1954. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 455pp. translated from German. from Kirkus Reviews: "In the flood of single volume encyclopedias of information on as varied subjects as archaeology, biology, anthropology, this is exceptional, not only in content but in handling. For here is 'the saga of early exploration.....
Item 2375Tales Mummies Tell
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1985. hardcover. 8vo 118pp. Grades 5-9. from front flap: "How can we be so sure of what ancient life was like? Largely because, in recent years, mummies have begun to "talk" to scientists who study them for clues to the distant past. X-rays reveal mummies.....
Item 4329Who's Who in the Ancient Near East
New York: Routledge, 1999. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 229pp. from front flap: "...Which Hittite prince was meant to marry Tutankhamen's widow? These and many more questions are answered in this survey of teh people who inhabited the Near East between the twenty-fifth and the second centuries BC. From Palestine to.....
Item 1977All Pompeii
Firenze: Bonechi Editore. softcover. 8vo 63pp. full color illustrated guide to the ancient city of Pompeii with history, preserved artifacts, archaeological findings. map of the city laid in. #02039.
Item 5086The Incredible Incas and Their Timeless Land
Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society, 1992. Louis. S. Glanzman. hardcover. 8vo. 199pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05169.
Item 1855The Prehistory of the Mind
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996. first American edition. hardcover. 8vo 288pp. + 70 illustrations. from front flap: "This is the first archaeological account to support the new modular concept of the mind. The concept, promulgated by cognitive and evolutionary psychologists, views the mind as a collection of specialized intelligences.....
Item 4660The Incas and Their Ancestors
New York: Thomas and Hudson, 1999. softcover. 8vo. 272pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04743.
Item 3982Prehistory of Australia
Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. hardcover. 8vo 479pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04048 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.
Item 5236Moche Art and Archaeology in Ancient Peru
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. softcover. 4to. 344pp. Studies in the History of Art 63. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Symposium Papers XL. see pictures for synopsis. price includes extra S/H for size/weight. #05319h.
Item 1645An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Plants
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1940. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 188pp. from Preface: "This book is intended for students who have completed at least a year's course of study in Botany at a British or American College or University. I hope that those who use it will be encouraged to.....
Item 2878Archaeology from the Earth
Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1964. softcover. 16mo 252pp. Pelican Book A356. see pictures for synopsis. #02943.
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