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Fascinating Hieroglyphics: Discovering, Decoding & Understanding the Ancient Art

By: Jacq, Christian

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Sterling: December 1998

Seller ID: 362396

ISBN: 0806986999

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For centuries not a person alive could decipher the famed ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Then a few experts began to understand how a single figure could be a picture, a symbol, and a sound all at once. You can join the ranks of those who can read hieroglyphs, and even create sentences of your own, with this ingeniously simple guide. It's the most complete introduction available, yet it's amazingly easy to understand. With best-selling author Christian Jacq as your guide, uncover the mystery that baffled the greatest minds of the ages--how the Egyptians first invented hieroglyphics, why it be...
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The Celts

By: Kruta, Vencesclas

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Rizzoli: June 1993

Seller ID: 345525

ISBN: 0847814076

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Before its decline in the first century B.C., the Celtic world stretched from the British Isles to the Carpathian Mountains and Asia Minor, and the Celts possessed their own vital and highly original civilization, revealed in the rich profusion of ornamental motifs that decorate Celtic weapons and artefacts. Their traditions live on in customs, names, and crafts, and they contributed greatly to the formation of Europe. Archaeological excavations have recovered some of the beautiful treasures of the Celts, as well as much evidence of their social and economic life. This revised paperback editio...
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The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History

By: McEvedy, Colin

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: July 1986

Seller ID: 91587

ISBN: 0140511512

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Traces the migrations and evolution of the races as well as the development of civilizations from prehistoric times to the fourth century A.D.
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Builders Of The Ancient World: Marvels of Engineering

By: National Geographic

Price: $5.95

Publisher: National Geographic Society: January 1986

Seller ID: 173318

ISBN: 0870445855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Splendors of the Past: Lost Cities of the Ancient World

By: National Geographic

Price: $5.95

Publisher: National Geographic Society: June 1981

Seller ID: 215916

ISBN: 0870443585

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Then & Now: As They Were in Their Days of Glory

By: Perring, Stefania, Perring, Dominic

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Book Sales: October 2000

Seller ID: 71395

ISBN: 0785811168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

History's most fascinating landmarks are brought to life in vivid see-through reconstructions in this richly illustrated series. In Then and Now, famous landmarks such as the Acropolis, the Coliseum, and the Tower of London are pictured as when just built and as they look now. Cities: Then and Now, documents how places such as Rome, Prague, and San Francisco appeared in their initial stages and how they have changed throughout history. Bible: Then & Now, features reconstructions of Jerusalem, Babylon, Jericho and eleven other Biblical sites as well as fascinating insight into legacies and peop...
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Archives of Ebla: An Empire Inscribed in Clay (Translation of Ebla: Un Impero Inciso Nell'Argilla)

By: Pettinato, Giovanni

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Doubleday: September 1981

Seller ID: 369528

ISBN: 0385131526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Royal Hordes: Nomad Peoples of the Steppes

By: Phillips, E. D.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: MCGRAW HILL: January 1895

Seller ID: 345458

ISBN: B01K3IMZ1K

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Celts and the Classical World

By: Rankin, David

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Routledge: October 1996

Seller ID: 345479

ISBN: 0415150906

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

To observe the Celts through the eyes of the Greeks and Romans is the first aim of this book.
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The World's Last Mysteries

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1978

Seller ID: 311586

ISBN: 089577044X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The World's Last Mysteries

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1978

Seller ID: 321708

ISBN: 089577044X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The World's Last Mysteries

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1978

Seller ID: 329935

ISBN: 089577044X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The World's Last Mysteries

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1978

Seller ID: 337627

ISBN: 089577044X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Schliemann's discoveries of the ancient world

By: Schuchhardt, Carl, Eugenie Sellers

Price: $5.95

Publisher: distributed by Crown Publishers: January 1979

Seller ID: 250523

ISBN: 0517279304

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

By: Shipman, Pat

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press: March 2015

Seller ID: 336441

ISBN: 0674736761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

With their large brains, sturdy physique, sophisticated tools, and hunting skills, Neanderthals are the closest known relatives to humans. Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe--descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were identified in 1856, scientists have been vexed by the question, why ...
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Stonehenge Revealed

By: Souden, David

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Facts on File: January 1997

Seller ID: 373023

ISBN: B0025ZJNQA

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Trojan War: A New History

By: Strauss, Barry

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 2006

Seller ID: 346029

ISBN: 074326441X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork is based on actual events, there is disagreement about how much of Homer's tale is true. Drawing on recent archeological research, historian and classicist Barry Strauss explains what really happened in Troy more than 3,000 years ago.

For many years it was thought that Troy was an insignificant place that never had a chance against the Greek warriors who laid siege and overwhelmed the city. In the ol...
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