Author: Beth Gruber
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780792278276
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Describes the archaeological digs and findings in Peru about the Incas.

Author: Beth Gruber
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0792253825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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See how every ancient treasure found helps scientists discover Iraq's past.

Author: Marni McGee
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780792278269
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Discusses important archeological finds from Greece's past and reveals how archaeologists use the latest technology to discover clues to ancient Greek civilization.

Author: Tim Cooke
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426300721
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Describes the work of archaeologists who have uncovered the artifacts of ancient Aztecs of Mexico.

Author: Nathaniel Harris
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426302275
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Describes the work of archaeologists who have uncovered the artifacts of the ancient Maya.

Author: Anita Croy
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426301308
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Discusses important archaeological finds from Pueblo Indian culture and reveals how archaeologists use the latest technology to discover clues to its ancient civilization.

Author: Anita Dalal
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426300707
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Describes the work of archaeologists who have uncovered the artifacts of ancient India.

Author: Douglas Preston
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455540021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.

Author: Jacqueline Ball
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780792277835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Through archeology learn the secrets of the past in China by studying mummies, ancient treasures, artifacts, terra-cotta figures, and more.

Author: Jill Rubalcaba
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780792277842
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Learn about the discoveries that are bringing Egypt's history to light today.