antiquities

"When a skeleton's head rolled off a dirt pile, all work came to a halt at a construction project in upstate New York. Archaeologists began excavating and found thirteen skeletons. Further investigation revealed that the bones were those of eighteenth-century African American slaves who had worked at the nearby Schuyler farm. Find out what these skeletons tell us about slavery and daily life long ago"--Amazon.com.

When his father is reported murdered in Mexico, supposedly by the husband of his lover, thirteen-year-old Josh refuses to believe it and sets out to get the true story, which he believes involves UFOs and alien abduction.

Twelve-year-old Texas twins Carol and Johnny Garza find their lives upended when their mother disappears and they discover, while visiting relatives in Mexico, that she is a nagual, a shapeshifter, whose powers they have inherited.

Chronicles the journey of American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood, friends and fellow explorers, to Central America in 1839, chasing rumors of strange stone ruins in the then-unmapped jungles, and how they discovered the ancient Maya civilization.

Examines the Native American ruins in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and nearby areas built by the Anasazi, precursors of the Pueblo Indians, and describes the way of life of their inhabitants.