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2) 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
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
Description
Discusses the discovery of a cache of mummies in an Egyptian oasis, describing the elaborate gold masks painted on the mummies and the scientific investigation of some of the mummies to uncover facts about their death.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 12
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
307 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xi, 375 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat–complete with its crew of 60 men–not too far off the New Jersey coast. The divers, realizing the momentousness of their discovery, began probing the mystery. Over the next six years, they became expert and well-traveled researchers, taught themselves German, hunted for clues in Germany, and constructed theories corrective of the history books, all...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the archaeological find of a century, the remains of Richard III--presumed scattered over 500 years ago--were discovered under a parking lot in Leicester in 2012. The search was spearheaded by amateur historian Philippa Langley, whose passion and unrelenting research were met with skepticism by the academic establishment....The Lost King is the inspiring true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and took on Britain's most eminent historians,...
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