Finding the lost cities / Rebecca Stefoff

By: Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c1997Description: 191 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN: 0195092481; 019509249XSubject(s): Extinct cities -- Juvenile literature | Cities and towns, Ancient -- Juvenile literature | Civilization, Ancient -- Juvenile literatureLOC classification: CC176 | .S74 1997
Contents:
From the sands of time -- Petra: on forbidden ground -- Ninevah: secrets of ancient Assyria -- Hattusha: the citadel of the Hittites -- Copan: mysteries of the Maya -- Chaco Canyon: dwellers in the desert -- Angkor: the butterfly hunter's find -- Troy: myths and treasures -- Zimbabwe: great houses of stone -- Knossos: the legend of the labyrinth -- Gournia: a woman on muleback -- Machu Picchu: "Behind the ranges" -- Ur: Back to the beginning -- Ubar: a discovery in the desert
Summary: Explores twelve archeological "lost cities," with accounts of site discovery and investigation of the meaning of recovered objects
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-1187) and index

From the sands of time -- Petra: on forbidden ground -- Ninevah: secrets of ancient Assyria -- Hattusha: the citadel of the Hittites -- Copan: mysteries of the Maya -- Chaco Canyon: dwellers in the desert -- Angkor: the butterfly hunter's find -- Troy: myths and treasures -- Zimbabwe: great houses of stone -- Knossos: the legend of the labyrinth -- Gournia: a woman on muleback -- Machu Picchu: "Behind the ranges" -- Ur: Back to the beginning -- Ubar: a discovery in the desert

Explores twelve archeological "lost cities," with accounts of site discovery and investigation of the meaning of recovered objects

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