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3) Mummies
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains the Egyptian pharaohs' beliefs about life after death, details the technique of mummification, and describes pyramids as burial places.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discover the secrets of ancient Egypt, the land of the pharaohs. Find out what's inside a mummy, how fast a chariot could race, and what weapons the Egyptian soldiers carried.
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
44 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the Cardiff Giant hoax, in which people of upstate New York were fooled into believing that the petrified form of a giant human being had been uncovered from the ground in 1869.
6) Anasazi
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the day-to-day life of the Anasazi Indians.
Author
Series
Henry Heckelbeck volume 6
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a class field trip, Henry hopes to dig up a dinosaur bone with his lucky shovel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to mummies in the form of a school report written by a young boy after a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While in Machu Picchu, Peru, with their parents, eight-year-old twins Ethan and Ella cross a secret bridge and discover a mysterious stone sculpture.
12) Ancient China
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides information about ancient China, discussing structures, significant individuals, schools of thought, everyday life, and other related topics.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jacques, Jojo, Simon, and Marcel were looking for buried treasure when they explored a cave in the south of France in 1940. But the treasure inside was not what they expected, and in fact far more valuable: the walls were covered with stunning prehistoric paintings and engravings, preserved within the sealed cave for over 17,000 years. This is the true story of the boys who discovered the cave of Lascaux, bringing to the modern world powerful examples...
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Inside New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the sphinx of the Pharaoh Hatshepsut holds court. But how did this ancient artifact get to the museum?
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the mysterious disappearance of the Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley, and its recent recovery from deep in the waters off the coast of South Carolina.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
While digging a ditch in his cabbage field, Grandpa uncovers various items that provide clues to what has happened in that area of Wisconsin from the time of the Ice Age to the twentieth century.
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