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Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discover an unusual artifact. It’s a piece of history that definitely shouldn’t exist. And for the head archaeologist in charge, a relic himself, it means something’s gone horribly wrong. Elise, Kara, Z and Patty all find themselves digging here together, but they couldn’t be farther apart. Kara’s a polished conservator calling...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiii, 400 pages, 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"David L. Mearns has discovered some of the worlds most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battleship HMS Hood (sunk in a pyrrhic duel with the Bismarck) to solving the mystery of HMAS Sydney, to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gamas sixteenth century fleet, Mearns has searched for and found dozens of sunken vessels in every ocean of the world. The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles his most intriguing finds. It describes the...
43) 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...
44) The mummy case
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the third installment of Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series, Amelia finds danger aplenty while on another archaeology trip in Egypt. In the midst of excavating an old tomb, Amelia must contend with the mystery surrounding a murdered antiques dealer.
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm.
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...
Author
Series
Laetitia Talbot mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
After the murder of her uncle Daniel, archaeologist Laetitia Talbot receives a postcard that takes her to the excavation in Burgundy where her uncle had spent his final days, and finds herself searching for Templar treasure and a killer who will do anything to keep an ancient legacy hidden.
50) The blood gospel
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
Formats
Description
After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christ's own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines.
Author
Series
Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire series volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
332 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"What sort of book is worth a man's life? After a year away from working in the field, archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin are back in the bogs, investigating a ninth-century body found buried in the trunk of a car. They discover that the ancient corpse is not alone-pinned beneath it is the body of Benedict Kavanagh, missing for mere months and familiar to television viewers as a philosopher who enjoyed destroying his opponents...
Author
Series
Babylon rising volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Field archaeologist Michael Murphy attempts the recovery of what may prove conclusively to be Noah's Ark, but dark forces are against him.
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.
55) The Lucifer code
Author
Series
Thomas Lourds novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
368 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Thomas Lourds ventures to Istanbul University in Turkey to examine artifacts never before seen by Western scholars. he's barely off the plane before he's kidnapped by ruthless people who leave a string of dead bodies in their wake. They want Lourds to translate coded writings that they hope will lead them to a lost scroll authored by John of Patmos--the same John who wrote the Book of Revelation in the Bible.
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...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 11
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xii, 399 p. ; 24 cm.
59) The lost temple
Author
Formats
Description
For three thousand years, the world's most dangerous treasure has been lost. Now the code that reveals its hiding place is about to be broken . . .
Greece, 1947. Europe is just beginning to heal after World War II, but the fighting in Greece continues as a civil war is waged. Sam Grant, a disgraced ex–Special Operations Executive soldier and an adventurer by trade, is lured back to the Mediterranean by a secret from his past: six years ago,...
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Series
Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 1
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Description
Four inseparable cousins, known as the Mighty Muskrats, work together to find a missing archeologist on the Windy Lake First Nation.
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