Product Description: Sunken cargo, hidden jewels, and buried gold have long been the subject of myths and real-life discoveries. Lost Treasures recounts the fascinating stories behind the endless quest for the world's missing fortunes. Fully illustrated and containing detailed maps, the book charts the original histories of treasures waiting to be found-continent by continent and ocean by ocean...read more

Product Description: Raffaello Sanzio's frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, in Rome, are hardly more than fifty yards from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling. Together, these pictorial masterpieces estab­lished a standard of quality and invention that was to become the gauge of artistic achievement for the next four hundred years of European painting...read more

Looks at the rise and fall of the Indus civilization covering such topics as religion, farming, language, trade, crafts, and society.

More than 270 full-color photographs, along with illustrations, maps, and diagrams, trace the history of human civilization from the earliest days of human settlement to the grandeur of the great empires of the Old and New Worlds as they bring to life the ideas, events, people, and accomplishments of the world's great civilizations.

Provides a study of the science and technology of digging up the past, from the 1870 excavation of Troy to the recent discovery of a Chinese emperor's long-lost grave. (view table of contents)

Discusses the nature of archaeology, describes modern excavation methods, and explains how sites and remains are analyzed (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book recounts the fascinating stories behind the quest for the worlds lost fortunes. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the nature of archaeology, describes modern excavation methods, and explains how sites and remains are analyzed

Product Description: Archaeology reference