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Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This exciting book explores the culture and achievements of the ancient Maya through the examination of artifacts that have survived through the centuries. Each primary-source artifact offers the reader significant clues to the civilization's technologies, cultural traditions, foods, and conflicts."--
Author
Publisher
Metro Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Aztec & Maya: The Complete Illustrated History uncovers the rise and fall of the many different empires of Mexico and Central America--their political and military campaign, their legends and myths, and their art, architecture and social history. Ground plans and detailed photographs explore over 20 magnificent and vitally important World Heritage sites, including Teotihuacǹ, Tenochtitlǹ, Chichň Itz,̀ Palenque, Tikal and Monte Albǹ. The author...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Ancient Maya civilization thrived in the tropics of Central America for more than a thousand years and produced some of the world's finest architecture and art. Then it mysteriously vanished, leaving a landscape of ruins smothered by forests. The Classic Maya collapse is one of the great puzzles of history, ranking alongside the Fall of Rome as an enigma that has intrigued scholars for generations." "Drawing upon recent archaeological research and...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
History buffs, budding anthropologists, and anyone who loves a good story will enjoy the third installment of Peter Ackroyd's award-winning Voyages Through Time series. Cities of Blood takes readers inside the amazing traditions and gory rituals of the Olmecs, Mayas, and Aztecs of pre-Columbian civilization. Peter Ackroyd's Voyages Through Time is a series of highly illustrated nonfiction books that illuminate the world's defining eras of history...
Publisher
Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This six part series explores the influence on ancient culture on our lives today. Host Michael Wood visits the ancient cities and great ports of India and China, the deserts of Egypt and Iraq, the Mexico of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples, the Greek and Roman monuments of Europe and the jungles of Central America searching for the living legacies of these once great civilizations. The series traces how the institutions that arose with urban civilization...
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