The Viking Discovery of America
The Viking Discovery of America

Author: Helge Ingstad

Publisher: Breakwater Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781550811582

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Faced with harsh conditions in their Greenland home, a group of Vikings took the reins of fate into their own hands. With incredible luck, skill and fortitude, they discovered lands filled with a profusion of wood, wild game and fertile land. In the sagas that grew from this discovery, the lands were given names that resonated with hope and promise. Almost 1000 years later, a husband and wife team united their talents. Intrigued by allusions in the ancient sagas to fabled Vinland, they considered the scholarship on Viking culture and technology; they studied maps and they researched intensively the prominent theories on Vinland's location. And finally their efforts bore fruit when a remote Newfoundland peninsula yielded up a soapstone spindle-whorl, a Viking ring pin, and what had to be the overgrown remnants of over a dozen Viking buildings.

From a Watery Grave
From a Watery Grave

Author: James E. Bruseth

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781585443475

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An account of the discovery and excavation of the French ship La Belle, shipwrecked in 1686 in Matagorda Bay, Texas.

Treasure in a Cornfield
Treasure in a Cornfield

Author: Greg Hawley

Publisher: Paddlewheel Press

Published: 1998-04-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780965761253

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Steaming up the Missouri River en route to the frontier, the Arabia carried 130 passengers and 220 tons of precious cargo. On September 5, 1856, a submerged walnut tree pierced her hull, sinking the Arabia one-half mile below Parkville, Missouri. In time the river changed course, leaving the Arabia and her priceless freight deep beneath a Kansas farm field. In 1988, four men and their families dedicated themselves to achieve what others could not; to recover the treasure from the Great White Arabia.

Discovery in Greek Lands, a Sketch of the Principal Excavation and Discoveries of the Last Fifty Years
Discovery in Greek Lands, a Sketch of the Principal Excavation and Discoveries of the Last Fifty Years

Author: Frederick Henry Marshall

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781290621106

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

House of Stone
House of Stone

Author: Anthony Shadid

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0547134665

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Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi
Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi

Author: Yusuf M. Juwayeyi

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1847012531

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First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society.

Eyewitness to Discovery
Eyewitness to Discovery

Author: Brian M. Fagan

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13:

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Which of those unique moments of discovery do you most treasure, or envy? In this book Fagan has gathered together fifty-five first-hand accounts of some of those seminal experiences including the discovery of Lucy, Carter and Tutankhamen, Wooley at Ur, the Aegina marbles, Tollund man, John Lloyd Stephens discovering the Maya .... A huge range of excavations and excavators described in their own evocative prose.