archeology

Follows a group of eighth-graders from Hannibal, Missouri as they attempt to help archaeologists at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado solve the mystery of why the Puebloan people who had lived in the area for over a thousand years suddenly left around A.D. 1300.

While trying to recover a sacred stone belonging to an Indian village, Indiana Jones and his two companions become prisoners of a ruthless sect dedicated to the worship of the evil goddess Kali. Includes production stills from the motion picture.

An examination of preserved bodies and grave sites provides scientists with information about the lives and deaths of ancient ancestors.

Provides photographs and facts about ten of the world's most extraordinary lost cities, including Machu Picchu, and El Dorado.

Photographs and illustrations describe what archaeologists do, how they find clues to the past, and what it takes to become an archaeologist.

The kids in Ms. Frizzle's class learn lessons about archaeology when they board the Magic School Bus--now a theory-testing laboratory--to try and figure out what the wooden hoop Arnold's archaeologist aunt dug up was used for in the past.

"Styx and their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. Only a miracle can save the day and, in the inner world at the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to all human and Styx life"--Provided by publisher.

Provides a brief look at the life and reign of Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China, and discusses the discovery of a huge army of terra cotta soldiers in 1974, complete with weapons, chariots, and horses, that were created to guard the emperor's tomb.

Presents recent archaeological findings about the first people to settle the Americas, how they got here, and from what continent they came.

Explores Egypt's Valley of the Kings, a vast burial ground containing more than seventy tombs, and discusses archaeologists' findings and challenges during nearly two hundred years of excavation.