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Author
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
3) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A group of scientists undertake an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly when the group heads out on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave and makes an astonishing find.
Author
Series
(Jeffrey Scott),Case file 13 volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The three Monsterteers are off on a vacation to Mexico, where they join an archaeological excavation of an abandoned--and haunted--Mayan pyramid"--
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
498 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In the treacherous waters off the rugged Sicilian coast, marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his team of scientific experts and ex-Special Forces commandos make a shocking find while searching for the legendary shipwreck of the apostle Paul. And when a second artifact is uncovered in the ruins of a buried city, Jack is on the verge of a discovery that could shake the world to its foundations: the handwritten words of Jesus Christ himself.
8) The mummy
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mummy is accidentally revived after 3,700 years by a British archaeology team. Dressed in the garb of a modern-day Egyptian, he sets out to find his lost love, terrorizing the members of the expedition who must find a way to stop him.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Scooby and the gang are enjoying an archaeological excavation in the jungle when a crazed half-man, half-beast appears, warning the team to stay away. The gang needs to solve the mystery and stop the monster.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 528 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the true story of the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Mayan civilization by American ambassador John Lloyd Stephens and British architect Frederick Catherwood, illuminating how their findings profoundly changed Western understandings about human history.
11) Ragnarok
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Convinced the Viking ship Oseberg contains the answer to the mystery of Ragnarok, the end of days in Norse mythology, an expedition group sets out to follow the ship's treasure map and discovers a secret more terrifying than they could possibly imagine.