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Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America: Lost History And Legends, Unearthed And Explored
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Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America: Lost History And Legends, Unearthed And ExploredThe nursery rhyme begins, "In fourteen hundred and ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Less well-known is the line that follows: "…to learn if the old maps were true." How can there be "old maps" of a land no one knew existed? Were others here before Columbus? What were their reasons for coming and what unexplained artifacts did they leave behind?

In Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America, the author of The Atlantis Encyclopedia turns his sextant towards this hemisphere.

 
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A Chinese Bestiary : Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas
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A Chinese Bestiary : Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and SeasA Chinese Bestiary : Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas

 76 b/w plates, 37 b/w illustrations  A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China.
 
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Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater
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Actors and Icons of the Ancient TheaterActors and Icons of the Ancient Theater

Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire 
Presents a highly original viewpoint into several new and contested fields of study 
Offers the first systematic survey of evidence for the spread of theater outside Athens and the impact of the expansion of theater upon actors and dramatic literature 
Addresses a study of the privatization of theater and reveals how it was driven by political interests 

 
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Tags: theater, Actors, actors, study, Icons, Theater, Ancient
The Ancient World - Civilizations of the Near East and Southwest Asia
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The Ancient World - Civilizations of the Near East and Southwest AsiaThe Ancient World - Civilizations of the Near East and Southwest Asia

Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Near East and Southwest Asia, and Asia and the Pacific, entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the ancient world in all areas of the globe.
 
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Tags: Southwest, shaped, developments, events, economic, Ancient, Civilizations, World
The Ancient World - Civilizations of the Americas
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The Ancient World - Civilizations of the AmericasThe Ancient World - Civilizations of the Americas

Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Near East and Southwest Asia, and Asia and the Pacific, entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the ancient world in all areas of the globe.
 
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Tags: Americas, shaped, ancient, developments, events, Ancient, Civilizations, World, economic