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Series
Fargo adventures volume 5
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them--the Fargos are about to find out.
2) Arqueologa
Author
Series
Colección Quiero ser! volume 3
Publisher
Edelvives
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
This book introduces children to the fascinating field of archaeology.
"Debajo de la tierra y en el fondo del mar hay miles de historias. Los arqueólogos trabajan para desenterrarlas y ayudarnos a entender el pasado. Coronas de reyes, ruinas de ciudades, huesos de dinosaurios...son misterios y enigmas a la espera de alguien que los resuelva" -- Page 4 of cover.
3) Deadlock
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Emily Hudson is an archaeologist who travels the world in search of priceless artifacts from war-torn countries. Her best friend and partner, Joel Levy, is always at her side. Then Emily's entire crew is massacred, and she and Joel are taken captive by one of the most ruthless people on earth. For two weeks they survive, until Emily becomes the unwitting instrument of Joel's demise. John Garrett, who has worked for the CIA and MI6, is recruited to...
Author
Series
Dead Sea chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Worthy
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Description
"Archaeologist Nicole Berman is the first woman to be awarded a permit to lead a dig in Saudi Arabia. Nicole has a hunch that the artifacts she hopes to discover have the power to rewrite world history. She assembles a team that will ultimately surprise -and in some cases - betray her. Will she find what she believes to be the key to unifying the three major religions before a dangerous enemy gets to her? Meanwhile, in a parallel storyline, readers...
5) Ragnarok
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Norwegian archaeologist who is obsessed with the mythology about Ragnarok goes on an expedition to discover the real meaning behind several relics he discovers in a cave.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 20
Description
"Egypt, 1912. Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment of Elizabeth Peters's bestselling, beloved mystery series"--
7) The tombs
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 4
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway--minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out--and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey tells...
Author
Series
Indiana Jones movie novelizations volume 4
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Daring adventurer-archaeologist Indiana Jones returns in an all new, action-packed saga, in the novelization of the fourth, long-anticipated Indiana Jones movie.
10) Rituals
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Formats
Description
After a spiritual medium leads Faye Longchamp and her assistant in a séance, the medium winds up dead, and Faye must sort through a town full of spiritualists--and suspects--in order to find the culprit.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
"In the modern day, archaeologist Rosamund Gale works well into her pregnancy, racing to excavate newly found Neanderthal artifacts before her baby comes. Linked across the ages by the shared experience of early motherhood, both stories examine the often taboo corners of women's lives."--Amazon.com.
12) Storm cycle
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Rachel Kirby, a computer genius whose beloved twin sister is dying from a chronic illness, receives a mysterious email from archeologist John Tanek who sits trapped inside a collapsed Egyptian tomb with a functioning laptop thousands of miles away. It turns out the collapse was no accident. John has discovered something very valuable in that tomb, something that humankind has been searching for throughout history, something that Rachel could use as...
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Description
"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved-and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
14) Garden of lies
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Description
Anne Clifton was one of the finest women in Ursula Kern's employ. But Miss Clifton has met an untimely end. And Ursula is convinced it was not due to natural causes. Archaeologist and adventurer Slater Roxton thinks Mrs. Kern is off her head to meddle in such dangerous business. Nevertheless, he seems sensible enough to Ursula, though she does find herself unnerved by his self-possession and unreadable green-gold eyes.
Publisher
LucasFilm
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA.
16) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Description
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"Liam hasn't even formally started his new job as an Alaska state trooper when trouble starts. An archaeologist, Erik, has made a discovery, and its connection to native Alaskan tribes could shut down drilling work--the source of income for many local residents. Just days later, the skeleton of a boy is discovered on Erik's dig site; then Erik's body is found mere feet from where the skeleton was found. With the help of his new assistant, the new...
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 8
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
While wealth can be lost or stolen, and even found again -- if husband-and wife treasure-hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are on the case -- a long-forgotten map is just the stuff of bedtime stories. Like Long John Silver and Robin Hood. But when Sam and Remi try the unthinkable, a relaxing vacation and a visit to a rare bookstore, a very real dead body suggests what they hold in their hands is an actual, ink on paper guide to a historic fortune. When the...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Indiana Jones battles fierce Nazis in hopes of stopping them from using the power of the lost Ark of the Covenant. Bonus features include featurettes, galleries, web link, storyboard sequence, introduction, and much more.
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. It is cursed. Which is exactly what attracts the attention of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi...
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