Author: Nathaniel HarrisPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426302275
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Describes the work of archaeologists who have uncovered the artifacts of the ancient Maya.
National Geographic Investigates: Ancient Maya
Author: Nathaniel HarrisPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426302275
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Describes the work of archaeologists who have uncovered the artifacts of the ancient Maya.
National Geographic Investigates Ancient Maya
Author: Nathaniel HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
National Geographic Investigates: Ancient Aztec
Author: Tim CookePublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426300721
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Describes the work of archaeologists who have uncovered the artifacts of ancient Aztecs of Mexico.
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Author: Douglas PrestonPublisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455540021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017#1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.
The Ancient Maya
Author: Jennifer Fretland VanVoorstPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 0756545641
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Describes the Ancient Mayan civilization, including their religious views, intellectual achievements, and everyday life.
The Nature of an Ancient Maya City
Author: Thomas H. GuderjanPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817354263
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Reveals what daily Maya life was like For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core. Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure and functional inter-relationships among the parts of a single Maya city. Documented in coverage by National Geographic, Archaeology magazine, and a documentary film aired on the Discovery Channel, Blue Creek is recognized as a unique site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural construction to reveal the mosaic that was the ancient city. Moving beyond the debate of what constitutes a city, Guderjan’s long-term research reveals what daily Maya life was like.
Ancient Civilizations of the Aztecs and Maya
Author: Arthur Meier SchlesingerPublisher: Chelsea House Pub
ISBN: 9780791051030
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Discusses the discovery of Mayan ruins in Central America, such as the ancient city of Chichen Itza in Yucatan.
The Mysterious Maya
Author: George E. StuartPublisher: Washington : National Geographic Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
History of the Indian civilization that existed in Central America from A.D. 250 to 900.
Ancient China
Author: Jacqueline BallPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780792277835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Through archeology learn the secrets of the past in China by studying mummies, ancient treasures, artifacts, terra-cotta figures, and more.
National Geographic Investigates Ancient Pueblo
Author: Anita CroyPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426301308
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Discusses important archaeological finds from Pueblo Indian culture and reveals how archaeologists use the latest technology to discover clues to its ancient civilization.