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Lost cities, ancient tombs : 100 discoveries that changed the world
Record details
- ISBN: 1426221983
- ISBN: 9781426221989
- ISBN: 9781426221989 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781426221996
- ISBN: 1426221983 : HRD
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Physical Description:
512 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2021]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 200 B.C.-A.D. 75: rituals & religion. Cracking the hieroglyphic code ; Europe's eerie bog bodies ; Maya masterpieces revealed ; Dead sea scrolls ; Treasure lost and found ; Caesarea Maritima's ambitious harbor ; Spirits in the sand ; Standoff at Masada -- A.D. 75-600: tombs & temples. Petra, ancient city of stone ; Last moments of Pompeii and Herculaneum ; An untouched royal tomb ; City of kings and commoners ; Teotihuacan's cosmic vision ; Jerusalem's holy sepulchre ; Rescuing Mes Aynak ; The mosaics of Huqoq ; The caves of Ajanta ; Ghost ship of Sutton Hoo -- A.D. 600-1000: surprises & mysteries. Cemetery of the golden chiefs ; The Oseberg ship ; Andean treasures, untouched ; The people of Petroglyph canyon ; The shining city of moorish Spain ; The new world's first Europeans ; Mud-brick maze of Jenne-jeno ; The enigma of Easter island -- A.D. 1000-1200: great builders. The magnificent Angkor Wat ; A sacred Maya landscape ; Lost city of the Monkey god ; Cahokia, an American capital ; The old ones of the southwest ; The city of great Zimbabwe ; East Africa's crossroads -- 1200-1600: sovereigns & citizens. London's bones ; The Birch-bark scrolls ; The drowned fleet of Kublai Khan ; Ruins of the Templo Mayor ; The lost town of Machu Picchu ; A treasure trove of knowledge ; Frozen mumies of the Andes ; Shipwreck of the Mary Rose -- 1600-present: a changing world order. Settling the rainforest ; The cold truth of Jamestown ; What the thaw reveals ; The wicked city of Port Royal ; America's last slave ship ; The disappearance of the H. L. Hunley ; Finding the Titanic -- Afterword by Fredrik Hiebert. |
| Summary, etc.: | "The story of human civilization, as told through 100 key discoveries spanning six continents, including firsthand reports from explorers, scientists, and antiquarians"-- |
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| Subject: | Archaeology Civilization, Ancient Extinct cities Tombs |
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