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It is 1911, and Amelia Peabody is in Egypt for the annual dig and to celebrate a wedding - but no sooner is it over than the groom is accused of selling fake Egyptian artefacts, a dead American is found at the bottom of a shaft, and a mysterious child sparks a crisis.
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Trouble is brewing in Egypt at the close of 1914 and no one will escape the coming tempest. With the world at war, Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson have returned to Cairo for another season of archaeological excavation - despite the increasing danger of an attack on the Suez Canal and on Egypt itself.
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From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil. Just as Howard Carter unveils the...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 11
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Readers have long wondered what befell the Emerson clan during the years before the Great War. Now, at last, the silence is broken and the truth revealed of a perilous journey to a secret and mysterious place hidden deep in the heart of the unforgiving desert. An adventure prompted by loyalty to an endangered friend -- and spurred on by lies and treachery -- it leads Amelia Peabody and her intrepid family into a nest of vipers lying in wait at a remote...
7) Domain
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Domain trilogy volume 1
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An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object wasn't an asteroid …For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish on December 21, 2012 (the winter solstice). Julius believes that certain mysterious sites: the Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the giant desert drawings of the Nazca Plateau, the temple...
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Pendergast novels volume 3
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When New York City construction workers uncover the remains of thirty-six people murdered and dismembered over 130 years ago, archaeologist Nora Kelly and Special Agent Pendergast set out to investigate the killings.
10) The last Templar
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With elegant music wafting through the alcoves of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, black-tied gentlemen and white-gowned ladies applaud the unveiling of the Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Then suddenly--with sabers swinging and Uzis blazzing--four armor-clad hosemen in Templar garb gallop up the museum's steps. Scattering the genteel crowd, they quickly snatch an ancient encoder and ride off into the night. Soon archaeologist Tess Chaykin...
11) Thunderhead
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Warner Books
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c1999
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Archeologist Nora Kelly leads an expedition to Utah in search of Quivira, the fabled Indian City of Gold. With the aid of satellite photos the group retraces her missing father's footsteps and runs into monsters.
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Babylon rising volume 2
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Michael Murphy, a field archaeologist and scholar of biblical prophecy, embarks on a quest that takes him to Mt. Ararat in search of Noah's Ark, an expedition that leads to dramatic discoveries about the Bible's prophecies.
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