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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...
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Publisher
Bear & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
501 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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English
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Reveals the Pacific Ur-culture that seeded the ancient civilizations of China, Egypt, India, Mexico, and Peru. Shows how the Pan diaspora explains the similarities between Gobekli Tepe and Toltec carvings and stone towers in Japan and on Easter Island. Reveals the mother tongue of Pan hidden in shared word roots in vastly different languages, including Quechua, Sanskrit, Japanese, Greek, and Sumerian. Explains the red-haired Caucasian mummies of China,...
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Lonely Planet Global Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
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159 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm.
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English
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"Explore over 40 historical cultures, societies and civilizations from across the planet. . . . maps bring history to life and show the rise and fall of mighty empires over time. Plus discover where the remains of our planet's ancient history can be found today!"--Amazon.
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English
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Twenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation for our world today. In the face of massive social changes across three continents, radical new forms of government emerged; mighty wars were fought over trade, religion, and ideology; and new faiths were ruthlessly employed to unify vast empires. The histories of Rome and China, Greece and India-the stories...
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Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Ancient Egypt has been a focus of awe and fascination from the age of the Pyramids to the present day. In 'Egyptomania' Ronald H. Fritze takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the imagination, a land of weird gods, murky magic, secret knowledge, marvellous pyramids, enigmatic sphinxes, monumental obelisks, immense wealth and mystifying mummies.Egypt has always exerted a powerful attraction in popular and high culture, and an array...
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This second edition takes readers to even more curious and unusual destinations, with over one hundred new places, dozens and dozens of new photographs, and two very special features: twelve city guides, covering Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cairo, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Moscow, New York City, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo. And a three-panel gatefold with a full-color map augmented by an around-the-world travel itinerary. More a cabinet...
9) Early humans
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Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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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.
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Distributed in the USA by Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1985, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
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48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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Traces the early history of civilization from the first toolmakers of four million years ago through the Greeks of the fifth century B.C.
11) Early humans
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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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.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
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2 videodiscs (ca. 344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Uncover more astonishing new evidence of extraterrestrial intervention on Earth than ever before, including an aluminum object that resembles the foot of a lunar lander. But the object inexplicably dates to over 40,000 years ago. In India, a thousand-year-old mask is discovered that looks identical to the face of a grey alien. Newly uncovered records from Russia indicate that in 1948, an ancient rocket was discovered in Kiev.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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xviii, 299 ; 23 cm.
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English
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"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 the 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...
16) Soulswift
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English
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Serving humanity with a powerful singing voice that members of her faith believe channels the word of the One True God, Gelya uncovers a deadly military conspiracy before her possession by a demon spirit turns her loved ones against her.
18) Tomb explorers
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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'Tomb Explorers' examines the hunt for and discovery of ancient tombs, and the valuable treasures they hold, whether that be gold and jewels, or important artifacts that offer us a window on to the past. Part of the Treasure Hunters series, 'Tomb Explorers' offers a cross curricular mix of science & technology and history & civilizations, with a fun, dramatic approach. Tombs covered in the book include that of Tutankhamun, the Sumerian royal tombs...
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English
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Leo Zagami's groundbreaking study of aliens and UFOs explores where we come from and which mysterious figures have guided humanity's political and religious choices. From the prophets to the initiates and magicians, all ages have drawn from a common source of ultra-terrestrial and magical knowledge, passed down for millennia. This text reveals the identity of the unknown superiors, secret chiefs, and invisible masters who have guided Freemasonry,...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Pyramids can be found all over the world, but how were they constructed, and what was their purpose? The theory that aliens from another world may have assisted in the building of pyramids could explain how some of the most amazing and mysterious engineering feats in human history were accomplished.
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