Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Digging through History follows rabbi and archaeologist Richard Freund's journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological sites of human history-including the mysterious Atlantis, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the long-buried Holocaust camp Sobibor. Each chapter takes readers through a different archaeological site, showing what we can learn about past religious life and religious faith through the artifacts found there, as well...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2017
Language
English
Description
"One of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017" "Winner of the 2018 Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award, American Schools of Oriental Research" Eric H. Cline is professor of classics and anthropology and director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington University. His many books include 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton).
From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology-from...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2019
Language
English
Description
"Archaeological finds add to our understanding of the world. This book showcases six discoveries made that changed the way we view history through recent advances in science. Discoveries include new clues about life in the Stone Age gleaned from Ötzi the Ice Man, the extent of the lost city of Angkor through the use of drones, and King Richard III's villainous reputation deduced from the discovery of his long-lost tomb, Digging Deep is full of fascinating...
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The premier historical Jesus scholar joins a brilliant archaeologist to illuminate the life and teaching of Jesus against the background of his world. There have been phenomenal advances in the historical understanding of Jesus and his world and times, but also huge, lesser known advances in first-century Palestine archaeology that explain a great deal about Jesus, his followers, and his teachings. This is the first book that combines the two and...
Author
Series
Scientific American Library volume no. 30
Publisher
Distributed by W.H. Freeman
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Nowadays, archaeological investigators don't just dig up the past
They use high-tech equipment, chemical analyses, sampling strategies, and other modern means to gain a better understanding of why and how cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, Jeremy Sabloff shows how the exciting transformation of archaeology is shedding new light on past civilizations.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, sent a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to excavate the ancient site of Megiddo--Armageddon in the New Testament--which the Bible says was fortified by King Solomon. Their excavations made headlines around the world and shed light on one of the most legendary cities of biblical times, yet little has been written about what...
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
c2021
Language
English
Description
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. Deposited in caves surrounding Qumran by members of a Jewish sect who lived at the site in the first century BCE and first century CE, they provide invaluable information about Judaism in the last centuries BCE. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran site continues to be the object of intense scholarly debate. In a book meant to introduce...
Author
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun's tomb, close on the heels of Britain's declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline and of 'pharaonism'-popular interest in ancient Egypt-as an inspiration in the struggle for full independence. Emphasizing the three decades from 1922 until Nasser's revolution in 1952, this compelling follow-up to Whose Pharaohs? looks at the ways in...
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[c2006]
Language
English
Description
Take a virtual tour through rediscovered cities and see archaelogical sites as their inhabitants saw them centuries ago. Spectacular on-location photography, state-of-the-art graphics, and research from the world's leading archaeological experts.
16) The Sea remembers: shipwrecks and archaeology from Homer's Greece to the rediscovery of the Titanic
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestions Service. Make Purchase Suggestion