A pictorial guide to the civilizations, people, traditions, and landmarks of the ancient world, featuring twenty maps, each with descriptive text, illustrations, photographs, and time lines.
A pictorial atlas that examines the civilizations and cultures of the ancient world, with maps that show towns, cities, trade routes, physical features, and scenes of daily life.
Discusses the myths we learned about Native Americans, that they lived in widely scattered groups of hunter gatherers and as low level farmers, lacked science and technology and were at best simple people who had no hisotry and never envolved, and at worst bloodthirsty savages. Groundbreaking research is destroying these myths.
An overview of the first 10,000 years of human existence, from the time of the first farming settlements to the overthrow of the American civilizations of the Incas and Aztecs.
Explores life in ancient Greece, and challenges readers to find the Spartan spy on a secret mission to Athens by following historical clues, and solving mazes, puzzles, and brainteasers.
Photographs and text describe eleven ruins from around the world, including a royal burial ground in Ur, Iraq, Machu Picchu, Peru, and Stonehenge in England, and recounts the stories behind them.
Photographs and simple text answer questions about mysterious events in history, including how samurai warriors fought, whether Vikings wore horns on their helmets, why the Tuareg made pillars of salt, and more.
