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Archeology (Eyewitness Books)

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Illus. with full-color photos. Take a close-up have a look at the science and technology of digging up the past–from the 1970 excavation of the legendary city of Troy to the contemporary find of a Chinese emperor’s long-lost grave.  
The Eyewitness series is the most productive thing to happen to reference books because the encyclopedia used to be invented, and this volume on archeology is no exception. Lushly illustrated with the crispest, most detailed full-color photographs conceivable, this book makes archeology look fun and interesting. Twenty-six two-page spreads cover the whole thing from the fundamentals (“Why Excavate?”) to the mysterious (“Mounds and Monuments”) to the gruesomely cool (“Human Remains”). Topics are global, from Pompeii to the American Southwest. Despite the fact that ostensibly geared to 9- to twelve-year-olds, reading this book is like visiting a museum of archeology, and adults will get as much out of it as kids. –Therese Littleton

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