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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 6
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English
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Archeologist Amelia and her family are sent to the Nubian desert to find the explorer Willoughby Forth
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 5
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English
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Gabe gets lost in the Great Pyramid, realizes he isn't alone, and wonders if the curse of the mummy's tomb is real
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2007
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Discover how Egypt's two greatest Pharaohs--Khufu and Ramesses II--built their way to immortality through architectural marvels including the temples of Abu Simbel and the Great Pyramid of Giza.
65) Alexandria
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English
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Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, investigates a mysterious death in the world-famous library of Alexandria, bringing him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life. And if his irrepressible Pa has had any hand in what has gone wrong at the Library, Falco knows he stands no chance
66) Ancient Egypt
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English
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A photo essay on ancient Egypt and the people who lived there, documented through the mummies, pottery, weapons, and other objects they left behind. Describes their society, religion, obsession with the afterlife, and methods of mummification
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family"--Amazon.com.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 14
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English
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"Passion among the pyramids. Forged antiquities. A country at war. A camel in the garden. A cameo by Lawrence of Arabia. Add in Peters's trademark intelligent plotting, engaging characters, and stylish writing and we can hardly ask for anything more."
—Cincinnati Enquirer
One of the most beloved characters in mystery/suspense fiction, archeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody bravely faces gravest peril in Cairo
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Ethan Gage adventures volume 1
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English
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"It has a plot as satisfying as an Indiana Jones film and offers enough historical knowledge to render the reader a fascinating raconteur on the topics of ancient Egypt and Napoleon Bonaparte." -USA Today
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author William Dietrich introduces readers to the globe-trotting American adventurer Ethan Gage in Napoleon's Pyramids-an ingenious, swashbuckling yarn whose action-packed pages nearly turn themselves.
The...
71) Cat mummies
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English
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Clearly written text offers an answer to the question of why ancient Egyptians mummified thousands and thousands of cats. An easy-to-understand introduction to ancient Egyptian history.
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English
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Bassem Youssef recounts his life and offers hysterical riffs on the hypocrisy, instability, and corruption that has long animated Egyptian politics. From the attempted cover-up of the violent clashes in Tahrir Square to the government's announcement that it had created the world's first 'AIDS cure' machine, to the conviction of officials that Youssef was a CIA operative, recruited by Jon Stewart, to bring down the country through sarcasm. There's...
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English
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Selene, the daughter of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, is taken with her twin Alexander and younger brother Ptolemy to Rome following the deaths of her parents where she grows up in the household of Octavia, the wife Antony abandoned for Cleopatra, and adjusts to life in the midst of political intrigue.
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English
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A sister and brother are whisked away to modern Egypt where their father is doing research. There they become involved in a mystery surrounding an ancient lost queen. The story is filled with riddles and old tales, and the kids find a link to their own mother, who died mysteriously
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English
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Egypt, The Valley of the Kings, 1905: An American robber baron peers through the hole he has cut in an ancient tomb wall and discovers the richest trove of golden treasure ever seen in Egypt.
At the start of the twentieth century, Theodore Davis was the most famous archaeologist in the world; his career turned tomb-robbing and treasure-hunting into a science. Using six of Davis's most important discoveries-from the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut's sarcophagus...
78) Desert god
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Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 5
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English
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On the gleaming banks of the Nile, the brilliant Taita -- a freed slave and advisor to the Pharaoh -- devises a plan to destroy Egypt's most feared enemy, the mighty Hyksos. His quest will take him on an epic journey up the ancient river, through Arabia and the magical city of Babylon and across the open seas -- all in the company of the Pharaoh's exquisite sisters. With the future of the kingdom itself on his shoulders, Taita plunges into a world...
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English
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Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists-even a poet and a musicologist-traveled to the Nile Valley under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army. Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's "savants" risked their lives in pursuit of...
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