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Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Alex O'Connell sets out to find the tomb of the evil Emperor Han. When he finds it Alex is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, and the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. This time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy that has awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service....
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, presents the jaw-dropping discovery of a vast Egyptian tomb containing dozens of sealed burial chambers, as well as recounting tales of pirate treasure, mysterious deaths, archaeological mysteries, and more…
What’s it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that’s been sealed for thousands of years? Where might...
What’s it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that’s been sealed for thousands of years? Where might...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the world's most fascinating architectural mysteries. This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the world's most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them. Visit a chamber of skulls high in...
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Series
Monster support group volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Anatiti: once chosen by the gods to rule ancient Egypt, this young pharaoh struggled to take help from her advisors. After all, she was the one chosen to rule, not them! But when tragedy strikes, and Anatiti realises she can't quite remember the path to the underworld, she is cursed as a mummy. Trapped inside a tomb for a millennia, found by an explorer and brought all the way back to the village of Dreadbury, will this mummy finally learn to...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Yasmin El Shazly and Mahmoud Rashad travel across Egypt, hoping to answer some of the many questions surrounding the life and death of Tutankhamun. They speak with leading scholars, enjoy exclusive access to the tomb British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered 100 years ago in the Valley of the Kings, and visit several active dig sites--they even see the face of the pharaoh!
9) Dark shadows
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better and are in need of his protection.
10) Salam
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary life of Abdus Salam, 1979 Nobel prize winning Pakistani physicist, today, even as he casts an outsized shadow on the world of physics, Salam’s legacy remains deliberately blotted out in Pakistan. The epitaph on his tomb initially read “First Muslim Nobel Laureate”, but ‘Muslim’ was scratched out on official orders. SALAM: THE FIRST ****** NOBEL LAUREATE depicts this extraordinary yet ultimately tragic life, intertwining...
11) Escape plan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
12) Escape plan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
13) Easy go
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh's lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever treasure he finds inside for himself. But to pull off the greatest heist in the archaeological...
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