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Language
English
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The dark legends of Scotland were an archaeologist's dream. Verity Grey was thrilled to be at a dig for an ancient Roman camp in the Scottish village. But danger was in the air--in the icy reserve of archeologist David Fortune. In the haunted eyes to the little boy who had visions of a slain Roman sentinel. And in the unearthly sound of the ghostly Shadowy Horses, who carried men away to the land of the dead.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 25
Language
English
Description
The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago. NUMA Director Dirk Pitt travels to Scotland in search of answers about the...
3) Labyrinth
Author
Series
Languedoc Trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, becomes a target after discovering a pair of crumbling skeletons in the Pyrenees mountains, while eight hundred years in the past, Alais, the daughter of a crusader, must safeguard the location of the Holy Grail.
In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees...
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 15
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the body of an archeology student, who went missing in 2002, is found during the renovation of a café, Dr. Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson uncover a tangled web of relationships between the archeology group and the café.
When builders discover a human skeleton while renovating a café, they call in archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with...
7) Tunnels
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
Author
Publisher
Signet Select
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Assessing the contents of a lavish English estate, museum conservator Angela Lewis discovers a crate full of sealed pottery jars-one of which holds a parchment which describes the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth. For Angela, the find is a miracle-a written reference to Jesus outside of the New Testament. But her discovery draws her and her husband, Chris, into a centuries-old race for the truth that they may not win...or survive."--FreshFiction.com....
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody volume 16
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A hitherto lost journal of the indomitable Amelia Peabody has been miraculously recovered: a chronicle from one of the "missing years" -- 1907 -- 1908 -- shedding new light on an already exceptional career, a remarkable family . . . and an unexpected terror. Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending a quiet summer at home in Kent, England, when a mysterious messenger...
Author
Publisher
Atavist Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
July 1914. A young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land. She picks up a fig and holds it to her nose. Around her is a maze of broken columns, taller than the tallest of men. Nearby is the familiar lean form of her father's old friend, Tahsin Bey, an archaeologist. Viv is about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure and the ecstasy of love. July, 1915. An Englishwoman and an Indian man meet...
13) Freefall
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
15) Deeper
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
As Will Burrows continues to search for his lost archaeologist father in the strange underground world he has discovered, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
18) Jess
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
While digging a ditch in his cabbage field, Grandpa uncovers various items that provide clues to what has happened in that area of Wisconsin from the time of the Ice Age to the twentieth century.
20) Congo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
On an expedition to return Amy, his talking gorilla, to her home in the Congo, Professor Peter Elliot is joined by others who hope to find a legendary diamond mine guarded by mutant gorillas.
