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The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,162 ratings — published 2017
Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,062 ratings — published 1949
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.93 — 69,852 ratings — published 2009
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,983 ratings — published 2021
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,423 ratings — published 2014
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,200 ratings — published 2007
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.00 — 81,058 ratings — published 1975
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,630 ratings — published 2021
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,958 ratings — published 1995
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,483 ratings — published 2005
The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.94 — 45,171 ratings — published 2010
A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.06 — 31,489 ratings — published 2012
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,155 ratings — published 2014
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,638 ratings — published 1997
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,058 ratings — published 2020
Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,110 ratings — published 1991
The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.98 — 39,012 ratings — published 2011
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,140 ratings — published 2023
The Ghost Fields (Ruth Galloway, #7)
by (shelved 15 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.11 — 27,368 ratings — published 2015
The Outcast Dead (Ruth Galloway, #6)
by (shelved 15 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,050 ratings — published 2014
A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.92 — 32,658 ratings — published 2011
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.90 — 115,963 ratings — published 2009
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.13 — 10,702 ratings — published 2020
The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)
by (shelved 14 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.06 — 24,006 ratings — published 2018
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,570 ratings — published 2003
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,039 ratings — published 2019
Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.24 — 770 ratings — published 2017
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,087 ratings — published 2015
Come, Tell Me How You Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,563 ratings — published 1946
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,792 ratings — published 2013
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,415 ratings — published 2021
The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
by (shelved 12 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,715 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,849 ratings — published 2011
The Shadowy Horses (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,851 ratings — published 1997
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,564 ratings — published 2025
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,189 ratings — published 2023
The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,115 ratings — published 2021
The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, #11)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,013 ratings — published 2019
Old Bones (Nora Kelly, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,527 ratings — published 2019
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,777 ratings — published 2004
The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,048 ratings — published 2016
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,724 ratings — published 2008
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,541 ratings — published 2001
The Source (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.30 — 46,375 ratings — published 1965
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,042 ratings — published 1993
The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,462 ratings — published 1985
What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as archeology)
avg rating 3.82 — 96,540 ratings — published 2023
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,414 ratings — published 2021
The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Amelia Peabody, #10)
by (shelved 10 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,278 ratings — published 1998
Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody, #4)
by (shelved 10 times as archeology)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,380 ratings — published 1976
“Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence ...”
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“Hmmm, it is a small pelvis with a very ample sub-pubic angle; at least ninety degrees...the bones are delicate, fine, graceful...hmmm..." With certainty born of profound expertise and his uncanny ability to dialogue with bones, Romano stated his conclusion without touching anything. "It is a woman." (Arturo Romano Pacheco, physical anthropologist)”
― The Controversial Mayan Queen: Sak K'uk of Palenque
― The Controversial Mayan Queen: Sak K'uk of Palenque
