Awesome Archaeology

The Knowledge

by Nick Arnold

This work helps discover the awesome world of archaeology; visit sinister tombs, sunken wrecks and hidden caves; and, dig up bucketfuls of archaeological facts!

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Science, Childrens, Archaeology, Comics

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 2001

About the author

Nick Arnold is the author of the award winning series, Horrible Science and Wild Lives. Arnold's first published works appeared as a result of a project he was working on at the University of North London, when he was trying to teach young children. A positive review was written about him, and he started to write the "Horrible Science" books. His books are illustrated by Tony De Saulles.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

'First came ruthless treasure hunters seeking ancient plunder.
Next there were heroes who found the secrets (and curses) of long-forgotten tombs.
Now we use computers to bring the past to life.
Follow daring underwater archaeologists into the cave of death, discover a person's face from their skull and uncover the grisly secrets of bog bodies and prehistoric poo'.

Plus 'delve' into the past yourself with our guide to being a time detective.

If you have read the 'Horrible Science' series of books, you will be aware of the way in which Nick Arnold puts knowledge across, in a humorous way.
This book is no exception.

'Archaeology is dead awesome.......that's because it is about dead people and how they lived in the past. It's about dead ruins - overgrown and abandoned to the bats and snakes, or buried in the earth.............And when archaeologists dig up ancient remains they come as close as anyone can to bringing dead people to life and talking to them about the past.

Of course, archaeologists don't 'really' chatter to skeletons or mumble to mummies - if they did you might think there was something odd about them.........'

[Shreyas · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is really close to my heart. Before there was Indiana Jones , there was Nick Arnold.

This book was everything I EVER wanted to be. I worshipped it like bible , took it everywhere. The humour , the illustrations and everything else - spoke so much to my young mind - it was amazing!

I lost this book a long time back , but I still adore it , till this date. :)

[Lör K. · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a child, I absolutely adored archaeology. My Father would take me to archaeology days at museums, and this was a book that my Father spotted, and bought for me on one of those days. As an avid dinosaur lover, I settled down to read it almost instantly.

I still remember absolutely adoring this. I was enamoured; I read it 6 or 7 times, and never wanted to put it back down again.

With avid humour that everyone can understand, a basic understand of the knowledge for younger readers, this is an absolutely wonderful book. It works well, a lot of people are able to get stuff from this and the knowledge is all 100% correct, to my own knowledge - or it was at the time of publication. This was brilliant, and I would gladly read it again, even now at 20 years old.

[Il_mare_ghiacciato · Rating 3 out of 5]

Divertente, sicuramente ben fatto, ma a mio parere meno valido di altri della serie. Può però essere un buon modo per avvicinare un ragazzino al mondo degli scavi archeologici. In parte scritto, in parte illustrato, si legge facilmente in un paio di giorni.

[Oana-Maria Uliu · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.7
Good for children, but the jokes and puns were really bad.

[Aslı · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nick Arnold. Yirim seni. Beni arkeolog olma hayalimden men ettin ama olsun, yine de mükemmelsin. Kitap çok güzeldi. Arkeoloji şeysinden ürktüm ama yine de çok eğlenceliydi. Diğer kitaplarına göre daha çok güldüm. Yazar, git gide daha da komikleşiyor :D