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8) Shackles from the deep: tracing the path of a sunken slave ship, a bitter past, and a rich legacy
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Presents an investigation into the wreck of the Henrietta Marie and how it reflects the tragic history of slavery in England, West Africa, the Caribbean, and America.
Author
Series
Detective Zack volume 4
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
On a trip through the Middle East, ten-year-old Zack is introduced to archaeological and other evidence that supports the reliability of historical sections of the Bible.
11) The encyclopedia of preserved people: pickled, frozen, and mummified corpses from around the world
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An encyclopedia of facts about preserved people from around the world, including Egyptian mummies, bog bodies, Einstein's brain, and the Ice Man.
14) Tunnels
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Details the events that occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii in 79 A.D., focusing on how this information was deduced from the skeletons found by archaeologists at the site. In ancient times, Pompeii was one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire. Its 20,000 inhabitants lived in the shadow of Vesuvius, which they believed was nothing more than a mountain. But Vesuvius was a volcano. And on the morning of August 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius...
17) Freefall
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the follow-up to "Deeper," Will and Chester are tumbling through the subterranean Pore with the evil Rebecca twins in hot pursuit, both toting phials of the lethal Dominion virus. When, where, will they ever land?! Illustrations.
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but...
18) Ship
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Describes wooden ships or caravels of the fifteenth century and follows archaeologists as they uncover a lost caravel in the Caribbean Sea.
19) Closer
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 4
Pub. Date
2011, 2010
Language
English
Description
Will Burrows believes he is safe at the very center of the earth, in a world that no one knows exists, but the Styx are close behind and will follow him anywhere, while on the surface, Drake and some unlikely allies unearth some critical secrets.
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