antiquities

This intriguing book will fascinate any young reader with some of the most mysterious occurrences in history.

Offers young readers a perspective into the some of the greatest civilizations in history.

Readers will be able to explore the remains of the men and women who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, and of hominoids of millions of years ago.

The Aldens are recruited by the secret Reddimus Society to return lost artifacts and treasures, but encounter enemies of Reddimus during a private train trip to New Mexico.

After twelve-year-old Addison Cooke's uncle unearths ancient Incan secrets in Peru, he is kidnapped by a shadowy organization intent on stealing the treasure unless Addison and his friends can decipher the clues first.

After an earthquake reveals a large cave in Mount Ararat in Turkey, researchers and scientists believe they have found Noah's Ark. But as they dig deeper, they find a grotesque cadaver with horns, challenging what they believe; and as a blizzard rolls in, trapping the team, their prayers for safety may be heard by the wrong entity.

"The secret network of the great astronomer's spies is the target of an assassination plot, led by the despicable Galina Krause. And now the Kaplans are more alone than ever before as they race from France to Antarctica against a deadly ticking clock. There is not much time left for Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca to find the remaining relics and defeat their enemies. But are they willing to risk the life of one of their own in order to save the world?"--Amazon.com.

In Glacier National Park, middle school geniuses Sam, Martina, and Theo follow clues related to Thomas Jefferson as they tackle a new round of puzzles, riddles, and traps to find the next key left behind by the Founding Fathers, but Gideon Arnold, descendant of the infamous Benedict Arnold, is hot on their trail.

From the early ancestors of the middle stone ages to the Greeks and Romans in 40 BCE, countless civilizations and people have lived in the eastern Mediterranean area known as the Bible Lands. Discover the story of the Holy Lands and the people who lived there before the time of Christ in DK Eyewitness Books: Bible Lands, now available in paperback for the first time.

"Describes mysterious and unsolved archaeological sites and artifacts from around the world"--.