women archaeologists

Archaeologist Ruth Galloway's happy, solitary life in the Saltmarsh, a remote area of England, is disturbed when she is drawn into the case of a little girl who went missing ten years earlier, and whose memory is kept alive by bizarre anonymous letters sent to Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson.

When a backhoe blade hits a 5,000-year-old human skull, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook is called to excavate the site. She almost quits when she finds her new partner is her ex-husband, Jake, but it turns out that he is only the beginning of her problems.

Chronicles the life of Victorian era archaeologist Katherine Routledge, concentrating on the Mana Expedition, the first excavation of Easter Island's famous statues, which she and her husband led in 1913-15.

New York archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Special Agent Pendergast try to solve a 130-year-old serial murder case after the dismembered remains of thirty-six people are found on the site of a nineteenth-century moneymaking spectacle called a "cabinet of curiosities.".

Archaeologist Nora Kelly finds a letter written by her father that holds clues to an ancient city of gold. She leads a team into the Utah wilderness to find the city where a whole civilization mysteriously vanished. As Nora and her team members get closer to finding answers to these mysteries, a deadly storm unleashes its power.

Chronicles the life of Gertrude Bell, discussing her privileged childhood in the 1870s, schooling at Oxford, involvement in archaeology and linguistics, literary and artistic contributions, world travels, interactions with the Cairo intelligence office during World War I, and other related topics.

Examines the life of the noted anthropologist and describes her discoveries digging for fossils of our ancestors in East Africa.