The Tombs

The Tombs
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9780062656469
ISBN-13 : 0062656465
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis The Tombs by : Deborah Schaumberg

New York, 1882. A dark, forbidding city, and no place for a girl with unexplainable powers. Deborah Schaumberg’s gripping debut takes readers on a breathless trip across a teeming turn-of-the-century New York and asks the question: Where can you hide in a city that wants you buried? Sixteen-year-old Avery Kohl pines for the life she had before her mother was taken. She fears the mysterious men in crow masks who locked her mother in the Tombs asylum for being able to see what others couldn’t. Avery denies the signs in herself, focusing instead on her shifts at the ironworks factory and keeping her inventor father out of trouble. Other than listening to secondhand tales of adventure from her best friend, Khan, an ex-slave, and caring for her falcon, Seraphine, Avery spends her days struggling to survive. Like her mother’s, Avery’s powers refuse to be contained. When she causes a bizarre explosion at the factory, she has no choice but to run from her lies, straight into the darkest corners of the city. Avery must embrace her abilities and learn to wield their power—or join her mother in the cavernous horrors of the Tombs. And the Tombs has secrets of its own: strange experiments are being performed on “patients”...and no one knows why.

Pyramids are Tombs

Pyramids are Tombs
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Publisher : IMC Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 097150010X
ISBN-13 : 9780971500105
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Synopsis Pyramids are Tombs by : Joe Phelps

Pyramids Are Tombs looks at the changing role of self-directed teams in todays business environment. It examines the inadequacies of top-down, command-and-control, multi-layered management structures as it relates to retaining and maximizing the potential of todays workforce. It gives step-by-step methods for organizing around the customer in self-directed teams and illustrates this new structure in an ongoing case study.

Escape This Book! Tombs of Egypt

Escape This Book! Tombs of Egypt
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Publisher : Yearling
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780525644231
ISBN-13 : 0525644237
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Escape This Book! Tombs of Egypt by : Bill Doyle

Activity book meets adventure in this series that is Choose Your Own Adventure meets I Survived meets doodle book! Doodle, decide, and demolish your way out of history's greatest events--the perfect book for fun and educational summer reading! Reader, beware! Once you open this book, there is NO turning back. You will have THREE chances to escape this ancient Egyptian tomb. You must choose a path first: Pharaoh: Want to be the top ruler of ancient Egypt? Choose this path and become one of history's greatest pharaohs. Pyramid worker: You've built some of the world's most amazing monuments. Will that help you escape before being turned into a mummy? Archaeologist: You make incredible discoveries, and you're about to enter an ancient, hidden tomb . . . but can you discover a way out? In the Escape This Book! series, YOU are the star of history! Doodle your way through adventures as you decide the best path for survival. Don't be afraid to rip or fold a page . . . your escape may depend on it! Looking for another escape? Don't miss Escape This Book! Titanic.

The Tombs of Atuan

The Tombs of Atuan
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781442459908
ISBN-13 : 1442459905
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Tombs of Atuan by : Ursula K. Le Guin

"With a new afterword from the author"--Jkt.

Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt

Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781107048089
ISBN-13 : 1107048087
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt by : Marjorie Susan Venit

This book explores the visual narratives of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (c.300 BCE-250 CE). The author contextualizes the tombs within their social, political, and religious context and considers how the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife.

Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt

Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
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Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9780500774526
ISBN-13 : 0500774528
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt by : Chris Naunton

An exciting archeological exploration of ancient Egypt that examines the potential for discovering the remaining “lost” tombs of the pharaohs. Tombs, mummies, and funerary items make up a significant portion of the archeological remains that survive ancient Egypt and have come to define the popular perception of Egyptology. Despite the many sensational discoveries in the last century, such as the tomb of Tutankhamun, the tombs of some of the most famous individuals in the ancient world—Imhotep, Nefertiti, Alexander the Great, and Cleopatra—have not yet been found. Archeologist Chris Naunton examines the famous pharaohs, their achievements, the bling they might have been buried with, the circumstances in which they were buried, and why those circumstances may have prevented archeologists from finding these tombs. In Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt, Naunton sheds light on the lives of these ancient Egyptians and makes an exciting case for the potential discovery of these lost tombs.

Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery

Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery
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Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Total Pages : 419
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ISBN-10 : 9781621390220
ISBN-13 : 1621390225
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery by : Kathleen Warner Slane

Rescue excavations were carried out along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth by Henry Robinson, the director of the Corinth Excavations, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on behalf of the Greek Archaeological Service, in 1961 and 1962. They revealed 70 tile graves, limestone sarcophagi, and cremation burials (the last are rare in Corinth before the Julian colony), and seven chamber tombs (also rare before the Roman period). The burials ranged in date from the 5th century B.C. to the 6th century A.D., and about 240 skeletons were preserved for study. This volume publishes the results of these excavations and examines the evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek city, Roman colony, and Christian town. Documented are single graves and deposits, the Robinson "Painted Tomb," two more hypogea, and four built chamber tombs. Ethne Barnes describes the human skeletal remains, and David Reese discusses the animal bones found in the North Terrace tombs. The author further explores the architecture of the chamber tombs as well as cemeteries, burial practices, and funeral customs in ancient Corinth. One appendix addresses a Roman chamber tomb at nearby Hexamilia, excavated in 1937; the second, by David Jordan, the lead tablets from a chamber tomb and its well. Concordances, grave index numbers, Corinth inventory numbers, and indexes follow. This study will be of interest to classicists, historians of several periods, and scholars studying early Christianity.

Tombs of the Ancient Poets

Tombs of the Ancient Poets
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 381
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ISBN-10 : 9780192561039
ISBN-13 : 0192561030
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Tombs of the Ancient Poets by : Nora Goldschmidt

Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, it makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. From the tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called 'Tomb of Virgil'; from the doomed tomb-hunting of long-lost poets' graves, to the 'graveyard of the imagination' constructed in Hellenistic poetry collections, the essays collected here explore the position of ancient poets' tombs in the cultural imagination and demonstrate the rich variety of ways in which they exemplify an essential mode of the reception of ancient poetry, poised as they are between literary reception and material culture.

The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty

The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 137
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ISBN-10 : 9781108066136
ISBN-13 : 1108066135
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty by : William Matthew Flinders Petrie

This fully illustrated excavation report on the early Egyptian royal tombs at Abydos was first published in 1900.